Cap’n Ken’s Homespun Wisdom

Just to spare everybody the inevitable flood of lame online April Fools pranks, the Internet should just be powered off for the day.

Dammit - no more of this back and forth. I hope all of you either have switched over to the new feed or get the old feed through the hack I worked up.

OK, so I think my migration to Wordpress is complete. Man, what a hassle.

There are still a few bugs around, but I’m be working on squashing them soon. And more to come on things you should know about the changes.

But the most important thing is to make sure the transition went as smoothly as I think it has. I’ve only had to jettison the majority of comments (some hand-crafting involved to port them over to the right place - and I can do more porting as I see fit), but otherwise the Wisdom should be relatively intact here.

And because I value you, loyal readers, the most, I spent a lot of time on a RSS hack that I think should be working to show you the new feed at your existing Wisdom RSS location. If you’re seeing this post and you haven’t changed your RSS feed, then it’s working. There might be a problem with iGoogle and other web-based services, so if you’re not seeing this in your feed, hopefully you will have seen my last post in the old platform and have come here to update …

More later. Good night.

As most of you know, a big wind blew through Atlanta a week ago Friday. The tornado that left F2-level damage Downtown and F0-F1 damage here in East Atlanta thankfully passed about a quarter-mile north of me, so we suffered no damage.

Our yard, however, was littered with all sorts of mysterious debris. Inspecting for damage right after the storm, I found yellow insulation in my backyard and on my roof and big chunks of dense foam in the yard. Most intriguing, though, were four sheets of paper scattered around the front yard. I knew these were not the papers of my neighbors, as no houses close to me were hit. So I picked them up and laid them out on a towel to dry.

Today I set out to see if any of the papers could be traced back to places damaged by the storm. Three of the sheets - a project plan, a memo and a document titled “Daily Posting Register” seemed potentially traceable. The fourth was half a memo dealing with some apparent debt plans for a general partnership and didn’t have enough information to work with.

But the Daily Posting Register was promising. The name of the document’s creator was at the top, and the document itself listed several dozen names. Here is the document with names blurred out:





And as it turns out, this one was easy. The name of the document creator was somewhat unique, and I knew when Firefox auto-filled the last name when I went to Google her I might be on to something. The Daily Posting Register (page 15 of 23) was created by somebody involved with the bankruptcy court here in Atlanta.

She has a website, and her website gives directions to her office at 100 Peachtree Street - The Equitable Building:





I sent her an email this morning telling her of my find and to confirm the document came from her office at Equitable, but I don’t expect a reply soon.

Google Maps tells me The Equitable Building is 3.04 miles from my house.

Here’s the official path of the storm and intensity from the National Weather Service:

The Equitable Building is right on the eastern edge of the first red area (downtown), and I’m just south of the last yellow area in East Atlanta.

I’ve heard stories and seen pictures of Atlanta Hawks and CNN banners that found their way to yards not too far from here, so my little sheet of paper is hardly unique. But it’s pretty amazing to think how far a tornado can carry things - and I wonder what made the little rips in the sheet without tearing it to shreds.

No luck so far on the other sheets.