My grandfather, George Cressman, was one of mine:
Link: George Cressman; Modernized Weather Service Forecasting
The article neglects to mention what an avid runner he was. Even in his seventies he could run 7-minute miles for more than three miles — that’s as long as I could verify his time before he made a run […]

I wish I could sit down with a blank sheet of paper and project an image from my mind, like that from an opaque projector, onto the paper and trace it. Unfortunately it just doesn’t work that way. I have to yank the ideas out kicking and screaming against their will. Once […]