server fail

Apparently nyc.gov can't handle all the citizens of NYC checking it at once. This isn't very good, for something that's supposed to be the go-to site for emergency information. Particularly when you check out the news stations, and they link you to nyc.gov.

Where are the evacuation zones? Check nyc.gov - but it's down. Where are the shelters? Same. Where are the evac routes? Same. The news stations all link you to nyc.gov, which is excellent from the point of view of consistency and ease of production, but not very good at all when eight million people all try to do it at once and the server crashes.

We live on high ground, and we've stocked up on baked beans and toilet paper, so unless the winds are high enough to break the windows, we should be fine.

Fun with piyutim – Iti Milvanon, 2/4

Part 1

Since this is a poem for Shabbat Nachamu, a poem which references the first verse of the haftara we say that day, I wanted to have that haftara in the border. It’s Isaiah chapter 40:2 ff and a bit of 41; it starts in the top right-hand corner.

There are a couple of scribal errors in the haftara part (click here for closeup of entire thing). It’s hard copying a text you’re not totally familiar with into a pattern, when your attention is largely focused on getting the pattern right. I could have avoided that by writing it all out in pencil first, but…well, I just didn’t want to bother, and I paid the price!

Mirrored from hasoferet.com.