drewkendall says:

Bill,

My “CV” would not impress you. No more than your past title or employment should impress me. I do see however that you “perceive” some level of street cred by it and that it serves a function to help define yourself.

By the way, I checked out your blog-site and enjoyed the “changing leaves” background photo. Ah, how I miss the array of beautiful colors from the Traverse City and Charlevoix Autumns , but I digress. Did you take that photo yourself?; I found that it nicely captured the muted sun, but had you considered using a couple different filters to really make the “reds pop”? You see Bill, in your pseudo ex-government Retired Met life (with 37+ years of experience with the NWS) a clarity existed; One in which “rank outranks other ranks”, GS Levels outrank other GS levels, and so on. Societal interaction however, clearly exhibit that in spite of your “Retired Met” qualifications, that many others might well have a superior capacity for photography, or driving, or as an educator, or simply as a human being. Fact is, we all have a “freedom” and a capacity to be kind, to be arrogant, or any other way we might wish to convey ourselves.

So Bill, here’s exactly how I see it. I am who I am. I need not unnecessarily attack or impute others for their shortcomings. I simply have better things to do with my life. Then there are others, who choose to wade in the shallows where defecation floats, just so that one might have the opportunity to complain, assault blame, and somehow feel championed by it, LOL. As a point of fact Bill, I really don’t know whether or not Levi is a big boy or not, and have never spoke with or met the man. I do appreciate his effort however, the manner in which he provides clarity, and is an excellent speaker. For nothing less nor anything more, I find his blog insights interesting, entertaining, call it what you will. There are other blogs or weather forums which I check out from time to time and there are those that I have little time nor interest to follow as well. I would suggest that your attempt at a targeted personal condemnation at myself, simply for defending a student of the science who need not account for his inaccuracy any more than those who are paid for their job, fell rather flat. Your inference “idealized dribble”, implies a sullen jealous undertone or repressed anger, that your own self-worth might seem directly tied to those opportunities to degrade others; The apparent cause for such a manifest may in part be due to yourself having felt that you were never quite given the kudos or appreciation for that which you feel had been achieved or that you earned during your own career.

Sorry, I stand to my prior statement to you, that it is easy to lash out at a student meteorologist what provides as hobby an excellent synopsis of time of verification conditions along with very reasonable predictions. If he was perfect, I’d suspect Levi would opt to bypass any graduate studies and simply take the NHC forecaster chair being offered to him now.

Bill, I will offer you this public apology however. In light of the prior original statements made by Calvin, which I and others interpreted as an unconstructive attack, all due to his own sense of dispair regarding the outcome of the Atlantic season as a whole…… your remarks simply piggy backed his and thus were equally “assassinated” in the process. If your offer or suggestion of “learning by your mistakes” was purely meant as constructive than perhaps it only came across otherwise by the manner in which it appeared such a need to “slap a little boys hand” and instructively demand “Lets see a video on the season when it ends and what worked and what didn’t work. Bill, you said it yourself…. “Levi is a big boy”. He doesn’t owe me, you or anyone else a video, a “make up”, or an explanation. He, no different than you or I, may simply choose to make nice video’s, forecast hurricanes, or just study for college exams.

Bill, you look like you put a lot of effort into your blog and I assume there are those who have an interest to read your musings and the historical insights you offer. Don’t you think it a little petty, if there were those who maintained a feed to your page simply to chastise you publicly (just “because they could”)? I mean c’mon, if one doesn’t like your grammar, sees flaws in your data analysis, or whatever….shouldn’t they simply take themselves to a happier place? You have a right to your opinion regarding Levi or anyone else for that matter, and there is nothing wrong with constructive support that perhaps may benefit others based on your own life’s experiences and knowledge base. Beyond that, if one gets their rocks off by dissing someone for their unsolicited efforts, why not simply:
1) Take if “off-line” and send a personal email. At such a time, one may privately opt to learn from the messages content or simply hit the “delete button” should one feel condesended too.
2) Go somewhere else, to a happier place