I'm on the bandwagon of making posts with a snow pun in the title. I don't actually have anything to say, but many others (including Annie, Dan and Blue Witch) have nice pictures or articles about the snow. Well, BW is talking about fuel, but it's still a worthwhile read.
At this rate I'm going to need a 'Weather' category.
At this rate I'm going to need a 'Weather' category.
OK, so it didn't really take me 10 years to get home, but I left work at just gone 5, ran a 20 minute errand, and got home after 7:30. It was the wind, you see.
I'm installing the expansion to WoW. I swear the installer just gave the following status, briefly:
Look out for it if you get TBC: it's near the beginning of Disc 4 (4CDs?!? For an expansion?!?), somewhere between 80 and 90% progress. Someone tell me I'm not crazy.
Well, crazy maybe, but someone tell me I'm not imagining it.
If it still seems worth it when I get out of WoW, I'll tell you about my crazy journey home. With any luck, it won't...
Installing 'RunOnce.wtf'...
Look out for it if you get TBC: it's near the beginning of Disc 4 (4CDs?!? For an expansion?!?), somewhere between 80 and 90% progress. Someone tell me I'm not crazy.
Well, crazy maybe, but someone tell me I'm not imagining it.
If it still seems worth it when I get out of WoW, I'll tell you about my crazy journey home. With any luck, it won't...
It's a bit blowy out. Nothing like Gordon was experiencing a while back, I'm sure (although that's mainly because I tend to assume that statistically it's likely that none of my circumstances are ever particularly extreme, in the grand scheme of things).
I was reminded, as I walked down the street for some lunch, of something I was told at primary school. As a small child (relatively speaking) we were studying the Beaufort scale, and a symptom for one level was that it became hard to walk into the wind. I briefly wondered whether it was different now that I was more massive (relative to my cross-sectional area), but decided that since it was only a descriptive indicator and I couldn't even remember which force it applied to, that was something of a moot point.
It's amazing what you can recall when something a little unusual happens.
It's also amazing how Wikipedia and other online sources demystify things (even a quick glance at the table from the link above took most of the steam out of this post). Maybe one of these days I'll try a new policy of not looking things up the moment they interest me.
I was reminded, as I walked down the street for some lunch, of something I was told at primary school. As a small child (relatively speaking) we were studying the Beaufort scale, and a symptom for one level was that it became hard to walk into the wind. I briefly wondered whether it was different now that I was more massive (relative to my cross-sectional area), but decided that since it was only a descriptive indicator and I couldn't even remember which force it applied to, that was something of a moot point.
It's amazing what you can recall when something a little unusual happens.
It's also amazing how Wikipedia and other online sources demystify things (even a quick glance at the table from the link above took most of the steam out of this post). Maybe one of these days I'll try a new policy of not looking things up the moment they interest me.
Annie, through the magic of her blogroll matchmaking, has sent me to read Katy at Everything is Electric. The brilliant post there on resolutions has inspired me to get back over here and write up my list of fanciful ambitions.
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