Swans on Tea

The Jobs Of Yesteryear: Obsolete Occupations
No, these were not outsourced overseas. I remember milk delivery — we had an insulated box on the front porch, and got the delivery at about 4 AM a few times a week. The clinking of the bottles as the delivery man walked up to the house would wake [...]

Abstract City: My Way
Maps as metaphors.

Chad is having trouble with rodents chewing on the wiring in his car. It’s a problem in labs, too, where something will occasionally chew through some data cable (which was not as serious as when they chewed into the bag of M&M’s left on the lab bench, but try convincing the boss of that). [...]

No, not really.
Snowmageddapocalypse II: The Wrath of Khan has been dubbed “snowverkill” “snoverkill” by some. It’s a mess; I haven’t ventured out but I lost heat and hot water for about six hours. The local channels have been in nonstop-coverage mode, which is kind of silly, and is a matter [...]

The federal government has been shut down for the last two days, which is probably a good thing — it alleviates stress on the transportation system, which is nowhere near full capacity at the moment, and I imagine there are a lot of people who would have great difficulty getting to work, especially so [...]

Snowmageddon, aka the Snowpocalypse, has moved intothe recovery phase. I got about 2 feet of snow, but further north and in the hilly regions, they got more. 40″ in some areas (i.e. more than a meter)
My car. It’s not a minivan.

I learned my lesson from the snowstorm in December and parked on [...]

Almost missed that this is my two-year blogoversary.

Did this last year: cities in which I spent at least one night while on travel
Niskayuna, NY
Dewittville, NY
Dover, MA
Charlottesville, VA

How to make the deranged Easter bunny costume from A Christmas Story

Wasn’t really expecting this, but then, I live on a main road, and side roads are probably still waiting to be cleared. That’s the problem with only having, like, 8 snowplows. ( If only they could harness the hot air from Congress …) This isn’t unprecedented, either. A Sunday storm a few [...]

Storm’s over, and it was a real one. Not just a wimpy DC-can’t function-with-a-dusting. Even Bee must agree that this was real snow, as compared to some snow standards.

Then came the digging out. Fortunately, my “driveway” is only the 5′ behind my car. OTOH, I didn’t have a shovel.

We’re scheduled to get a bit of snow here this weekend; the Friday afternoon forecast calls for 10″-20″ from now until Sunday morning (a factor of two larger than the forecast that was being broadcast on Friday morning). In the northeast where I grew up, this is known as a nice snowfall but not [...]