People can feel free to throw some snow my way. I just got messages from my DH and my best friend to tell me it's snowing where they are. So why is it not snowing where I am? I miss snow. I haven't seen snow in... two years or so, I think.
Lydia: Its removal from Burma is a felony and when triggered it has the power to melt human eyeballs.
Giles: In that case I've severely underpriced it.
'Potential'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jars - Jan 03, 2008 4:32:09 am PST #601 of 10001
Emily - Jan 03, 2008 4:36:49 am PST #602 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Because the solstice is the beginning of winter, not the end?
Right, but why? It's the point at which we begin getting more sun, after all, as we tilt towards it again. I mean, for that matter, why does summer only start at the summer solstice? Maybe it takes a while for everything to cool down to the point winter weather starts?
Emily - Jan 03, 2008 4:39:58 am PST #603 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Possible Post cereal...
I feel like an idiot. I've spent the last week trying to figure out why Beadle Bamford in Sweeney Todd looked so familiar... well, it's freaking Wormtail, innit?
tommyrot - Jan 03, 2008 4:40:11 am PST #604 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Right, but why? It's the point at which we begin getting more sun, after all, as we tilt towards it again.
'Cuz even after the Solstice (for the following month-ish) the Arctic Circle is still hardly getting any sun at all, so it just gets colder and colder up there. And then those bastard Canadians send their cold Arctic air down to us.
So there's always a lag as the temperature of the earth, oceans and air "catches up" to where the sun is shining the most.
eta:
Maybe it takes a while for everything to cool down to the point winter weather starts?
Yeah, this.
Aims - Jan 03, 2008 4:40:46 am PST #605 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
why Beadle Bamford in Sweeney Todd looked so familiar... well, it's freaking Wormtail, innit?
It is.
Jessica - Jan 03, 2008 4:42:04 am PST #606 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I feel like an idiot. I've spent the last week trying to figure out why Beadle Bamford in Sweeney Todd looked so familiar... well, it's freaking Wormtail, innit?
Yep. Once again playing Alan Rickman's skeezy sidekick, too.
tommyrot - Jan 03, 2008 4:44:38 am PST #607 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh, and "meteorological winter" is from Dec. 1 to Feb 28. Which is closer to how the weather behaves....
Emily - Jan 03, 2008 4:48:04 am PST #608 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Please talk, people. I need your help to stay awake until my next class!
tommyrot - Jan 03, 2008 4:52:33 am PST #609 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
What should we talk about?
Oh, I know. High-beam headlights! How come nobody in big cities knows how to use them?
If you live in the country and someone is coming towards you with their high-beams on, you flash yours at them and then they dim their headlights. But in Chicago no one seems to know that. Maybe because in big cities there's really no reason to use high beams, so people never learn about them at all and then some people just leave theirs on all the time?
tommyrot - Jan 03, 2008 4:54:22 am PST #610 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh, and I know a guy who learned to drive in LA. When he was driving in the Wisconsin countryside, he refused to use high-beams at all, even when there were no other cars around (and there were deer around).