I wonder how many people are going to start dismissing global warming because it snowed in NOLA.
Poor Buffy. Your life resists all things average.
Willow ,'First Date'
Natter 62: The 62nd Natter
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.
Gudanov - Dec 11, 2008 9:06:27 am PST #5501 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
Allyson - Dec 11, 2008 9:06:37 am PST #5502 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
It's just unbelievably frustrating to me that we still have to debate whether the problem is manmade at all...like we have a huge amount of time to sit back with some cognac and cigars and debate the problem for a few years.
sumi - Dec 11, 2008 9:14:35 am PST #5503 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Global warming produces fucked up weather not necessarily just hot weather, no?
Snow in NOLA - totally a WTF situation. Email lister sent me the following from the National Weather Service in Lake Charles, LA:
...RECORD EARLIEST MEASURABLE SNOWFALL SET AT LAKE CHARLES...
...ALL TIME RECORD SNOWFALL SET FOR DECEMBER AT LAKE CHARLES...
A RECORD SNOWFALL OF 0.4 INCHES OF SNOW WAS MEASURED AT LAKE CHARLES. THIS SETS THE ALL TIME EARLIEST MEASURABLE SNOWFALL RECORD FOR LAKE CHARLES. THIS ALSO SETS THE ALL TIME RECORD SNOWFALL FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER AT LAKE CHARLES. THE PREVIOUS RECORDS WERE BOTH SET ON DECEMBER 22 1989 WHEN 0.2 INCHES OF SNOW WAS MEASURED.
NOTABLY...DECEMBER 11 2008 AND DECEMBER 22 1989 ARE THE ONLY TWO TIMES IN RECORDED HISTORY THAT MEASURABLE SNOWFALL HAS OCCURRED IN LAKE CHARLES DURING THE MONTH OF DECEMBER.
(Asscaps c/o NWS.)
aurelia - Dec 11, 2008 9:17:14 am PST #5504 of 10002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Speaking of asscaps, I just discovered that they're slightly less annoying in Comic Sans. Who knew?
msbelle - Dec 11, 2008 9:20:39 am PST #5505 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
catch-up on cooking
there are some cookies I learned to make in NM that only taste right if made with lard.
I hate to doubt Alton Brown, but Loretta Lynn did Crisco commercials about their crust being the flakiest and well, I am not going against Loretta. I am generation 4 on GG Treasure's pie crust recipe using crisco. I am sure she used butter back in the day, must have.
lisah - Dec 11, 2008 9:26:59 am PST #5506 of 10002
Punishingly Intricate
I like a mix of butter and shortening, but I'm pending final judgment until I've tried CI's vodka crust.
Oh! My aunt used that for her pies this Thanksgiving. SO GOOD!
Burrell - Dec 11, 2008 9:27:22 am PST #5507 of 10002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
In my more paranoid moments I suspect that the reason we're still "debating" is that there's a bunch of folks who just want to believe that global warming doesn't matter because God will rapture them all off to heaven and leave the rest of us to suffer through the hell on earth we created.
megan walker - Dec 11, 2008 9:28:41 am PST #5508 of 10002
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Global warming produces fucked up weather not necessarily just hot weather, no?
I believe that's why many people use "global climate change" these days.
amych - Dec 11, 2008 9:29:08 am PST #5509 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I'm not sure that's so paranoid, Burrell -- that particular crazy isn't all of climate change denial, but it's a part of it.
(edited because megan is wise on climate change vs. warming)
Burrell - Dec 11, 2008 9:33:08 am PST #5510 of 10002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Perhaps I should clarify. In my more paranoid moments I suspect that such people currently occupy the White House.