Brilliant.
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
A New Kind of Truth. Specifically about videogames, applicable to many media.
I can only imagine Conan is pissed. The idea of him keeping Leno down to half an hour is something, but at the expense of an earlier show somewhere else?
At my company they had a drill where we were supposed to get under our desks. Except no one told me the drill was coming or what I was supposed to do. It was quite surreal.
When I was in college I had a job delivering intercampus mail in a panel truck. One day the tornado sirens went off in the city. Dunno what I was thinking, but I kept on driving. Someone asked me what the siren was for and I said, "I think it means you're supposed to seek shelter." But I just kept on working, watching for traffic and tornadoes as I went....
Neither work NOR public school was cancelled by our dusting of snow, though half the state seems to be closed (to be fair, they seem to have actually gotten some precipitation on the roads elsewhere - ours were dry.)
There was a 29-car pileup on I-285 this morning and police in my county worked more than 120 wrecks overnight. I got about an inch, and it's not going anywhere. I'm trying to decide if I should try to do something about the sheet of ice at the bottom of my driveway before I have to go out this afternoon.
So to sum up, the siren means either tornado, nuclear attack or move your car.
The sirens were also set off when the Sox won the '59 pennant.
I did not know that!
I knew that, oddly enough.
Recent events seem to suggest Twitter.
In a bit of techy trivia, Ford is going to add a Twitter client to its cars.
I'm losing the network in 10 minutes because they fucked it up. I really need more warning than that. It's gonna crash stuff horribly.
So to sum up, the siren means either tornado, nuclear attack or move your car.
At least it'll only mean the second one once.
So I guess I'm seeing Avatar at the IMAX for free in 30 minutes.