3.09.2019

Daylight Saving Time…

…does not, of course, save any daylight, it just changes clocks by an hour so the daylight seems to last longer in the evening (and start later in the morning, when everybody is asleep anyway so who needs it). It arrives, stealthily, in the dead of night, tonight, bringing with it a tangle of foolish newspaper articles, one of which is here:


Daylight Saving Time makes it seem, at least, a little Springier, but it's not Spring yet, it's still Winter. Spring is still 11 days off. Which is why we have the following weather forecast for our happy valley:

Total snow and sleet accumulations of 1 to 3 inches and ice accumulations of a trace to up to one tenth of an inch expected.


Thanks, weather service, for all you do.

3.07.2019

Sometimes I wonder just a little bit about Florida

Ex-Con Back Behind Bars Following Arrest For Battery By Cookie | The Smoking Gun


Smith reportedly "admitted to throwing the cookie at the victim without her consent."

This is just getting way too confusing

Border at 'Breaking Point' as More than 76,000 Unauthorized Migrants Cross in a Month - The New York Times


The nation's top border enforcement officer painted a picture of processing centers filled to capacity, border agents struggling to meet medical needs and thousands of exhausted members of migrant families crammed into a detention system that was not built to house them — all while newcomers continue to arrive, sometimes by the busload, at the rate of 2,200 a day.

Is the B-word the same as the E-word? Or the C-word? Not to mention the R-word? Anything?

But just to be on the safe side, duck

Colossal asteroid 2019DN set to pass Earth on Friday


You'll be happy to know that doomsday won't be happening any day this week.

This otter be fun

Alma Otter gains traction as new face of University of Illinois - Chicago Tribune


"You've got the pugnacious Wisconsin badger, you've got the Michigan wolverine, and now you'll have the devious, or the playful, otter," Anchor said. "You'll have the unholy trinity of three mustelids all together in the Lake Michigan basin."

3.06.2019

Twice this week…

…once due to snow shoveling and once to the regular Taking Out of the Trash, I jumped out of bed and put my pants on over my jamas and then went outdoors and came back in and made myself a cup of tea and then wandered aimlessly around my apartment looking for my pants. 

Why were they not hanging where I left them last night? Where could I have put them? Next time I'm going to write myself a note: THEY'RE ON.

I'll probably lose that too.

You gotta feel sorry for a guy who's only worth $62B now


Mark Zuckerberg net worth sank by $9 billion after Facebook's bad year - Business Insider


3.05.2019

Can you spell "fat chance"?

Let's settle the password vs. passphrase debate once and for all - ProtonMail Blog



Nevertheless…