I'm off for two days to the Great White North, Grand Rapids, where I'll give a talk tomorrow night for the area Library Association on the topic of Race and Racism. If you are in the vicinity, please stop by and visit!
I'll be "at the lake" for the day prior, taking a few more winterizing steps for the cabin (mainly rescuing the latex from the oncoming winter) and writing highly controversial yet amusing and informative blog stuff.
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These were taken before the 18 inches of snow that fell the other day, so you can actually see the ground, but the scene is still basically the same - white, with scattered critters. We're all definitely starting to dream of spring!
...here are brief summaries of what they said and how they were received (e.g., how many standing ovations, bloopers, etc.):
This question was discussed yesterday in the comments to this post. An article in yesterday's New Scientist offers some ideas:
A while ago, crowing over the extent of Arctic sea ice this winter and the possibility this would mean loadsa ice this summer, I noted that "it is clear from that, that the winter anomaly doesn't correlate too closely with the summer minimum".
Good grief, man ... have you never seen SCTV??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_and_Doug_McKenzie
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh4k3L0WrEE
Be ashamed ...
Eh, you're a hoser, man.
By the way, it is snowing up here at the moment.
I love Grand Rapids, but there truly are no priveledged frames of reference. For me, GR is the balmy south.
Quit while you're behind.
Your expression should be, "Man, you're a hoser, eh?" The "eh" is always at the end.
(I'm not too far north of Toronto, and I'm relieved to note that a check with Google Maps shows that I am just a touch north of Grand Rapids.)