Posts tagged as snow
Yes, But What Would Our Galaxy Taste Like To An Alien Astronomer?
"The best description I can give would be that if you looked at new spring snow, which has a fine grain size, about an hour after dawn or an hour before sunset, you'd see the same spectrum of light that an alien astronomer in another galaxy would see looking at the Milky Way." READ MORE
Remember That Time It Snowed Before Halloween?
And how was your nutso, record-smashing, disconcerting Snowtober? One hopes you weren't trapped on a diverted plane for seven hours or a victim of the (bizarre) Amtrak shutdown or one of the three million without power or, you know, one of the nine dead. Happy... Halloween? READ MORE
Cats in the Snow, Where Will You Go?
Ah, it's been a year since we looked at the evil monster people who throw their cats in the snow each winter. Well they're all still at it! Here are some sad videos—followed by soothing videos of cats enjoying snow. Those are very good! Wouldn't want to get too worked up on a Friday afternoon. READ MORE
Yikes! The View out the Window from the Midwest
"But that was not the same snow," I say. "Our snow was not only shaken from white wash buckets down the sky, it came shawling out of the ground and swam and drifted out of the arms and hands and bodies of the trees; snow grew overnight on the roofs of the houses like a pure and grandfather moss..." READ MORE
Who Likes The Snow In New York? Tigers, Monkeys and Bears
So, that was January, 2011 in New York: 31 straight days with snow on the ground. Thirty-six total inches—a new all-time record for the month! And there's more to come as February gets started. I've been hearing a lot of complaining about it from humans. But you know who you don't hear complaining about it? Tigers. Or monkeys. READ MORE
Anti-Union Story Melting Away
How does the New York Times express the sentiment of "bullshit?" It uses the words "more mystifying." We also would have accepted "snow job."
It's Gonna Snow Again!
Did you hear? More snow! There's a winter storm in effect until tomorrow evening, and they're calling for 8-14 inches. (Yes, yes, make your jokes, children.) Snow is 1-2 so far this season, so it's hard to know how much of the stuff that hits the ground will actually stick around, but hopefully it will brighten up all the dirty ice piles remaining from the last big storm.
Official Hearings on "OMG the Snow Was Messy, Whine Whine Whine"
They're having the Very Special Nanny State Meeting On Why The Snow Storm Was So Crazy and Who Will Protect Me from All This Snow-Gate down at City Hall today. Sad to say, the hearing opened with councilwoman Letitia James saying that "This hearing will not turn into a public flogging of the administration," which, booooo, so then I stopped listening.
Terror Snow Also Kills Jobs
"Jobless claims rise on snow-related layoffs"! This is AP-speak for "When it snowed recently, the unemployment offices were too snowy to process some recent unemployment requests," but also? "The blizzard also likely led to more workers having to file claims because they were unable to work." Why does God hate jobs? The rolling number of people receiving unemployment is 4.6 million. Good news though! At the end of the month that number may drop by a million! Which is going to maybe make the unemployment numbers look really good! But other numbers, like "the number of new homeless," might not look as good?
Ski Event, Website Postponed Due To Snow
"Men's ski events delayed due to snow." IDK? Related! We are taking the rest of the day off in sympathy. (And due to extremely poor server performance.)
