Too warm to blow snow
Caught me off guard. The online course, I mean. Unlike the last few assignments, this time I had to write a short biographical profile of a famous composer. Rather grade school. Took me all of fifteen minutes to get my head around the who, what, when, where and why. I thank those compulsory book reports I had to produce, in real grade school.
Others in the office saw snow falling today. I was otherwise distracted. Might as well get the boots out, before I need to.
Finally had a chance to handle the Mac Mini iPad, this afternoon. Actually a pleasant form factor. If the price point wasn’t so silly, I could see keeping one around, just for comparison purposes.
Air quality is a hit or miss thing, here in the Great White. A study released this week shows we (as in the collective, national we) are not going to reach the emission standards set for 2020. Think about that. With a deadline that is further off than the graduation ceremonies for the next cohort of environmental studies majors, we’re not going to make it.
And in keeping with the environmental theme, the local news crew interviewed a sports scientist who has kept his own “mountain of snow” in storage through the summer, using copious quantities of sawdust. But why? Well, there’s a ski competition next week, and it’s not cold enough to “make” snow. He plans to spread the stockpile out, covering a trail in a local park. The possible date for getting the snow machines online has moved, by almost three weeks, over the last decade or so. Warmer, etc. Yes, Virginia (and Stevie), the global warming myth just keeps coming back to yell in our ears.
