You snow crybabies can shut your pieholes unless you see this when you look out your windows (more photos here): One of my earliest memories is from that blizzard (March, 1966). I remember watching my Dad bundle up in two pairs of pants (an old farmboy trick) so he could walk to a neighbor’s house …
Archives for December 2010
More on Bloomberg’s Katrina (for the differently humored: this title is snark/hyperbole)
I’ll be going Galt for a few days shortly, but I wanted to do another post about the New York snow thing, because I think it may help derail the Bloomberg-for-president nonsense. A few points: (1) It dumbs this down to say “and Chris Cristie too”. Maybe Christie should have delayed his vacation for cosmetic …
The Internet is not SkyMall
Inevitable: Many magazines that are available on the iPad, such as Esquire, People and The New Yorker, have not posted their digital single-issue sales to the ABC. But Vanity Fair sold 8,700 digital editions of its November issue, down from its average of about 10,500 for the August, September and October issues. Glamour sold 4,301 …
Ice Storm!
We had a bunch of freezing rain, and every piece of concrete is coated with ice. Quite treacherous. If you’re in this area, be careful. It was only safe to walk on the grass.
Crabs in the Municipal Bucket
Eastern Massachusetts didn’t get quite as much snow as the NYC area during what is now officially “the Blizzard of 2010”, but in one town on the South Shore some families had to be evacuated when a seawall collapsed and two flooded houses caught fire. Physics being a harsh taskmaster, divers scrambled to connect hoses …
Rewards of Insomnia Open Thread
So it is 0-dark hundred the night before this one, and I wake up and I can’t resume unconsciousness, so I sneak to the spare room and grab my infallible insomnia cure, a volume of the 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Brittanica, and I open it at random and start reading. An entry or two …
Bloomberg’s Katrina?
I wanted to get there early with the idea of New York’s recent snow storm as “Bloomberg’s Katrina” (although of course I don’t believe this). It does seem like others have gotten their first, though. At first I agreed with mistermix’s take that this isn’t much of a story, but I’ve changed my mind. The …