From Twitter 01-19-2011

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Thursday is Snow Day

This was my morning:

Me: *shovel, shovel, shovel*
Car: *drive up to hill*
Me: *stop shoveling, watch car*
Car: *try to get up hill*
Me: *watch*
Car: *back up, try harder to get up hill*
Me: *watch*
Car: *try really hard to get up hill*
Me: *watch*
Car: *roll back down Hill of Death, slink away to park somewhere on my street*
Me: *shovel, shovel, shovel*

The only vehicles I’ve seen escape my valley are larger than full-size trucks (like UPS trucks, heavy-duty industrial pick-ups, etc.), which have now achieved status in my mind as the Saturn rockets of conventional land transport. Based on the amount of snow on our road, and the lack of any real difference in topography between yard and street, it’s pretty clear we haven’t seen a plow down here yet.

It’s a good thing I’ve got a massive stockpile of tea.

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- An artist friend just put up a new piece — “Portable Voltaic Systems” — up on Deviant Art. If you like ravens and steampunk, you should check her work out. She sells prints of most of her work, and those sales keep her in illustrator board, so definitely check her other work out as well. It’s gorgeous.

- The Truth Wears Off Researchers are observing (and nervously acknowledging) the “decline effect,” or a problem in replicability in research. A great article about how difficult empiricism actually is, and why it’s no wonder people get cynical about science when sometimes all we get is noise.

- I’ve said this before, but I’m saying it again. If you don’t read Tiny Tales, you’re missing out. A lot.

- Drinking Shackleton’s 100+ year old whisky. FOR SCIENCE. Considering the weather, I too have a sudden urge to look under my floorboards for whisky. That is, the Scottish sort (which Whyte and Mackay is), not the Irish sort, which is spelled with an e in it. Ahem.

- So, uh, Alabama? Your governor kind of freaks me out.

- The costs of health care repeal, now with map! Note of interest: my state is VISIBLY BENEFITING from the tax credits in Obama’s health care plan, we’re gaining jobs here in Missouri, and yet my rep (Luetkemeyer, MO-9) voted for repeal. Fuckery.

- A webcomic – Walking on Broken Glass – is raising funds with Kickstarter to fund a paper printing. Show them some love!

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