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As broadcast this morning on my way to work at 8am:

"The good news is that the air is barely moving, so we have no appreciable wind chill.  The bad news is that it's currently negative seven degrees [Fahrenheit] without the wind chill."

Yeah, it's cold.  We've barely gotten a break since the last Packer game when Fox demonstrated that even Alaska was ( Read more... )

Anyone who watched the final Packers game this year on Fox knows it's a wee bit chilly here in Green Bay.  The day of that game it was -4 here, while about 14 degrees in Moscow and over 20 degrees in Greenland and Alaska, thanks to a snarky info box put up during the game.  So I get it that people are complaining of the cold.  It really has been ( Read more... )

 
I know I can't regularly keep up with reviews for shows on a week by week basis, but I really like writing them when I get the chance...especially when I don't have to do them in order.  My answer to this is http://scifi.wikidot.com, a wiki I've set up specifically for reviews.  Right now I'm busy catching up on all the new series Doctor Who ( Read more... )

I've never considered myself particularly empathic, but it struck me last night how much information can be communicated even to me without the point actually being expressed in words.

I'm currently doing a run at a community theatre, during which I shut off my phone.  Afterward, I see my father has called at 10:30pm - 11:30pm his time.  Crap.  ( Read more... )

I Am A: Neutral Good Elf Wizard/Sorcerer (3rd/2nd Level)

Ability Scores:

Strength-10

Dexterity-11

Constitution-10

Intelligence-15

Wisdom-12

Charisma-12

Alignment:
Neutral Good A neutral good character does the best that a good person can do. He is devoted to helping others. He works with kings and magistrates but does not feel beholden to them. ( Read more... )

What would you do if the entire human race was obliterated with the exception of your worst enemy?  Someone the world is better off without, someone like Hitler or Bin Laden or Stalin, someone you have spent years fighting.  What would you do?

In the case of the Doctor, the answer is:  beg.

Doctor Who has always been focused on the struggle between ( Read more... )

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Digital cameras are a dangerous thing, especially when one has a place to post them in bulk. Unfortunately, they are displayed here in reverse order: the first pictures are (very) early Sunday morning, and the last pictures are Thursday afternoon.   (Many apologies about the lack of an lj-cut... I can't get it to work in this new LJ set up.  grr ( Read more... )

One of my students has filed a greivance against me and my college on the grounds that:

• I am an anti-Christ
• The course title (Religion in America) is deceptive.  ("It should state examining all religions and occult practices in America from a sociologist prospective[sic].")
• I described religions positively as long as the subject was not Christianity
• I ( Read more... )