The next time I volunteer to drive a car for five hours in the middle of a yucky winter storm (and violate many car-related personal principles in so doing), I should probably be reminded that it will undermine all of my claims to sanity, for all time. Ow ( Read more... )

View poll: Winter Storm Juno

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The wind in Philadelphia is loud and angry. Power, water, and internet are all still on, for now. There are 2x-4x more people without power in Montgomery and Bucks Counties (each) than in Philadelphia proper. Cities FTW ( Read more... )

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I hope you all realize how deadly serious I am when I say that I seriously heard creaking above my room a short while ago. Yes, I live on the topmost floor. No, I'm not kidding. It took me 30 minutes to put the obvious implication together. (D'oh ( Read more... )

We've had around 8 inches of snow so far, and it's just turned to sleet, which will serve to thicken the layer of ice underneath as soon as it gets cold again in a couple hours. In the meantime, the heart of the storm is still 6-12 hours away. We may finish with up to 18 inches ( Read more... )

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This is not about John Searle's infamous Chinese Room argument. John Searle is a snipy crackpot who deserves to be put down by people who know what they're talking about when it comes to AI. No, I speak of Mary Lyons 4026, the home of crystalpyramid and rose_gardenThere's a significant amount of life in this room, and not even the human kind either, though there's plenty ( Read more... )