It was thundersnowing around noon. By the time I took my lunch walk it was sunny and the dampness on the ground suggested that maybe it had rained a little several hours ago. Now it is dark and thundersnowing again.

Fine with me.

I am having a good day.

In the wee hours this morning I played two games of Tic Tac Toe against a bot with the Volity web client. The application is not in a state where anyone other than me can use it, but we have nonetheless acheived target depth. It's all lateral digging from here. I IMed radiotelescope around 1a.m. to share the moment. He said "WTF, mid- ( Read more... )

I can't say I blame it.

Happy Solstice. May your fortunes increase with the days.

Woke up by the sound of falling rain today. May be not quite the right weather to use this icon by lol_comics but close enough; I am too impatient to wait until the next day that it is actually sunny and nice at the same time.

Didn't sleep much last night for no particular reason, so up early and at the Diesel. I know I'll regret coming here once I start to head back home; it was already pretty hot when I walked here at 8 a.m. I allegedly came here to work on job applications but I think I will leave once I am done with this post, and this tea. Not looking forward to ( Read more... )

It's 2:45 a.m. and I'm sitting here sweating.

This crazy-violent fast storm that just blew over (and out of) Boston had positive lightning in it! I didn't know about the existence of this phenomenon until now.

I saw two strange, long-lived, brilliantly purple lightning bolts and asked weather-nerd kyroraz what they were, and he told me. "It's really bad stuff", he added. "Do not get hit by it."

Dear scientists:

Is it strange that the summer weather feels less hot and humid to me during the day than in the evening?

I understand that there is heat inertia, but still it seems odd to me that I daily want to turn on the AC around 6 p.m. and leave it going until bedtime.

The snow kept the Andys away through Sunday, so this has been a really slacky weekend for me. Got into gear Sunday evening and am riding that into today, brum brum. Expect to see Space Station Assault become scrutable this week. It is a cool game and people should play it, gosh darn it... but I am well aware that, as currently presented, it's not ( Read more... )

As noted in previous comments to leighjen, I am glad the heat broke and seems to be staying broken (thick gray cloud cover being a small price to pay), and am furthermore surprised at the apparent effectiveness of threats of physical violence against the weather. Let's all remember that for next time.