Category: Miscellaneous
Ice storm!
Another Non-Computer-Thing Challenge
Anya says I’ve got too much “computer stuff” here again, and I am being challenged:
‘I hereby challenge Lisa J. Rushworth to not post any computer things on her website for 30 consecutive days. Any breach of this contract will add 10 more consecutive days on it.
“Computer things” includes all work things, home internet things, or server things.’
Which is odd because it’s not really a contract, but whatever. Umm … snow?
Frozen Wonderland
We finally had a sunny day, so there was a lot of melting going on even though it was cold. And then it got really cold. We’ve got crystalline ice droplets all over our pine trees.
First Robin of 2025
There were at least six robins hanging out in the bushes next to our duck yard this morning. Odd since we’re about to get the coldest and snowiest week or two of the winter … but they’re still the first robins of the year!
Etomology, fake news, and circus kings
Turkish Journalist Sedef Kabaş said “There is also a saying that is the exact opposite: ‘When cattle go into a palace, they don’t become the king; but the palace becomes a barn’ — and, evidently, was arrested for it. The strange thing is that I heard this as “an old Turkish proverb” … since the quote comes from January 14th 2022, I’m not sure old really applies.
It then got repeated with all sorts of things and places – oxen, stables … and clowns with circuses. When a clown goes into a palace, they don’t become the king; the palace becomes a circus.
It would have made a great old proverb, although it looks like we’ll have to wait a few hundred years.
City Rainbow
We went downtown today. Dropped Scott and a friend of his off at a whiskey tasting whilst Anya and I went to the main library. Since it was pretty windy, the fountain had significant over-spray — but it made a lot of cool rainbows:
Sunset, again
Still beautiful!
Sunset
We’re outside looking for the comet, and the sunset was beautiful:
Rainbow
