Temperature: Somewhere in the teens
Jan. 8th, 2018 02:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyMe: Okay, I can handle that!
Wind chill: HAHAHAHA LET'S BRING THAT DOWN TO THE NEGATIVE NUMBERS!
Me: Uh, okay, well at least Eva shoveled!
Porch: Not me :(
USPS: Not snow, nor rain, nor sleet, nor gloom of night - but we draw the line at unshoveled porch steps, because that's a hazard.
Me again: Damn.
Wind chill: Mwa ha ha ha ha.
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Wind chill: HAHAHAHA LET'S BRING THAT DOWN TO THE NEGATIVE NUMBERS!
Me: Uh, okay, well at least Eva shoveled!
Porch: Not me :(
USPS: Not snow, nor rain, nor sleet, nor gloom of night - but we draw the line at unshoveled porch steps, because that's a hazard.
Me again: Damn.
Wind chill: Mwa ha ha ha ha.
Parking for Gold
27 fascinating maps that show how Americans speak English differently across the US (You've probably seen these before. Interestingly, I say "pecan" differently depending on whether or not it's appended to the word "pie". Of course, there's a reason for that - we always had pecans in the house before my father died, and when referring to them that way I say it the way they do in Texas, where he was from. But I wasn't introduced to pecan pie until well after he died, and I just tend to say the phrase "pecan pie" as one unit, pronounced the way that people say it in NYC where I actually live.)
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A new class of soft, electrically activated devices mimics the expansion and contraction of natural muscles
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