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Oct. 19th, 2006
Finally SNOW!
Oct. 19th, 2006 01:23 amRusset guessed that we'd have snow on October 10. She was off by a week. We got maybe 2" today/tonight. The snow plows are out, the roads were clean coming up, at least as long as I was on the highway, though it was kind of foggy. I don't expect Russet will be doing too much at the observatory tonight.
I got home at about 10:30 tonight and as I was getting my stuff in the back seat together to bring inside, I heard the front door open and close and suddenly there was a black poodle making her presence known. Russ was getting ready to leave for work and was taking Celeste for a walk, so I joined them and we crunched through new snow and had a good conversation.
She left, I turned on Good Eats, only to find the satellite system wasn't able to get a signal. Now, the odd thing was that it had no problems with the low channels (local/Albuquerque stations), but couldn't tune the upper ones. I finally realized that there's probably snow on the dish, so I walked out and brushed off the accumulation. Instant Alton Brown.
My parents missed the snow by about eight hours. They were in Las Cruces last week: they came up here Monday morning and left Wednesday AM. When I called them to tell about the snow, my Mom commented that it had been a lot of years since she saw it. Well, I don't imagine it's too different than the last time, but there is a big diff between the light fall we had today and a Buffalo blizzard.
Maybe I'll take some pix tomorrow with the digital, I need to have a second roll of film done for next week's assignment deadline. And Thursday I go in and start printing my own color negatives! Should be fun, it'll definitely be frustrating and challenging.
I got home at about 10:30 tonight and as I was getting my stuff in the back seat together to bring inside, I heard the front door open and close and suddenly there was a black poodle making her presence known. Russ was getting ready to leave for work and was taking Celeste for a walk, so I joined them and we crunched through new snow and had a good conversation.
She left, I turned on Good Eats, only to find the satellite system wasn't able to get a signal. Now, the odd thing was that it had no problems with the low channels (local/Albuquerque stations), but couldn't tune the upper ones. I finally realized that there's probably snow on the dish, so I walked out and brushed off the accumulation. Instant Alton Brown.
My parents missed the snow by about eight hours. They were in Las Cruces last week: they came up here Monday morning and left Wednesday AM. When I called them to tell about the snow, my Mom commented that it had been a lot of years since she saw it. Well, I don't imagine it's too different than the last time, but there is a big diff between the light fall we had today and a Buffalo blizzard.
Maybe I'll take some pix tomorrow with the digital, I need to have a second roll of film done for next week's assignment deadline. And Thursday I go in and start printing my own color negatives! Should be fun, it'll definitely be frustrating and challenging.
A full article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15300153
And Stephen Colbert's response: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZnxNfBVr0U&eurl=
(thanks, Denise!)
And Stephen Colbert's response: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZnxNfBVr0U&eurl=
(thanks, Denise!)
Another amusing phishing scheme
Oct. 19th, 2006 11:23 pmI imagine you've received the (insert country name here) National Lottery emails, I received an amusing one today from the Irish National Lottery. The amusing part was the subject line: "Success Alert!!!"
Now, as a network and database administrator, I'm used to alerts. We use alerts all the time to let us know when bad things happen: a disk runs out of space, a task fails, etc. People in my field expect alerts to mean something not good is happening. We don't get alerts that say "ALERT! You have lots and lots of disk space" or "ALERT! Everything is running perfectly normally!"
The phishers can't just say "You won!"?
Now, as a network and database administrator, I'm used to alerts. We use alerts all the time to let us know when bad things happen: a disk runs out of space, a task fails, etc. People in my field expect alerts to mean something not good is happening. We don't get alerts that say "ALERT! You have lots and lots of disk space" or "ALERT! Everything is running perfectly normally!"
The phishers can't just say "You won!"?