Dear Planet: WTF?
In my personal experience, this has been an unseasonably warm winter. Granted, I just got to Philadelphia, but I retired my winter coat three weeks earlier than I planned – and I heard from a friend in Chicago that the temperature was above 80.
Life and Death in Snoqualmie Pass
This was only borderline post-worthy (which says something, considering some of what manages to exceed my threshold) until I brought up Sunday’s Stevens Pass disaster. A little background: I went snowboarding last Sunday at Snoqualmie with three family members: Cousin O (CO), Cousin E (CE), and Aunt K (AK). More specifically, I went snowboarding and they … Read more
Well, this is awkward – way more awkward than the last time* I titled a post ‘Well, this is awkward’
Via Seattle Times, but really via any news source: Four dead in avalanches at Stevens and Snoqualmie passes Three experienced skiers and a snowboarder were killed in separate avalanches around noon Sunday — one in an out-of-bounds area at the Stevens Pass ski resort and the other in or near an out-of-bounds area at Alpental … Read more
Google’s War on ‘Chanuka’
For those of you unimpressed by Google’s ’Let it snow‘ Easter Egg: good. As you can see, WordPress got there first by a solid two and a half weeks. Those aware of said Easter Egg may or may not be surprised to learn that – unlike Apple – Google is not interested in taking a position in … Read more
