kirabug’s idea files

Let’s see… on 2/6 we got about 18″ of snow. that melted down to roughly 1/2 by the time the snow started Tuesday night. I wasn’t smart enough to measure in advance, but I’m guessing based on the current piles & the fact that I was clearing roughly 4-5″ every time I shoveled, that we got at least another 18″ between Tuesday night & late Wednesday.

The dogs are confused.

This snow’s much heavier. a neighbor lost roughly half the branches on his 20+ foot tall pine. We only lost power once, but I expect we’ll lose it again now that the melt has begun.

Got the cars dug out this morning, and got to work just before noon. Royersford’s roads suck, the highways (422 & 202) are clear-to-wet, and Great Valley’s roads suck. So, situation normal.

Pictures later, when I get home.

Thanks to an awesome tip from ideaphile wzartv, we just implementedreCAPTCHA on the registration page.

Akismet keeps us pretty spam-free around here, but the registration spam drives me batty. Usually I’m against captcha programs as obnoxious, but this one uses scans of old books, newspapers, etc. as the sources for the words… by typing them in, you help the folks at reCAPTCHA digitize those documents. They’re currently working on old editions of the New York Times.

Hopefully this will allow us to continue to communicate as humans, and still cut down on the garbage registrations (thus saving me time), and as an added bonus we’ll get to help the world save old books.

We continue today’s Night Fugues diversion on Wednesday and Saturday this week.

…it was supposed to be a post about nursery rhymes. Clearly, somewhere, something has gone awry.

This article on the traditional ways to letter a comic book is particularly useful.

This is awesome!.

(Warning, some parts of the rest of the site are NSFW.)

Public service announcement for people as dumb as I am: “maximum strength” doesn’t mean the same thing everywhere.

Maximum strength Sudafed is 30mg of pseudoephederine. I used to take 1 a day.

Maximum strength Mucinex D is 120mg of pseudoephederine. I’ve been taking 1 a day.

AND I WONDER WHY I’M NOT SLEEPING.

So, back to the drawing board…