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Dec 10 02: flurries
A few days a go we had the first snowfall of winter in New York. It fell all day; it piled up on windowsills and cornices and trash cans and scaffolds and the top of the sign at Fat Sal’s Pizza around the corner. The whole city was quiet. I stayed at home—because as you may recall I have noplace else to go—and read a book and watched it come down outside the bedroom window. At the end of the day the railings on the fire escape supported snowdrifts in cross-section: several inches deep and an inch across.
By now it has all turned to grey slush, of course. But it was nice while it lasted. Life inside the apartment has fought to quicken the pace as well. I’ve been wildly productive in the last 48 hours, working on the Never-Ending E-Commerce Project and on Mom & Tony’s Website. And more excitingly, I’ve found a suitable Photo Gallery CGI for this site and for the swim team’s. I’ve got it configured to the point where it works; now I just need to get it to look like the sites that use it. Oh, plus I need to figure out how to make Photoshop do batch file conversions. How hard can it be, right?
Right. At this point, it has become an Unsolved Puzzle, and as such I’ll be bonkers until I get the answer I need. It’ll be up soon.
In the mean time, I can’t recommend highly enough that you read about Moscow Below. Especially to those who have read Neil Gaiman’s fabulous Neverwhere—but this is for real, which makes it even better. Article courtesy of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, of all things, but don’t let that stop you. Deeply, deeply cool.