It's snow, y'know, and it really should go

One time a friend asked me how I was doing.
"Fine," I said.
"Great. Why don't you tell your face?"

I'll never ridicule the Massachusetts Highway Department again. During yesterday's ride home from New York, through Connecticut, just a few of the 150 miles of highway were cleared of snow. Most roads had one, some two lanes covered with a slushy two or three iniches of snow. It had stopped snowing hours before, except for a few flurries. My fellow travelers were well-behaved, moving along at speeds appropriate to the rotten conditions. In a comparable snowfall last weekend, the Massachusetts crews laid down sand and psuedo-salt before the snow fell to ensure that drivers could get traction. Later, after the snow stopped, they used this marvelous contraption, and someone really should tell Connecticut about it, called a snow plow. It pushed snow off the roads. Can you believe it?

The folks in Aberdeenshire in Scotland have found a way to bring technology to their snow management tasks.

To be fair, the forecasts called for up to eight inches of snow. I counted two in New York and somewhat more in Connecticut. Fully half of the people in the New York office either stayed home or went home early. The office HR director sent mail at 11AM saying that people could go home if they wanted to. We were working hard and wanted to have lunch brought in. None of the area caterers were delivered because of the storm, so we went out. We worked through the afternoon and I left for home at 5:00.

At home we received an amount of snow that you could clear away with a sneeze.

On the ride home, I listened to Bonnie Raitt sing the John Prine masterpiece, Angel from Montgomery. If he wrote no other songs ever, I still say that he had a successful career with that one tune.

The latest in a series of web sites that explain grown-up things to kids: all about Dubai Ports Authority.

This guy may love Jesus, but not so much that he'd give up wireless broadband access.

If Geraldo Rivera and Madonna try to move to Israel, I don't know whether it's better for Israel not to let them in or not to let them out.