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Things are about to get real here tonight, and all day tomorrow.

Earlier forecast- no changes yet.

Checklist done:
- vehicles ready.
- snowblower fuel and oil good, tested.
- generator fuel and oil good, tested*.
- gasoline at the ready.
- flashlights all good.
- heat turned up *pant pant* ‘just in case.’
- regular shopping completed early in the week.
- snow shovels ready.
- devices charged or charging.
- laundry and dishes caught up.

Now we wait.

Here’s a before.

*It dawned on me this afternoon that we haven’t had a ‘bad weather’ power outage since we got our generator. Even though it has a heavy duty storm cover, I can’t imagine running this in the predicted 50-65mph blizzard. Bunny toes crossed!

Current Mood: anxious
Current Music: 60s

shakalooloo posting in

scans_daily

Another tradition of forming a super-hero team: the members having a little bit of conflict first.

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soemand

Driven by my interest in the influence of US clear-channel stations, I was curious what they actually sounded like back in the day. Thanks to archive.org, I found aircheck recordings that let me experience what is otherwise an ephemeral medium. Currently, I’m diving into a 1970 Top 100 countdown with DJ Bruce Morrow. Between the music and his quintessential New York accent, it’s a fascinating listen. Had I been born early enough to seek it out, I definitely would have been a fan.

Radio is, by its very nature, an ephemeral medium—a stream of data pushed into the ether, meant to be experienced in the moment and then lost forever. Unlike a book or a film, which are curated for the shelf, these broadcasts were 'disposable' culture. Finding these recordings on archive.org feels like intercepting a ghost signal; it’s a rare chance to catch a broadcast that was never truly meant to survive the night it aired.

Current Music: https://archive.org/details/bruce-morrow-wabc-top-100-of-1970-new-york-ny-januar

soemand

More snow tomorrow. Nam has the precipitation at around 25mm water equivalent, or 25cm total.

Will renew my wife’s skiing trail, but I’m reticent on clearing the driveway with my bum knee.

james_davis_nicoll

Orson finds Trump's approach to Greenland unacceptable and would like the President to keep focus on core American missions, like trade wars and ethnically cleansing Minnesota.

andrewducker

Spent the afternoon at Hugh and Meredith's, where Hugh showed Sophia how his 3d printer works (and how he makes 3d dungeons out of foam). Very cool stuff, and they both enjoyed their souvenirs.
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

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https://joshreads.com/2026/02/josh-gets-cranky/

https://joshreads.com/?p=48208

Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out!

Shoe, 2/22/26

One of the ways that doing this blog over two decades has turned me into an actual insane person is that I feel obligated to speak up for strip lore that the strip’s creators and/or hired-hand continuators have forgotten. For instance, the way the Shoeniverse traditionally worked is that the bird characters ate lunch at Roz’s, which is an open air diner on a tree branch, and complained about the cooking, and in the evenings got drunk at a fern bar, which is a building with a roof on it, and tried to have sex with one another. Lately, though, it seems like the locations are getting conflated and there are more and more strips where the characters are getting drunk at Roz’s, and I don’t care for it. I’ve been consoling myself with the idea that these are still daytime strips and the bird characters are just so depressed these days that they’re openly getting blotto at lunch, but the dialogue here establishes this as an evening recreational drinking binge, so my concerns are clearly justified.

Judge Parker, 2/22/26

Oh, man, remember how April disappeared and then Randy went off to rescue her and also disappeared? Well, now it looks like she is gonna end up rescuing him, ha ha! Boy, he’s never going to hear the end of this, or maybe, due to his proximity to this massive explosion, he’s never going to hear anything ever again.

Pluggers, 2/22/26

YOU, AN ETERNAL OPTIMIST: Ahh, even cranky old pluggers can still enjoy moments of childlike whimsy.

ME, AT AGE 51 BECOMING MORE AND MORE AN ACTUAL PLUGGER BY THE DAY: Oh god, look at how they’re lying on that uneven ground without any cushions or anything. Look at how she’s propping herself up awkwardly on her elbow. They’re going to be in pain for days! They’re not even going to be able to walk back to their car!

https://joshreads.com/2026/02/josh-gets-cranky/

https://joshreads.com/?p=48208

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260221000313.htm

Triceratops’ massive head may have been doing more than just showing off those famous horns. Using CT scans and 3D reconstructions of fossil skulls, researchers uncovered a surprisingly complex nasal system hidden inside its enormous snout. Instead of being just a supersized nose for smelling, it likely housed intricate networks of nerves and blood vessels—and even special structures that helped regulate heat and moisture.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260221000313.htm

sc_d_fossils_ruins_feed

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260218031502.htm

Deep inside a Romanian ice cave, locked away in a 5,000-year-old layer of ice, scientists have uncovered a bacterium with a startling secret: it’s resistant to many modern antibiotics. Despite predating the antibiotic era, this cold-loving microbe carries more than 100 resistance-related genes and can survive drugs used today to treat serious infections like tuberculosis and UTIs.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260218031502.htm

james_davis_nicoll

Can America's well-financed, highly-experienced, heavily-armed war machine hope to prevail against a numerically insignificant, poorly-armed, American teen movement?

Dance the Eagle to Sleep by Marge Piercy

andrewducker

1. Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks: (tags:language chicken psychology )

anonymoose_au

10:14pm: Having a cold and all I didn't do Archery or go to church or do much of anything - although I did go out to the shops today (with mask) because I ran out of toilet paper and needed to restock. I did also get half my laundry done (but not all of it...whoops) and cleared out one of my cabinets because there were bugs in it (I know gross!).

On the upside I do feel better - my throat isn't sore anymore - wipes brow in relief - and I'm not dizzy - yesterday I was sooo dizzy a number of times. It was rather disturbing to be honest, I have no idea what caused it I drank plenty of water and it didn't feel like I had a fever. Very strange.

Anyway, now I just have a stuffed nose, which is most uncomfortable...luckily I do have the good Decongestant - the one you have to buy over the counter and sign for because it can be used to make illegal drugs or something - so that's helped out.

Aww crap, I accidentally quit my Duolingo lesson, and I was just about to finish it too! Damnit! Well, I just redid although I did have to buy more energy to do so, but hey I got a perfect score :OP

Back on topic I considered calling in sick to work, but I'm not sure if doing it on Sunday is all that useful? I guess it could be...but fingers crossed I'll continue feeling better so that won't be necessary. Although maybe if my nose is running I might stay away, I wouldn't want to infect my fellow colleagues after all!

I also need to turn it, though I'm catching up on last night's SydSquad Airport stream, featuring the landing of the last 747-400 Freighter every built. (I can't believe they don't make 747s anymore, it's criminal I tell you! On the other hand, Boeing isn't the company it once was so maybe it's for the best). Aww and we were getting a great full on view of it heading down towards the camera, but some other plane just pulled out in front of it. XD Reminds me of that YouTube video of someone trying to get a video of...something or someone when a big ass double decker bus pulls right in front and ruins the shot. How rude!

OK, I better head off now, according to my Fitbit I didn't get enough zzzs last night and that won't do for my health!

Ta-ta!

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: SydSquad Live from Sydney Airport Replay - YouTube

darkoshi

I still haven't decided what kind of water heater to get. At this rate I'm not sure I'll ever have enough time to make a decision. Of course I will, right? It's not that hard. I think the obvious decision is to replace it with the same kind as the old one. But I haven't completely convinced myself yet. I'm feeling inept, overburdened with things to do. I'm too slow to do them.

Wouldn't one of those electric plastic tanks be better? No anode rods to replace. I think I've decided against tankless. The heat pump ones are too tall I think, to fit in the current one's place. And complicated, prone to problems from what I read.

We had 2 very warm days. It's about to get colder again. But daffodils have bloomed, and the pink magnolia, and some trees with white blossoms.

I got the root canal on my tooth, and will get the temporary crown soon. The other tooth which had the root canal and crown done last year still feels a little weird sometimes.

I've accomplished things since the beginning of the year, but it is hard to remember what all. I made appointments; I went to the root canal consult. I got a dental cleaning; I got the root canal. I got the flu vaccine.

Grr. At the moment I wish I had a trustworthy local LLM to be able to give it my daily notes and have it summarize all my accomplishments for me.
After one MS Teams work meeting last week, the LLM's summary of the meeting was amazingly good. It helped me better understand what actually went on during the (confusing jumbled multi-hour) meeting.

I'm sure I must have gotten other things accomplished during the weekends. Well, there was the ice and the snow.

phoebeandherunicorn_feed

https://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn/2026/02/22

Comic strip for 2026/02/22

https://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn/2026/02/22

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https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2026/02/22/

farsidecomics_feed

https://www.thefarside.com/2026/02/22/0

“Oh, wonderful—you’re early.”

https://www.thefarside.com/2026/02/22/0

farsidecomics_feed

https://www.thefarside.com/2026/02/22/1

calzephyr

We watched a few more James Bond movies from our big DVD set over the Christmas holidays--I'm just woefully behind logging them.

We watched:

You Only Live Twice (Bond in Japan)

On Her Majesty's Secret Service (with George Lazenby)

Diamonds Are Forever (Bond in Las Vegas)

Live and Let Die (first movie with Roger Moore)

Out of the four, On Her Majesty's Secret Service was my favourite. George Lazenby really wasn't a bad Bond--and maybe it was the performances of Diana Rigg and Telly Savalas that rounded out the movie so well. George Lazenby brought a bit of softness to Bond, and I was not prepared for the ending!

It goes without saying that these movies seem campy to modern audiences — I wonder if they would have felt campy when they were released. The villains are just a step above being Batman henchmen. You Only Live Twice was pretty cringey and Live and Let Die had us reading up on blaxploitation afterwards. Diamonds Are Forever felt too long, although seeing vintage Vegas was pretty cool! In some ways these movies are travelogues from a time when travel was expensive.

When people complain about some of the stunts in a newer franchise, like Fast & Furious, they're forgetting things like the epic ski chase or boat chase from Bond--both of which seem a little silly today!

cyberghostface posting in

scans_daily

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soemand

U.S. clear‑channel AM stations had a surprisingly strong influence on the Maritime musical landscape. Anne Murray, growing up in Springhill, could pick up stations like WABC at night, and that polished American pop sound shaped her early musical style.

Other powerful U.S. stations carried different influences into the region. WWVA in Wheeling, West Virginia, brought bluegrass directly into Maritime homes, while WSM’s Grand Ole Opry broadcasts reached parts of Nova Scotia. This exposure introduced instruments like the banjo and mandolin — along with their distinct picking styles — well before local access to records or returning servicemen’s albums.

Not all parts of the Maritimes received these signals equally. The north shore of New Brunswick often sat outside the skip zone, meaning those U.S. broadcasts simply didn’t reach them. As a result, that region developed along different musical lines, shaped more by Acadian and Quebec influences than by the American country and bluegrass that took root elsewhere.

U.S. AM radio didn’t just entertain the Maritimes — it rewired the region’s musical genetics.

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Airchecks & Icons: Revisiting US Clear Channel History

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If I am reading this correctly

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Josh gets cranky

Triceratops had a giant nose that may have cooled its massive head

Frozen for 5,000 years, this ice cave bacterium resists modern antibiotics

Dance the Eagle to Sleep by Marge Piercy

Interesting Links for 22-02-2026

A Decidedly Lackluster Weekend

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Phoebe and Her Unicorn - 2026-02-22

Doonesbury for Sunday, February 22, 2026

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James Bond ahoy!

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Banjo by Skywave: The Radio Roots of Maritime Bluegrass

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