2014-01-28

randomness: Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea), photograph by Malene Thyssen, cropped square for userpic. (Default)
2014-01-28 11:48 am

Facebook is really not built to facilitate intelligent conversation, is it?

There's a conversation going on in a Facebook group I'm in that may someday become my personal Exhibit A for why Facebook is a terrible place to have any kind of substantive, meaningful conversation.

I'm not linking to it now because I don't need an Exhibit A at the moment. Moreover, pointing large numbers of people at the conversation who have no connection to the group will probably not be helpful.
randomness: Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea), photograph by Malene Thyssen, cropped square for userpic. (Default)
2014-01-28 02:21 pm

Freezing rain, sleet, and snow from Texas to Virginia affecting travel today.

Alas, the image changes with the changes in weather alerts.

Airports from Houston to Charlotte have been cancelling flights. Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta, the busiest airport in the world, has cancelled more than 800 flights, which is over a third of today's schedule.

Today would be an excellent day not to fly through any airport in the region. CNN has a story.

The Weather Channel has a state-by-state rundown. The National Weather Service's winter storm warnings are here.