Day: January 28, 2010

And now for something completely the same

It snowed quite a bit here this morning, both on Long Island and in Manhattan, but you wouldn’t know it to look around now. Except for a conspicuous snowman on a neighbor’s lawn, almost all of it had melted before noon. There’s more predicted for the weekend, but we shall see.

Work continues to keep me busy, albeit not with anything new to say about it. I spent today working on the same projects I’ve been working on all week, and that I’ll probably spend all of tomorrow working on, too. It’s both more and less boring than it sounds.

Other than that, not much. Just glad that tomorrow is Friday.

Thursday various

  • I was sad to see that J.D. Salinger had passed away. I think John Hodgman said it best: “I prefer to think JD Salinger has just decided to become extra reclusive.”
  • I’m much more sad to hear the terrible news about Kage Baker, who has apparently lost her battle with cancer and has only a few weeks to live. I haven’t read a lot of Baker’s books — just the first two in her Company series — but she’s a real gifted talent taken much too soon.
  • Today in banning: first, a Wisconsin jail bans Dungeons & Dragons:

    Singer was told by prison officials that he could not keep the materials because Dungeons & Dragons “promotes fantasy role playing, competitive hostility, violence, addictive escape behaviors, and possible gambling,” according to the ruling. The prison later developed a more comprehensive policy against all types of fantasy games, the court said. [via]

    And a California school district bans the dictionary. [via]

  • In much happier news, a story of a Haitian man rescued from beaneath the rubble 11 days after the earthquake — “and hours after the government declared search and rescue operations to be officially over.”
  • And finally, Zack Handlen watches the horror movie Orphan so the rest of us don’t have to:

    …just playing creepy music and panning over a room isn’t creating mood, it’s giving the production designer a clip reel…