"So Bad" Snow
As many of you may already know, less than one week after leaving AccuWeather, State College was hit by a crippling and baffling snow storm. It has broken all sorts of records, according to an unnamed meteorologist at AccuWeather who may or may not be called Jesse: 1. Earliest Measurable Snow. This means that no measurable snow that we know of was earlier than this snow, the snow that fell less than a week after leaving AccuWeather. 2. Greatest October Snow. This means that no snow at any time in October was more than this snow, the snow that fell less than a week after leaving AccuWeather. 3. Greatest Monthly October Snow

Key Crisis
(Originally published 3/14/06, 38below.) This weekend we had a mini crisis at the Schaad Hacienda. A set of keys, which may or may not belong to Alert Reader Tammy (who may or may not be my wife) was misplaced. Misplacing your keys is one of those Great Hassles. First, you can't really go anywhere unless you make make your car start via telekinesis or something. Second, you can't really buy anything at the grocery store or rent any movies because your little tags that you put on your

Mayans Backtrack on End of World, Blame New Movie
Apparently the Mayans are getting all sorts of tech support questions about the end of the world. Fourth-graders are actually emailing saying they are too young to die. And a mother was afraid that she wouldn't live to see them grow up. These are definitely not the kind of people who should see the new movie 2012, which coincidentally comes out with enough time to produce a sequel before 2012 is fully here (the date the calendar supposedly runs out is 12/21/2012 which has enough 1s and 2s in there to blow your mind. I mean, something has to happen right?) In any event, the offical word is that the world won't end on that date. But a archaeological relic, called "

NASA, Upset at No Recent Moon Landings, Shoots Moon
 The moon. If you believe that sort of thing.

BOOM, BOOM, BOOM*
*BOOM being the sound of fireworks, of course. Today was my last day at AccuWeather, Inc. - the World's Weather Leader™ and supplier of a job for the last 243 months. I learned a lot of things at AccuWeather - largely because AccuWeather has been my only real employer. I've worked there all of my adult life** and as a result have picked up a number of important ideas, facts, examples of appropriate/inappropriate behavior, etc. I'll likely be summarizing these in blog posts over the next few weeks, which will also appear in my