Althouse: Snow day!

March 6, 2018

Snow day!

49 comments:

Gahrie said...: Mid 70's here.; 3/6/18, 12:00 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: That is some good-lookin' snow.; 3/6/18, 12:16 PM
paminwi said...: Good snow for making snowballs and snowmen!; 3/6/18, 12:18 PM
rhhardin said...: "Researchers are already building the foundation for sentient AI"

Start with women, is my advice.; 3/6/18, 12:20 PM
Wince said...: Antifa-Meade?; 3/6/18, 12:20 PM
Curious George said...: Glad I was patient. Already gone from my driveway.; 3/6/18, 12:25 PM
rhhardin said...: Australians use different vowels for everything.; 3/6/18, 12:32 PM
Kyzer SoSay said...: Just rain here in Illinois. So far at least.; 3/6/18, 12:35 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 3/6/18, 12:36 PM
Ann Althouse said...: "Good snow for making snowballs and snowmen!"

I made a snowman. It was the best snowman-making snow ever. Very heavy and sticky. A snowwoman, actually.; 3/6/18, 12:38 PM
rhhardin said...: snowwoman

Hips won't do it. You have to add tits.; 3/6/18, 12:47 PM
Jersey Fled said...: Here in the Philadelphia area our all-news radio station is in full panic mode about a major snowstorm coming our way. Up to a foot of snow.

Buried deep and barely mention is that the forecast is for the Lehigh Valley area - still in the listening area but 50 miles north and east.The city and immediate area are expected to get 1 inch. I had to go to Weather Underground to find that out.

If I can't trust them to do a weather report honestly, why should I believe them on anything at all.; 3/6/18, 12:58 PM
MadisonMan said...: A typical Spring snow -- excellent for packing. I like that enough solar energy gets through the clouds in March that snow melts on pavement and sidewalks. Keep shoveling needs to a minimum.; 3/6/18, 1:04 PM
tcrosse said...: Nobody made snowpeople like Calvin and Hobbes.; 3/6/18, 1:05 PM
Big Mike said...: I see that the Coward County captain in the Sheriff’s Office who ordered the deputies to set up a perimeter instead of entering the school to confront the shooter has been identified. A woman named Jan Jordan. I could have sworn that women believe in protecting children? Another myth busted.; 3/6/18, 1:05 PM
Tank said...: Mowed the lawn this AM. Nice. Got my shrubs all pruned for spring, including the little meatballs. First time I did meatballs, easier than I thought.; 3/6/18, 1:06 PM
Ann Althouse said...: The meltage on the pavement is only after shoveling. Elsewhere, it was thick. I think some people are hoping the higher temperature will do the work for the, but that’s going to be a huge mess for days.; 3/6/18, 1:11 PM
Ralph L said...: Life's easier on the sunny side of the street.; 3/6/18, 1:19 PM
Anonymous said...: We've had no snow at all this year (southern NM) and I have not missed it.; 3/6/18, 1:24 PM
tcrosse said...: This is the time of year when the snow melts on to the sidewalk, then freezes overnight. There is no substance in the universe more slippery than ice with a thin layer of water on top.
When I lived in St Paul my asshole nephew in Seattle would bust my chops about the winter weather. Now I live in the Southwest, but I swore I would never be That Guy.; 3/6/18, 1:26 PM
Hagar said...: The U.S. military adopting the .223 cartridge came from the experience of fighting in the jungles of Viet Nam, where most firing was done at less than 100 yards due to the difficulty of even seeing the enemy, much less taking accurate aim at them through the jungle foliage?

I wonder if the future most likely battle fields (has been for some time actually) in the wide open desert environments of the Middle East and North Africa might renew interest in a heavier, boat-tailed 7.62 mm. cartridge, stable and lethal at a much longer range?
There is much to be said for killing or wounding the enemy if you can before he gets too close, I think.

I also came across an interesting post that said some of the special ops forces in Viet Nam initially refused to surrender their .30 cal. M2 Carbines because they considered them both more lethal and more reliable than the M-16.
Though the reliability problems of the early M-16s are also said to derive from corrosive primers in the early .223 ammunition and not so much from the rifle itself.
(Soldiers in combat fired their weapons and did not clean them for weeks on end?)

For me, a major objection to the M-1 Carbine I was issued for a while in Germany, was that while light and easy to carry, it was so darned small, like a kid's .22 LR, that it was difficult for me to hold and aim.
The modular construction with adjustable butt stocks of the "assault style" rifles take care of that problem.; 3/6/18, 1:41 PM
Hagar said...: I could have sworn that women believe in protecting children?

They are also said to believe in cooperating with the group rather than individual heroics.; 3/6/18, 1:44 PM
bagoh20 said...: I don't know how you people do it. Winter is even over now here in Las Vegas, which does get cold. It's going into the mid 70s this week, and will likely never go cold again till next winter. I grew up in western PA, and I could never endure such seemingly endless winter again. Warm is for living in. Cold is for visiting.; 3/6/18, 1:45 PM
Hagar said...: BTW, have you seen the pics of Ruger's "assault style" .22 LR bolt action precision target rifle?; 3/6/18, 1:49 PM
rhhardin said...: The local Rush affiliate has been garbaging the feed shortly into the third hour yesterday and today.

Near equinox the satellite is in the same orbit as the sun and when they occupy the same piece of sky you hear sun microwaves instead of satellite microwaves.

They haven't figured this out. Either use a different satellite or use a landline feed from a sister station, preferably more than 600 miles west.; 3/6/18, 2:00 PM
Ann Althouse said...: I love the winter weather when the snow is good and I love the change of the seasons. Why do people in the south assume we envy what they have? We northerners don’t needle you about how hot you must be. Meade and I could live anywhere. We affirmatively choose to be here every day. We could rent a winter escape at any point, but we haven’t done so this winter at all.; 3/6/18, 2:01 PM
Dave in Tucson said...: A lovely picture, but it also reminds me of how northern winters seem to suck all the color out of the world. Really the only color in the picture is the red bricks in the fence posts. Even the person in the background (Meade?) is wearing various shades of white/gray/black, and walking a black dog.

I'll stick with the lovely colors of Tucson: https://i.redd.it/rsud0e8bbj401.jpg; 3/6/18, 2:48 PM
MadisonMan said...: I also love seasonal change -- but about March I'm itching for the change to happen, and some years it is a frustratingly long time.

I have a ton of yard work planned in my head for this warm season. We'll see if it gets done. Step 1: Make a lot of raised bed containers that use interesting materials.; 3/6/18, 2:50 PM
bagoh20 said...: Cold and snow is great, but some places it just lasts too long.

I guess it's all personal preference.

Didn't you ever wonder why Eskimos don't just walk south.

Plants and animals alike hibernate, go dormant, migrate and just plain wait for it to end.

Birds do it, bees do it
Even educated fleas do it
Lets do it, lets go get warm.; 3/6/18, 2:51 PM
Michael K said...: "I love the winter weather when the snow is good and I love the change of the seasons"

I enjoyed the year I sent in New Hampshire and would have stayed if my grant had come through,

I grew up in Chicago and that was probably the worst place to experience winter.

My sister is still there and, aside from the crime and political problems, I would love to see her get out of there because winters are tough when you are in your 70s. The low humidity indoors is a big part of it. I sent her a big humidifier but you need two or three.; 3/6/18, 2:52 PM
Original Mike said...: You’re as cold as you want to be.; 3/6/18, 2:56 PM
MountainMan said...: One thing this old Georgia boy loves about living in the mountains in East Tennessee is we have four perfect seasons, each of near equal length, and almost exactly matching the dates on the calendar. Not too awfully cold in the winter, maybe a little snow; not too awfully hot in the summer. Wouldn't trade it for anything farther north or south. May and October are my favorite months.; 3/6/18, 3:00 PM
Big Mike said...: @Hagar, as a matter of fact I did. If it has an adjustable butt stock and black polymer grips then not only is an "assault rifle," but it is capable of shooting thousands of rounds per minute.

Is there anything stupider than a gun grabbing Democrat?; 3/6/18, 3:14 PM
FIDO said...: I started watching "The Office" (the American version).

And I have to say...I hate Jim and Pam the most. (They are supposed to be the 'woke' couple).

I mean, the boss is an idiot but HE and Dwight, unlike Jim, don't even realize that they are being evil, mean or offensive...for the most part.

Jim is a guy with a magnifying glass tormenting ants. If he were to do the same things to little retarded children (which is not far from how the writers characterize Michael and Dwight), he would be considered one of the worst people on the planet.

So I watch this because it is free and at some point, a shit ton of pain has to fall on Jim...and I'd like to be there to see that.; 3/6/18, 3:23 PM
Hagar said...: Could have been an "AR-15" too. I don't know why you would, but the AR-15 part being just the trigger assembly, I don't know why you could not hook that up to just about anything.; 3/6/18, 3:54 PM
Ralph L said...: The US military won't go back to heavier rifles until we evolve a more muscular female--and dispose of the weak ones.; 3/6/18, 4:21 PM
Hagar said...: The rifle would not need to be heavier though of course the ammunition would be. The new technology stocks can be designed to reduce recoil so that your right shoulder would not be as beat up as mine was after shooting for record with an M-1 Garand the first time.; 3/6/18, 5:03 PM
Danno said...: Blogger Ann Althouse said...I love the winter weather when the snow is good and I love the change of the seasons. Why do people in the south assume we envy what they have? We northerners don’t needle you about how hot you must be. Meade and I could live anywhere. We affirmatively choose to be here every day. We could rent a winter escape at any point, but we haven’t done so this winter at all.

I have had enough of the winter in St. Paul after being here since Feb.1 and getting major snow almost every week since. I spent the month of January in the Florida panhandle and got 11 bicycle rides during one of their coldest Januaries of recent times. I am thinking of buying a townhome down there for the six months of harsh fall/winter we typically have up here. Maybe I can get my annual bicycle mileage up to 3,000 miles per year. I would still be in Minnesota or Wisconsin in the summers though.; 3/6/18, 6:09 PM
Big Mike said...: @Hagar, nor should we go back to heavier or harder kicking rifles. I'm thinking that the military should get rid of the 5.56 and replace it with the 6.5 Creedmoor or comparable.; 3/6/18, 7:42 PM
Hagar said...: 6.5 Grendel and perhaps they can develop a high-tech material lighter than brass for the cartridge? The military will still want an "assault rifle."

6.5x55 Swedish (I don't know how the Swedes got into this) was the standard Norwegian round with the Krag-Jørgensen until they decided they needed something heavier and more powerful to compete with the other military rifles after WWII.
600 meters was the standard range for prone position target competition.

I got a bad scare once when pulling targets at 600 m. when I was a kid. The rope slipped off the pulley on top, and we telephoned back and hung out the red flag before I climbed up to fix it, but just as I reached out over the target for the rope, this idiot let fly with a 10-shot series, and he got off the first five before the others on the firing line got him stopped.
There was a time limit for the 10-shot series, and those guys had a rhythm they could not stop once they got started.; 3/6/18, 8:17 PM
Hagar said...: For all that crap about the peaceable Norwegians' very strict firearm control laws, etc., blah, blah, blah, the most popular sport after football (soccer to you) was target rifle shooting with the Krag.

And two boys of my class of 18 in high school had pistols though highly illegal. One of them almost shot his sister fooling around with an 11.25 Husqvarna.; 3/6/18, 8:26 PM
Big Mike said...: @Hagar, I think of the Grendel as a target-shooting round. Some writers have tried the Creedmoor for long distance hunting and rave about it. I don't hunt, not with my knees, so I'm relaying second hand information.

When did Husqvarna make a .44? Was it a sporterized model 1867 Remington rolling block?; 3/6/18, 9:56 PM
Lucien said...: Someone over at Slate, I think was complaining about people using an AK 15.; 3/6/18, 10:59 PM
Hagar said...: https://www.forgottenweapons.com/the-husqvarna-m-40-pistol/; 3/7/18, 6:53 AM
Hagar said...: Probably brought to Norway by one of the returning underground refugees when peace broke out.; 3/7/18, 6:56 AM
Big Mike said...: @Lucien, I doubt that Avtomat Kalashnikovs was in business in 1915, since Mikhail Kalashnikov hadn’t been born yet.; 3/7/18, 7:40 AM
Rusty said...: Hagar said...
"Could have been an "AR-15" too. I don't know why you would, but the AR-15 part being just the trigger assembly, I don't know why you could not hook that up to just about anything."

The AR 15 bolt is different too. To go full auto you need a M16 trigger group and an M16 bolt. Even then it takes some gunsmithing to get it to cycle right. Or so I'm told.; 3/7/18, 8:42 AM
Hagar said...: OF course it is, but what makes an AR-15 an AR-15 is the formerly patented lower receiver unit, not whatever is above it.; 3/7/18, 11:41 AM
Rusty said...: You are correct, sir.; 3/7/18, 8:25 PM