I meant to post these earlier, but got sidetracked…
QTVR: First Avenue & 14th St.
I watched the snow bury this car from our front window.
1st Ave. L Train subway station
More cars in snowdrifts.
Fire trucks and ambulances were driving around for most of the day to keep from getting snowed in. Engine 5 is the station across the street from our apartment.
The reason my webcam is down is because the previous cold snap shattered the lens. It probably has something to do with the hose incident of December 2001. This camera has been outside and turned on since sometime in 1998 or 1999, except when I was using it for something else, like attaching it to my sunglasses while skiing. It’s originally from SuperCircuits, where I’ll be purchasing it’s successor.
Just went outside for a short walk that took a long time. Absolutely insane weather. Sharp, dry snow blowing sideways. Wind 20+mph with gusts over 30mph, temperature 18°, snow drifts on Third Avenue over three feet deep already. In five minutes I helped free two stuck cabs. Another hour or two and the plows will be probably be pushing snow over the hoods of parked cars.
It’s supposed to keep snowing for at least another 12 hours. This might be bigger than 1996.
A few pictures:
Looking back across 14th St.
(there are two sidewalks and a road under there)
I started writing this at around 1 o’clock, then some friends came over and I stopped. It’s now almost 3pm and not much has changed. The protests should be winding down and here, less than a mile south, there’s almost no indication they’re happening at all. The sidewalks appear normal, there isn’t an excess of sirens and things seem basically quiet. The same goes for TV:
I finally got around to announcing Joe’s Filters on VersionTracker and MacUpdate. So far there’ve been more clickthroughs from VersionTracker and more downloads through MacUpdate.
I bought Ken Burns’ The Civil War on DVD recently (found it cheaper than on Amazon). Tonight I decided I’d listen to that instead of music while working. Then I was reminded why I hate DVDs so much. I don’t even know how much crap there is we’re supposed to be forced to sit through at the beginning of those disks. After having a small fit of button pushing to no avail, I quit Apple’s DVD player and opened VLC and the movie popped right to the beginning, no crap, no waiting.
I haven’t seen the film in years, it really is a masterpiece.
Update: VLC is good, but it’s a little buggy and a huge processor hog. It was using more than 65% of the processor by itself, making the laptop very hot, other applications sluggish, causing all the fans to turn on and making my hands sweaty. A quick Google search turned up this patch for Apple’s DVD player which overrides all those asinine ‘action prohibited’ messages on DVDs. I installed it and it seems to work perfectly. Now I just need something like that for the DVD player connected to the TV.
Cool! I just wish I could read it…
