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High today, here: 1. Dewpoint then: -6. High dewpoint: -5.
High today in TO: 3. Dewpoint then: -7. High dewpoint: -5.
Low today on the balcony: -4.2. High: 1.8. Currently: -1.4.
Late afternoon sun's creeping dangerously close to the sensor. Probably not much I can do about this without moving it either out of range or back to the apartment door. Could be a problem in the summer.
There were not actually 92 sheets in the paper packages. 92 was the brightness number, which especially clever people might have guessed, seeing as, I now see, it seems to have become the standard brightness for white paper. There were 50 sheets in the paper packages--like I say, stupider by the day--which nearly precipitated another paper crisis. As it turned out, there was more nearly an ink crisis--and let me say, inkjet printers have got to be just about the worst-engineered things ever engineered. Would it really be so difficult to have a permanent ink tank that you just pour ink into? But then I guess you'd have the same sorts of problems with maintaining the right pressure that look to me like the main problems with refilling ink cartridges....
Another classic example of know-it-alls not knowing what the hell they're talking about, sports subcategory: new Yahoo baseball columnist was ragging on Team USA the other day, and particularly on Buck Martinez for not playing Damon and Derrek Lee against Korea. Turns out Damon and Lee are both hurt, which really doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Every time I hear someone going on about a manager, say, not bringing in Some Guy at some point in a game, I think, look, you don't know if Some Guy has a hangover, or his wife left him, or his dog died, or he slept on his arm last night, or God knows what.
New Yahoo baseball columnist does, however, have a hilarious long article on the search for the elusive gyroball, developed by Japanese scientists, which may or may not be thrown by one or two Japanese pitchers, which some American pitching coach somewhere is trying to replicate, and which could be the first new pitch in baseball since the split-fingered fastball, if you buy the hype that the split-fingered fastball was actually a new pitch and not just a hard forkball. (Come to think of it, I wonder when the circle change was invented.)
High today in TO: 3. Dewpoint then: -7. High dewpoint: -5.
Low today on the balcony: -4.2. High: 1.8. Currently: -1.4.
Late afternoon sun's creeping dangerously close to the sensor. Probably not much I can do about this without moving it either out of range or back to the apartment door. Could be a problem in the summer.
There were not actually 92 sheets in the paper packages. 92 was the brightness number, which especially clever people might have guessed, seeing as, I now see, it seems to have become the standard brightness for white paper. There were 50 sheets in the paper packages--like I say, stupider by the day--which nearly precipitated another paper crisis. As it turned out, there was more nearly an ink crisis--and let me say, inkjet printers have got to be just about the worst-engineered things ever engineered. Would it really be so difficult to have a permanent ink tank that you just pour ink into? But then I guess you'd have the same sorts of problems with maintaining the right pressure that look to me like the main problems with refilling ink cartridges....
Another classic example of know-it-alls not knowing what the hell they're talking about, sports subcategory: new Yahoo baseball columnist was ragging on Team USA the other day, and particularly on Buck Martinez for not playing Damon and Derrek Lee against Korea. Turns out Damon and Lee are both hurt, which really doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Every time I hear someone going on about a manager, say, not bringing in Some Guy at some point in a game, I think, look, you don't know if Some Guy has a hangover, or his wife left him, or his dog died, or he slept on his arm last night, or God knows what.
New Yahoo baseball columnist does, however, have a hilarious long article on the search for the elusive gyroball, developed by Japanese scientists, which may or may not be thrown by one or two Japanese pitchers, which some American pitching coach somewhere is trying to replicate, and which could be the first new pitch in baseball since the split-fingered fastball, if you buy the hype that the split-fingered fastball was actually a new pitch and not just a hard forkball. (Come to think of it, I wonder when the circle change was invented.)
