80% chance of over 12" of snow by Monday night in New York City. The chances in PA are upper 70s. Makes me want to make having a balcony a requirement for my next apartment, for storing perishable food in winter power outages. I did that once in Brooklyn when my fridge broke. I may look into a batte...

The distributed computing part of SETI@home, a project to search for extraterrestrial intelligence, has essentially ended ("gone into hibernation"). https://www.seti.org/news/seti-at-home-going-into-hibernation/ UC Berkeley has announced that the volunteer computing part of SETI@home will stop distr...

Porch-bird man's candidate lost the election in 2024.

I like turtles

I've smelled wood smoke on about half of all winter days in the last three places I've lived. Based on some research I've done, the safe distance to live from 4 lane highways (depending on traffic, obstacles, air flow, etc.) is arguably 600 feet. Today I was able to smell wood burning from 600 feet ...

It happened again. I bet Youtube knows that descriptions alone can't be depended on to be good but their AI tries to find the best ones and use the thumbnails in them to find similar ones pictorially.

I mixed the [cherry] filling with plain yogurt. I recommend it. There's so much sugar in the minimum amount of cherry pie filling that I wanted to use that I quit making it, but last night I tried mixing Crofters strawberry spread with yogurt and it was great! No hint of gelatinousness. I didn't ca...

Eclectic mix in this hood.

"They may not be Russian but they sure not takin' their time!"

In whatever accent you want. If you know you know.