Snowball Botany

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Today I watered my plants by getting snow off the outside windowsill, packing it into little snowballs, and leaving them in the pots to melt. Now I’m wondering if you’re allowed to do that.

This is excellent snowball snow; soft and fluffy, but squeezes into a tough, moldable throwing mass. Too bad I have no one to attack. I’ll just settle for making little craters in the snow pack on the sidewalk below my window.

Heavy Snow

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So where were you when Google bought Blogger? Me, I was sitting by the window, watching the heaviest blizzard I have ever seen in my life dump over a foot of serious snow on Little Italy. It’s beautiful from inside, but I don’t think I’m going to church today. Or the grocery tonight. Or work tomorrow. Or school the next day. Gosh, have I bought enough duct tape to feed me for that long?

More reactions from MeFi, Blogroots, and Slashdot.

Frozen Harbor

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In answer to the question as to whether Baltimore Inner Harbor ever freezes over, the answer is yes.

Electric rental boats hibernate through the winter.

Photos taken with an Aiptek Mini Pencam 1.3MP SD.

“Asinine and Benighted”

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Tonight I have a group exercise in the sound booth at MICA: we each need to record a 2-3 minute reading of any text we choose. I’ve narrowed my selection down to either Lamentations 3 or The Ultimate Flame. Which should I read?

Update: I did the Flame. In my Home Shopping Network voice.

Quick Dock Applications

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OS X users, you can get a quick Apps popup by simply dragging the Applications folder into the right side of the Dock. While clicking on it will bring up the applications window as expected, right-clicking (or Ctrl-clicking or click-holding) will bring up an Applications menu, just like an old-style Apple menu or Start button.

Struggle for Crack Block

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“True Believers.” This is a bit belated, but Vaughn and Bryan, the brave souls behind Rebuilding Madison, had a feature story in City Paper last month. The struggle to redeem the crack block continues, and Bryan’s firsthand account can be both troubling and inspiring to all concerned Baltimoreans.

Via that, we have 2321, another Baltimore watchdog blog from another part of town. And on a related note, Brian has an interesting revision for the goofy “Believe” campaign.

Tiring Tuesday

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Woke up late, missed a subway by seconds, walked down Lexington Street to catch the light rail and had to circle around to Saratoga because of an overdue public construction, missed the Light Rail, got my order messed up at KFC (2 pc. Original Recipe with Mean Greens), missed another Light Rail, got a dead outlet setting up my interactive terminal at the Grad Exhibit and had to move the pedestal — with eMac atop it — across the room, lacked a mini-to-quarter-inch adapter on the DAT recorder for a late-night Sound 1 project, still haven’t read my Barthes essay for Thursday, and am up late again, so that I’ll probably lack sleep when I wake up in the morning.

Yes, it has been a devil of a Tuesday.

On the up side, I did finally manage to set up the pedestal and eMac for my interactive piece at the Grad Exhibit (opening on Friday!), got to record an interesting interview for the Sound 1 project about dogs and the preparation and consumption of azucena, had dinner with a friend from school whose company never fails to brighten my day, got home in time to catch Futurama, and I’m joining some classmates for all-you-can-eat sushi at Shogun tomorrow.

It’s been a relentlessly tiring and uncooperative Tuesday, and weariness has soaked into my bones with the cold and the snow; but I will try not to falter, I will lean on the Spirit, and in Him find strength and rejoicing.

Even youths shall faint and be weary,

and young men shall fall exhausted;

but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength;

they shall mount up with wings like eagles;

they shall run and not be weary;

they shall walk and not faint.