Too bad I won’t be around for most of this…

Tonight
Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain showers. Lows in the mid 30s.
Tuesday
A chance of rain showers in the morning. Cloudy with a chance of snow showers. Little or no snow accumulation. Morning highs in the upper 30s… Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
Tuesday Night
Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow showers. Lows in the mid 20s.
Wednesday
Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow showers. Highs in the mid 30s.
Wednesday Night
Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow showers. Lows in the upper 20s.
Thanksgiving Day
Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow showers. Highs in the mid 30s.
Thursday Night and Friday
Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow showers. Lows in the lower 20s. Highs in the lower 30s.
Friday Night and Saturday
Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow showers. Lows in the lower 20s. Highs in the lower 30s.

In Ann Arbor, meanwhile…

Wednesday
Cloudy with snow likely. Minor accumulations possible. Highs 32 to 36… Chance of snow 60 percent.
Wednesday Night
Cloudy with snow likely. Minor accumulations possible. Lows 21 to 25. Chance of snow 60 percent.
Thanksgiving Day
Mostly cloudy with scattered snow showers. Highs 29 to 33. Chance of snow 40 percent.
Thursday Night
Mostly cloudy with scattered snow showers. Lows 18 to 22. Chance of snow 40 percent.
Friday
Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers. Highs 28 to 32. Chance of snow 30 percent.
Friday Night
Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers. Lows 17 to 21. Chance of snow 30 percent.
Saturday
Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers. Highs 30 to 34. Chance of snow 30 percent.

I can’t wait. It’s about bloody time it snowed. (I can’t believe a week ago I was walking around DC in just a light jacket, or less…)
[forecasts from wunderground.com]

On the Friday morning before Halloween, 10 to 15 students, all of whom are residents of the Fox Chapel area’s most affluent neighborhoods, marched into school dressed as students from Sharpsburg, a less wealthy neighborhood [in] which a minority of Fox Chapel Area High School students live.

… And it was tolerated by the administration.

— Fox Chapel High: Where it’s OK to dress as an alien(ator)

CNN’s “Game Over” column reviews the new Xbox.

Meanwhile, the American Heart Association suggests that Drinking decaffeinated coffee may be harmful to heart health.

Decaffeinated — not caffeinated — coffee may cause an increase in harmful LDL cholesterol by increasing a specific type of blood fat linked to the metabolic syndrome, hints a new study presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2005.

(both via slashdot.org)

Looks like it’s time to update
the shirt again….

anyone know a good screenprinter in Pittsburgh?

Bitch Ph.D. has a long list of the reasons “this Alito guy is bad, bad news,” as well as links to about a dozen other people’s arguments against him, in Samuel Alito: an undue burden on us.

Some cheesy photos from an Internet Librarians convo. . . .

Best Amazon review ever (or maybe second, behind the Anne Rice Explosion of 2004):

This has to be the worst martial arts technique book on the market. There was no practical use of the fist for street self defence unless you were attacked by a very wet and naked horny Lesbian on heat.
I didn’t realise that Master bates was not a martial artist in the true sense of the word.
This book was a total dissapointment from a Self Defence point of view although i am a total hit with the ladies. Please forgive any error in grammer as my fingers are still sticky.

for this book (may not be appropriate for work or other sensitive environments)

hat-tip: KK

There’s also this article by a librarian and mystery author:

[A]s someone said, you never finish research; at some point you just give up.

And reference librarians hate to give up. We know better than most people that there’s always another book, another database, another website to try. It’s like giving a kid the key to a candy shop or taking a glutton to a free buffet and saying “stop when you’ve had enough.”

…

But the most frustrating thing about research is the knowledge that, no matter how much you do, you’ll probably still make mistakes, and someone will be there to point them out. On the first day my novel was on sale someone cheerfully told me of a geographical error on page 5. There was quite a crowd around, so I didn’t kill him.

hat-tip: LISNews