(John Deering via GoComics.com)
Via commentor The Raven, The Awl has an informative article on the DoJ v. Aaron Swartz which manages to discuss the pros and cons of JSTOR without ever using the words ‘Obot‘ or ‘emoprog‘.
So… how hot is it, in your neighborhood? Mr. Cole?
Cliff in NH
It’s 65 at the moment Here…
suzanne
97°F.
Fuck.
James E. Powell
It’s so hot, I saw a dog chasing a cat, and they were both walking.
Not hot where I am (Los Angeles), but I love the old jokes.
robertdsc-PowerBook
LOL at Doyle wearing a Hello Kitty shirt.
65 degrees here in LA.
jwb
Only 88 at the moment here.
Martin
65 here in SoCal. High of 76 tomorrow. Just another normal day in zone 10a.
Spaghetti Lee
It’s finally cooled down here in Chicago, about mid-70’s.
kdaug
I keep getting to these A/C threads late, so happy to be near the top on this one.
#1: Wrap a cold, wet towel around your neck. Make sure you’re covering the veins at the side of your neck. Your body may get hot, but when your brain does you can stroke out.
Better:
#2: The kdaugs (being Texans) have these. Come in all different brands, designs, prices, et.al., but basically crystals that hold cold water for hours. Soak it for 1/2 hour in ice water, and you can do 105 comfortably for about 3 hours. Just get one that wraps around your neck like a tie.
Keep the brain cool, and drink water, and you can push through no A/C until it gets fixed.
Suffern ACE
It’s a comfortable 71 in Rockland, but I’m applying a heat compress to my leg, so my lower body doesn’t know about that. I’ve created epistemic closure on that part of my body.
Amir Khalid
If I post a comment on this thread, will m_c come charging in to demand I continue her argument with me from another thread two days old?
Odie Hugh Manatee
It’s 57 here, like it’s been for just about all ‘summer’ now. This has to be one of the suckiest summers on the Oregon coast I’ve ever seen, one day in the 80’s and a few in the 70’s. Mostly mid-50’s to mid-60’s, day and night. Fog and/or clouds, almost daily.
We have to go inland to find any heat…lol!
eemom
joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
joy to you and me
srv
Why is it so complicated to get to upstate NY? I’m pondering flying into Toronto to avoid all the crappy connections, but anyone know how much time I’ll get stuck at the border?
Amir Khalid
I learned to hate air conditioning with a passion, back when my journo’s job made me spend my days and nights in offices and hotel rooms with the A/C set to arctic temperatures. Even though I live in the tropics, I can only stand A/C when I’m riding in a car.
Constance
Went outside to look at the thermometer and it is 78 degrees in the high desert of Minden, Nevada.We are having a much cooler summer than usual.
Geoduck
@Odie Hugh Manatee:
A little further north in Western WA state, we’ve just gone through a solid stretch of sunny days for the first time in months. The weather’s definitely screwed up. (And yes, it’s been abnormally gray and wet even for the Pacific Northwest.) Still better than what’s been happening Back East.
MikeJ
We’ve had a solid week of temps over 70F. At least the nights are comfy in the mid 50s.
kdaug
@Amir Khalid: Yes.
kdaug
@MikeJ:
Christmas time in Austin. (Y’all enjoy the snow shovels.)
Amir Khalid
@kdaug:
One thread down she’s still going at it, one person against a whole bunch of people arguing on my behalf. I feel kind of guilty about that.
jwb
@kdaug: but she doesn’t usually jump threads when she has people to argue with on an old thread.
Constance
@Amir Khalid:
She is incredibly tiresome.
jwb
@Amir Khalid: I think everyone there is an experienced hand and they knew what they were getting into.
Suffern ACE
@srv: Depends on when you go and where you plan to cross. I croassed at Niagara Falls in May on a Tuesday and it was no worse than crossing into NYC from Jersy during off peak daytime. Added 25 mins to my journey. I assume that it depends on where you cross.
New York is a long state and decided to put its interior cities on rivers and has connected its cities using those same river routes. Those rivers aren’t straight and run southwest when you want to go northwest. It also put large rocks in the middle of itself, right about where you want to turn left.
Cain
@Amir Khalid:
Nothing to feel guilty about.. we want to bash her, the condescending twit.
kdaug
@Amir Khalid: Don’t. The trick is to keep one thread ahead.
In fact, I think we need a red m_c button to push that will generate a new open thread whenever she starts going.
MattR
Had a nice relaxing vacation and glad to discover the world did not completely implode while I was gone. Does anyone have a link to a good summary of the final deal that passed?
@srv: Why would you want to get to upstate NY?
@Suffern ACE: I shall wonder no more if your handle was a reference to that Suffern.
Yutsano
@suzanne: Please. For Arizona that’s downright chilly.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Geoduck:
Yeah, weather here on the left coast has been unusual for the last few years, even more so this year. But it’s better than being fried daily!
srv
@Suffern ACE: Thanks. It just seems it would be quicker to fly to Toronto and drive near Rochester than it would be to fly to Rochester.
I’d just make a week of it and fly to NYC and take Amtrak up at leisure, but the powers had to decide on a reunion in late August. Ugh.
kdaug
@jwb: Nice to have some folks to chum the waters while we head for the mainland.
MattR
@srv: One thing to consider is how tired you will be on the way back. If the trip is a busy/exhausting one you may actually prefer to sit in airports/airplanes over driving a car. (At least that was my experience when I flew directly into Seattle and drove to Vancouver instead of taking a connecting flight that went to Vancouver)
Yutsano
Mashed sweet potatoes with honey and cinnamon. Also. Yes TaMara I’m doing my homework. :)
Chris
@Amir Khalid:
Don’t. Hardly your fault you’ve got a stalker.
Calouste
Rather hot in my former neighbourhoods of Hackney and Croydon. No fun seeing pictures of shops that you’ve been to and bought stuff from in flames or with smashed in windows.
Mnemosyne
@Spaghetti Lee:
Has it been a bad Chicagoland summer so far? We’re coming out there next week and last summer was horrifically hot — like babies dying from the heat horrific. We’re hoping it won’t be quite as bad this time.
MikeJ
@Calouste: I had a couple of clients in Croyden, used to take the train down every day. Next building over form Nestle’s.
Mnemosyne
@Amir Khalid:
I kinda started it, so I should probably be the one feeling guilty. :-) It’s distracting me from my annoying and somewhat painful sinus infection, so that’s something.
Suffern ACE
@srv: Ah. I see your problem. I thought you were coming from New York. Lake Ontario is a much greater lake than you would like. Do you sail?
Cain
@Odie Hugh Manatee:
I said pretty much the same thing in a post on G+ (I have invites if people want them) Oregon has really sucked this summer. We’ve barely had 2 weeks of continous sunshine.
Yutsano
@Mnemosyne: The Jew in me has only one response for this: chicken soup. The New York Dawg makes fun of me for relying on it so much. See if he gets any matzoh balls out of me any time soon. :)
Joel
Pretty good article. One minor suggestion: if you don’t like the current system, build a new one (e.g. PLoS, for one).
Helen
Are we still talking about the heat? My mom is from Ireland where it never gets above 85.
When I was a little girl growing up poor (what they now call blue collar; and back then called “middle class’ BWA HA HA) we had no AC and one fan and my mom would come and take the fan from me when she went to bed. I roasted in that attic room.
I somehow got a college degree and moved to a one room apt in NYC (Queens, that is, not Manhattan). I had no money, and gobs of tuition debt. The first thing I bought was an AC. It cost twice my monthly rent and I charged it on a Sears CC that I have no idea how I got. But wow. That was my induction into adulthood. Oh yes you can have it if you work hard enough.
scav
@Mnemosyne: It’s been a variable summer to say the least. I think the first half of July was unusually dry and then we hit solid heat and fantastic storms and the month broke rainfall records. Right now it’s cool again. However, think midwestern weather on steroids. Could be anything by tomorrow.
Mnemosyne
@Yutsano:
I was raised among Jews, so soup is always my fallback position when I’m feeling sickly, but I went for the (vegetarian) corn chowder at lunch instead of the chicken tortilla soup, so maybe that’s why I still feel icky.
ETA: Crap! Until I posted that, I’d completely forgotten that I’d put a ginger ale in the freezer to cool it down faster. At least the bottle didn’t break before I could move it.
srv
@MattR: I’ll probably layover the return in Toronto, all the flights back are morning…
@Suffern ACE: ha!
Spaghetti Lee
@Mnemosyne:
Pretty bad. We were approaching the record for most straight days above 80 degrees (25 straight or so), until recently, and it was in the mid-high 90’s for a lot of July. Of course, it’s peanuts compared to what TX and OK are going through.
Yutsano
@Mnemosyne: That stuff works I tells ya. It warms you from the inside and, especially if it’s made well, spreads all through you like a balm to the soul. They even did a study to see how much of an old wives’ tale it is. Turns out there’s some solid scientific backing about it boosting the immune system. L’chaim!
Joseph Nobles
At 1:00 AM, it is 93 degrees here in Dallas.
Comrade Kevin
Here in Santa Clara County, CA, it is 59 degrees.
Helen
@Joseph Nobles: You win. Seriously. Oh yes you do.
Cain
I’ve been reading Reddit on the burnings in London. Holy shit.it is big and it is spreading. There si some crazy shit going on over there.
Comrade Mary
Toronto has been brutal this summer. I’ve had to stop commuting by bike because the heat, humidity and sheer force of the sun in the afternoon has left me tomato-faced for an hour straight, then another hour or so after the ride. I’m trying to adjust my working day so I can sneak out for dawn or night rides. (I was just out half an hour ago: heaven!)
gwangung
Well, damn, I guess I’m derailing the open thread….feature story on the show I’m producing. Mostly, it means I’ve been indoors and missing what little sun Seattle has been holding onto.
(Oh, yes. Video teaser here.)
Not saying too much about it. Might make asianMNgrrl a tad jealous.
Helen
@Cain: Very scary. I was thinking of moving there. It has now moved to Notting Hill; the rich part.
Why don’t Americans do that? Has there ever been a demonstration on the Upper East Side of Manhattan?
Martin
@Helen:
We did. L.A. 1992. A lot of people paid attention to that as well. A bit surreal to be driving up the 405 next to a humvee with Natl Guard troops with assault rifles hanging out.
We ignore the silent majority at our peril, as sometimes they remind us that they’re there – usually unhappily.
MikeJ
@Helen: That sounds like a recap of the previous thread> trustifarians in Hotting Hill thought rioting looked like fun, thought they’d join in.
@Martin:
BBC had a story last week wherein, “Analysts Lou Zickar and Eleanor Clift discuss what it will take to get America’s silent majority to raise their voices for change.”
The problem may be that anybody listens to people like Lou Zickar and Eleanor Clift.
Helen
@Martin: Is this the Rodney King riots that you are talking about?
Helen
@MikeJ: Yes sweetie pie nobody listens to Eleanor. Jesus F. Christ.
Jenny
From Krugman
That’s what I thought as well. Some big S&P client who hates Obama and has hot-tubed with Romney got S&P to ratfuck the economy. Where are warrantless wiretaps when you need them.
MikeJ
@Helen: ?
Texas Dem
What is it about police in the UK? Don’t they have any water cannon? Rubber bullets? The goons smashing store windows and stealing 42 inch plasma screen televisions aren’t going to respond to sweet reason. Why doesn’t the PM deploy the army to secure the streets? What’s he waiting for?
Villago Delenda Est
While, it seems, the entire rest of the US has been sweltering all summer, the Pacific NW has had an unusually cool summer. Usually we have a few days where it hits 100F, but I don’t think we’ve managed a day with a high over 90F. Getting the thermometer to 80F has been the exception, not the rule.
Joseph Nobles
@Helen: It’s been just insane this year in Dallas, and there’s no end in sight. Tropical Storm Don smacked into the lower part of the state and disappeared like Buscemi in a woodchipper.
And guaranteed, the next snowy day in winter, the right wing talk show hosts will be, “Global warming? Whaaaa?” Sigh.
Yutsano
@Villago Delenda Est:
I think the hottest it’s gotten in Seattle is 85 so far. For like a few minutes. And that streak promises to continue in the near future. This is me not complaining.
GregB
@Texas Dem:
He was on vacation and also forgot to tip his waitress.
Calouste
@MikeJ:
I used to work in that tower next to the station, you must have seen it a few times.
A street is described “like a bomb has been dropped on them” and for a change that is not an exaggeration.
Villago Delenda Est
@Jenny:
This also represents another egregious lapse in fiduciary duty by S&P, which simply cements their new image as not very reliable as a rating agency. Their coin is credibility in their ratings, and they’re trashing that coin with their actions…apparently for short term gain.
Helen
@Joseph Nobles: Yep.
Villago Delenda Est
@Yutsano:
When I lived up in the shadow of The Mountain, if it hit 90 in Seattle, it was the World Ending in Fire. Down here in Tracktown, we only get bent out of shape once it hits the upper 90s.
Helen
@MikeJ: What is your question?
Calouste
@Texas Dem:
Water cannon are useful if the protesters/rioters want to stay in the same place. If they just can walk half a mile down the road to loot some other shops, water cannon are not going to be that effective, specially not in the summer. Dispersing crowds is not going to be much use in general if the leaders can just send out a message on their mobile to gather everyone at the next target.
Comrade Kevin
@Texas Dem: Who do you think invented rubber bullets?
James E. Powell
@Villago Delenda Est:
I would be surprised if S&P’s credibility is damaged, long term. It managed to skate on the egregious practices that helped the Big Meltdown. Did anyone even get fired? Did anyone even miss his/her bonus?
Also too, how can Americans hope to learn what S&P is really up to when S&P holds such power over every press/media corporation?
Daddy Warbucks
It’s 90. It’s 2 AM and 90. That’s some Iraq shit.
Bago
I’ve been rocking the shorts for almost a week here in Seattle, but then again, I’ve been known to do that while it was snowing. Seriously though, Seattle has been lucky to get almost a whole weeks worth of sunshine. It’s disturbing the locals, they are all hiding under their sunglasses.
Yutsano
@Bago: ZOMG WHAT IS BIG YELLOW LIGHT IN SKY?? We have displeased the rain gods! MOAR VIRGIN BLOOD!!
asiangrrlMN
@gwangung: May you die in a fire that slowly melts off each particle of your skin with excruciating agony.
Me jelus? Not. at. all. But hey, Seattle is on my short-list of cities I may move to, so there’s that.
P.S. Congrats. It looks like a lot of fun.
@Yutsano: Hi, honey, I’m home! It was warm and muggy here today. Ugh. Now it’s cool and pleasant. Yay. How you be?
asiangrrlMN
Where is everybody?? Harrumph.
scav
Pretending I don’t have near catastrophic amounts of chronic insomnia, but over at the Guardian for a change. Just wanted to wish you luck with suzanne before attempting the swift rock to the head vain attempt at slumber.
MikeJ
England v Holland called off.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@MikeJ: Dang
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Bago:
I wear shorts year round…lol! My wife always asks me what the occasion is whenever I wear pants.
Shorts just work for me. It fits the PNW coastal weather too.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Odie Hugh Manatee: Dang, you still up?
MikeJ
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): Beeb led with the footie canceled.
Dax and Han Seng both down over 5% came 25 minutes into the newscaast.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@MikeJ:
whatcha gonna do?
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
Yup. Upgrading my server from Fedora 13 to 15. Backed up all of the game servers, forums and databases, transferred them to the backup system and am now running the final F13 updates prior to updating to F15.
I normally dump the previous install and set a clean system up but this time I decided to see if it will survive a direct OS update. I have specially compiled packages on the system so I’m sure that I’m still going to have fun…lol! I may still wipe it clean as usual but I thought it would be an interesting exercise.
You get my post in response to your tranny question in the other thread?
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Odie Hugh Manatee: I did, thanks. This is a fairly new tranny and clutch. I have a hurst floor shifter that I put in 25 years ago. It’s a small hump floor and, as a result, the shifter arms would not go in the proper way. I flipped them and have a reverse pattern. 1st up, 2nd over and back and 3d straight up (reverse straight back from 1st). There seems to be a good bit of left-right play in the shifter and if I put pressure to the right as I go into 3d it’s fine. I drove it for almost 20 years with no synchro in 1st and I was really happy when I found this tranny and don’t want to screw it up.
Odie Hugh Manatee
The reversed pattern is fine as long as you make sure that each gear fully disengages (to center, between gears) while another is engaged. A sloppy shifter can make for crappy shifts too so I would look into rebuilding it. At the very least, take it apart, clean it and lube, reassemble and adjust.
If it’s a known good tranny then keep it that way! :)
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Odie Hugh Manatee: Roger, thanks again.
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
Don’t know the temp right now. Do know the Hello Kitty on Bob’s shirt strikes me as hilarious.
Ben Cisco
D.C. Douglas takes a moment to properly thank the Tea Party for all they’ve done for America.
Steeplejack
Getting almost balmy here in NoVa, after (officially) the hottest July on record. Going to “only” 93° today, then the highs taper off into the mid- and high 80s over the next 10 days. Me likey!
Currently 75°, and I’m about to head out for another rare day shift. Actually, I have a week of day shifts and then a lone closing shift on Saturday. My boss is on vacation for three weeks, so I have been summoned from the dark side to take up the slack. Sort of disorienting.
Southern Beale
So, have any Republicans come forward today to advocate “personal Social Security accounts” put in the stock market?
No?
I wonder why ….
A Mom Anon
I think it’s about 75 degrees here with the highs supposed to be in the 90’s with ONE MEELLLION percent humidity.
I’ve hated this summer. My garden is pretty much dead,the few veggies I’ve harvested haven’t tasted good at all,and nearly everything that’s still alive looks like it wants to die. It’s too hot to do anything outside after about 9 am. The school district has cancelled all sports practices held outside for the forseeable future(which is pretty unheard of around here),and they’re telling people to send the kids to school with water bottles on the bus because most of the buses have no a/c. Bring on the Fall damnit.
Southern Beale
This protest song seems appropriate for today…
JPL
@A Mom Anon: I feel your pain. Last night we had a thirty second shower which only adds to the misery.
SiubhanDuinne
@JPL:
Every. Single. Time. I think, Okay, maybe this rain will break the heat.
And Every. Single. Time. it just makes everything even muggier.
Lysana
@Southern Beale: Thank you for the reminder. Now more than ever on that one.
Emma
@SiubhanDuinne: It’s a feature, not a bug. At least in South Florida. We’ve been having huge afternoon storms and when they stop, we have communal saunas. Ugh.
ericblair
@Southern Beale:
You’re only supposed to discuss SS privatization after a nice 10% run-up in the market. You’re also only supposed to discuss global warming between January and March, preferably after a blizzard. Please consult your citizenship guidebook for more details. Thanks, and have a super non-soshulist day.
JPL
@ericblair: The MSM received the memo. BTW we would have no problems if the unemployed just got a job.
Maude
AP Headline suggests Obama could learn a lot about image from Reagan.
Don’t think image is going to cure what ails the tea party. Unless Obama suddenly looked like Reagan.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@SiubhanDuinne: Yea, well the rain has been missing Athens all together.
RossInDetroit
66 degrees and 96% humidity in SE MI at the moment. High of 86 today and 50% chance of showers.
It rained all night, which is fine. If these conditions could be arranged all summer I’d be happy.
I saw autumn merchandise in a store yesterday.
Legalize
Finally becoming tolerable in SW Ohio. And I haven’t had to water the plants for 3 days.
JPL
@Maude: Even if the President looked like Reagan and acted like Hoover they would attack him because he’s a member of the wrong party.
Mark S.
Crazy Eyes: Raising the debt limit caused the downgrade.
ericblair
@JPL:
The only reason you can’t get 20 pounds of potatoes in a five-pound bag is that there are 15 pounds of potatoes that are not motivated enough. Lazy buggers.
gnomedad
@Joseph Nobles:
Global warming could mean more snow in many places, as there will generally be more moisture in the air.
Svensker
@James E. Powell:
I heard that joke in Minnesota, told to me by an elderly lady with a very thick Swedish accent. “It vass so hot that the dog vass chasing the cat ant they vas both valking!” She laughed and laughed. So did I.
Svensker
@srv:
Depends greatly on time of day, but figure an hour for normal. (Sometimes you get lucky and zip through in 15 minutes. Sometimes.)
RossInDetroit
@srv:
As Svensker said, you can get jammed up in a line of trucks and wait forever or sometimes just breeze through. This depends somewhat on time of day but occasionally things grind to a halt for no apparent reason.
In any case, when crossing the US/CAN border, have your docs in order & don’t screw around. Voice of experience here. Things have changed…
Bruce S
Stewart nailed the “downgrade”
http://titanicsailsatdawn.blogspot.com/2011/08/stewart-pretty-much-says-it-all.html