Even though the temps dropped quickly this evening, I made a command decision that spring is here now, god damnit, and I shaved my winter caveman beard. Now just rocking the hillbilly face mullet (aka goatee).
Spring is here now. Damnit. I have willed it.
Mike E
Yay, Cosmos! And Neil deGrasse Tyson starts off with dogs!
cckids
Spring is definitely here, in Southern NV, it was 80 today. This has been the warmest, driest winter we’ve seen in 17 years.
I had honeysuckle & cacti blooming in December. Just f*cked up.
Honus
You can shave your cat’s ass, it’s still going to snow a foot tonight.
Susan K of the tech support
Wow. just as I post a happy (for contrast) sports-related comment in the sports open thread, lo, a new open thread post opens up.
Do I hope that someone sees my comment and says something nice (it’s all good, really!), or do I risk the wrath of BJ comment-dom and immediately copy and paste the whole thing in this new thread?
Door #3: Naaah, I just made oblique reference to the comment. Good evening, everyone from Spring?! But we never had a winter here in Southern California land…
ulee
I do believe this is a direct quote from John Cole from the Donner Party.
Elizabelle
We got a glamorous dusting of snow out there.
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
Hungry Joe
It was 91 in our back yard (San Diego, six miles inland) today. I had to cover the garden with lawn chairs to keep everything (chard, collard, kale, lettuce) from frying. It looked more than a little ridiculous.
I’ve shaved my beard twice in the last three decades, and both times started growing it back the next day. The last time, my daughter (then about 10) took one look at me and started to cry.
cathyx
Spring is definitely here where I live. Spring is my favorite season.
Yatsuno
@Susan K of the tech support: Peeked over and read. YAY!!!
Mike E
@Susan K of the tech support: Best of luck to your nephew!
Kay (not the front-pager)
Yeah well I’m east and just a little south of you and we already have 2, 2 1/2 inches on the ground with 2 to 6 inches more to come. And while this storm looks like it will pass you by, you may not be so lucky on Wed.
I’m dreaming of a white… St Patrick’s Day?
Kay (not the front-pager)
@efgoldman: You beat me to it.
Kay (not the front-pager)
@Mike E: Oh, good. I was trying to figure out what to do with myself tonight with no True Detective.
Susan K of the tech support
Yatsuno and Mike E —
Thank you! I’m like those wives in Apollo 13 (only 100% sincere and unconflicted):
Thrilled, Pleased, Proud.
Susan K of the tech support
Oh, and speaking of St. Paddy’s, one of the teams in the playoffs has prominent kelly green color. They were eliminated. So I can wear a green St. Paddy’s Day hat along with school colors of Cardinal with no booster conflict whatsoever! at tomorrow night’s game. :)
Suffern ACE
Orlando trip planning. I didn’t want to go. But I’m the one left making the damn trip reservations and fast pass decisions. And of course my decisions are being scrutinized and rejected. I would rather go with children.
Mike E
Heh, NdeGT has some stones: he’s taking on the creationists’ irreducibility claim against the evolution of the eye. Go get ’em, Neil!
scav
It’s not spring unless the daffodils get snowed on solidly at least once. I suppose goldish hillbilly face mullets work similarly.
Helen
No. Just no on the goatee. Goatees look good on exactly no one.
Case in point; Chuckles Toddler.
I rest my case.
superfly
Spring? We don’t have that in SoCal anymore.
Cassidy
@Helen: And Billy Ray Cyrus
currants
@Helen: YES! Yes, yes, YES!! OMG GAH! goatees. have yet to see one look good on ANYONE. Not a baseball team, not my brothers, not NO one.
PurpleGirl
Winter isn’t over in NYC until it snows on Easter in April.
And in 1980 it snowed on St. Patrick’s Day.
Drunken hausfrau
Frickin cold here… And watching Cosmos … How many fundie heads are exploding tonight?
Ash Can
Goatees make guys look fat.
RuhRow_Gyro
I like spring. THe flowers are pretty.
John Cole
@Ash Can:
Reasonably sure that being fat is what makes me look fat. Thanks for the crutch, though.
cathyx
@Helen: No. I disagree. Some men can pull one off quite nicely, as long as they’re not bushy.
Baud
@Drunken hausfrau:
Natural selection!
Poopyman
@Drunken hausfrau:
None. They’re not watching. If anything, Fox News will give them a “sanitized” version tomorrow.
max
@Kay (not the front-pager): I’m dreaming of a white… St Patrick’s Day?
Since I’m finished with my corned beef & cabbage, I can now confirm that I’m not dreaming of a white St. Patrick’s, I’m seeing a white St. Patrick’s Day.
{runs outside} GODDAMMIT. Shoulda put shoes on! Um, so far about four inches.
max
[‘Just fell below freezing, which is weird, but is saving me from shoveling the walk.’]
gwangung
@cathyx:
See Evil Spock.
Ash Can
@John Cole: Don’t worry. Just keep wearing your horizontally-striped shirts and no one will notice.
Old Dan and Little Ann
My neck of the woods has had an average temp of 27 degrees since November. 5 Fucking months of below freezing temps. Yeah, buddy. And Neil D sure does like his little spaceship on Cosmos. : )
Mike E
Home run. Neil deGrass Tyson is bringing it. Well done.
eta @efgoldman: Snowed in Charlotte April ’93
cathyx
@gwangung: Uh, no. I wouldn’t say him. But I would say him.
cathyx
@efgoldman: Not sure what you’re talking about.
RuhRow_Gyro
I think he’s talking about Cheerios.
Mike E
@Baud: Since fundies also share a common ancestor with tardigrades, then they are tough enough to withstand the strong buffeting forces of reason, too.
Alas.
FlyingToaster
Maybe it’s spring inside your head, but dude, it’s been below freezing all day out here in the real world. And, at least in the Hub of the Universe, it wlll be even colder tomorrow.
I will finally put in my herb seed orders this week; nothing’s going in the ground until June. I did get a mini-greenhouse (vertical cold frame), and won’t even plant it until it effing stops snowing.
currants
@cathyx: Objectively? Reasonable people may disagree.
me
@Drunken hausfrau: Well, the Discovery Institute will probably have a bigger conniption than they did for the last one. I like how they used the evolution animation from the original Cosmos and Neil stood by the same tree as Carl when that animation was first run.
Helen
@cathyx: I’m not sure what he’s talking about either, but, bizarrely, I agree. Hello Mr. PR guy; Please stop telling me that my life sucks and the thing that will make it better is eating your fucking cereal.
Schlemizel
Spring? HA! Not out here on the frozen tundra it ain’t. We finally had 3-4 days of above freezing temps & some sunshine so the snow mounds are 1/2 of what they used to be, but spring is still a month away.
I get to go back to jury dootie tomorrow and hope to avoid a couple of the morons I had to listen to last week. I wouldn’t mind getting a trail just to avoid the boredom of voir dire one more time.
Cassidy
@efgoldman: I like graham crackers.
ranchandsyrup
My coblogger’s post on misconceptions about extroverts. I told her it would be a great #slatepitch. She had no earthly idea what it meant which is another reason to love her.
NotMax
Presume you mean goatee plus ‘stache. The true goatee look can be difficult to pull off successfully (unless one is a Pharaoh).
Varioustypes of facial hair depicted.
Gin & Tonic
@efgoldman: “Next time.” Funny, I haven’t been called in 20-some years.
Ferdzy
Another thumbs down on the goatee front.
And since I remember very clearly that when we moved here 5 years ago we got A FOOT OF SNOW AT THE END OF APRIL, I am still in stoic Canadian winter mode. Although getting less stoic by the day – I keep telling Mr. Ferdzy that it is not too late to go to Cuba for a week. He keeps not getting the hint, though. Also, before we get to the end of April there is still the little matter of a foot and a half of semi-ice on the ground right now. It ain’t spring here.
Gin & Tonic
@efgoldman: Well, considering the guy who invented Graham flour, it’s kind of returning to the roots, as it were. Yes, I’m reading this thread bottom-to-top.
fidelio
John, are you acquainted with the phenomenon called blackberry winter?
Gin & Tonic
And I think we should all congratulate Putin (and our friend Comrade Bob) on getting a 95.5% vote in favor of Crimea joining Russia. That’s what we call a mandate.
Gin & Tonic
@efgoldman: Yeah, but I’m in the same “place” as you, which is why your “every 2-4 years” was funny. My wife has been called up three or four times since the last time I served. I guess they don’t like me.
Drunken hausfrau
The hAll of great extinctions… Are we next? Aaaauuuggghhh! Thank you, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, for fueling my drunken nightmares.
PurpleGirl
@Gin & Tonic: Queens County says they use voter rolls and motor vehicle lists for jurors. Well for 20+ years I was a voter and I was never called. Shortly after I got the Non-Driver ID card from motor vehicle, I was called for jury duty. Last time I was called was like almost 10 years ago. I recently received a juror survey to fill out, they’ll be calling me sometime soon. NY has something like was MA has, so I don’t mind jury duty too much. They have TV and computers in the one waiting room. Compared to the first time I was called, they have tried to make it better to serve and not so mind-numbingly boring.
Gin & Tonic
@efgoldman: I posted something like that here, based on a photo that was circulating on Twitter. Photos from polling stations today seemed to indicate that the ballots were marked by hand. Not sure why the curtained voting booth, if at the end of the process you exit and drop the (unfolded) plainly visible ballot into a clear plastic box. I’m sure nobody was at all intimidated.
Gin & Tonic
@efgoldman: Ah, didn’t catch that it was MA.
Cassidy
@efgoldman: I guess if you’re hungry enough there as good as any god out there.
FlyingToaster
@efgoldman: Our snow hasn’t melted yet; WarriorGirl is still wearing skibib and snowboots to Kindergarten every day.
I’m glad not to have to shovel tomorrow. I wish DC didn’t have to, except Congress, which could be coated in a solid 5cm of ice by my preference.
Suffern ACE
@efgoldman: graham crackers are a remnant of 19th century dietary spiritualism that has stayed with us through 7th Day Adventism, Christian Science, and whatever it was that Harvey Kellogg thought he was leading. The cracker was kind of culty…
NotMax
@Suffern ACE
Bakers of cheesecakes worldwide rejoiced.
Origuy
The new Crimean government is enforcing laws it hasn’t passed yet. From the Interpreter:
Kent
Everybody knows when your dog vomits cat turds on your bed, that means spring is here. It’s the West Virginia Punxsutawney Phil.
BruceFromOhio
Gaia hears your words, and will likely test your challenge, though her heart is of the earth, not the sky.
Between you, the groundhog, and the Gaia-take-me-in-my-sleep cold, I’ve had enough of this killing season.
BruceFromOhio
@fidelio: If you’re referring to this, it’s come as late as 02 April in the northern Buckeye.
There’s little in this life as sad as a fully blooming dogwood, iris or daffodil covered in heavy, wet snow.
Optical Inch
Ha-ha – Hillbilly face mullet, you mean prison pussy.
Snarla
I love goatees. True story.
Shakezula
Winter says “Oh yeah?”