Boston wins
We had some deep snows when I lived in Arlington, Mass (next to Cambridge), but nothing quite like the thick blanket of white that got dumped on the Boston metro two days ago. The screenshot above is part of an NWS snow-depth map that will soon age out. So enjoy it while you can.
Meanwhile, here in Bloomington, Indiana, the 14.5 inches we got from the same storm had me and my car isolated until Joe, the guy who built our house, came by with his front-loader and cleared the whole road in about five minutes.
Here is a FlightAware MiseryMap video of the storm’s path across all the airports it closed:
And I’m glad he did
The Brothers Comatose and Sweet Sally nail Bob Dylan‘s Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright. Their performance is so good that I got to thinking about how passive-aggressive the lyrics are. Then my mind wandered to Positively 4th Street and Like a Rolling Stone. I thought, “Man, Bobby sure had a lot of problems with people.”
Saved some time
The problem with online sports gambling is that steady winners get cut off. I was going to say a bunch about this, but just remembered that I did that already.
What is the opposite of criticism?
On a lead from a friend, I followed a thread from this patent to its author, Brian Dear (another friend), then to his about page, his old blog, his BlueSky tweetings, his bandcamp page, his lettrboxd page, then to his criticism of Megan McArdle and the WaPo, and (not finally) to the work of critic A.S. Hamrah, whom Brian likes.
All of that brought me to a self-admission: while I love and value criticism of many kinds, I am not a critic, because criticism tends to be about current work, people, and goings on. It’s not that takes on that stuff are wrong or bad. On the contrary (speaking critically), they can be very good. It’s just that I’m a long-term / long-view guy. As i said in My Three Hooks, I have, and subscribe to, purposes that are (or I hope or trust will be) good for the world. I also like unanswerable questions. If there is life after death, were you alive before your current bodily existence—and shouldn’t we have a word for that? What came before the Big Bang? What is eternity—and can we unbind it from the concept of time? Is life the exception to death—and can it be, if death is not a state but the absence of one? And…
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