Folks, if this is how they give weather reports in Atlanta, I’ve half a mind to move there. Now. Or if I can’t move down there, this weather report could be the final push I need to finally get a TV in the house—if I knew I could watch this weather broadcaster live every day, I would likely cave and buy a television this very day. Please enjoy this highly entertaining, fantastic weather broadcast for Atlanta, GA, from January 14, 2011. Read more »
On Solitude and Social Connection
I grew up in a rural area, where some of the coldest and most extreme weather of the continental United States cycles back every winter for months at a time. Besides providing an unending source of income for such cold-weather retail giants as Eddie Bauer, growing up in the prairies of the Dakotas provided an interesting perspective on the dual necessity of connectedness to others while it also demanded the ability to exist equally comfortably in solitude. For example, as I grew older, I saw that part of the friendliness of northern rural culture was born of necessity: you needed [...] Read more »