Michael Cain

Open Thread

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Since there’s been a complaint. I’ll start… The American West is suffering a severe snow drought this winter. The water level in Lake Powell, the upstream one of the two big reservoirs on the Colorado River, is already 32 feet lower than at this point last year. The next deadline for the seven states that … Read more

Site Experiment

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I have mentioned before that at a different site I maintain an odd WordPress plugin named State of the Discussion that provides a comment-centric view of a site. With lj’s blessing, I installed it here at ObWi. It was as much a test to see if the code was actually portable as much as being … Read more

Open Thread

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There hasn’t been one of these for a while, at least in the sense that no topic is off-topic. I’ll start… FIRST SNOW! We got about five inches overnight. We were within ten days of the record for latest first measurable snow of the season. GftNC ordered a buckwheat hull pillow, but I don’t recall … Read more

Something Different

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I bought a new iPhone this past week. I had a variety of reasons for buying a new phone: the old one is between several and many years old, it won’t run anything close to the most recent version of Android, the screen is cracked, the display isn’t bright enough to see outdoors, the display … Read more