All the clocks in our house must be off by four hours
By adamg - 7/2/09 - 8:34 am
It's just too dark for it to really be 8:30 a.m. I must've somehow gotten up at 4:30, right?
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It's just too dark for it to really be 8:30 a.m. I must've somehow gotten up at 4:30, right?
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I had the exact same thought
By anon (not verified) - 7/2/09 - 8:58 am
I had the exact same thought while I was in the shower this morning. I was convinced I'd woken up early.
Interesting scientific experiment
By adamg - 7/2/09 - 9:05 am
Deborah Nam-Krane proves a direct lightning bolt doesn't necessarily fry all the electronics in your house, by tweeting her roof was just hit by lightning.
You're Grounded!
By SwirlyGrrl - 7/2/09 - 9:22 am
Well, actually, her house might be grounded. Thanks to Ben Franklin.
We have something big and metal sticking up from our roof. Fortunately, the previous owner was a meteorologist and put a nice fat ground strap on it.
Pretty sure it was lighter
By Turner - 7/2/09 - 9:06 am
Pretty sure it was lighter out at 4:30. Wound up awake then and actually heard birds singing (20 minutes previous, more lightning!).
Take heart Boston, there is still wildlife!
I know there's still
By coffeeweasel - 7/2/09 - 9:09 am
I know there's still wildlife; ants are coming into my apartment to keep dry. And my cats think ants taste terrible, so they won't hunt them.
One coping mechanism
By adamg - 7/2/09 - 9:16 am
Dan Miller reports:
We are under attack!
By SwirlyGrrl - 7/2/09 - 9:24 am
I saw some big flash of ball lightning over the valley, only about a 100 meters away and BOOOMMMCRACKSMASH! I'm now unplugged and hiding in the core of my house and that last one rattled the windows and the tables and sent our normally "whatever" cats flying down to the basement, leaving large chunks of shed fur on the chairs. BAM!
My teen son is awake now, thank you. Wake the dead? Hey, no problem.
Then came the lowflying jet liner - one so low that I thought it might be going in for a fells crash. It was under the clouds and struggling at full throttle and it rattled the windows between strikes.
Who needs caffeine?
Well done
By Lanny Budd - 7/2/09 - 2:11 pm
"Wake the dead? Hey, no problem."
Nice Tribe reference. How many got that?
SAD
By susannah (not verified) - 7/2/09 - 9:29 am
seriously -- i wonder how "seasonal affective disorder" is rising in google trends around boston. ug. enough already!
I have a Google; I can check
By neilv - 7/2/09 - 10:26 am
http://www.google.com/trends?q=seasonal+affective+disorder&ctab=1714578277&geo=us&geor=usa.ma&date=mtd
http://www.google.com/trends?q=seasonal+affective+disorder&ctab=430854400&geo=us&geor=all&date=ytd
http://www.google.com/trends?q=blah&ctab=183137088&geo=us&geor=usa.ma&date=ytd
http://www.google.com/trends?q=chocolate&ctab=0&geo=us&geor=usa.ma&date=mtd&sort=0
The morning in tweets
By adamg - 7/2/09 - 9:49 am
Dperrrera: Well, at least the rain washed the bird poop off the car.
J.J. Leslie: Ark just floated down Longwood Avenue. Noah, animals.
Ryan Kelley: You know the chase scene in Jurassic Park with the T-rex and the Jeep? That accurately depicts my commute this morning.
Had trouble sleeping last night
By Arborway - 7/2/09 - 10:58 am
I didn't fall asleep until about 4, but knew I would have the chance to sleep in today.
*BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM*
That was my stompy new upstairs neighbor at 6:30. The man has yet to understand the acoustics of 100+ year old apartment building floors.
Rolled over and went back to sleep until 8.
*BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM*
That was construction beginning on the house next door. I'm expecting this will continue all summer.
I rolled over and starting cursing them out when...
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM LKHJGSDFLKHJJKL*
The Apocalypse Thunder sent the construction workers scurrying inside and let me sleep for another ninety minutes.
Can't complain!
Last time I saw the sky that dark when it shouldn't have been
By Neal - 7/2/09 - 11:09 am
was one morning in August of 1994 when I was in Omaha visiting my aunt. I woke up to a pitch dark sky at about 9AM, just before the tornado siren on top of the building next door began to scream... My aunt was out, so I ran down to the basement apartment below and got to know the neighbors (who were very friendly and made me breakfast).
Hurricane Elvis for me.
By Arborway - 7/2/09 - 12:53 pm
Hurricane Elvis for me.
That was a bad, bad week.
How to build an ark
By adamg - 7/2/09 - 1:34 pm
Brilliant.
Moses didn't need an ark
By Ron Newman - 7/2/09 - 1:41 pm
Didn't the Red Sea part for him?
Very Globe-ish
By fenwayguy - 7/3/09 - 3:03 am
LOL at the blowup of the dove cage.
This guy Javier Zarracina has done a ton of illustrations for the Globe, some quite complex, others not so much. A very talented guy.