Snow Days
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Dec. 22nd, 2008 | 12:47
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Seriously, Spokane? Seriously?
I think we have more snow out there than in the last few years combined. Yes, I still like the stuff, but this is somewhat ridiculous. Though District 81 has let students go home until the new year, even they shut down classes Thursday and Friday before break. I have to echo![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
cubecrazymonkey's sentiments about the snow days, though. I was fortunate enough that my classes ended a week ago*
The only time I remember classes being shut down was back in 1996 — yes, that was Ice Storm (though it is a little surprising that I've lived in Spokane for nearly a decade-and-a-half). Temperatures were somewhere in the order of -20°F, and everything was coated in a layer of ice a quarter-inch thick. It brought down powerlines and brought the city to its knees right around Thanksgiving; we were without power for about four days. They finally reopened schools because that was the only warm, powered place a lot of kids had.
The pass is closed, too, which means that my Aunt isn't coming over for Christmas. Somewhat tragic, as she's not been having a great end of the year, but there's not much that can be done now.
All-in-all, yeah, it's a lot of snow, but the city should have been able to take care of this far better than they did.
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* Actually, they ended Tuesday at about 11:00, after which I then went to get a cheeseburger withoneeyedseer and began to get an actual layout in my head for the city of Cheney. Seriously, it's taken me about three quarters to realise that the entrance of the Computer Science doesn't point north, it points west, and that Washington street, at the "back end" of campus runs north-and-south. This was the same time that I should have gone to check out the surplus sale; I heard second-hand from someone who went to the surplus and bought a fancy widescreen Sony CRT — the kind that were originally $5k — that there were also some G4 PowerMac towers there, too. I would have liked to have gotten one of those, as a G4 > P4 IMHO, especially for server duties, and the Power architecture is still vastly superior to x86 architecture. In fact, for a long time until the Xserve came out, regular tower PowerMacs were also utilised as workgroup servers, but if I do intend to run a PPC server, I should probably also use OSX server, with the awesome load-sharing capabilities of Xgrid, though I might switch my G5 over to be a server after I get a better desktop (a MacPro, that I could setup with parallels for the simple Windows Dev stuff I need; dual-boot OSX 10.6 and XP, which is beginning to feel as dated as Classic to me). I also heard that they didn't sell, which is crazy, since they're great machines. It would actually be fun to get a few and convert them to desktops and resell them to people on ebay as functional desktops; I'm fairly certain a dual 867mhz would outperform a single 1.5ghz G4. Plus, I should be able to spec the G4s just by the case design since a Sawtooth looks different from a Quicksilver from a Mirror Drive Door. And if there's a cube there …
I think we have more snow out there than in the last few years combined. Yes, I still like the stuff, but this is somewhat ridiculous. Though District 81 has let students go home until the new year, even they shut down classes Thursday and Friday before break. I have to echo
cubecrazymonkey's sentiments about the snow days, though. I was fortunate enough that my classes ended a week ago*The only time I remember classes being shut down was back in 1996 — yes, that was Ice Storm (though it is a little surprising that I've lived in Spokane for nearly a decade-and-a-half). Temperatures were somewhere in the order of -20°F, and everything was coated in a layer of ice a quarter-inch thick. It brought down powerlines and brought the city to its knees right around Thanksgiving; we were without power for about four days. They finally reopened schools because that was the only warm, powered place a lot of kids had.
The pass is closed, too, which means that my Aunt isn't coming over for Christmas. Somewhat tragic, as she's not been having a great end of the year, but there's not much that can be done now.
All-in-all, yeah, it's a lot of snow, but the city should have been able to take care of this far better than they did.
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* Actually, they ended Tuesday at about 11:00, after which I then went to get a cheeseburger with
oneeyedseer and began to get an actual layout in my head for the city of Cheney. Seriously, it's taken me about three quarters to realise that the entrance of the Computer Science doesn't point north, it points west, and that Washington street, at the "back end" of campus runs north-and-south. This was the same time that I should have gone to check out the surplus sale; I heard second-hand from someone who went to the surplus and bought a fancy widescreen Sony CRT — the kind that were originally $5k — that there were also some G4 PowerMac towers there, too. I would have liked to have gotten one of those, as a G4 > P4 IMHO, especially for server duties, and the Power architecture is still vastly superior to x86 architecture. In fact, for a long time until the Xserve came out, regular tower PowerMacs were also utilised as workgroup servers, but if I do intend to run a PPC server, I should probably also use OSX server, with the awesome load-sharing capabilities of Xgrid, though I might switch my G5 over to be a server after I get a better desktop (a MacPro, that I could setup with parallels for the simple Windows Dev stuff I need; dual-boot OSX 10.6 and XP, which is beginning to feel as dated as Classic to me). I also heard that they didn't sell, which is crazy, since they're great machines. It would actually be fun to get a few and convert them to desktops and resell them to people on ebay as functional desktops; I'm fairly certain a dual 867mhz would outperform a single 1.5ghz G4. Plus, I should be able to spec the G4s just by the case design since a Sawtooth looks different from a Quicksilver from a Mirror Drive Door. And if there's a cube there …