Wednesday Afternoon Rambly Bits

[gnomi]

-- An observation: A cold, windy, rainy day is the worst time for there to be no working traffic lights at the intersection of Broadway and Third Street in Kendall Square.

-- A question (for those of you who do such things): In comments/IM/whatever, do you tend to set action descriptions off in asterisks or double-colons (thus, are you more likely to type *hugs* or ::hugs::)? Incredibly geeky Nomis want to know.

ETA: All this talk of asterisks in comments reminds me of a ditty I believe I first learned from my father when I was a kid (hey, beckyfeld, do you remember it, too?):

Mary had a little Porsche
She drove it very brisk
Wasn't she a silly sort?
She had her *

-- A statement: The official U.S. time - clock is massively cool.

Comments

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I love things like the clock site. I found it just today, for really dorky reasons -- I bought a new watch when I went out this afternoon (digital, to replace one that they couldn't change the band on), and when I got back to my desk, I wanted to be able to set it. I wanted my watch to be right. Like, as right as I could get it. So I figured I'd check the atomic clock. And when I Googled for it, I hit on the NIST site. Which made my little time-obsessed heart very happy. :-)