Today’s winter storm warning is no exaggeration. Everything was green an hour ago.

The web is becoming a miserable experience because some salesbro who is trying to meet his KPIs is doing stuff to marginally increase the number of paying customers. (And you know, the hell with the rest of us!) The more each site tries to create its own little walled garden, the less valuable the open web becomes.

Elizabeth Lopatto, I don’t want to log in to your website

We will not succeed with panic, cynicism, or despair. The tools we need are optimism, imagination, creativity, criticism and compassion… Art is not a precious treasure in need of protection. Art is a fearsome wellspring of human power from which we will draw the weapons we need to storm the gates of the reality studio and secure the future.

Frank Lantz - Well, Here We Are

Feeling very fortunate this morning as we still have power while a great many people living west of us do not.

Schools are closed for the second day in a row.