Robot Claw – Page 323 – “Life In The So-Called Space Age”

The Sequel

February 14, 2017

On Sunday we received a second snowstorm. It was another big one, and coupled with the one three days prior meant we had more snow fall in four days than in the entirety of winter 2015/2016!

The snow fell through the day and into the night. When it was all done our town received about 11 inches in total (to a total of over two feet since Thursday)!

These photos look almost black and white, but it’s just the light during a snowfall. You can hardly tell the difference between ground and sky when the snow everywhere.

I’ve used this guy more this past week than in the past two years, and I’m not exaggerating there! I can’t even remember starting him up since before Christmas 2014.

There’s more snow forecast for tomorrow but it’s not going to be a big fall. Will we see more like this again before spring? There’s still plenty of winter left, so maybe…

Shadow Puppets Are A Young Mans Game

February 11, 2017

KLS got me this for Christmas:

It’s a reprint of a book from the 1800s, and contains instructions on how to make a variety of very complex shadow puppets, just like this:

“How hard could this be?” I wondered before giving it a try. Here’s my sheep:

It’s really difficult!!

But I persisted, gritting my teeth and sterling my will, and fought through the agony as I bent my fingers into unnatural shapes to present this astonishing gallery of my new talent. Can you guess what each of these animals are?

Guesses in the comments please 🙂

Snowpocalypse

February 9, 2017

We had a big snowfall today. At first the forecast was for 1-6 inches in total, but (for once!) they underestimated a lot.

Both our works closed. Public transport and flights were canceled. All schools and universities too. The local paper dubbed it snowpocalypse.

It started slow but by mid morning fell at over 2 inches an hour. While it didn’t last long, when it was over we were covered!

One thing that made this a little unusual was that it was also very cold today. Removing this much snow is never trivial, but it’s a lot harder when it’s -5 C out!

In the end Albany saw between 11 and 16 inches of snow around the region. Our place was probably on the lower end of that, maybe a little over a foot.

It’s been years since we’ve had a fall this great (November 2014 to be specific). It was fun 🙂