The Blizzard of /04 (barely)

Wahoo! NOW it's winter in Winnipeg, baby!

About a foot (or more) of snow has fallen since 6 pm tonight, and another foot to foot-and-a-half is expected by morning. I was at the downtown studio when it struck and barely got home when I left just after midnight -- buses were way behind schedule, snowplows are EVERYWHERE, and I had to fight my way through half a block of high snowdrifts just to get to my apartment from the bus stop. (In fact, every time the bus stopped, the whining growl of the engine hinted that this time, it might not get going again... in some places, there was a couple of feet of snow dividing lanes of traffic.)

And tomorrow -- ta dah! -- the whole city gets to play Snowplow Roulette: "Will MY bus route be the one that gets plowed first?" Now, Corydon Avenue (half a block from my house) is one of two main east-west routes on the west quarter of the city that lies south of the Assiniboine River. The other one is Grant, which is twelve or so blocks south of us. If Corydon Avenue gets plowed first, wahoo! I can go in and paint Star Wars flats, and all is happy-good. If Grant gets plowed first... *winces* I might not get downtown at all tomorrow.

Winter in Winnipeg. Gotta love it, because we're all too silly/lazy/enamoured of the city's charms to move. >.<

And on a completely unrelated note (and an odd one, since I'm not even a Harry Potter fan):



be sorted @ nimbo.net

Well you're one smart little cookie, aren't you? You're wise and clever, and just love to use your wit and learning to your advantage, and sometimes even the disadvantage of others. Well, nerd, there IS a world outside of that copy of 'Hogwarts: A History', you know... Oh don't worry! We all know you're special. You're just a naturally good learner, right? Not too much is known about your house right now.. Wow! Not only are you intellegent, you're also an enigma!

Maybe one of you can tell me what that means. *grin*

A computer game y'all might enjoy

he_dreams_awake has created a computer game, and is offering it for free download.

Ripping apart the fabric of reality, exploding the very way you think, blowing apart your perceptions of the world around you... and cool music:

Gnosis is a puzzle/text adventure/simulation/cross-genre game designed for a specific purpose: discovering what that purpose is is the entire point. It takes you through some very real-world situations, in which fast thinking is helpful but not always the secret, and into some situations that can only be described as hyperreal. From cyberspace to traditional puzzles to casting off what you know of reality, Gnosis -- hopefully -- will stretch your perceptions. And the end result will surprise you.

I, alas, am on a Mac and cannot play it. However, I hope everyone else will play it enough to make up for that. :-D

Gnosis