World’s Fair Subway Special – TV Commercial For NYCTA – YouTube.
"Part of the fun of the World's Fair is the subway special, that gets you there." Just because you needed this annoying jingle in your head.
Can Goldwater Win in ’64?
The famous Saturday Evening Post article where Barry Goldwater suggested that the east coast should be “sliced off and set adrift.”
Extended Forecast for Punxsutawney PA.
Good news. It's seems unlikely at this point that Punxsutawney Phil will see his shadow. It will however be warm in the morning for those going down to Punxsutawney, PA to see the ground hog.
The Punxsutawney Forecast:
Monday Night - Mostly cloudy, with a low around 35.
Tuesday - A chance of rain after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 50. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Tuesday Night - Rain likely, mainly after 11pm. Cloudy, with a low around 40. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Baltic Ace Wreck Cut Up And Removed From North Sea – GCaptain.
33rd Birthday of Andy 2016 Morning
Good morning! Happy Birthday to Me … It was nice that they decided to schedule it on a Friday. I get to celebrate it with a nice weekend. It is currently overcast and 30 degrees in Albany. Not the nicest weather ever for one’s own birthday, but heck I have a January birthday. Today will have scattered snow showers before 11am, then scattered rain and snow showers. Continued cloudiness, with a high near 40. Light and variable wind becoming west 10 to 15 mph in the morning.
Sunset will be at 5:04 pm with twilight at 5:34 pm which is one minute and 18 seconds later then yesterday. Summer is creeping closer, a bit slowly. It will be May before you know it. Or so I hope. Except in fracking country, they don’t spread road salt in May.
Tonight we will have a Waining Gibbous Moon with 60% illuminated. It will rise at 10:42 pm. The Last Quarter Moon is on Sunday and the New Moon is on February 8. Because we like dark nights when we can see the stars.
There are 17 days until It’s Presidents Day. This day in 1983, at 5:13 AM Andy was born. Lol! That’s typically what happens on one’s birthday. But what do I know? Maybe the Ground Hog on Tuesday will bring good news. Nah. It will sunny for the first time in months in that old coal mining town know as Punxsutawney.
If I worked for CDTA as a bus driver today would be a holiday. Alas, I’m on the bus going to work.
I’m 33 years old so I’m more than half way to retirement. I can’t wait until that day I can leave New York for a free state and never look back. Maybe it’s because I know how sausage are made in our state, and I’m not on vacation, but it seems New Yorkers as a batch aren’t real nice people. I’d love to live out in the country, own whatever guns I want, and burn whatever things I want to burn.
Mostly done playing with and writing PyQGIS code. The code I have done automates basically everything I need automated, although I’m having a minor problem with map export to raster pdf.
Probably aren’t going to head to the Adirondacks this weekend for hiking and camping as the weather doesn’t look that great on Saturday, and it’s a lot of set up and take down for one night in the wilderness. But we will see. Might go hiking in the Catskills come Sunday.
Apparently on Lark Street people are parking on both sides of the road ignoring 9 AM parking restrictions, congesting the road. I think the side you can park on changes on Friday, and people don’t always move their cars promptly. I hate on street parking. It should be banned.
Data Privacy Day 2016 Night
Good evening. Currently overcast and 36 degrees in Albany. Tonight will be mostly cloudy, with a low around 28. South wind 3 to 8 mph.
Tonight we have a Waining Gibbous Moon with 67% illuminated. Tomorrow’s sunrise will be at 7:11 am with first light at 6:41 am, which is one minute and 57 seconds earlier then today.
I hope you had a good Data Privacy Day. Sleep well!
January 28, 2016 Evening
Good evening. Currently overcast and 40 degrees in Albany. The breeze makes it feel a bit cooler than 40. But still mild conditions prevail. Tonight will be mostly cloudy, with a low around 27. South wind 5 to 9 mph becoming light after midnight.
Tonight we will have a Waining Gibbous Moon with 67% illuminated. It will rise in the east at 9:45 pm. Almost bedtime when the moon rises. Might see it rise on the evening walk. Tomorrow unless you stay up late or get up early, forget about seeing the moon.
Friday will have a chance of snow showers, mainly between 8am and 5pm. Cloudy, with a high near 37. Light and variable wind becoming west 11 to 16 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Flip a coin. Certainly will feel pretty chilly. I’m not certain the weekend will be particularly nice either.
The weather this winter has been fairly mild with some exceptions. I am certainly not complaining. February might be even more mild, if the long range models are to be believed. It seems like winters lately just aren’t as harsh as they once were. Last year we had a pretty frigid stretch in late February and March, so sometimes it still gets pretty darn cold. The weather might also seem more mild these days because I take the bus to work and live in the city were it doesn’t get as cold as in the mountains.
I was thinking about going up to the Adirondacks this weekend but now the forecast doesn’t look so great, so I’ll probably stay in town. We will see. I’d like a night in the wilderness and some hiking but not if it’s going to be cloudy with lake effect snow. So be it.