Word: weatherizing
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...weather outside is frightful, but video games are delightful. So lately, I've been cocooning inside with Sony's PlayStation Home, and I think it's the most realistic-looking implementation yet of a 3-D world. The 17 million or so owners of the pricey PlayStation 3--which costs $400--can download a free beta version via Sony's PlayStation Network, which connects the game consoles on the Web so users can play one another...
...laugh with a slightly Irish lilt. He's also talking about the unending senatorial contest the state is going through. "It just keeps going on and going on," he says. Indeed, in this northern state, patience is not a virtue - it's a necessity. Minnesotans, nevertheless, long for warmer weather and one clearly identifiable junior U.S. Senator. "I think [Republican incumbent Norm] Coleman should just resign," Scanlon adds...
Rough Ride. FlightStats.com just released its travel report card for the holidays, showing that nearly 8,800 flights were canceled from Dec. 18-28, 2008. With bad weather and capacity cuts, some passengers had to wait two to three days to get on the next available flight. For those who did manage to take off, less than half their flights arrived on time. Good thing Santa wasn't relying on frequent-flyer miles to deliver his goodies...
Inauguration 2.0. A new iPhone app called PointAbout is a mobile Inauguration guide, complete with Metro and bus schedules, local weather, directions to the Inaugural ceremony, Zagat restaurant listings for the hungry and Starbucks locations for the weary...
...knowledge, we've never canceled one for bad weather. Last Sunday, it was 65° if you recall; that's almost reason enough to cancel. But we enjoy it all the time, any time. Sometimes you just have to take the good with the bad and put up with some lousy 65° weather. [Laughs...