Mar 17, 2007

Snow Doughnuts, DST, and other Illegible Nonsense

I'm not sure about you but I think it was a waste of time to set Daylight Savings Time three weeks early. Sure, in the evening the sun is still on its way to setting and 9PM has disguised itself to look like 6PM. But really, do we really take advantage to this minuscule change? It's still not really enough light to say, read. And I woke up that day feeling woozy, on the fact that I was actually getting up at 5AM and not 6 and was faced with the fact that I had an hour before the bus came to take me to that educational environment that is supposed to be education but really isn't because teens at this age think of school as a forced place to be so to make it less menacing they socialize, socialize, socialize. So DST...good or bad?

This morning I woke up and was glancing over the Seattle Times to have my eyes fall upon this interesting article. Snow doughnuts?!!? Snow rollers, as they are commonly called, is created under strict conditions when a hard layer of snow is covered by more dense snow on a steep incline, where it's pulled down by gravity and a hole forms in the center of the clump. It is still a little mysterious to how these doughnuts form; some say it's wind conditions too that can cause these snowy shapes to appear. These snow doughnuts will soon disappear, and will likely not be seen for a while, as they are very rare.

And that's today's news. I'm not focusing on government, and will most likely never will. So HA! Sorry.

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