Snowflakes in Hell

Bitter arrived with the moving truck on Thursday.   On Saturday, the movers came to move everything from the truck to my living room.   The first picture was taken after Bitter had already moved and put away a good portion of the kitchen boxes.

The kitchen stuff is getting put away first.  Naturally, since we’ve both been living on our own for a while, there’s a lot of duplicate equipment.  Most of my knives and silverware are inferior to hers, and so are departing.  Same with pots and pans.  Of course, now we have four fondue pots, two food processors, and two bread machines.  Not stuff that’s typically thrown out, so I’m guessing we’ll be craigslisting a lot of it. 

Of course, we both had the same type of Corelware, so now we just have a lot of it.  She has a lot more cooking stuff than I do, such as a press for making raviolis, actually, I think there are two of those.  One in case you want to make a flat ravioli, and another for making folded ones.  It’s a good thing I have a big drawer in the kitchen for stuff I almost never use :)

The last broadcast of HamNation.  Mary Katharine is moving on to bigger and better things.  It’s good to go out with a bang:

In a mass killing involving a guy with, what I’m guessing must have been a rather large knife.

“The suspect told police that he came to Akihabara to kill people,” said Jiro Akaogi, a spokesman for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. “He said he was tired of life. He said he was sick of everything.”

News reports said the man crashed a rented, two-ton truck into pedestrians, then jumped out of the truck and began stabbing the people he’d knocked down before turning on horrified onlookers.

Maybe we need some restrictions on two ton trucks and sharp pointy things.

There’s two things I missed this week that I would like to have linked to, but because I was frantically cleaning in anticipation of Bitter’s imepnding arrival, I had to cut back on my regular blog reading.

First, Tam has an excellent response to Uncle’s post on serial numbered parts.

Second, Kevin Baker has written a thought provoking piece on education, and how it’s creating more and more kids each generation that look to government to solve our problems.  I agree, but think education is only one prong of the problem.  The drift toward ever bigger government is also largely driven by the people opposing it having better things to do than get involved in government and fix it.  I think there’s also a problem with the cultural notion that everyone has a civic duty to vote.  I think that’s hogwash.  We have no vested interest in people who have only a peripheral understanding of government and politics casting a ballot.  Someone who doesn’t care enough to vote without being guilted into it by MTV, or some other activist group, probably ought not to be voting.

Tam has an excellent essay on Black Powder Cartridge Rifles up over at The Arms Room.

I normally get the air conditioning ready to go until late June or July, but since it’s supposed to hit 100 on Monday, I decided to flip the switch early this year.  Last night there was no way I was getting to sleep without it, and with Bitter unpacking lots of boxes and with moving furniture around, I figured now was a good time.

So coal will be burned, and atoms will be split to further my appetite for cool comfort.  Thanks be to thermodynamics.