This collection of entries is from February 02, 2006.
So, I was watching tonight's CSI. A killer is on a PC in his garage. He goes into Google to find out info about the guy that he killed. What comes up in the search results? Rocketboom. Yes, my favorite daily video podcast. Then he clicks on the link and launches the most recent podcast! And there's Amanda Congdon doing her show, only in front of a faux Las Vegas strip backdrop instead of the world map taped to her wall.
Very bizarre seeing the most popular daily video podcast cross-over into Prime Time drama!
six more weeks of winter, if you believe the German superstition.
Even though there was no sun (but there's a shadow???), it was supposed to get up to 48 degrees today in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.
Now, I wonder how large Phil's "domain" is? Is the prediction just for that region or the nation? If it's not the nation, then why do we have to see the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club's Inner Circle roust this little guy out of his hibernation, lift him into the air for all to see, and basically scare the crap outa him?
Do we need regional groundhogs for more accurate predictions? (Phil's in a rut - according to the Groundhog Club, Phil has now seen his shadow 96 times, hasn't seen it 14 times and there are no records for nine years.) (Holy Christ, he's been doing this since 1886!). Shadow = 6 more weeks of winter, No Shadow = Early Spring.
A bit off-topic, but did you guys know that the movie Groundhog Day was actually filmed in Woodstock, Illinois? (Oh, and Bill Murray's character is named Phil, too)
Update: This just in: Cloudy Groundhog, Brookfield Zoo's resident meteorologist, didn't see her shadow.... Early Spring!