January 18th is going to be a very long day.
First, the massive online protest of SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act) will cause the internet to go black. Reddit will be down, Wikipedia will be down, the entire I Can Haz Cheeseburger empire will be down, and more websites and companies are joining the cause every hour.
No big deal. We’ll do what we did before the internet! We’ll go hang out with friends and see movies and have dinner and drinks at local restaurants and act like civilized people who aren’t addicted to their computers.
BUT WAIT! We’re going to get 6-14 inches of snow tomorrow? We’ll all be stranded! SOPA shuts down the internet, SNOW shuts down our real lives.
What are we supposed to do with ourselves!?
Fuck and suck, what else?
Oh shit.
go play in the snow (or rain which is what it will probably end up being)
Daytime TV.
Hey, isn’t The Stranger and all it’s pages going to go dark, too?
I’m still holding out hope that Google shuts down. Slim hope, but hope.
Drink heavily, duh.
I suddenly feel it may be good to make sure all of the portable game devices are charged…
Get shit-faced and go streaking in Cal Anderson? I’d think of the children, but no kids SHOULD be outside…
million snowman march.
Cliff Mass is dialing it back. He’s saying 2-5 inches on Wednesday now.
Predict that there’s going to be a geek-boom of babies in nine months. Is Slog going to go dark or will you be the one shining light in the darkness in the city on the hill over at the Frankenstein place?
Slog should be contrarian. Go dark from 9-11 a.m. on Wednesday, and be totally there for the other 22 hours of the day!
@12 They’ve got a paper to put together and no time for such shenanigans.
@10, well dang. He said he might, and he did. Poop. I hold out hope that science can get that dial twisted back up again somehow. Nobody panics as stylishly as we.
@12, a bold suggestion. Perhaps they can claim to be in an editorial meeting, even if they’re all just cadging free breakfasts from Oddfellows as usual.
@1 FTW
If love isn’t the answer, fuck the question.
Most guys will try to remember where they stashed the old porn mags from the 1990’s.
Agricola, Le Havre, Gates of Loyang, Twilight Struggle . . .
@9 for the win. just picturing that makes me giggle.
Cliff Mass is guessing just like every other meteorologist in the area. No one has any idea what the weather is going to do. I imagine that we will all be going to work tomorrow.
So. Why isn’t SLOG going dark?
Yeah SLOG wtf.
Go dark bishes!
@19 Meteorologists make educated guesses silly, and of course we have “an idea” of what’s going to happen tomorrow. Are there going to be tornados spitting lightning? Proly not.
@5, Google isn’t shutting down but is placing a link on its homepage – http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01…
Agree that I’d love to see the Stranger go dark tomorrow too. (I mean, I’d miss y’all, but it’s one day… )
Noted KOMO4 meteorologist Jar Jar Binks, AMS, says “yousa all gonna die!!1!”
I picked the Best Vacation Days EVAR.
After today, I’m outta here for a week! Yay Snow & Hot Chocolate!!