Monday links

[sholio]

Today I have an interview at my realname journal with Melissa Jensen, aka kriadydragon, on her middle-grade fantasy novel The Toymaker, in which a young girl in search of her parents and an eccentric inventor on a quest for his family's legacy embark on a journey across their world. Melissa's clever, inventive worldbuilding is one of the things I like most about her fanfic, and it carries over into her original fiction too. Click on the link to find out more! Thank you for letting me interview you, kriadydragon. :)

Meanwhile, it's Monday so that means a new Kismet page. I now have RSS feeds for the comic on both LJ (suncutter_feed) and DW (suncutter_feed). They've both been running for a couple of weeks and seem to work great. I'm just putting up the links on the RSS, not the whole page, so it won't spam your reading page terribly.

This photo I posted on Twitter this morning indicates my feelings on current weather trends. (Funny story there. The dragonfly thermometer in the photo has actually been sitting in the garage for ages; I didn't really want to put it outside in the winter because it only goes down to -40 and I was afraid it would break if it got colder than that. But it's been a very warm winter, so I put it outside about a week ago and LOOK WHAT HAPPENED.)

Comments

[recessional]

Oh -40, where two measurement systems meet.

[sholio]

Yep! Though at least it means not having to specify online ...

"How cold is it out there?"
"40 below."
"... is that Fahrenheit or Celcius."
"IT DOESN'T MATTER! :D! *crumbles*"

[winter_elf]

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Looks outside - want some sunflowers and grass? All this talk of major snow storms and buried by snow - and we've got grass from the recent rain and tons and tons of flowers. (and bare trees). I think the flowers are just confused.

Pretty thermometer. When I was growing up in AZ, ones that went up to 120 wouldn't work (and would explode the other way). We always had to find ones with greater than 130, if possible - and not many of those made.

[sholio]

ngggghhhh, I miss grass and flowers. :( (Only four more months ...!)

Yeah, I can see that being a problem! You'd think -40 to 120 would be a wide enough temperature range for anyplace humans can live, but we're tough little things.

[winter_elf]

taken this sunday - :) so many!

[sholio]

:)

So green and lovely!

[ratcreature]

Yikes. Thankfully it never, ever gets that cold here. The coldest temperature ever measured here was in the freakishly extreme winter of 1939/40 and that was a night with -28°C. But normally -10 already counts as very cold night here that rarely happens (i.e. not every winter). I hope you're comfy inside.

[sholio]

I think the cold temperatures like that are relatively more miserable in places that don't usually get them, though, because here we have heavily insulated houses and sturdy heating systems that are designed to deal with this kind of weather. We're staying cozy and snug. :)

[ratcreature]

Yeah. I mean we have decent heating and houses are insulated (ever more in recent years for energy savings), not flimsy, but you are just as prepared to cope. Like, it already starts with that I don't own many warm wool clothes, because wool is fairly annoying to care for and not as machine washable, but once it gets seriously below freezing cotton fiber clothes just aren't doing too well. But I don't have an actual "winter" wardrobe opposed to a summer one, because when outside of spikes winter is 0-5°C and summer is 10-20°C, i.e. mild winters and cool summers, you really don't need to bother with seasonally adjusted wardrobes, except with having a thicker jacket for cooler days.