It's neat how two cool natural phenomena can occasionally combine to become even cooler. Today, while walking home from work, a thunder storm had rolled in enough to cover all of the sky overhead, but not enough to block the western horizon. So all the buildings around me were lit up a bright orange-red by the setting sun, against a backdrop of steel clouds lit by continuous flashes of lightning. Quite the view.

On a related note, I'm intrigued by the fact that I can see lightning that looks like it's above and all around me, but not hear thunder until several seconds later, as if it's far off.

What can I say... I'm a sucker for thunder storms.

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Whoever is responsible for making ad-ware that installs itself by pretending to be something else, has no automatic uninstall, and thwarts attempts at manual uninstall by hiding in invisible folders or by giving itself a random name and squeezing in with similarly named files that are necessary for your system to run, and which continuously bombards you with crap while at the same time downloading and installing more ad-ware without asking, should be be hung up by their thumbs until they repent their sins. I have a degree in computer science, access to good online resources for dealing with scumware, and it still took me three hours to (maybe) clean one computer.

Grad students who install this stuff on semi-public computers are right up there on my thumb-hanging list.

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