Overnight, NHC changed their forcast, and called for the hurricane to move somewhat east. It wasn't a major difference, only a few dozen miles if that. But, since the 10 am report, Ike has wobbled to the west a bit. This means there's still a high chance that the hurricane will track right over me, or to my left, both bad situations.
The hurricane's max winds have increased to 105 mph, and some minor strengthening is anticipated before landfall, although they've been saying that for the last 48 hours and nothing happened. The hurricane looks a bit less organized than it did yesterday, but that's because the inner eye wall finally collapsed, and it might have a chance to build a new one in the next few hours.
Nothing to report here yet, weather-wise. Things should start getting nasty in a few hours, though. Here's Ike's vitals:
Category 2 hurricane, 105 mph 27.4 N, 93.1 W, moving WNW at 11 mph 957 mb pressure
ike8.jpg: This image shows the wobble I referred to, as a fork off of that green line to the left.
ike9.jpg: The Houston area image, now with hurricane Ike nearby.
ike10.jpg: I don't know. It just doesn't have the impressive, "look, I'm kicking everyone's ass" look it did yesterday.
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In California, truck license plates are 7 characters, all numbers except for one letter in either the second or the sixth position. Whenever that letter is an X, I get nerd snipped into treating it as a multiplication problem and solving it in my head.
we should have paid more attention to the cats who, for decades, put their bodies on the line to walk on keyboards and sit on laptops and prevent us from programming
Former 2 time world champion DogPlayingTetris becomes the first player to ever rollover the level counter in NES Tetris, performing what's known in the community as "Rebirth". Final score: 29,486,164, 4216 lines, level 347 (256 + 91)... all huge world records. #tetris
I'd also love a 6 hour layover overnight instead of taking the red eye I was going to take and be 7 hours later getting into Cleveland than I wanted, why do you ask? #airporthell
Why yes, I'd love to leave at 4:40 to get to the airport at 6:20 for an 8:20 flight that got delayed to 9:05 which is too late for my connection so now I'm on a 10:20 flight instead. Why do you ask? #airporthell
@shanselman Who at Microsoft do I have to bribe to fix ADO so that those of us on dark mode who copy/paste text from one task to another can do so without our friends on light mode seeing dark text on a dark background?
I updated the blog post with a statement from Revival. While I'm not particularly happy with Revival's decision, I understand their motives. It's just a shame that it was someone from Interplay that had to go and do this. "By games for gamers" my ass.
Damn, got another Tetris world record! This time in the arcade variant developed by Atari. 6,008,005 points, 5,386 lines, round 363. Be warned, it's nearly FIVE HOURS. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2131759212