The 4 pm update is out. No real change, still aiming for Galveston, still 105 mph winds as a category 2 hurricane. Landfall seems as though it's going to be well past midnight, so the morning should bring the fury of the storm into Houston.
Local radar suggests that the rain should be on its way soon. I just went outside a second ago, and the wind is picking up, though it's well short of tropical storm winds (39+ mph) at the moment.
Some more Google Earth imagery for you to enjoy.
ike11.jpg: The latest track for Hurricane Ike. The models are not showing up properly in Google Earth (they went back to models from a day ago), so they are excluded from this picture. But the models aren't important anyway, they are all tightly clustered around Galveston island.
ike12.jpg: Color image of Ike. Looks somewhat more impressive than 3 hours ago, but still not nearly as impressive as that Gulf-filling monster that it was yesterday.
ike13.jpg: Visible satellite. You can kind of see a huge eye forming in the middle of it all... if the overlay is accurate, this could mean that Ike is tracking somewhat north of what was expected, which, if that's true, may miss Galveston with the worst of the storm surge as a result.
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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