Comments on: Snow grinch

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:23:38 +0000

The Top 5 reasons David Weinberger should like snow:

1. Snow and sand demonstrate the possibility of user-contributed amateur sculpture.
2. Snowflakes are like Twitter tweets—small, lightweight and individual but collectively overwhelming.
3. Snow flakes are a great example of the insufficiency of Aristotelian definitions and the success of “family resemblance.”
4. Cheney is definitely anti-snow.
5. John Edwards loves it!

;)

By: gianluca baccanico

gianluca baccanico — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:57:36 +0000

oh com’on
it’s crunchy when you walk
and makes all sort of paths

and forces people to go around with funny hats

it’s when it goes minus ten that really sucks
but before that

it’s so cute
com’on

By: Glenn Fleishman

Glenn Fleishman — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:17:23 +0000

Danger, danger, cranky old man syndrome activated in 3…2…1….JOHO!

We got socked in with snow in Seattle (which means a few inches of the stuff and then frozen roads), and it was only a beautiful dream for a few days, after which it was simply irritating.

But it was great how the city slowed down, how human pace and ability became the measure by which things functioned. That’s also elitist of me as a self-employed person who can work from wherever; the hourly folks were hammered by the snow as were all the retail businesses that lost sales before Christmas.

Years ago, when I told my dad that I was learning to ski (Alpine) and was enjoying it, he said (apropos of my family being Jewish), you’re the first person in our family’s history to willingly go out in the cold.

By: David

David — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:54:39 +0000

I don’t mind it so much, because 1) living in an apartment means someone else gets to shovel and plow, and 2) I walk to work so I don’t have to drive in it, as long as my fellow citizens along my route remember to clear their sidewalks.

More of a nuisance than anything else. I hate being cold more than I hate snow.

By: dave reeves

dave reeves — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:48:23 +0000

I love the way snow transforms cities. There’s little/no traffic, the snow blankets and muffles the remaining sound, and the shared experience somehow makes people more giving of themselves, and open to acknowledging others around them

After the snow stops falling, then yes — it’s less pleasant.

But those few hours make it all worthwhile to me.

By: Perry Hewitt

Perry Hewitt — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:43:51 +0000

I, too, am an unrepentant snow whiner. I almost slaughtered my sister for telling me how lucky I am to have had so much snow so far this year. Would be lucky if I, too, sipped coffee looking at it through the window. Instead, I am usually up chipping ice at 5 am so I can make it to Logan. ; )

Humbug, indeed.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:41:29 +0000

I went back to the mountains for New Years first thing we had to do clear 20ft drive covered in 2-3ft of snow and ice layered, but I still love it.

You could always move South and then you wouldn’t have to deal with it as often.