I hope everyone is dug in and ready for the Winter Storm that has the media in such a state of panic and frenzy. When I was young we used to call this “Weather” and looked forward to snow days from school and getting to go play in the snow then sit down later with hot chocolate and movies on TV (when they still made movies worth watching).
Nowadays I’m all for staying inside and letting others play in that crap. Nowadays to the media it’s the latest “OMG! YOU’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!” story.
Here in Coastal NC we’re just a tad below the storm path. Even a hundred miles or so north they’re looking at snow and ice. I guess this close the Gulf Stream the Ocean can tell the land storm to bugger off and get it’s way. Most we’re looking at here is some cold and maybe some rain tomorrow.
But a lot of you are well north in the path of it. So stay warm and inside and let the kids play in the snow.
On another note the nice silicon hard drive sleeves I’ve used for many years and which I use on the hard drive copies of the library are getting REALLY hard to find. I ordered some more hard drives today and after a serious search found a few people selling some of them so I was able to order enough from two of them. They used to be all over Amazon and Ebay but perhaps the Chinese manufacturer decided to make something else instead. So looks like I’m going to have to start looking for an alternative.
And no I’m not looking seriously at small portable drives. Far too many of them come with a nice case but a seriously low quality hard drive. I actually ran across a few that came with used drives in a new case. I’ve cracked open the case on some of the really cheap ones and the drives were so poorly soldered to a cheap interface that a hard thump would break them. Beauty really IS on skin deep in the case of a lot of electronics. So I’ll stick to name brand, new drives thank you.
Stay Warm.
The Librarian
