Random geeky entry

There have been a few wicked storms lately. Last night, more thunderstorms and more hail. Not mega hail, but about 10 minutes of pea-sized hail in the middle of the storm. As it happens, today I stumbled across this article online about cloud seeders. Are you ready for this?

Apparently, the corridor between Edmonton and Calgary is known as 'Thunder Alley' because major stormclouds form along here and pick up speed along the way - sometimes morphing into tornados or producing golf ball sized hail. These 'cloud seeders' are planes that fly along the perimeter and fire gases into the clouds (!) to break them up, prevent precipitation (or golf ball sized hail) from forming, or otherwise steer them out of the way of civilization.

Is that not the craziest, most sci fi thing you've heard of? (Shut up Kerry, I know you knew all about this and your suspicions of my excessive moronity are confirmed. Don't rub it in.) Also, is this not the craziest job you've heard of? Seriously, I thought 'pilot' was at the bottom of my list of possible careers. The only thing I can't decide is whether 'snowbird pilot' or 'cloud seeding pilot' is worse. Eeks.

In other news, today I was playing with my Site-o-meter and realized that I can track visitors in all sorts of ways... by location, referral page (people are finding me through Google searches!) and so on... I am going back and forth in my mind between "what a cool feature" and "I am a moron for not learning how to use the site-o-meter by now". So, my lurky friends, I know who (some of) you are! Don't worry, I won't out you.