Tweets for Today

• 16:47 @kirabug Yay voting! (I went this morning - hope the lines weren't too long where you were.) #
• 20:35 MSNBC has the most ridiculous 3-D House of Pillars for their analyst - Chuck Todd - you've ever seen. It's "Money for Nothing"-quality CG. #
• 20:38 Good grief, MSNBC has got people on window-washer platforms climbing the outside of the building to represent electoral votes! #
• 21:40 Whoa, MSNBC forgot to fill in the green screen just now! Their commentators are literally standing in green boxes! That'll be on YouTube. #
• 22:47 Okay, the presidential is pretty well-decided and the local ballot initiatives (slots & early voting) have both been called - to bed for me. #

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Writer's Block: A Little Light

Now that the election is over, we can get to the important stuff. Why is there a light in the refrigerator but not in the freezer? Submitted By vivichick View other answers

As an engineer, I would bet on condensation and ice deposition. Unlike in the refrigerator compartment, freezer compartments tend to accumulate water (generally solid) on the interior surfaces. If this water is melted by the heat of the lamp, it can short out the system. (Further, the obvious way of avoiding this problem - having the light behind an insulating shield - fails, because the shield develops ice and obscures the light.) In addition to this problem with the light, the switch that would turn on the light when the freezer opens is vulnerable to icing and the resultant clogging.

A light in the freezer would be handy. Unfortunately, it's not practicable.

Comicks!

Dropped by the comic shop in College Park today - I just read Issue #1 of Transmetropolitan (h/t Blake Stacey), and was jonesing for some more.

Unfortunately, Vol. 1 is out of print. Not Vols. 2, 3, 4, whatever, just Vol. 1. Great timing, Detective Comics - I'm proud of you.

So proud, in fact, I got two other DC-subsidiary books while I was there - The Plain Janes (a Unshelved recommendation that I, who read it on the bus, wholeheartedly second) and Global Frequency Vol. 1: Planet Ablaze (also Warren Ellis, but I mainly got it because of the movie that didn't get made). Oh, and I got Whiteout, Vol. 2: Melt (because I got Whiteout, Vol. 1, which because of Free Comic Book Day 2007, which because of Wings of Change, which eventually because of Dad=zhurnaly emailing me a link to Mark Sachs and I'm cutting this off before we get ridiculous).

So, a fun evening, even before the lasagna zhurnaly's got in the oven downstairs. Rawk aut!