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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Teh Internets / The Weather What Are We Going to Do on Wednesday, You Guys?

Posted by on Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 8:41 AM

January 18th is going to be a very long day.

First, the massive online protest of SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act) will cause the internet to go black. Reddit will be down, Wikipedia will be down, the entire I Can Haz Cheeseburger empire will be down, and more websites and companies are joining the cause every hour.

No big deal. We'll do what we did before the internet! We'll go hang out with friends and see movies and have dinner and drinks at local restaurants and act like civilized people who aren't addicted to their computers.

BUT WAIT! We're going to get 6-14 inches of snow tomorrow? We'll all be stranded! SOPA shuts down the internet, SNOW shuts down our real lives.

What are we supposed to do with ourselves!?

 

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1
Fuck and suck, what else?
Posted by Why are there cars? on January 17, 2012 at 8:46 AM
Baconcat 2
Oh shit.
Posted by Baconcat on January 17, 2012 at 8:48 AM
Gordon Werner 3
go play in the snow (or rain which is what it will probably end up being)
Posted by Gordon Werner on January 17, 2012 at 8:48 AM
Matt from Denver 4
Daytime TV.

Hey, isn't The Stranger and all it's pages going to go dark, too?
Posted by Matt from Denver on January 17, 2012 at 8:50 AM
Joe Szilagyi 5
I'm still holding out hope that Google shuts down. Slim hope, but hope.
Posted by Joe Szilagyi http://www.joeszilagyi.com on January 17, 2012 at 8:50 AM
Rotten666 6
Drink heavily, duh.
Posted by Rotten666 on January 17, 2012 at 8:50 AM
michaelp 7
I suddenly feel it may be good to make sure all of the portable game devices are charged...
Posted by michaelp on January 17, 2012 at 8:57 AM
Cui Bono 8
Get shit-faced and go streaking in Cal Anderson? I'd think of the children, but no kids SHOULD be outside...
Posted by Cui Bono on January 17, 2012 at 9:00 AM
9
million snowman march.
Posted by shabadoo on January 17, 2012 at 9:00 AM
Fnarf 10
Cliff Mass is dialing it back. He's saying 2-5 inches on Wednesday now.
Posted by Fnarf http://www.facebook.com/fnarf on January 17, 2012 at 9:04 AM
bedipped 11
Predict that there's going to be a geek-boom of babies in nine months. Is Slog going to go dark or will you be the one shining light in the darkness in the city on the hill over at the Frankenstein place?
Posted by bedipped on January 17, 2012 at 9:06 AM
rob! 12
Slog should be contrarian. Go dark from 9-11 a.m. on Wednesday, and be totally there for the other 22 hours of the day!
Posted by rob! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZBdUceCL5U on January 17, 2012 at 9:18 AM
bedipped 13
@12 They've got a paper to put together and no time for such shenanigans.
Posted by bedipped on January 17, 2012 at 9:24 AM
gloomy gus 14
@10, well dang. He said he might, and he did. Poop. I hold out hope that science can get that dial twisted back up again somehow. Nobody panics as stylishly as we.

@12, a bold suggestion. Perhaps they can claim to be in an editorial meeting, even if they're all just cadging free breakfasts from Oddfellows as usual.
Posted by gloomy gus on January 17, 2012 at 9:26 AM
Sir Vic 15
@1 FTW
If love isn't the answer, fuck the question.
Posted by Sir Vic on January 17, 2012 at 9:29 AM
16
Most guys will try to remember where they stashed the old porn mags from the 1990's.
Posted by GusII on January 17, 2012 at 9:29 AM
17
Agricola, Le Havre, Gates of Loyang, Twilight Struggle . . .
Posted by Levislade http://ballofwax.org on January 17, 2012 at 9:32 AM
scary tyler moore 18
@9 for the win. just picturing that makes me giggle.
Posted by scary tyler moore http://pushymcshove.blogspot.com/ on January 17, 2012 at 9:42 AM
19
Cliff Mass is guessing just like every other meteorologist in the area. No one has any idea what the weather is going to do. I imagine that we will all be going to work tomorrow.
Posted by sisyphusgal on January 17, 2012 at 9:42 AM
20
So. Why isn't SLOG going dark?
Posted by tkc on January 17, 2012 at 9:46 AM
21
Yeah SLOG wtf.
Go dark bishes!
Posted by Wtfbish on January 17, 2012 at 10:00 AM
OuterCow 22
@19 Meteorologists make educated guesses silly, and of course we have "an idea" of what's going to happen tomorrow. Are there going to be tornados spitting lightning? Proly not.
Posted by OuterCow on January 17, 2012 at 10:22 AM
Jenny 23
@5, Google isn't shutting down but is placing a link on its homepage - http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01…

Agree that I'd love to see the Stranger go dark tomorrow too. (I mean, I'd miss y'all, but it's one day... )
Posted by Jenny http://www.yardsalebloodbath.com on January 17, 2012 at 11:05 AM
Original Andrew 24
Noted KOMO4 meteorologist Jar Jar Binks, AMS, says "yousa all gonna die!!1!"
Posted by Original Andrew on January 17, 2012 at 11:25 AM
merry 25
I picked the Best Vacation Days EVAR.

After today, I'm outta here for a week! Yay Snow & Hot Chocolate!!
Posted by merry on January 17, 2012 at 12:36 PM

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