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Cake day: March 14th, 2025

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  • Years ago — late 90s — I used to travel to Vermont from the UK on business. Because of the time difference I’d often wake up at ~3:30 in the morning and since there was very little to do in a hotel room in Burlington, I’d put The Weather Channel on.

    Quite often they’d report on “snow coming down from Canada”, or “frigid air coming down from Canada”, and I always thought it was weird how they seemed to be subtly blaming another country for weather phenomena.

    Dunno why I thought of that.

    Anyway, electric vans. Cool.


  • First time I ever went there (1997) I landed at Boston Logan Airport, and a guy in plain clothes, but with a gun, stopped everyone who was departing the plane and repeatedly yelled out “American citizens this way, foreigners line up against the wall!”.

    I never once felt safe going there, and was always relieved when I got out alive. Decided a few years ago that I’ll never set foot in the US again.