John Siracusa
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Podcast Appearances
Yeah, what happened?
Yeah, I saw your picture of your driveway.
You've got barely enough to cover the ground.
We need a moratorium on unit conversions, especially since you can't do them in your head and then you're always just guessing.
If people are interested in doing the unit conversion, lots of ways that is possible after the fact.
But I feel like what we should instead be doing is slowly acclimating people to our weird units.
They do, but they're our units, and we talk about them, and that's, you know, by listening to the show, people will become familiar with them.
You went out and you shoveled half your driveway.
We get every possible combination of snow you can imagine, including heavy, slushy, icy, everything.
Wintery mix, they call it.
I'm familiar with ice, Casey.
And by the way, if you were familiar with winter, you would know that the correct time to shovel when it's less work is when the snow or ice or whatever is fresh-ish instead of waiting for it to freeze overnight.
But you did half.
You did half the job.
Did you shovel your sidewalk too?
Anyway, next time do the whole driveway.
Can your kids play ice hockey on the street now?
You need to take some continuing education classes on how to live with winter.
Jesus Christ.
Apparently, you didn't do any shoveling when you lived in Connecticut either.