Second, you may recall all that severe weather we were expecting at 11 a.m. (see previous post). Well, for the last 12 hours those lying sacs of poo at Weather.com have been pushing back the arrival of that storm front in two-hour increments, keeping us stuck at home all day long with flashing red “hide your ass under the bed” warnings and, as recently as 10:45 p.m., were still forecasting armageddon around midnight. Except I just checked online and discovered that — no big surprise, right? — THE ENTIRE LINE OF STORMS MISSED US COMPLETELY. See for yourself. All that colorful crap is moving northeast and not even remotely close to Howdygram headquarters, which I’ve denoted with a pink star on the following map. If you zoom in I’m the crabby senior citizen in the blue robe who’s attempting to inject insulin one-handed. (You can watch if you want to. I don’t mind.)
This probably won’t mean much to many of you, but yesterday I read an article about the two American researchers sharing this year’s Nobel prize for chemistry, Robert Lefkowitz of Duke University and Brian Kobilka of Stanford. Their discovery, according to the Christian Science Monitor, uncovers a key mechanism used by cells that’s vital to the pharmaceutical industry’s development of new drugs and could lead to drugs with fewer side effects. (I’m definitely in favor of fewer side effects.) The bigger issue, however, is that Robert Lefkowitz is AN EXACT DOUBLE for my cousin Bobby, whose face is inset on the photo below.
I think I need some food. Too bad we’re out of matzo balls. Thank you for reading this.
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