Freakishly warm

The entire nation has been freakishly warm this past month--PZ Myers of Pharyngula linked to a map demonstrating the Mean Temperature Anomoly nationwide. The entire Northeast was around 8 degrees F higher than average over the month; the upper Great Plains were 16 degrees high.

Even granted that, it was something of a surprise to see a woman pumping gas in Pleasantville yesterday who was wearing a short-sleeve shirt, flip-flops, and Daisy Dukes. Not unpleasant, no, not at all; just surprising.

Artificial Stupidity, Today's edition

For a discussion on rasff, I was I trying to find a detail about the murders committed by "the I-5 Killer", a serial killer who, in the early 1980s, drove up and down Interstate 5 raping and murdering women. (I had vaguely remembered that he wore a police uniform during at least one of his killings, but it seems he didn't.)

Anyway, I couldn't remember his name, so I hied myself off to Google and searched "i-5 killer". I was treated to an ad which read:

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Then, following the first link, to Amazon's listing for Ann Rule's The I-5 Killer. There I was treated to the possibility of searching inside the book--the book in question apparently being Finite and Infinite Games. Which indicates that the Amazon mind has less pleasant ideas of "play" than I care to comtemplate.