What Is "Stormy Weather" About?

Silly AC/DC, Lightning strikes, not Thunder  

I suppose if you were close enough, you could feel some concussion from the shockwave, couldn't you?

Yes, but that doesn't make the thunder an actual tangible thing.  Thunder is nothing more than a shockwave, much like a sonic boom, created by the expansion of air around a bolt of lightning.  There's nothing there.  It's a sound.  

So, when AC/DC comes along singing about being thunderstruck, they're a little off base.  They weren't struck by thunder.  They simply heard thunder, or they were struck by the bolt of lightning.  If that were the case, it would be a much sadder song, I would imagine.  As it is, it's a jaunty little sing about going to a club in Texas and meeting some people.  There's quite frankly not much going on there.  In the theoretical "Lightningstruck," the hero is taken to the hospital with some severe burns and will likely be without hair or hearing for a little while.  It changes the tune a little bit.  

On the other hand, Garth Brooks got things a little more correct when he sang about how the thunder rolls and lightning strikes.  See, there, the actual physical thing (the bolt of lightning) is doing the striking, and thunder is doing a more abstract action.  Of course, somebody gets shot at the end of that song, so I'm not sure it's really helping my case out all that much. 

It Said "Could"

Fortune Cookie: “The Greatest Danger Could Be Your Stupidity”

AAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!  Your fortune cookie knows you so well!  AAAAAAHAHHAHAHAA!!

Shut it.

Today's Sametime Status is pretty straight forward.  I had Chinese food for lunch yesterday, and it included a fortune cookie.  

My fortune cookie was a jerk.

Forgot To Take A Picture Of My Future Pole

Hooray!  Free telephone pole!

Now you can pole your telephone with the Telephone Pole the Professionals Use!  

I should begin today by pointing out the fact that I don't have a telephone pole.  Granted, most people probably don't, but that's beside the point entirely.  There's one in my neighbor's yard, and another one across the street, but they're not mint, and presumably not my neighbor's either.  What this all adds up to is that I am throwing up a big ol' goose egg in the phone pole department.  

Up until recently, this didn't bother me.  

On my way into work not long ago, I came across a sign posted on a telephone pole in somebody's yard.  It said, in its entirety, "FREE!"  I can only assume that meant that the telephone pole was free, since there was absolutely nothing else around that could be removed from the yard...for free or otherwise.  As such, I drew the logical conclusion, that the owner of the yard was done with their telephone pole, didn't need it anymore, and wanted to give it away to a good home.  

Around this time, I became increasingly aware of the fact that I don't have a telephone pole.  I don't really want one, since it's one more thing to avoid while mowing the lawn, but it's at least a little sad that I don't have one.  Everyone else gets theirs, and there are apparently so many around that they can just be given away for free.  I feel like I could provide a good home for a telephone pole.  I can only assume that it's a relatively simple matter to get one of those out of the ground and moved to my house, right?