Midweek shorts

weather
MIT has pink ice melt, while Cambridge high school has turquoise blue. Conclusion: Clifford, the Big Red Dog is at MIT, and Blue's Clues is at Cambridge high school.

Sunday, the second day of warm, definitely-above-freezing weather, I saw people cross-country skiing, on the Charles. It made me a bit nervous to see; how could they be sure of the ice? They were close to Watertown, where it still looked solid, but by parts of Cambridge, it was already melted in a couple of places...

whistle pig day
Happy Groundhog Day. I still don't understand why we can't figure out if the sun is shining without a groundhog (and why sunshine --> more winter weather, either. Of course, living in New England, I'd be surprised if all we have is six more weeks of winter.).

courtesy of Queue
"A slope, a perpendicular line, and a coordinate plane walk into a bar."

"A slope, a perpendicular line, and a coordinate plane cram into a cab.
'Hey,' says the coordinate plane, 'I have no space.'"

phrase of the day
spherical excess

Boston Organics delivery

• four bananas
  
• a huge head of green leaf lettuce
  
• a bunch of red chard
  
• a green pepper (anyone want it?)
  
• a small head of cauliflower
  
• six potatoes (a kilo? a kilo and a half?)
  
• two tomatoes ("salad" tomatoes; they don't look very interesting, but perhaps they'll ripen a bit)
  
• two navel oranges
  
• three fuji apples
  
• a grapefruit (yay!)
  
• two bosc pears (odd, since not on my list, nor on the box list)
  
• a container of bee-yoo-tee-full oyster mushrooms! (really, the prettiest ones I've ever seen)

The newsletter mentions that they're going to start delivering 7-grain and whole wheat bread, from Nashoba Brook Bakery. Twould've been cool had they been kosher. They're also starting to deliver Equal Exchange coffees, but that's not nearly so interesting.

Oh, and larger boxes apparently got Meyer lemons this week. Ooh!