How much snow can you get in 24 hours?

This is amazing. I've heard of snow storms but now I've really witness the effects of one.

It started snowing yesterday at around 1pm on 19 Dec 08. It was really light and just flurries. I thought it would be nice and enjoyable. Of course, I was rather excited about it. It didn't stop in an hour or two and it just kept going. This was how it looked like at around 3pm.



The maintenance guys for the condo association were coming around continuously to clear the snow and to create walking paths for us. In fact, they were here almost every 2 hours. The snow just kept going. Finally at around 2am when I was about to go to bed, I looked out of the toilet window and saw this.


When it was finally morning, at around 10am, we found that the car had turn into an icicle.


The most amazing thing was when we asked our neighbors in the morning about the snow, we found out that this was just the tip of the iceberg. Imagine that!

Role of Force

To relieve some stress and to show how complex the world can be, I present to you my visual map of the evolving security concepts in the world today.



This was created by VUE (Visual Understanding Environment by Tufts University.

Noam Chomsky's take on the election and state of democracy in the U.S.

I must say that I have utmost respect for Prof Noam Chomsky and his insightful opinions. More importantly, I identify with a good number of things which he says.

This is article that I am about to share. He mentions something very similar to what I have mentioned previously. That is about how the democratic election is a great advertising campaign and that we don't really know what the candidates stand for. That creates a weakness of delivering the people the policies that they want.

Anyhow, I won't spoil the fun and I need to write a real paper. Enjoy.

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/11/24/noam_chomsky_what_next_the_elections