It's like Kafka wrote a Lovecraft story.

The appeal of old computer games, explained over at SMBC.
Don't look now, but there's an @ blocking your doorway.

In The Times

Some cousins help rescue a drowning fawn.  (warning: cute pic)
and
Mr. Rivers talks about one of his students.

Here Be Dragons

Well, at least one.
http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=16463
R/C, breathes fire and everything.  Huh.

End of Summer

Boundary of the first cold front of the fall passing through Bay St. Louis:

About two weeks ahead of usual, but none too soon.  The break from the heat and sticky is always welcome.

Isaac Returns

Ugh, won't this stuff ever stop raining down?  Got pounded with rain off and on last night through this morning, as some remnants from Hurricane Isaac rocketed back south to give us one more roughing-up.

Read about it at Jeff Masters' blog over at weather underground, and watch an animated loop of vorticity from University of Wisconsin showing how the storm progressed, split, and re-formed.  And now, re-named 90L, it's trying to spin up again over the warm Gulf waters.  Ugh.

Fourth Ward Cleaver, September Edition

Is up.  Or at least, getting onto its feet gradually.

The Cooldown?

This weekend?  From over at Intellicast:

Maybe.  We'll see.  Besides, it's a four day week so we're 20% of the way there for free already.