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Thursday, January 23, 2003

Brrrrrrrr!

As the eastern US continues in its relative deep freeze (it was 8° F out when I left for work this morning, the coldest day yet, and yet I remember it being 20 below zero on a regular basis when I was growning up in Illinois, so I hesitate to complain too much), I found this portrait of life in Antarctica in The Guardian interesting.

"In the Antarctic, nationality is dissolved," says Wheeler. "There are no time zones, so it can be any time you want it to be. That is liberating. All that matters is the cold - and everyone has to face that together."

Kind of like New Jersey. Except colder and desolate.

Posted at 10:02 PM

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