"Dress Appropriately; Take Off Your Clothes"

After a photo editing session was interrupted because the hard drive in the computer I was using started ticking, and a shutdown and cooldown in front of a fan wasn't enough to make it able to boot again afterward (this is so very much not an encouraging omen *sigh*), I turned on the television to see what they're saying about the weather. (It's 307K / 34°C / 94°F in my bedroom. The other computer by my bed had already been in front of a fan, and it's what I'm typing on now.) The quote in the title of this entry was uttered by some expert they interviewed. It makes perfect sense but the phrasing amused me.

They then went on to talk about the price of gasoline and its ramifications. "The high cost of oil is making its effects felt in the unlikeliest of places ..." Uh, excuse me? What 'unlikely' places would those be? Since the context was consumer goods and services, where don't you expect the price of oil to have an effect? (Oh look, diapers, beer, and cosmetics will be more expensive. Er ... duh?)

The late-August-visits-early-June heat wave is supposed to break Wednesday. The ticking computer is in the 'fridge, wrapped in a few layers of plastic to protect it against condensation when I pull it out. If the hard drive works long enough then, I'll scp -r as much as I can to a rackmount machine downstairs (wish me luck); in either case I'll probably be looking for a new laptop-size hard drive soon. :-(

In other babble-age: oh hey, crunchy yogurt! That means that I forgot that the arrival of hot, humid weather required rearranging the stuff in the fridge to keep things that I don't want crunchy off the top shelf.