Photo! Now with FREE supplemental musing!

We here at Turing Test THIS!! have been receiving some requests lately. First, we have been asked to display a picture of the car I am now driving, the 2002 Toyota Prius (see also sidebar). Second, we have been asked to post more content.
TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE!!

And now, supplemental musing.
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Due to the geography and meteorology of Kansas in the summer, there have been many thunderstorms of late. These persistent weather patterns have reminded me exactly how much I like lightning. Now, of course I know lightning is capable of causing destruction or hitting people, but those probabilities are always compared to the likelihood of improbable events like:
-winning the lottery
-being eaten by a shark
-being hit by a meteor
-David Shoemaker putting together a coherent analogy
-David Shoemaker not stopping at Brahm's when one is sighted
-the Vikings winning the Superbowl
-Tom Vacek going liberal--wait...

Anyway, I suspect many will agree with me when I say lightning is beautiful. Last Wednesday night we had a great storm going on around Lawrence; around 9 PM there were probably at least two strikes a minute going on in the quadrant of the sky I was watching. Ground strikes, cloud-to-cloud, branching: all could be seen from my excellent vantage point on top of Lawrence’s Mount Oread. Well, it’s not a real mountain, but at least it’s a decent hill, and that’s good enough for Kansas.

Since it wasn’t raining in my location, I was more than content to stand outside and watch the meteorological fireworks. I guess I was probably only standing there for about ten minutes, but it felt longer.

That’s enough improvised content for now. My audience, you will simply have to make do until something ACTUALLY happens here, say, tomorrow. I think more Culinary Adventures are coming…