Angry Grandmother Interrupts Microsoft Event

Brrr, again. Don't hope for a warming trend; long-term models show the sun eventually dying out entirely into a massive inert cinder. Of course, those are really long-term models.

LANCE LAWSONThis guy crumples with record speed:

Answer at the bottom.

INTERNET Here's the top 38 local Instagrammers. Tag overload in some of those examples. #tree #branches #treebraches #leaves #autumn #autumnleaves #leavesofautumn #fall #fallcolors #deciduous OKAY I GET IT

SURFACE TENSION When Microsoft launched its Surface thingy-device in China, it did not anticipate that someone's Grandma would get up on stage and tell them to TURN IT DOWN.

The guards dragged the woman off, and the dancers kept dancing. The only way this could possibly be better would be Ballmer leaping around with saddlebags under his arms screaming DEVELOPERS.

"Saddlebags," by the way, was a term Tom Wolfe used in "A Man in Full," describing the perspiration that attends a high-stakes confrontation. Wolfe has a new book out, by the way - and this interview with the charming fellow has a surprising conclusion. People in the comments hate the way it ended, which is a reminder to -

I think she meant the comments on her stories, but as a general rule, it's path to happiness. Of course I had to read the comments on her story about not reading comments. The last one:

"What I call vampiric mirroring." Why should he have all the fun? Let's all call it vampiric mirroring.

I seem to have strayed off topic. Let's move on.

ART A museum replaced all the art by men with art made by women. Let's see if anyone notices! The author notes there's no reason why Lee Krasner, Pollack's wife shouldn't be included in the museum next to his, since her work has a "certain power."

That's one way to put it.