A hurricane is coming. And when a hurricane comes, people need time to prepare or evacuate. Everything closes -- schools, businesses, government agencies. The world shuts down as people sit in their homes and restlessly await the end of the storm. Evacuations have begun in the Florida Keys, and although by coincidence there was no school today, the teachers, who had to go to work, got released early. Nothing has really closed yet, but since the hurricane is so slow, everything is going to close at some point.

The hurricane is only slowing down. Before, they were saying that the hurricane was going to hit on Sunday and that we might have Monday off school. Now it seems that the hurricane will hit Monday or Tuesday, and since the school board has already sent teachers home early, no one's going to expect them to be back on Monday unless the hurricane turns in the opposite direction. But forget about having fun, because technically the hurricane's already here. A large plume extending from the storm is over us now, and so the weather is miserable. I guess it can only get worse. So what are we to do until it comes? Pretty much nothing.

Hey, remember that Ask Jordon thingy?

Daniel: Do you have a del.icio.us account that I can subscribe to? I have one if you would like to swap. I'm sure many others here would be interested.

No, sorry, I don't. But if any of you readers does, contact Daniel somehow.

You must be wondering why I haven't posted a good Ask Jordon for a while. Well, here's why. These are just a small sampling of the ones I've received lately:

buddy255: triede the music symbol on my word pad and it works (alt 13) but when trying in chat it doesn,t work --- why?????
james: where is the middle east
dale: how was it palying basketball
gordon.mounce: where is www.almsoftwear.co.uk

I could swear that they're all from the same person, but I don't check IP addresses when an Ask Jordon is sent, even though I should. After all, it is believable that the Internet has more than one complete idiot who can't type.

NASA has a QuickTime video showing satellite images of "all 21 named storms during the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season," as if there aren't going to be any more hurricanes because they ran out of names on the list. And several hurricanes don't appear because they didn't get within the area shown in the video. Still, it's cool to watch.

And here's a gallery of metro arts and architecture. Metro means subway.