I like Decembrists and have never heard of Cage. I’ve heard Vampire Weekend a lot but I honestly couldn’t recognize any of their songs.

I like one of the three very much; agree with you completely on another of the three; and have never heard of the third.

Awesome.

Ah, I loved Pine. My first experience with a recursive name.

I was there in the winter of 2004-5 which locals told me was a good winter. Given the amount of snow, I can’t imagine what a bad winter would have looked like.

Also, a very impressive art museum.

And yet, during my one year in Buffalo, they dealt with snow far better than any other place I’ve been. Maybe I just got lucky that winter.

Technically, I used NCSA Mosaic for a few weeks before Netscape came out but but my internet was more limited to emails and gopher servers for my first month online.

Do you have any sense if Delaware independents resemble independents elsewhere in the country?

Over 50% of the city is without power but the outage map suggests I have power though it’s not fine grained enough to know for sure. Tempted to go to the hell site to see if people are already complaining about their power not being restored yet.