Last week marked the end of 2014, the culmination of the Holiday season, and the beginning of the cryogenical reign of the Second Horseman of the Snowpocalypse; January. Burrr.

There can be a bit of red found in noses, cheeks, and Betelgeuse but ours has become mostly a land of sky blues, pine greens, and snow whites.

In addition to the snowmobile trails being opened last week, the lake ice is officially at the one foot mark. Don't look for the ice-out contest any time soon.

In the early Fall of last year, the company that hosts wiwebcam.com (a sister site of knottlane.com) informed us that they would no longer allow the knottlane webcam to store images on their equipment. To underscore their displeasure with any future images of the lake, they deleted 3 years worth of past images, over 1 million pictures, that were part of the archives of wiwebcam.com. Using our own hardware seems like the best solution, so we got some.

The new Knottlane Terra Server can store billons of webcam pictures of the lake. When it fills up, in just over 850 years, it'll be up to the Eloi or Morlocks to get another one or find a better solution. Currently, it's storing 1 picture per minute, on a private network. It's loosely scheduled to be made public in two or three weeks depending on how much keyboard time we have to securely configure the beastie. Since system time and outside time are inversely related, it might be made public sooner, rather than later, due to our fondness for not freezing to death. The only item of outerwear that keeps the wearer warm this time of year is a house. The 24th Annual Lake Lucerne Bottle Rocket War is just under a week away. Fort construction will start around mid-week. The bar will be open on Saturday after the war to all that are thirsty. More details will be posted on the front page as the date draws near.

-Nemo's setting up the launcher and warming up the propane for next weekend.                                             Previous   Next