By John Mattingly Real snow has large flakes, is evenly distributed in the base, and isn’t as light or fluffy as the virtual snow from a snow-making machine. Virtual snow lacks a complex crystalline structure, as it is already “old snow” at creation, being like real snow that has been trafficked enough to crush the pure and varied geometry of the flakes. Virtual snow will never be fresh “pow” or white gold. At best, virtual snow is blow pow, mashed potatoes, boiler plate, broken crust, lizard skin, hanging chad, tipsy turnip, epileptic matador, hog nose, cauliflower mogul, cold spinach, donkey ...