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Too Hot to Go To Bed
Jul. 28th, 2009 11:06 pmTomorrow's puzzle will be getting to a 4 p.m. interview in North Van in the heat, on transit, wearing a suit, and not turning into a puddle.
I will cross that bridge when I come to it (literally, since I'll be going over the Lions Gate.)
For now, the "15 books" meme:
Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. They don't have to be the greatest books you've ever read, just the ones that left a lasting impression. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.
1. Princess of Mars
2. Brave New World
3. Ringworld
4. Frog Fables and Beaver Tales
5. Chrysalids
6. Tarzan of the Apes
7. Radio Planet
8. Lord Calvin of Otherwhen
9. Mastermind of Mars
10. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
11. Have Spacesuit Will Travel
12 1984
13. Starship Troopers
14. Dynamical Systems and Fractals
15. Atlas Shrugged
I will cross that bridge when I come to it (literally, since I'll be going over the Lions Gate.)
For now, the "15 books" meme:
Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. They don't have to be the greatest books you've ever read, just the ones that left a lasting impression. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.
1. Princess of Mars
2. Brave New World
3. Ringworld
4. Frog Fables and Beaver Tales
5. Chrysalids
6. Tarzan of the Apes
7. Radio Planet
8. Lord Calvin of Otherwhen
9. Mastermind of Mars
10. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
11. Have Spacesuit Will Travel
12 1984
13. Starship Troopers
14. Dynamical Systems and Fractals
15. Atlas Shrugged
So it is snowing again. Not a big deal. What's going to be interesting is what's supposed to follow immediately on the heels of this snow. There is supposed to be some fairly epic rain (6 cm) overnight with temperatures going up to 7 °C. With about 20-30 cm of snow on the ground, blocking all the drains, there should be some spectacular curb-side lakes and localized flooding. And right behind that we'll get the inevitable brown tap-water when all the run-off in the mountains hits the reservoirs. Naturally this will catch everyone off guard like it does every year. Hundreds of thousands of thick-witted dolts, who in dread fear that a little dirt will kill them stone cold dead the second it touches their lips can't wrap their heads around the concept of boiling water and using a filter, will run out in droves to buy tap-water that has been boiled and filtered and put in a bottle for them. The stores, of course, will not be ready for this and run out of bottled water like they do every year. 
Looks like someone didn't take the Environment Canada wind-warning for today quite as seriously as they should have. Something, I'm not sure what, blew off one of the upper floors of the Shangri-La Tower and hit the Terasen Building around the 18th or 19th floor. There is a damaged window on the Terasen Building (not broken, but the distinctive blue-grey window coating is ripped away and flapping in the wind). Judging by the size of the scar on the Terasen Building I'm guessing it was a sheet of plywood that went flying. The 1100 block of Georgia is closed to traffic and pedestrians at the moment, just in time for rush hour, so traffic is an utter mess and there is a lot of honking going on outside the apartment. Maybe it will be on the 6:00 news. 
...you see a fully-loaded logging truck coming out of a residential neighbourhood.
Wow. I've just been awakened by the wind. There is quite the gale blowing out right now. There is a rumble to it like a freight train going by in the distance. I can hear things snapping and falling over at the nearby construction sites. The three construction cranes are twisting in it and I can see the strings of Christmas lights on them flapping. The cat door is flapping. The little shrubberies in the townhouse gardens across the alley that never move in the wind are flapping around. 
