Saturday, February 26, 2005
Freeflight
McCandless Spacewalk, circa 1984. It looks like an illustration, doesn't it? Amazing to think of anyone actually doing this without a special effects team.
'night.
Saturday, February 19, 2005
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
To borrow a line from Inspector Clouseau, "The mystery is solv-ed!" (See my post of January 6, 2005). I forgot that I'd never commented on it. So sorry.
Seems the man had a strange syndrome which caused him to function by remembering where things were in the space around him and by keeping to the rhythm of his task. If he was interrupted, even for a moment, he "lost" everything and couldn't recover. In the teaser of a title story, he apparently thought he'd put his hat behind him, where his wife was sitting, and reached for her head. Many of the other stories in the book are more disturbing than amusingly bizarre, so I can't wholeheartedly recommend it.
My next project is trying to find a book about Magellan - something about the edge of the world. Memories...like the corners of my mind...misty watercolored memories...
'night
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Seems the man had a strange syndrome which caused him to function by remembering where things were in the space around him and by keeping to the rhythm of his task. If he was interrupted, even for a moment, he "lost" everything and couldn't recover. In the teaser of a title story, he apparently thought he'd put his hat behind him, where his wife was sitting, and reached for her head. Many of the other stories in the book are more disturbing than amusingly bizarre, so I can't wholeheartedly recommend it.
My next project is trying to find a book about Magellan - something about the edge of the world. Memories...like the corners of my mind...misty watercolored memories...
'night
Friday, February 11, 2005
What is it worth?
Why do valuable and invaluable mean the same thing? Why did I never hear the word "unthaw" in my life until recently? Have I been hiding under a rock? It doesn't make any sense to me. What are you looking at?
'night.
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'night.
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
Please exit calmly and wait for the signal to return
False Alarm, Connecticut Not Being Evacuated
Connecticut emergency management officials have apologized for an erroneous message sent to state broadcasters today saying an evacuation of the state had been ordered.
State emergency management officials believe someone pressed the wrong button.
Instead of running a test of the emergency alert system, midday television viewers and radio listeners were told that the state was being evacuated.
“There is absolutely no evacuation or state emergency,” said Kerry Flaherty, of the Office of Emergency Management. “It was an erroneous message.”
The department was investigating how the alert was sent.
Officials said it is manually released to broadcasters.
The error prompted Gov. M. Jodi Rell to issue a statement reassuring residents.
“We are looking into the circumstances and will take every step necessary to make certain this type of problem does not reoccur in the future,” she said.
State police said they received no calls related to the erroneous alert.
Posted February 1, 2005 04:15 PM
Now, this would *never* happen in Iowa. Of course, I don't remember ever hearing of anything much at all happening in Iowa other than Radar O'Reilly and the movie Field of Dreams. Mom, I can't get into Connecticut! Can I borrow your key?
'night.
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Connecticut emergency management officials have apologized for an erroneous message sent to state broadcasters today saying an evacuation of the state had been ordered.
State emergency management officials believe someone pressed the wrong button.
Instead of running a test of the emergency alert system, midday television viewers and radio listeners were told that the state was being evacuated.
“There is absolutely no evacuation or state emergency,” said Kerry Flaherty, of the Office of Emergency Management. “It was an erroneous message.”
The department was investigating how the alert was sent.
Officials said it is manually released to broadcasters.
The error prompted Gov. M. Jodi Rell to issue a statement reassuring residents.
“We are looking into the circumstances and will take every step necessary to make certain this type of problem does not reoccur in the future,” she said.
State police said they received no calls related to the erroneous alert.
Posted February 1, 2005 04:15 PM
Now, this would *never* happen in Iowa. Of course, I don't remember ever hearing of anything much at all happening in Iowa other than Radar O'Reilly and the movie Field of Dreams. Mom, I can't get into Connecticut! Can I borrow your key?
'night.
