It's very Dali-esque and confusing
Background Noise: random movie background music. amazingly enough, it's not bad background music... in general.
Last Visited:uh, um... this one? no, no, this one.
Random Thought: would it matter if you were told the truth or not if the truth was something you didn't want to believe?
Mood: stuffy.
I got coffee and a lemon scone at Starbucks this morning on my way in to work. Fifteen minutes later the security guard in the lobby asked what the hell i was doing there (didn't i know it was a holiday? - i love that btw, didn't i know? that's hilarious; but i digress.) Five minutes later my coffee cup exploded all over my desk (the scone too). So much for a good way to start yet another holiday at the office.
So my desk is going to smell faintly of coffee with cream for the better part of forever.
Let's see... Sabrina is playing at the Stanford today. i'm really going to try to make it - i don't think i've ever seen it on the big screen.
And, i'm sorry, but i don't think that the Dallas season finale in 1980 was the top Moment in Entertainment of the last 25 years. Now my perspective might be a bit off considering i've never seen it and i'm pretty sure i hadn't been... you know... born at the time, but i don't think that was the first time a show ended it's season with a cliffhanger. Was it?
Then we get to the article the New Orleans Levees were not built to withstand big storms. Of course they weren't: they were built to withstand a Category 3 hurricane which is the most common hurricane to hit the gulf coast. Category 4 hurricanes - especially 30 years ago when the levees were built - were thought to be 200-300 a year occurances. Who would want to build for the rare case that you don't expect to see in your lifetime? especially when it means spending too much money and being - yes, i have to say it - ugly. Let's face it folks, no one wants the skyline of N.O. to be a giant, ugly levee.
It was political suicide to suggest such a thing - then and now - especially when all the world would be yelling that the storm they'd be protecting against would never happen. Then of course it did. And everyone was "shocked" - even though it was the most commonly predicted natural disaster for the United States.
That's the thing about this hurricane coverage that pisses me off: everyone knew one day it would happen. No one wanted to believe it would happen in thier lifetime, but everyone knew it would happen. And no amount of money diverted to Iraq was going to change that. Even if the money had been spent to repair the levee that existed, the flooding and damage still would have happened. People still would have died.
There are risks when you build a city, and you have to understand the natural climate you're building in. You have to be prepared, but there's only so much you can do before you strangle the ability to live in an area. Take San Francisco, for example: there will always be the threat of earthquakes, yet we still build bridges and skyscrapers - even subdivisions right over the fault lines.
The thing about levees is they will never protect against the worst; their job is to mitigate damage. There are potential natural disasters we know could happen that we don't plan for because the plan is too extreame.
Want an example? A Category 2 hurrican directly hitting New York City would completely destroy Manhattan. It could happen; even might. But you don't see everyone racing to build levees around that great island. Why? because it wouldn't do any good.
The thing with the hurricane at the end of the day, as horrible as it was and is, it wasn't God destroying a wicked city (omg this site makes me sick) or Politicians diverting money for a war, it just is the cost of living on Earth: Mother Nature always wins.
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Last Visited:uh, um... this one? no, no, this one.
Random Thought: would it matter if you were told the truth or not if the truth was something you didn't want to believe?
Mood: stuffy.
I got coffee and a lemon scone at Starbucks this morning on my way in to work. Fifteen minutes later the security guard in the lobby asked what the hell i was doing there (didn't i know it was a holiday? - i love that btw, didn't i know? that's hilarious; but i digress.) Five minutes later my coffee cup exploded all over my desk (the scone too). So much for a good way to start yet another holiday at the office.
So my desk is going to smell faintly of coffee with cream for the better part of forever.
Let's see... Sabrina is playing at the Stanford today. i'm really going to try to make it - i don't think i've ever seen it on the big screen.
And, i'm sorry, but i don't think that the Dallas season finale in 1980 was the top Moment in Entertainment of the last 25 years. Now my perspective might be a bit off considering i've never seen it and i'm pretty sure i hadn't been... you know... born at the time, but i don't think that was the first time a show ended it's season with a cliffhanger. Was it?
Then we get to the article the New Orleans Levees were not built to withstand big storms. Of course they weren't: they were built to withstand a Category 3 hurricane which is the most common hurricane to hit the gulf coast. Category 4 hurricanes - especially 30 years ago when the levees were built - were thought to be 200-300 a year occurances. Who would want to build for the rare case that you don't expect to see in your lifetime? especially when it means spending too much money and being - yes, i have to say it - ugly. Let's face it folks, no one wants the skyline of N.O. to be a giant, ugly levee.
It was political suicide to suggest such a thing - then and now - especially when all the world would be yelling that the storm they'd be protecting against would never happen. Then of course it did. And everyone was "shocked" - even though it was the most commonly predicted natural disaster for the United States.
That's the thing about this hurricane coverage that pisses me off: everyone knew one day it would happen. No one wanted to believe it would happen in thier lifetime, but everyone knew it would happen. And no amount of money diverted to Iraq was going to change that. Even if the money had been spent to repair the levee that existed, the flooding and damage still would have happened. People still would have died.
There are risks when you build a city, and you have to understand the natural climate you're building in. You have to be prepared, but there's only so much you can do before you strangle the ability to live in an area. Take San Francisco, for example: there will always be the threat of earthquakes, yet we still build bridges and skyscrapers - even subdivisions right over the fault lines.
The thing about levees is they will never protect against the worst; their job is to mitigate damage. There are potential natural disasters we know could happen that we don't plan for because the plan is too extreame.
Want an example? A Category 2 hurrican directly hitting New York City would completely destroy Manhattan. It could happen; even might. But you don't see everyone racing to build levees around that great island. Why? because it wouldn't do any good.
The thing with the hurricane at the end of the day, as horrible as it was and is, it wasn't God destroying a wicked city (omg this site makes me sick) or Politicians diverting money for a war, it just is the cost of living on Earth: Mother Nature always wins.
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posted by Jane at 12:24:00 PM
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I don't think that 'Dallas' was no.1, I think it's just in chronological order! That's the power of the brain when your coffee doesn't end up on your desk!
well, at least i knew something was wrong....
*sigh*
maybe that's why it feels like i'm not getting anything done right now.... hmm....