Done day before yesterday (20100708 Th)

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Oops. It looks as though I meant to post this yesterday, but got distracted. I did get a walk in -- go me!

It occurrs to me that there's a significant difference between "that jacket looks good on you" and "you look good in that jacket". I've heard both, but they're not interchangeable. The first is about the jacket, and easy for me to accept. The second is about me, so it's harder. I am, however, gradually becoming convinced.

OVFF conflicts with a close friend's wedding this year. Grumph.

My therapist says I need to accept the fact that I don't have time for everything I want to do. But what if I don't have time for everything I need to do? It doesn't help that some days I oversleep badly.

Some good links under the cut, as usual.

Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

... to foxgrrl!!!! Have a great one!!

Done yesterday (20100719 Fr)

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I suppose the big news was that the pictures ifics took of me in the leather jacket finally got posted. The Interfilk auction photos start here, and my two-shot starts here

Not as productive a day at work as I would have liked; next week is going to be busy.

This could be bad. VERY bad.

siliconshaman points to this article which says, in part,

Ominous reports are leaking past the BP Gulf salvage operation news blackout that the disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico may be about to reach biblical proportions.

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Methane is now streaming through the porous, rocky seabed at an accelerated rate and gushing from the borehole of the first relief well. The EPA is on record that Rig #1 is releasing methane, benzene, hydrogen sulfide and other toxic gases. Workers there now wear advanced protection including state-of-the-art, military-issued gas masks.

Reports, filtering through from oceanologists and salvage workers in the region, state that the upper level strata of the ocean floor is succumbing to greater and greater pressure. That pressure is causing a huge expanse of the seabed-estimated by some as spreading over thousands of square miles surrounding the BP wellhead-to bulge. Some claim the seabed in the region has risen an astounding 30 feet.

I agree with siliconshaman that calling it a potentially "mass extinction level" event is almost certainly exagerated. But things don't look good for the states and countries around the gulf. Maybe not biblical, but at least a good disaster novel.

Note that methane is not only a much more effective greenhouse gas than CO2, it's also highly flammable. Can you say "fuel-air explosive"? I knew you could.

A tip of the hat to this post by ysabetwordsmith.