Showing posts with label danger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label danger. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 08, 2017

Really Hungry Plants

Meanwhile, at the Honorable Society of King’s Inns in Dublin, Ireland...

Nom nom nom...
Image courtesy of Noel Donnellon

But this sort of thing happened much more frequently in the middle ages, so don't fret too much about it.




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Tuesday, November 07, 2017

"There's a battle outside and it's ragin'!"

Trainy has a tense conversation with "The Man"
Image: Sony Pictures Television
By now the whole world knows the misbegotten saga of the HMS Boaty McBoatface*. The state-of-the-art British scientific research ship was given that name in a cheerful public referendum only to have the will of the people cruelly stomped in the dust by "The Man" and replaced by the staid and stoggy HMS Sir David Attenborough, as described in this very sober-minded article. Not that there's anything wrong with Sir David, but he just ain't Boaty.

But the voice of the masses will not be stilled. There's a movement moving my friends, and a new world's a-comin' so don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall, man.

In Australia, a defiant racehorse has taken on the noble name of Horsey McHorseface. Even the UK's immovable establishment buckled and threw a sop to the unruly populace milling angrily in Trafalgar Square by conferring the name Boaty McBoatface on a little robot yellow submarine. (Shouldn't its name have been 'Ringo' though?)

But now Sweden has once again lived up to its motto ("Sweden: Best place in the world") and decided to stand shoulder to shoulder with the common man and woman and officially, irrevocably, and undeniably name their newest express train on the Stockholm-Gothenburg line Trainy McTrainface.

"I can guarantee with my life that the train will be called Trainy McTrainface," said MTR Express marketing chief Per Nasfi in an effort to allay Swedish fears. "I imagine that some people were quite delighted to get some revenge for the Boaty McBoatface thing."

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*Yes, I know the proper designation is RSS, not HMS. Consider it artistic license taken with Britain’s hoary traditions for the greater good.





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Friday, August 25, 2017

Harvey and Me


Harvey coming for a visit

So as it happens, the mighty city of Conglomeration is right in the middle of all the hurricane Harvey action -- on "the dirty side," as we like to say. Follow me on Twitter at @Pleonic for all the mayhem until our electricity goes out or our house flies away.

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UPDATE: All this post did in the event was to point you guys to my Twitter app, so I've decided to archive all my Tweets from Harvey right here for posterity.


  1.   Sep 13
    Note: it was flooded the next day and we had to be evacuated.

    What one of the rare un-flooded neighborhoods in looks like.



  2.   Retweeted
      Mar 26
    1 retweet1 like



  3.   Aug 28
    What one of the rare un-flooded neighborhoods in looks like.
    1 retweet1 like



  4.   Aug 27
    Houstonians are cool.

    I'm in awe of attitude I'm seeing fr ppl in Houston area. Help thy neighbor & no complaining. This woman put a stray kitten in baby carrier.
    1 like



  5.   Retweeted
      Aug 27
    Thin band of heavy rain between Katy, Sugar Land and Missouri City. Another 2-3" in the last hour.
    3 replies18 retweets11 likes



  6.   Retweeted
      Aug 27
    This event is unprecedented & all impacts are unknown & beyond anything experienced. Follow orders from officials to ensure safety.
    845 replies28,984 retweets23,239 likes



  7.   Aug 27
    How things are at the moment...



  8.   Aug 27
    Watch out Carolinas.

    While is still dealing with , a was just issued off the southeast coast.



  9.   Aug 27
    I45, which cuts right through the center of Houston


    0:14
    Pray for Houston🙏🏽 This is I 45, Stay at home don't drive!



  10.   Aug 27
    Flooding downtown in the medical center


    0:28
    Med Center on Fannin now.



  11.   Aug 27
    In the Heights

    Reporting live from Heights Boulevard and I-10 now in the Houston Heights



  12.   Aug 27
    Lots of people being flooded out of their homes here.

    Houston opens convention center to residents fleeing rising floodwaters from Harvey



  13.   Aug 27
    Our street on NW side still doing pretty good despite 2 days of steady rain. Lots of flooding elsewhere, tho.



  14.   Aug 26
    Solution: Arm the stewards with tranquilizer darts. Works on angry rhinos.

    Flight attendants say angry passengers are creating a big safety problem on planes



  15.   Aug 26
    What I was talking about earlier.



  16.   Aug 26
    Had 2 take shelter 4 a tornado warning in our heavily armored ground floor bathroom. Knew it had no chance & passed us by.
    1 like



  17.   Aug 26
    At least one person has died in Texas (in Rockport) in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, says Mayor C.J. Wax --
    1 retweet1 like



  18.   Aug 26
    Here's where Conglomeration, TX is in the bowels of Harvey according to the Weather Underground's radar.



  19.   Aug 26
    The rain has really picked up in the last few minutes!



  20.   Aug 26
    The winds they got...

    Peak wind gusts from across the Middle TX Coast. Highest official wind gust was 132 mph in



  21.   Aug 26
    Case in point... So sad. Rockport is such a lovely little town. Praying for the people there.


    0:24
    Major flooding is blocking business 35 south of Rockport, TX. Search and rescue teams combing through rubble



  22.   Aug 26
    And now, back to our show.



  23.   Aug 26
    (3) ...and Rockport, TX is an example today of this blinders - on philosophy.



  24.   Aug 26
    (2) ...and it's people who believe this tripe who want to deny poor people the social safety net they need to survive.



  25.   Aug 26
    This is pure twaddle & if Bill Gates said it he's an idiot. N d real world illness, disaster, layoffs in old age, etc can leave u w/ nothing



  26.   Aug 26
    Not much happening here in west Conglomeration, TX.



  27.   Aug 26
    It's goingfor Austin, tho.



  28.   Aug 26
    Harvey's not aimingat us -- yet!


    0:11
    Watch as moves over in this geocolor loop from 8/25-26. Get the latest forecast information @



  29.   Aug 25
    "Harvey and Me" "Harvey comes to visit..."



  30.   Aug 25
    Not much happening yet where we are. Just some rain and some tornadoes. Night all.








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