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Feb. 6th, 2006 11:58 pm
High today, here: -3. Dewpoint then: -5. High dewpoint: -5.
High today in TO: -2. Dewpoint then: -6. High dewpoint: -6.
Low today on the balcony: -7.7. High: -4.1. Currently: -4.2.
Continuous light lake-effect, not adding up to much. The December pattern is back.
Congratulations to David Emerson, who has got to be the fastest floor-crosser in the history of parliamentary democracy. And congratulations to the Conservative Party, for taking such an extraordinary measure, so extraordinarily quickly, to show that they really are just like the other guys.
Let this be a lesson to you, kids: this is what you get if you vote for a Liberal to stop a Conservative! This or Dan McTeague or something.
Anyway. There's a real problem with my library periodical tours in that the stream of hard journals has slowed to a drip. Everything's gone online. This, as we have seen, has led to a lot of Time and Newsweek and so forth, which is just this side, maybe, of not a waste of time. I really need to figure out some kind of strategy on what's worth reading and what's not. One thing I've been trying to avoid reading lately is speculation--what Hamas will do in government, what Harper will do in government, and all that.
(My grandfather says he doesn't understand why people are so interested in weather forecasts; the weather's going to be what it's going to be anyway. But, you know, it's the science of it I like, I guess, broadly speaking. How such basic principles produce such complex patterns. Three things you need to know about the weather: if air is cooled sufficiently, the water will be forced out of it; warm air rises, and cools as it rises; and upward and downward vortexes swirl clockwise and counterclockwise, respectively, viewed from above, in the northern hemisphere. All the rest follows.)
But, you know, I feel like it's really important to be up on things--up on everything! And I think of Adelman, telling us that when he started at U of T, he was at one of the colleges, and he thought the college's library was the library for the whole school. And so he thought he could read every book in the library, and know all there was to know: it could be done, and he was going to do it, and he started to do it.
And then he discovered the actual library for the whole school, and then he realized that he could never, ever, read all the books. And he became hugely depressed, and he couldn't read anything, or do anything, for two weeks.
The moral of this story was that you need to delegate, and not think you should do everything yourself. This is a subsidiary of one of The Two Great Sins According to Adelman, which are: thinking you're responsible for nothing, and thinking you're responsible for everything. But I am steeply inclined to the latter sin, and I cannot delegate.
( On with the tour. )
High today in TO: -2. Dewpoint then: -6. High dewpoint: -6.
Low today on the balcony: -7.7. High: -4.1. Currently: -4.2.
Continuous light lake-effect, not adding up to much. The December pattern is back.
Congratulations to David Emerson, who has got to be the fastest floor-crosser in the history of parliamentary democracy. And congratulations to the Conservative Party, for taking such an extraordinary measure, so extraordinarily quickly, to show that they really are just like the other guys.
Let this be a lesson to you, kids: this is what you get if you vote for a Liberal to stop a Conservative! This or Dan McTeague or something.
Anyway. There's a real problem with my library periodical tours in that the stream of hard journals has slowed to a drip. Everything's gone online. This, as we have seen, has led to a lot of Time and Newsweek and so forth, which is just this side, maybe, of not a waste of time. I really need to figure out some kind of strategy on what's worth reading and what's not. One thing I've been trying to avoid reading lately is speculation--what Hamas will do in government, what Harper will do in government, and all that.
(My grandfather says he doesn't understand why people are so interested in weather forecasts; the weather's going to be what it's going to be anyway. But, you know, it's the science of it I like, I guess, broadly speaking. How such basic principles produce such complex patterns. Three things you need to know about the weather: if air is cooled sufficiently, the water will be forced out of it; warm air rises, and cools as it rises; and upward and downward vortexes swirl clockwise and counterclockwise, respectively, viewed from above, in the northern hemisphere. All the rest follows.)
But, you know, I feel like it's really important to be up on things--up on everything! And I think of Adelman, telling us that when he started at U of T, he was at one of the colleges, and he thought the college's library was the library for the whole school. And so he thought he could read every book in the library, and know all there was to know: it could be done, and he was going to do it, and he started to do it.
And then he discovered the actual library for the whole school, and then he realized that he could never, ever, read all the books. And he became hugely depressed, and he couldn't read anything, or do anything, for two weeks.
The moral of this story was that you need to delegate, and not think you should do everything yourself. This is a subsidiary of one of The Two Great Sins According to Adelman, which are: thinking you're responsible for nothing, and thinking you're responsible for everything. But I am steeply inclined to the latter sin, and I cannot delegate.
( On with the tour. )
