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Currently at Toronto Pearson: 4. High today: 7.
Air pressure stayed under 100 kPa until 10 this morning--62 straight hours. No remotely easy way to tell if that's a record at Pearson, but it sure must be up there. Even now it's only at 100.3, as the main surviving centre of Sandy still hovers around the border of northeastern Ontario and Quebec, spinning wisps of light rain across southern Ontario--still no weather escaping from the middle of North America eastward. I was worried that yesterday would be a fifth consecutive day of >10 mm of rain at Pearson, which would send me back scrolling through the archives month by month to see if that had ever happened before--getting back to 1973 to find another four straight days took way too long already. But Pearson ended up only recording 5 mm yesterday, and it will have gotten a bit less today, despite rain falling again for most of the day.
So, this is my 700th post to LJ, and first by way of crosspost from dreamwidth. Yeah, I've finally given it up ... I mean, I wish them well against Putin and all, but it has become apparent that there is just no there there in eljay anymore, or at least not in North America. So, once my paid account runs out, I'll f-lock the whole thing over there. Now the question is, how long will dreamwidth survive in a tolerable state....
I suppose I should note for the record that no pumpkins in fact made it to Halloween in a carveable state--seems that once the leaves are killed by frost (and, incidentally, it's 1C in Bancroft right now; if it doesn't get below freezing tonight for the first time since the pump froze, it probably will tomorrow), the pumpkins are doomed. I've got three things left going in the vegetable garden: chard (as you may have noticed in the picture of the white-throated sparrow back there), beets, and one large turnip (or rutabaga, or whatever). Pro tip: if you find yourself having ingested rat poison of the Warfarin type and wishing to survive, eating chard might help, as chard is megadosed with vitamin K, which is the recommended antidote for Warfarin poisoning--Wafrarin is a blood thinner, and vitamin K is das Koagulationsvitamin.
At least in next week's ethics class I get to talk about moral luck (although maybe I shouldn't, I don't know): the main thing on the reading list argues that corporate executives ought to be held responsible for disasters caused by their corporations even if they did everything in their power to prevent them; ought does not imply can. Funny thing about this article, which was published in 1996: it says that corporate executives ought to be held responsible in the same way as cabinet ministers are held responsible for misdoings in their ministries even when those misdoings are not their personal fault. I don't know about the UK and other parliamentary democracies, but in Canada, it has been a long time since any minister (at least federally or in Ontario) took the fall for anything on the principle of ministerial responsibility--as far as I can see, that principle is effectively dead in Canada. The empire of "ought implies can" continues to expand--sports may end up being the last bastion of opposition, despite the assaults of the sabermetricians and other young rationalists.
Air pressure stayed under 100 kPa until 10 this morning--62 straight hours. No remotely easy way to tell if that's a record at Pearson, but it sure must be up there. Even now it's only at 100.3, as the main surviving centre of Sandy still hovers around the border of northeastern Ontario and Quebec, spinning wisps of light rain across southern Ontario--still no weather escaping from the middle of North America eastward. I was worried that yesterday would be a fifth consecutive day of >10 mm of rain at Pearson, which would send me back scrolling through the archives month by month to see if that had ever happened before--getting back to 1973 to find another four straight days took way too long already. But Pearson ended up only recording 5 mm yesterday, and it will have gotten a bit less today, despite rain falling again for most of the day.
So, this is my 700th post to LJ, and first by way of crosspost from dreamwidth. Yeah, I've finally given it up ... I mean, I wish them well against Putin and all, but it has become apparent that there is just no there there in eljay anymore, or at least not in North America. So, once my paid account runs out, I'll f-lock the whole thing over there. Now the question is, how long will dreamwidth survive in a tolerable state....
I suppose I should note for the record that no pumpkins in fact made it to Halloween in a carveable state--seems that once the leaves are killed by frost (and, incidentally, it's 1C in Bancroft right now; if it doesn't get below freezing tonight for the first time since the pump froze, it probably will tomorrow), the pumpkins are doomed. I've got three things left going in the vegetable garden: chard (as you may have noticed in the picture of the white-throated sparrow back there), beets, and one large turnip (or rutabaga, or whatever). Pro tip: if you find yourself having ingested rat poison of the Warfarin type and wishing to survive, eating chard might help, as chard is megadosed with vitamin K, which is the recommended antidote for Warfarin poisoning--Wafrarin is a blood thinner, and vitamin K is das Koagulationsvitamin.
At least in next week's ethics class I get to talk about moral luck (although maybe I shouldn't, I don't know): the main thing on the reading list argues that corporate executives ought to be held responsible for disasters caused by their corporations even if they did everything in their power to prevent them; ought does not imply can. Funny thing about this article, which was published in 1996: it says that corporate executives ought to be held responsible in the same way as cabinet ministers are held responsible for misdoings in their ministries even when those misdoings are not their personal fault. I don't know about the UK and other parliamentary democracies, but in Canada, it has been a long time since any minister (at least federally or in Ontario) took the fall for anything on the principle of ministerial responsibility--as far as I can see, that principle is effectively dead in Canada. The empire of "ought implies can" continues to expand--sports may end up being the last bastion of opposition, despite the assaults of the sabermetricians and other young rationalists.
