Showing posts with label global warming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label global warming. Show all posts

Tuesday, 25 August 2009

Strolling Under Jupiter

AM

Least: Close to 9:58am I woke with a feeling of exhaustion that was incommensurate with my activities of yesterday. I had planned to get up early and restart my strolls around the pond but to no avail. Perhaps my lacklustre is a result of the relentless heatwave (now waning) that is the Osakan summer, it could be diet, or the drudgery of being back at work. Either way it will make my mornings incredibly uninteresting until further notice.

Most: Sometime around 11:10am, I was once again trawling through the Courier Mail readers' comments section looking for some cracking comedy. As usual, the cranks were again out in force after the reports of the hottest day in August surfaced. But, despite temperature records being smashed all over Australia and the world, the flat-earthers still churn out the same ignorant, right-wing garbage. The paranoia, rage, fear, anti-intellectualism, parochialism, hate, stupidity, arrogance, bigotry and pig-headedness is astonishing. The comments surrounding Shapelle Corby's insanity were almost as entertaining.The Japanese version is a little too earnest - I wonder who's positing?

PM

Least: Just after 4:30pm, I suffered the degradation of undoing some incredibly boring work that I had done about a month ago. I spent and hour carefully unpicking packets of tissues from cheap plastic fans. Both the fans and the tissues were going to be put to some mysterious use in the future despite the snakebite-ish puncture wounds. Even worse, I'm bound to suffer the same dire boredem again, probably at the same place. At least the fact that I'm doing it means that someone else won't have to.

Most: Walking home from the station at 10:10pm, I revelled in the cool breeze and emptyish streets - alone except for a man picking up a fresh turd from his corgi. Above was the sky littered with artifical light from the vast city. The only point of light to break through is (apparently) the monstorous Jupiter and without the moon it is the biggest thing in the sky. With a clear sky, the night will hopefully be far cooler and far better for sleeping through.

Wednesday, 15 July 2009

Sunny Tezukayama


AM

Least: I was up at five-ish this morning helping an ill Rosie when I succumbed to the temptation to begin reading the Readers' Comments in the various News Limited papers. As always global warming brought out all of the paranoid types and their boring explanations of why climate change is a sham. As Scott of New Zealand wrote at 4:08pm "This is embarrassing for Australia".

Most: At about 6:25am I left the Sanshou Mansion to visit a nearby drinks machine. The morning was warm and crystal clear with a view of the surrounding moutains. The sky was blue with a sprinkle of high cloud - beautiful.

PM

Least: At 2.16pm I discovered that my ICOCA card had suffered from some internal catastrophe rendering it useless. Instead of spending my commute smugly sailing through the stiles, I could be found standing at machines fumbling for change and buying paper tickets. There is also 750yen hidden somewhere on that card.

Most: At about 12:35pm while shopping at the overpriced but good Kohyo supermarket I couldn't help but notice the nice little range of whale products that have appeared this week. Various bacons, blubbers and a delicious looking fillet basked quietly in the sashimi section. It wasn't that expensive either.