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Monday, October 04, 2004
Blow ya top
Your thin end for today:
From the way the earth is moving around Mount St Helens, it's people must be having a LOT of great sex. Either that or their mountain is about to reach a crescendo and spew forth great globs of nasty stuff all over the place.
This is what it looked like in 1980. Who says absolute power can't be a beautiful thing?
It's hardly surprising that almost every week there are news reports of devastation caused by natural disasters. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, hurricanes and tornadoes, cyclones and tsunami, bushfires and floods. Hardly surprising that people suffer financial loss and loss of life through these disasters. It's a result of inhabiting a planet whose very nature is violent, terrible and awesome to behold. And people will live in places where people really oughtn't be.
And Man, in his infinite wisdom, seems bound to assert his professed superiority and build his cities on places where cities really oughtn't go. Would you build you house in the middle of a dried up river bed? No? Then why build a city on coastal terrain that lies below sea level? Why continue to rebuild a city on a major fault line? The Roman municipality of Pompei was built twice, you know. The first version was destroyed by an earthquake. Ten years later, it's 2nd Genesis had it's lights snuffed out by Mt Vesuvius. Why did no one ever rebuild on top of Pompei? Maybe the surviving Pompeidlians finally learnt something? Modern man sure doesn't, though. He just builds bigger skyscrapers and more of 'em. I think the rationale is that, during a huge earthquake, all the buildings will lean up against each other and no one will fall over. Sort of like a couple of drunks, holding each other upright as they stagger home from the pub.
So Mount St Helens has groaned once more to life and threatens to do what Nature does best - burp, fart, roll over and go back to sleep.
Sounds a bit like a bloke, really... dunnit.
Never mind, when the next lot of Comets come and hit us, they'll make Mt Vesuvius look like a firecracker. With the major emphasis placed on industrial relations, resource consents and Free Rights Activists contributing to the general ability to plan and execue a major project on time, I can't help but wonder if NeoNoah will get his Ark finished before they get here, especially if he uses Microsoft Project to plan his project management.
Old Blog Reprise:
Out of the Ark
They embarked on the Ark in pairs, two by two
The Elephants and the Kangaroos
The Rats and Mice and Cats and Dogs
The Bugs and Spiders and bulgy-eyed Frogs
Rhinoceros, Hippopotamus, Bison and Pigs
(The Ark must have been enormously big!)
Pelicans, Albatross, Seagulls and Shags
And Kookaburras laughing at all their own gags
Black as Night Ravens and Ugly old Crows
The Sloth should have missed out, because he's so slow
The Donkeys were stubborn and so were the Mules
And they both dared to call the Jackass a fool
Hyenas and Wolverine, Weasels and Stoats
And Rabbits and Llama and Cattle and Goats
Poor Noah hunted for weeks, up hill and down dale
To invite all the animals out for a sail
He lined them up smartly, by species, in ranks
(So he knew where to run from, if the Ark sank)
He led them on board his great sturdy new craft
And was glad he'd not settled for building a raft.
Today's prophesy - Let's do the Timewarp again :-)
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From the way the earth is moving around Mount St Helens, it's people must be having a LOT of great sex. Either that or their mountain is about to reach a crescendo and spew forth great globs of nasty stuff all over the place.
This is what it looked like in 1980. Who says absolute power can't be a beautiful thing?
It's hardly surprising that almost every week there are news reports of devastation caused by natural disasters. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, hurricanes and tornadoes, cyclones and tsunami, bushfires and floods. Hardly surprising that people suffer financial loss and loss of life through these disasters. It's a result of inhabiting a planet whose very nature is violent, terrible and awesome to behold. And people will live in places where people really oughtn't be.
And Man, in his infinite wisdom, seems bound to assert his professed superiority and build his cities on places where cities really oughtn't go. Would you build you house in the middle of a dried up river bed? No? Then why build a city on coastal terrain that lies below sea level? Why continue to rebuild a city on a major fault line? The Roman municipality of Pompei was built twice, you know. The first version was destroyed by an earthquake. Ten years later, it's 2nd Genesis had it's lights snuffed out by Mt Vesuvius. Why did no one ever rebuild on top of Pompei? Maybe the surviving Pompeidlians finally learnt something? Modern man sure doesn't, though. He just builds bigger skyscrapers and more of 'em. I think the rationale is that, during a huge earthquake, all the buildings will lean up against each other and no one will fall over. Sort of like a couple of drunks, holding each other upright as they stagger home from the pub.
So Mount St Helens has groaned once more to life and threatens to do what Nature does best - burp, fart, roll over and go back to sleep.
Sounds a bit like a bloke, really... dunnit.
Never mind, when the next lot of Comets come and hit us, they'll make Mt Vesuvius look like a firecracker. With the major emphasis placed on industrial relations, resource consents and Free Rights Activists contributing to the general ability to plan and execue a major project on time, I can't help but wonder if NeoNoah will get his Ark finished before they get here, especially if he uses Microsoft Project to plan his project management.
Old Blog Reprise:
Out of the Ark
They embarked on the Ark in pairs, two by two
The Elephants and the Kangaroos
The Rats and Mice and Cats and Dogs
The Bugs and Spiders and bulgy-eyed Frogs
Rhinoceros, Hippopotamus, Bison and Pigs
(The Ark must have been enormously big!)
Pelicans, Albatross, Seagulls and Shags
And Kookaburras laughing at all their own gags
Black as Night Ravens and Ugly old Crows
The Sloth should have missed out, because he's so slow
The Donkeys were stubborn and so were the Mules
And they both dared to call the Jackass a fool
Hyenas and Wolverine, Weasels and Stoats
And Rabbits and Llama and Cattle and Goats
Poor Noah hunted for weeks, up hill and down dale
To invite all the animals out for a sail
He lined them up smartly, by species, in ranks
(So he knew where to run from, if the Ark sank)
He led them on board his great sturdy new craft
And was glad he'd not settled for building a raft.
Today's prophesy - Let's do the Timewarp again :-)
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