Camera Obscura or, Sunshine on Leith Part 2

..., there,” the King pointed. “That's Arthur's Seat – a volcano. Actually, the castle is built on a volcano, too.” “Really!” Pavel's eyes widened. “Aye, relax my wee petal, they're dead volcanoes. Look, down there. That's the Canon's Gait,” he pointed down the narrow road that Captain Kirk had brought him up the day he had arrived. It tapered down the hill, going into the peasant town below, and...

prompt: scratch

... in the sky, no jishinjiko to keep them from work or school, no slips of lateness signed with names and numbers and no stopovers, no missing of tests. Fuji-san does not have this excuse. Volcanoes do not have to go to school, after all. They only pose for photographs, making sure to keep absolutely still and chasing away the clouds that come to pester them for autographs. The buildings at ...

100 Reasons Climate-Change Deniers Are Talking Crap

..., is an “absurdity” Plimer is an ass. Again: not a climate scientist. He thinks it's all volcanoes, which is demonstrably wrong: http://www.skepticalscience.com/volcanoes-and-global-warming.htm 16) A Harvard University astrophysicist and geophysicist, Willie Soon, said he is “embarrassed and puzzled” by...

So. mads goes back to the Phillipines, and a few days later one of their volcanoes starts acting up. And I suppose we're expected to believe this is some kind of coincidence. Hope everything's okay, man.

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... out and the ship is mostly obscured by a few dunes. Zeph sighs and sits down almost petulantly, resting his cheek on his fist and waving his other hand in front of him, doodling fish and marine volcanoes in the sand with carefully controlled gusts of wind. After an hour or so, there's a forty-foot undersea mural on the stretch of desert surrounding him. Its quality isn't much higher than what a ...

The sky is grey.

... much blacken out half of United States and parts of Canada too. Interestingly enough, I remember reading about these “supervolcanoes” in last months’National Geographics..but in all honesty, super volcanoes has been documented within human history for centuries..we just forgot about them. So after years of protesting, lobbying...all the nuclear waste has been removed from the sea...saved the ...

Earth go boom. Happy.

...!). "My God" count, only 2, but "This is impossible!" probably four or five, I lost count. Entirely spurious moral message tacked on in defiance of logic, consistency or justice, check. Earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, check. California go boom. White House go boom (gets an aircraft carrier dropped on it, which I can only assume is an entirely unintended ironic commentary on the Bush regime). ...

hot and cold

...stoked... I think we've settled on Kauai. It seems more laid back and naturey. I'm really not looking for Mai-Tais and Luaus. I want something more authentic. The only crappy thing is that the active volcanoes are only on the big island and it seems pretty expensive to get from Kauai to there so we might have to skip the lava :( We haven't really looked at any tucked away places on the big island...

This hasn't been a fun weekend, with the exception of Ingram winning the Heisman and making volcanoes with the boys and also the discovery of the Glee. So, yeah. Three good things. I suppose it hasn't been that bad now that I see the list. Friday was tainted by some ACCESS drama. It really ruined an otherwise great Friday. Saturday morning, Noah and I did A LOT of little errands. It was not fun. ...