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Too Much Shade
Oct. 27th, 2009 08:34 pmNow that the weather has cooled off enough that sunshine feels good again, I can't find any.
I live and work in the city, with nothing but buildings, concrete, asphalt, and a little grass and trees. In the summer, shade is scarce. For example, at my bus stop at work, there is a tiny rectangle of shade from the roof over the bench. (The shade is not over the bench, but several feet away.) The nearest decent shade is under a tree several yards away.
Now that I want some sun, the shadow from the stadium across the street is covering all four lanes of the road plus the sidewalk and several yards into the grass. I have to stand almost as far away to get any sun as I used to have to stand to get any shade.
I don't know why I never noticed that before. (Probably because they finally built the other half of the stadium, which was illegal, but after a couple of decades, we finally voted in a city council that approved this exception.)
Amazon product reviews of the day - Denon AKDL1 Dedicated Link Cable (Price: $500 new, 1 used: 2,499.98, 1 refurbished: $999.00) - although this is a real product, I see no evidence than anyone has actually tried it except that only 3 are left in stock. Sample quotes:
"Transmission of music data at rates faster than the speed of light seemed convenient, until I realized I was hearing the music before I actually wanted to play it. ... I'm still having a major existential hangover." - Matthew Sidor "seadour"
"Due to the high flux conductivity, this dishwasher safe Dedicated Link Cable has very impressive dimensional rift preventability capabilities." - L. Klop
"If you wear this cable around your neck, you get +2 to your AC and the ability to become invisible once per day. They don't tell you this in the product description but it's true: I'm invisible right now." - mw383
"OBSOLETE. Saw it on Antiques Roadshow last night. All the new cables use mithril, high purity copper is a joke." - alyssa
I live and work in the city, with nothing but buildings, concrete, asphalt, and a little grass and trees. In the summer, shade is scarce. For example, at my bus stop at work, there is a tiny rectangle of shade from the roof over the bench. (The shade is not over the bench, but several feet away.) The nearest decent shade is under a tree several yards away.
Now that I want some sun, the shadow from the stadium across the street is covering all four lanes of the road plus the sidewalk and several yards into the grass. I have to stand almost as far away to get any sun as I used to have to stand to get any shade.
I don't know why I never noticed that before. (Probably because they finally built the other half of the stadium, which was illegal, but after a couple of decades, we finally voted in a city council that approved this exception.)
Amazon product reviews of the day - Denon AKDL1 Dedicated Link Cable (Price: $500 new, 1 used: 2,499.98, 1 refurbished: $999.00) - although this is a real product, I see no evidence than anyone has actually tried it except that only 3 are left in stock. Sample quotes:
"Transmission of music data at rates faster than the speed of light seemed convenient, until I realized I was hearing the music before I actually wanted to play it. ... I'm still having a major existential hangover." - Matthew Sidor "seadour"
"Due to the high flux conductivity, this dishwasher safe Dedicated Link Cable has very impressive dimensional rift preventability capabilities." - L. Klop
"If you wear this cable around your neck, you get +2 to your AC and the ability to become invisible once per day. They don't tell you this in the product description but it's true: I'm invisible right now." - mw383
"OBSOLETE. Saw it on Antiques Roadshow last night. All the new cables use mithril, high purity copper is a joke." - alyssa