1. Roman concrete. Courtesy of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rushthatspeaks, who sent me the link a little after two in the morning last night when it made me feel better than anything had in hours. To repeat, Roman concrete. The kind that lasts two thousand years aboveground in all weathers and underwater in pollution and tides. Finally reverse-engineered, not just approximated with Portland cement. Read your Vitruvius, people. We only needed to invent the synchrotron to figure out how they did it.
2. Alicia Cole's "Once, I Was a Mermaid." I said I would shout about this poem. It's one of my favorites I've been able to publish and I'm only sorry there's no formal way to make it part of the Coney Island Mermaid Parade.
3. A groundhog in the wild raspberry canes on School Street. It sat up as I passed, still chewing.ratatosk, this may have been meant for you.
I had to take my computer, which is named Bertie Owen when I remember it, to the Apple store at the Galleria this afternoon because the battery had finally stopped even pretending to hold a charge. It came back minus its network preferences and thinking the year was 2000, but it does now appear to have a battery that works and even a new charger. After offering to replace the old one for free, the tech at the Genius Bar then decided it was the wrong charger for a 2009 MacBook Pro with a fifteen-inch screen and tried to persuade me I must have accidentally mixed up my hardware with one of my friends, but he double-checked the specs when I insisted and it turns out that this machine is the only model in its weight class to use a sixty-watt charger rather than eighty. Oh, Bertie Owen. You are a weird piece of circuitry, but I hope you never die.
The gorgeous, sea-stacked clouds of this afternoon just turned into a bucket of water dumped out of the sky. Several of them. And some thunder. I am still putting on my shoes to meetgaudior for a mead tasting at Ball Square, but I'm wondering if I should throw in some scuba gear as well.
Computer not dead, Dan. That already makes this day much better than I'd feared.
rushthatspeaks, who sent me the link a little after two in the morning last night when it made me feel better than anything had in hours. To repeat, Roman concrete. The kind that lasts two thousand years aboveground in all weathers and underwater in pollution and tides. Finally reverse-engineered, not just approximated with Portland cement. Read your Vitruvius, people. We only needed to invent the synchrotron to figure out how they did it.2. Alicia Cole's "Once, I Was a Mermaid." I said I would shout about this poem. It's one of my favorites I've been able to publish and I'm only sorry there's no formal way to make it part of the Coney Island Mermaid Parade.
3. A groundhog in the wild raspberry canes on School Street. It sat up as I passed, still chewing.
ratatosk, this may have been meant for you.I had to take my computer, which is named Bertie Owen when I remember it, to the Apple store at the Galleria this afternoon because the battery had finally stopped even pretending to hold a charge. It came back minus its network preferences and thinking the year was 2000, but it does now appear to have a battery that works and even a new charger. After offering to replace the old one for free, the tech at the Genius Bar then decided it was the wrong charger for a 2009 MacBook Pro with a fifteen-inch screen and tried to persuade me I must have accidentally mixed up my hardware with one of my friends, but he double-checked the specs when I insisted and it turns out that this machine is the only model in its weight class to use a sixty-watt charger rather than eighty. Oh, Bertie Owen. You are a weird piece of circuitry, but I hope you never die.
The gorgeous, sea-stacked clouds of this afternoon just turned into a bucket of water dumped out of the sky. Several of them. And some thunder. I am still putting on my shoes to meet
gaudior for a mead tasting at Ball Square, but I'm wondering if I should throw in some scuba gear as well.Computer not dead, Dan. That already makes this day much better than I'd feared.
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