[lit-ideas] Re: On Nip Thievery
- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 19:24:55 +0900
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> And, belatedly, Congrats, John!! Is the gender of said babe known or is it
> a surprise? What names await him/her? How excited ARE you? I assume, of
> course, that pictures of the wee one are already forthcoming. I remember
> when my husband's daughter gave birth for the first time 4 years ago, her
> first words to Grandpa were an awed and exhausted, "I made a person..."
>
> Julie Krueger
>
>
> On 6/6/08, Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> It seems an entirely proper time to ask who, amongst us, has personally
>> witnessed volcanic lightening?
>>
>>
>> http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Carlos-Gutierrez/photo//080511/photos_ts/2008_05_11t154356_450x300_us_chile_volcano_environment/;_ylt=AktsnX3TnyuO3vZ21peBenADW7oF
>>
>> It hadn't crossed my mind as being a phenomena, much less did I know that
>> "Cases of electrical storms breaking out directly above erupting
>> volcanoes are well documented, although scientists differ on what causes
>> them.
>> I can only imagine that such a thing would be a supremely impressive
>> sight/sound/smell/feel. I would give a fair amount to be within palpable
>> distance. I can't really begin to imagine what humans,
>> pre-atmospheric-understanding, must have thought at these events.
>>
>> All we have here is a line of thunderstorms with damaging winds, baseball
>> size hail, flash floods, and tornado watches and warnings as the flickering
>> TV channel follows the tornado touch-downs from west to east, telling us
>> when it is too late to seek shelter, how many minutes we have left until
>> Certain Disaster. It's amazing the talent the weather folk have for
>> convincingly announcing Armageddon every 10 minutes. Of course the best
>> part (and probably the only real part, come morning) of this is that this
>> "significant squall line" causing a "serious situation" is not going to cool
>> our patch of earth or atmosphere more than 2 degrees below today's intensely
>> humid 90 degrees.
>>
>> On the bright side, It's summer, folks! There's a big shiny thing in the
>> sky!
>>
>> Julie Krueger
>> heartened and going out to witness powers
>>
>
>
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