Does Libya even have flying submarines?

You may think of submarines as flying through the water... but I just don't see how enforcing the "no fly" zone over Libya means brining in the anti-submarine equipment is called for.

Canada, are we just a bit backwards? We are the ones who sent the anti-submarine aircraft into the Mediterranean according to this news article. Where does "no fly zone" apply to submarines. We may be new at this waging war thing, but really? Submarines?

I was so much happier when Canada specialized in Peace Keeping, not war waging. We were so much better at that.

Does Libya have flying cars?

There is a "no fly zone" over Libya right now being patrolled by all sorts of airplanes from all sorts of countries.

I just saw a picture of some burning vehicles in Libya that were hit by an airplane from one of the countries patrolling the "no fly zone". They looked like cars and trucks to me.

So does Libya have flying cars? Such an advanced technology... maybe no one should be firing at such an advanced technology, hmm?

Is the super moon super annoying for emergency workers?

In my neighborhood the people who operate the sirens on emergency vehicles often seem to indicate their emotional state of being.

The quick "woo woo woo woo woo" lets you know that they are really in a hurry and don't want to deal with idiots, so move to the side very quickly.

The bored "woo woo whip whonk weeep" that occasionally comes out can actually start you giggling. The trucks calling that out are not usually going that fast - an emergency, but they just know it's probably another false alarm.

The annoyed "wooooooo" often happens around rush-hour, so get out of all intersections everywhere in the city please.

This weekend we had a super full moon - 20% bigger than normal because the moon is in an elliptical orbit around the planet and it got as close to earth as it ever gets. It was reportedly the biggest full moon in 18 years. And a full moon means many humans on the planet went quite insane yesterday. How many old boyfriends were talking to ex-girlfriends in a drama of insanity? Good day for target practice in Libya, eh?

So yesterday there were lots and lots of emergency sirens going off. And today there were almost as many. All of them were very, very angry.

So has this full moon been super - once in 18 years super - annoying for emergency workers? They being humans as well... they were probably going a bit crazy themselves! I hope the work scheduling has given all of them a break!

Is the wobble not just me?

I have MS, and problems walking from it. I tend to wobble. OK, as my spouse puts it, I walk like I'm on a small boat in the middle of the ocean. He occasionally complains of sea-sickness if he watches me for too long.

So I wobble.

But so apparently, does the planet Earth. And since the Japanese earthquake, it now wobbles more.

According to this National Geographic article, we may actually be able to measure the increase in wobbliness. To measure the earth wobbles, you need a lot of data, and in Japan, there is a lot of data. Not only from the earth-quake monitoring equipment, but from a large number of GPSs that were up and running along the Japanese coast when the earthquake happened.

So we got data, and we got wobble. This may help to predict earthquakes in the future, which would be very nice.

I can predict my wobbles too... if I walk, I will wobble. I'm a simple person. But it's not just me anymore... the whole planet is wobbling more now!

Is that a character from the book I'm reading?

I'm currently reading a book by Tom Holt - Djinn Rummy. One of the main characters is very much like a lot of Tom Holt's main characters, an unappealing person with very little drive. Not a very active person, bit of a bump-on-a-log, shuffling through life, doesn't have a lot of ideas, no real purpose in life type of person. Not someone the reader would aspire to be... but oh so very true to life.

As a matter of fact, I met a woman on the weekend who reminded me so much of the character from the book, I'm still queasy with recognition.

It's really not a good thing when you seem to be a character from a novel. Bad things happen to people in novels - that's where a story comes from. A novel without something bad happening to challenge the main characters is... not read through by anyone, because it's boring.

And why did this woman's parents give her a stripper's name? She really doesn't fit her name. By the time you get to be an adult, you either grow into your name, or you change it, legally or via a nickname. I don't know what happened in this case, but the name would also make a good name for alcohol, so maybe there's even more trouble here that I don't want to know about!

Maybe she actually is a character from a novel who has escaped from the book.

Are there any more characters wandering around out there?

What does a bonsai tree in chains mean?

A bonsai tree is created mainly for contemplation, according to Wikipedia.

While having breakfast at a local restaurant, I saw a corner store opening for business for the day. They wheeled some plants out to the sidewalk as they normally do, and then they wheeled out something I hadn't seen before. A small bonsai tree. It was chained to the cart with a very substantial looking chain.

It is an expensive plant - they wanted $80 for it. But it looked like a fugitive with the chain around it.

So is a bonsai in chains a deep statement on life? Are we all chained to something? Is it our lot in life to go on as we can within the bounds of our chains?

Does it mean the bonsai was a bad tree? Is it a reincarnation of a villain? What evil deeds did it do to become a bonsai on a chain?

Is a chained bonsai aesthetically pleasing? Who would find a chained bonsai something good for contemplation? Does it have more meaning than an unchained bonsai? Is the fact that it was chained what makes me think about it? What does that say about me?

It almost makes me want to buy the bonsai, to free it from its chain.