This week is all in the 30's and up on the Centigrade scale.
I hate the heat. If it were somehow possible for me to joing an Antarctic Expedition for the next couple of years and STILL be able to do the Mech Workshop projects and mech modelling in general, I'd jump for it--Australia isn't that far away from Antarctica, but mail comes VERY slowly down there.
Still get skeptical looks from people whenever I complain--after all, they say: "You're from a tropical country, you should be used to the heat."
Why do you THINK I moved to Melbourne? It's wonderfully cold without being icy between May-September, and most times, March-April and October-December weather isn't too bad.
MOST times.
It's start of November, and we're on Day 3 of scorchers (from my perspective). Won't see the 20-degree temperatures until Sunday, I'm afraid.
Also--finally read Orson Scott Card's book "Empire". I'm not American and really, REALLY don't like Politics in general, so whatever the Left or Right have to say good or bad about it, I don't really care. Personally, the criticisms levelled at the book probably would never have happened had Card written about a foreign or fictional country, but since the story takes place in America, some feathers were definitely ruffled.
Back to the book--Not bad, and I can understand the criticisms levelled at the book, but it's an overall fun read. Which I think is a bit of the problem--I loved OSC's "Ender's Game", but felt that the sequels weren't as engaging character-wise. Empire at least is a bit different in direction, but I read the main characters and can't help but compare Cole with Bean (any OSC reader will know my reference) and Rube with Ender himself. Not personality-wise, but in terms of character dynamic.
Don't get me wrong--Empire is a good sit-down entertainment, and Card does raise some valid points (Roman Empire comparisons to the US and how they fall flat). But I don't think people should be taking the book as seriously as they have been; again, maybe because I'm apolitical and not American, I may have a skewed view.
Then again, Robert Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" was most controversial back in the 1950's because it advocated a volunteer military.
Also: Apology to OSC himself--I haven't read his books in a LONG while, and only read Empire because of it's connections to the (fantastic!) X360 platform game Shadow Complex.
I hate the heat. If it were somehow possible for me to joing an Antarctic Expedition for the next couple of years and STILL be able to do the Mech Workshop projects and mech modelling in general, I'd jump for it--Australia isn't that far away from Antarctica, but mail comes VERY slowly down there.
Still get skeptical looks from people whenever I complain--after all, they say: "You're from a tropical country, you should be used to the heat."
Why do you THINK I moved to Melbourne? It's wonderfully cold without being icy between May-September, and most times, March-April and October-December weather isn't too bad.
MOST times.
It's start of November, and we're on Day 3 of scorchers (from my perspective). Won't see the 20-degree temperatures until Sunday, I'm afraid.
Also--finally read Orson Scott Card's book "Empire". I'm not American and really, REALLY don't like Politics in general, so whatever the Left or Right have to say good or bad about it, I don't really care. Personally, the criticisms levelled at the book probably would never have happened had Card written about a foreign or fictional country, but since the story takes place in America, some feathers were definitely ruffled.
Back to the book--Not bad, and I can understand the criticisms levelled at the book, but it's an overall fun read. Which I think is a bit of the problem--I loved OSC's "Ender's Game", but felt that the sequels weren't as engaging character-wise. Empire at least is a bit different in direction, but I read the main characters and can't help but compare Cole with Bean (any OSC reader will know my reference) and Rube with Ender himself. Not personality-wise, but in terms of character dynamic.
Don't get me wrong--Empire is a good sit-down entertainment, and Card does raise some valid points (Roman Empire comparisons to the US and how they fall flat). But I don't think people should be taking the book as seriously as they have been; again, maybe because I'm apolitical and not American, I may have a skewed view.
Then again, Robert Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" was most controversial back in the 1950's because it advocated a volunteer military.
Also: Apology to OSC himself--I haven't read his books in a LONG while, and only read Empire because of it's connections to the (fantastic!) X360 platform game Shadow Complex.