{"id":1690,"date":"2009-01-16T23:21:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T23:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/01\/16\/fogged_in_and_out\/"},"modified":"2009-01-16T23:21:22","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T23:21:22","slug":"fogged_in_and_out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/01\/16\/fogged_in_and_out\/","title":{"rendered":"Fogged in (and out)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The current conditions here in Vancouver are making me feel right at home.
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\nVancouver, this morning<\/em>
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\nYork Minster, most winter mornings<\/em>
\nThick freezing fog does such strange things to everyday noises. Last night I was waiting to cross a main road, right next to the huge cemetery1<\/a><\/sup> that famously marks the “dead centre” of Vancouver. As the traffic started to slow, the sky suddenly exploded with all the intensity of an overhead thunderstorm. After several seconds of sheer panic, I finally pinpointed the source as a plane taking off from the nearby airport – just a few kilometres away as the 747<\/del> crow flies. With images of the New York City crash fresh in my mind, I feared for the lives of the people on board, for surely that noise could not indicate a healthy trajectory. But the plane continued to climb, and the noise gradually morphed into the usual aircraft sound that I probably hear every single night at that same location, but just never really notice.
\nUnfortunately the fog also seems to have infiltrated my brain. An idea for a stellar NN post flashed into my mind as I was writing an email on Wednesday. But by the time I’d hit “Send”, the idea had vanished, never to be seen again – as elusive as the physical fitness I’d built up over four months, but that has abandoned me after three weeks of inactivity.
\nThis is what happens when a new project is described as “a great learning experience for you”. Acquiring this amount of new information over such a short timeframe is not good for me, and results in the jettison of other useful thoughts. Apparently I have no excess memory capacity, the majority of my brain being taken up with old song lyrics and movie plots.
\nIncluding The Fog<\/a>. Perhaps we’ll rent the remake this weekend – my husband worked on the sets, including a large (~ 20 foot) scale model of the the lighthouse, but I just don’t think the movie as a whole can possibly match up to the original.
\nI do have to go into the fog again tonight, but I am more wary of drivers whose stopping distance exceeds their visibility than of vengeful leprous ghosts.
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\nfn1.Familiar to many an X-Phile, although personally it’s the last place I’d visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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