Friday, October 3, 2014

cleanup




https://twitter.com/wfaachannel8/status/517739906211528704

Let's get in real close. Yeah, hover right here so I can get a picture. Rotor wash? What's that? 

What if we're being punked? It could be a regular cleanup situation at a random apartment. And then I looked closer at the patches of dirt and started getting depressed.

To alleviate the depression I thought of ways to fix it. You could fill in the patches with sod and they'd be torn up, peed and pooped on by dogs, worn out again in a week. It is an area where shortcuts to and fro trump landscaping. But if you did then given the apartment steps, must be a path in the shape of an X in each dirt patch. That leaves only 4 tiny triangles to pack some ground cover exceedingly sturdy. 

It reminded me of Tamerisk in Breckenridge. The place was new. We just bought the place on the first floor from a ghoul we called Uncle Brad who lived on the third floor in either two or three condos connected. We trod back and forth from the parking lot through the snow between a tight copse of Aspen ignoring the sidewalks apparently set for people going somewhere else we were accosted by a creaky old ancient straight off American Gothic bundled to look like Mr. Green Jeans and with some implement in his hands. He addressed us directly, "Does this look like a good place for a path?"

He surprised us. Actually, it would be a good place for a path. Why deny it? So we both said, yes. Thinking ourselves something of a couple of smart asses. 

In the short time it took us to return a path had been established in white stones. It was a sincere question. He was an avid caretaker, eager to meet the needs of the buyers and he had only just started.

19 comments:

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

It looks like they weren't even wearing hazmat suits.

The Dude said...

Of course not - the goal is not to contain the infection, it is to make it spread.

Remember when we used to get upset when infected health care workers were brought back to this country for treatment?

Yeah, those were the days - we were so silly before we realized that the government's goals were to create an Ebola crisis.

Welcome to the future, where Ebola is in the air.

Chip Ahoy said...

It's too stupid to be true. That makes me feel like we're being trolled. Because even as vomit you'd want to protect yourself and others from high pressure vomit backsplash. And it is awfully low and close for a helicopter, with so many overhead wires and odd poles. I know lenses are good but that is too low and too close. And the whole place looks like government projects.

" Why did you lie on your flight questionnaire back there? That is a government form, you know, punishment is quite consequential."

"What do you expect? I'm from Lieberia."

The Dude said...

It is the projects and the local news helicopters around here have amazing lens - they frequently take pictures through open doors to show the crime scenes inside houses - I am constantly impressed with just how much they can see from up there.

Impressed, concerned, whatever, but I have nothing to hide, mind you...

The Dude said...

^lenses

I should not comment in the middle of the night.

Chip Ahoy said...

That's awesome. I was just bragging about my own lens.

I forgot it has stabilization.

Have you noticed how figures and subjects lose their depth with extreme telephoto lenses?

I noticed that telephoto photos seem odd, as if items are actually photographs cut out onto cards, and the cards arranged close together so that you do not know if the bush is six inches in front of the mountain goat or fourteen feet in front of the mountain goat, of if the rock is one foot behind the goat or twenty feet behind the goat. Space is compressed. Depth of figures is compressed to nothing.

That put me off the obsession with acquiring an extreme telephoto lenses. I do not what photos that look like cards.

edutcher said...

Never underestimate the bounds of stupidity.

KCFleming said...

Top. Men.

KCFleming said...

So far Obama has invited noncitizens, terrorists, and Ebola-infected people into this country.

No problem!
Come right in!
We got plenny a money to throw at you!

Shit, what's next?

Why not just invite Ahmad-in-a-Dinner Jacket to come, carrying a nuke, and get it over with?

The Dude said...

Only if he is invited to a State Dinner.

KCFleming said...

And Barry'd prolly fuck that up anyway, and invite him to dinner during the Ramadan fasting time.

KCFleming said...

Heinz Feldmann, a virologist in Liberia's hot zone

"Q: But isn’t there a risk of contracting the virus off the job as well?

A: If you move around, you never know who is infected and who isn't. This is the bigger problem for me personally. You have to basically avoid contact with local people, which is very difficult because these are friendly people, they like to touch each other.

I actually think passing through the airport on my way out was the highest risk. They are bringing hundreds of people into a very confined space with a lot of direct contact, so if you get a patient into that environment, you are going to have exposures. It is a ridiculous situation. Also, they are checking your temperature three times before you get into the airport, but if you look at the people that do this kind of work, they don't really know how to use the devices. They are writing down temperatures of 32°C, which everybody should know is impossible for a living person. All the checks they do are completely useless because they are done by people who are not well trained or overwhelmed by the number of passengers. It is just a disaster, and it needs to be fixed.
"

KCFleming said...

32 degree Celsius = 89.6 degree Fahrenheit

Normal human body temp = 36.12–37.6 °C (97.02–99.68 °F)

I suspect some higher-up transposed from "98.6" and got 89.6, and converted to Celsius, and gave the number to all the fake-trained schlubs working at the tinpot airport because they were told to write down something normal and get people through.

Top. Men.

KCFleming said...

Hey, 89.6

ndspinelli said...

I would like to make a substantive but I'm too tired after paging through this LoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooNG post.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

I tweeted that article Pogo, thanks.

Link

Unknown said...

Experts, and the hack media, in conjunction with their lord masters the corruptocrat fundraiser party, insist that ebola cannot be spread so easily.

Why - they guy who has it was riding in a car with others who had it and all the others who had it in the car with him are all dead.

But don't worry! The democrat-media industrial joke expert complex insists you are safe. Now - go hang some images of Hillary & Mao on your walls and pray to them.

Unknown said...

"Note that Obama was quick to ban flights to Israel, but won’t ban flights from infected areas in West Africa."

-insty

Noted.

Leland said...

calcOMEGA is a bit slow. Just sayin'