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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Vancouver, 2011.01.01

We found Vancouver sunny for a second day. Something doesn't add up!

The city's changed in the nearly ten years since I lived here. There's much more of a built-up core, and there seems to be a lot more going on then when I timed my relocation there so badly. Ken my brother did the chauffeuring, with Oma and Opa we tackled Grouse Mountain after a slow (jetlagged) start.

Trudging around in snow only two days after cycling under palm trees. Funny what you can barely notice when you start getting used to living on the other side of the world.

rand()m quote

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

—Michael Crichton