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f'n weather

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Tokyo, 2010.07.24

Canadians like to complain about the weather. "F'n weather" is practically a greeting in my country.

Today, it's hot in Tokyo. It's been very hot recently, but today's it's just .. wrong.

"Feels like 39ºC" at 07:15. The forecast high is 35ºC, though, and if the humidity stays constant .. let's see, using this calculator .. "Feels like 53ºC". Don't quite believe that. So I'll plug in the dew point (23ºC) instead. Yes, a more reasonable "feels like 41ºC".

41ºC is the more reasonable calculation. And yet we're going to an outdoor event.

rand()m quote

Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things you believe in, out of the things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice something. The ingredients are there. You are the only one who can put them together into that unique pattern that will be your life. Let it be a life that has dignity and meaning for you. If it does, then the particular balance of success or failure is of less account.

—John Gardner