mariness

New Oz post up: The Hidden Valley of Oz.

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In other news, to make this more of a "real" post, tropical depression three just appeared in the Caribbean, "seemingly out of nowhere," according to the Orlando Sentinel, and "out of a weather system that we've been monitoring for the last six days," according to the National Hurricane Center, but, who, really, do you want to believe here? Anyway. The point is that things in Florida could get a bit wet. More critically, since the storm is "racing" towards the Gulf of Mexico (or, again, if we are to believe the National Hurricane Center, moving at a slow and measured pace towards the Gulf of Mexico at about fifteen miles/24 kilometers per hour with an uncertain continuing speed since the models are not in complete agreement), BP is halting work on plugging the well.

In unrelated ocean news, a whale fell on a boat. See what I mean about the whole plausibility/making things up thing? The whale is apparently unhurt, the boat, not so much.