They're not built yet, but here is some information about them (second on the list). And somehow they generate wind power in the spaces between the floors? It seems like something out of Star Trek, to be honest, but the article talks about them like they're actually going to happen. Amazing.
So, yesterday... Yesterday was work, for just about 12 solid hours. Usually there are a few slow periods and I can get lunch and even pick Sherlock up from school, get the chores done... Not yesterday. Someone took pity on me around three and gave me half his sandwich, which I got two bites of before I had to leave.
And then when I got home, I found L had made dinner, despite being sick and looking after Sherlock all afternoon, either one of which is enough to make a person want a nap. He's amazing, and I'm very lucky.
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Not convinced about those towers...
Hope you've managed to catch up with yourself a bit today.
There's some Vegemite in the cupboard here. Don't know who it belongs to, but they need to have words with them self ;)
I'm lazy this morning so I haven't read the article; will do later to see if this is addressed. I think I'd be worried about getting in the elevator and not knowing what part of the building I was going to arrive in. I have enough trouble knowing which door I came in and what direction to turn, without the building rearranging itself around me.
Hope you can catch up with yourself and that those recovering from illness and surgeries continue to improve.
I'm pro-Marmite because I like charred onions and salt, which is mostly what Marmite tastes like to me. (Yes, I'm sure my offer to be a promotional spokesperson is in the mail, right?) Bonus: get it for L., and you can eat most of it yourself, John.
Cool towers. I believe in the theory. Construction practices is where my doubts arise.
Hope you got enough slow time today to be prepared for full-bore-Sherlock this afternoon, John.
fA
That wouldn't be a bonus for him. John is one of those weirdos who hates marmite (food of the gods) to give it it's full name.
Kestrel: I think the building shift would only disorient you if you orient yourself inside a building using outside reference points, or by the direction of a curve. If you go left off the elevator on the floor, you'd always go left, however the entire floor morphed.
I'm so directionally challenged that I am almost entirely dependent on signs and arrows, and rarely try to orient myself with landmarks even when outdoors, so I don't think a shifting building would make things materially worse. It might be different for those people who "always just know" which way is east.
Ya know, I'm sure the pro- and anti- Marmite positions have come up before, and my mind just refused to retain the idea that such an otherwise thoughtful and intelligent person as John has the wrong idea about Marmite.
fA
I haven't watched the building vids, but I presumed the lifts would stay still in a 'core' that didn't twist? So while you could just always go left out of the lift, surely sometimes it would be quicker to go right?
fA - he's almost perfect in every way... Just not in regard to marmite. Probably thinks the same of me and curry ;)
I can't think of anything that would persuade me to live or work in--or even walk anywhere near--a moving building. Even understanding full well how cantilevers work, I don't trust them on a gut level--and I do NOT want my view constantly changing! (And doesn't it seem like the energy required to spin a building would be more than the spinning could generate? Unless someone has repealed the law of conservation of energy. But that's one for the engineers to figure out.)
I hope everyone has been having a good day. (L, I think you gave me your cough--a compluter virus?--thankyouverymuch!)
So while you could just always go left out of the lift, surely sometimes it would be quicker to go right?
Clearly you're not seriously directionally impaired! (It would be a drawback in policing, I imagine.) A new, unknown route is hardly EVER quicker, because odds are good I'd end up back at the elevators, completely confused. Unless there's just a single hallway round the whole floor, no branches, nothing nested behind/within another room.
RR- I started a cough two days ago as well, I think it's that "Ha! You were starting to think about spring, weren't you?" virus. This too shall pass.
Good weekend wishes to all. Sleep, healing, sun, etc., etc.
fA
Yeah, I know, fA--but it's more fun to blame L. :) Feel better!
RR - I assume that it means the power the wind turbines produce will be more than is required to turn the building/use in the building, so it will end up feeding energy back to the grid. Not that it is the turning which generates the power.
fA - I was assuming the floors would offer a corridor all the way around each floor, so you'd end up going full circle, hence it sometimes being fast to go one way, sometimes the other, but there'd need to be good signage to indicate what lay in which direction at regular intervals to help with that.
FA, I'm the same in being directionally challenged. My sister didn't believe I was that bad until I visited her in London and got lost within 5 minutes of leaving her lat.
People being lost in London is what friendly local bobbies used to be for... now you'd have to jump in front of an area car to talk to one though :(
Pip - yeah. People never believe it. We seem like moderately competent adults in other ways, and then there's the complete collapse of function. ;-)
fA
Weirdly, I am completely fine on foot, but put me in a car and I couldn't direct you to my own house from my train station, five minutes away.
I'm pretty good on most of London. The odd one-way street throws me a bit, sometimes. And redevelopments!
Used to be a badge of honour, on my beat, knowing your way through the local estates.
I think the difference with finding your way in cars is if you're the one driving because then you *have* to notice things whereas if you're the passenger you can be looking at random sights that catch your fancy and you don't have to concentrate on where you're going.
6 metres per minute still seems quite fast to me for the floors to be moving, I think there'd be a sort of constant underlying motion sickness feeling, not sure I could work with that.
Sorry to hear work was so manic, John, but I'm glad that firstly some kind soul took pity on you and then you got to go home to that perfect man you married who'd even cooked in his illness, I'm sure that brightened your day up ;)
FA - Hah, yes! By the end of my stay, I could mostly make it back to her place from the tube, but she and I both agreed that if I had to venture out on my own, I was to have my mobile on me at all times and to have her number on speed dial!
Heading to bed. And yes, fA, I took 50% more painkillers, in the hopes that I both don't wake up and that this will nip this pain in the bud. And hopefully I'll sleep off the worst of the side effects. People really do this for fun?
Hope you managed to get a better night's sleep Becca and that the painkillers did what they were supposed to do without leaving you feeling totally spaced out.
I think I've missed the point with the unbranded products - in most cases they don't need any labelling, because the shape and pattern is iconic. A rose by any other name would still have thorns.
Just woke up from a stab of pain, *sigh*. But I lasted longer, so that's something.
Sorry you're still suffering Becca.
At least the sun is shining here - because there's nothing to smile about at the footy.
John and Sherlock are still smiling - laughing, even - because I fell out of bed this morning. It was entirely John's fault. I thought I had room, because John was all snuggled up with me...but he'd actually invaded my side of the bed. So when I rolled on my back to reach my watch, there actually wasn't any bed left.
He said I did a cartoon-character pause and wide eyes before grabbing on to empty air and disappearing. Luckily it's not a long drop. But I was faced with those two laughing like hyenas as I picked myself up.
I swear you hovered in mid air a second until you realised...
Oh, Jesus...
Let's get out of here and go and plant lettuce at the allotment. Sherlock can start constructing the basis of his terrify-everyone-to-death-crow.
And you can stop laughing. Or I'll plant you too, see if you grow some more.
(first comment directed at football, not you. I can't watch any more.)
Yeah, all right. Is it time to plant peas yet? We've got some.
I think it is...we'll ask Reg if he's about. I don't think they like cold soil...says something about warming it with polythene or a fleece. But I don't know what peas consider to be 'cold'...
We can get them pea jackets!
Ha, not quite what a pea jacket is...
Sherlock is begging timber from people. Unfortunately he's turning on the charm, so we'll soon have enough timber to buy and ark.
Lesson he needs to learn - just because you CAN get something, doesn't mean you SHOULD.
But my scarecrow could be REALLY BIG
It has to actually fit in the allotment, you realise...
And leave room for things to grow, for it to protect... and room for us, to visit and tend to them.
My word, am I anticipating a photo of this scarecrow!
fA
Sherlock has tied some wood together. We may allow him hammer and nails, if he promises not to nail anything to anything else without our express permission...
Sherlock with a hammer and nails sounds almost terrifying ;-)
I hope your evening is as much fun as the day sounds like its been :-)
the rotating building makes me a little carsick just looking at it. i wonder if it will actually get built.
Becca, so sorry you are still in pain. eventually it heals, right? and the pain stops? soon I hope!
Also looking forward to pix of Sherlock's construction.
My yard has largely emerged from under the snow, except where the plow piled it up. Now I can see all the yard cleanup I didn't do last fall. :(
S
AnonyBob - scary for anyone with a shed or greenhouse, yes!!
Having a quiet evening. I have a degu to care for at the moment, and a docile doctor leaning on me.
S - I think it says the person on each floor is in control of the rotation? But then it also says it rotates 'continually' - so who knows?
being a leaning post is always a good way to spend an evening I find :-)
It's not bad. He even stopped me watching the footy because he said he knew it'd upset me - there's love for you! :)
Just seen the news that a 15yr old has been shot dead in Hackney. Doesn't matter how long you're in the job, news like that always hits hard. 15 is no age. How on earth do families cope. I really have no idea.
This is quite mesmerising, for anyone struggling to sleep.
http://img.gawkerassets.com/post/8/2012/10/mri3.gif
Sorry, should say, it's an MRI scan of broccoli. Obviously.
Oh, obviously.
Hope good sleep is visiting those in need.
fA
Obviously. ;) Sorry if that means you're struggling to drop off yourself, Greg - or is that the problem, you're worried you might 'drop off' again like you did this morning ;) Maybe nudge John over a bit this time and snuggle up on his side to be safe, I'm sure you won't get any complaints for a bit of extra cuddling and his body warmth might be just what you need to send you off. ;)
don't worry, I'm in the middle of the bed, invading his space. :)
Just keep waking myself up, coughing. I'll drop off again in a bit.
Did sleep happen Greg? I hope you got enough to help continue the getting better process :-)
Have a good day everyone :-)
Sleep did happen :) and gravity didn't conspire with my companions this morning - got out of bed gracefully under my own power ;)
Hooray for that. :)
I realized why I haven't been sleeping well all week--the pillow my roommate gave me is filled with down, which I'm allergic to. Explains the whole not breathing thing.
In better news, one of my jobs took me on full time, so now I don't have to wake up as early or commute as far. Yay!
Ella
Hey, congrats Ella, that's awesome!
Great news, Ella. Well done.
We did a run and I got a medal
Good job, Sherlock!
Ella
We stumbled upon a Sport Relief run in the park, when we were goin for a run anyway... Lady sorting it out/taking money looked after Sherlock's bike, and we did a mile (we thought Sherlock would get bored with 3 miles. Now we wish we'd put him in for the 6 miles, while we just did the one!)
Ha!
Well done, Sherlock!
There was a point when he was literally running circles around us...
We had already jogged...a bit. Does that count as a an excuse? Probably not...
Congratulations on the medal, Sherlock! Hope the run was fun.
The real question would be, did coughing interfere with the run? It sounds like it didn't? That would be awesome, if so.
Ella, now you won't have to do all your runs on the weekend if your commute is shorter, yes? Congrats to you on reclaiming that commute time, however you use it!
fA
Coughing was okay, yeah. It's just an annoying cough now, nothing really feels like it makes it better or worse. I always think really working my lungs sort of helps, when I'm getting over things like this - reminds them of their purpose! (I'm sure that's not a medically sound opinion...)
fA--It's true! I don't even have to be at work until 9:30 most days, so im hoping to run in the morning. And yes--I definitely have plans for all kinds of projects and things to accomplish. :)
Ella
OMG.....I did it! It took weeks, but I've after starting from the beginning, I've caught up! I have to say, you guys are all completely amazing! Greg, I hope you're cough is doing better, and your shoulder. I once had a horrible cough, and somehow managed to strain my forearm! Coughs can really suck sometimes.
Welcome, Acacia, doesn't it make the most wonderful reading, I did the same thing not too long ago. Read every entry and all the comments, everyone here is so great. :)
S
Sneaking in from my way too busy life to ask if you guys have seen any Ghosts on the Underground.
Back to the grind. I hope to catch up with y'all again soon!
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