We’ve hit this patch of grey skies and humidity a bit early this year, haven’t we? I was expecting another month of comfortable temps and blue skies. Ah well. It’s been a weird and tiring week overall and I suppose the crappy weather gives me an excuse (as if I needed one) to spend the day in front of the computer doing meaningless crap to take my mind off stuff.

Earlier in the week, Dusk Till Dawn had their 10th anniversary party and it was a good one indeed. Tonight The Bridge celebrates its 7th anniversary and a good chance I’ll be there. OOPS – it’s March 7th, my bad.

A blog I just found – Never Get Out of the Boat! Yeah, I presume the guy’s an Apocalypse Now fan, but that’s not the purpose the blog. He’s hosting links to some amazing archival material – some bootleg, some pirate, some stuff he assembled himself – 9 hours worth of rare Dylan songs that at one point or another were available on Dylan’s web site; 15-1/2 hours of Dylan B-sides, compilation-only tracks, soundtracks; out of print comedy albums by Albert Brooks and Lenny Bruce; rare Zappa; 6 volumes of Richard Thompson rarities; the list goes on and on and on. There’s so much there that I’ve actually ponied up for a RapidShare account so I can grab this stuff down in a reasonable amount of time.

A few weeks ago I came across a couple of articles that mentioned that HK architects were complaining that building codes in the SAR were preventing the kind of creativity one sees in major cities in the PRC. At the time I thought they were probably right but that there are far more urgent items to deal with. I thought of those articles when I came across this thing on Gizmodo about some new towers planned in Shenzhen:

Rooftop garden ponds to recycle rainwater, solar tracking screens around the buildings’ exterior and circular footprints for the towers, enabling wide-open social spaces to face the sun. And of course the position of the buildings, arranged in a horizontal linking pattern so they double as giant sun umbrellas for the Stock Exchange. The buildings will be linked by underground rail as well, so the only time you’ll have to venture outside is to partake in all the rooftop garden festivities.

Hmmm, my mouse is blinking red, needs a recharge, time to take a break from all this ….

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