Guess what? Yet another 22nd of February has come, and yes, it's the Great Day of the iNan! Happy Birthday iNan!
On my RA Perth trip, there was this day we went out to sea on a boat to see sea lions. Although I wasn't interested in the swimming part, I was intrigued by the boat itself. I even drove it, you know. And the GPS was cool too. I remember asking our captain how it worked, and he was telling me how the depth meter was screwed up. But what really caught my eye was a little circular dial at the top of the cockpit. Yep, it was a barometer!
I remember asking the captain why the barometer, why there were two needles on it. Gosh, I actually didn't know why. Before that I always thought that barometers just needed one, to see the pressure. Well, the answer was, the second needle is one that you move around to mark the pressure at a point in time, so that when you check back later, you can see how it's changed. Bah, why didn't I think of that? To forecast with a barometer, of course you need to know the change, not just the absolute value.
An example, if the pressure is 092mB now and changes to 988 in an hour, I would be wrong to say 'The pressure is really low. It's going to rain.' Since the pressure is actually rising in this case, I highly doubt that it would rain. Of course, nothing is impossible... Now that I think of it, that is Cat 5 hurricane pressure. It would be raining like you couldn't imagine already... But this is just an illustrative example.
To forecast the upcoming weather from the barometer, in the most simplified way, you just take the pressure (mark it with the extra needle if your barometer has one) and check back later. If it has dropped, there's a higher chance of it going to rain, and vice-versa.
Now, in case this all seems to simple to be true, it actually is quite simple. Cloud formation is linked to pressure, because the convection that is the cause of cloud formation lowers the pressure pressure, and the subsiding air that inhibits cloud formation raises the pressure. Ding! You understood that. I made it very elementary.
Ooh, back to barometers. I just love them. What better complement to identification of clouds to forecast the weather than a indicator of pressure? And what more fitting time to get it than during the pressure module?
Ah, I so wish I had a barometer.
Oh yes, note that this post is all about analogue barometers.
Tadaa! Here is this magnificent picture of crepuscular rays right here in Singapore, taken from outside my house. I first saw them as I was walking home (I see a lot of things like that.) and decided to take a photo of it. I had planned to run into the house and grab a nice 7 or 10 megapixel camera and snap the scene, but I just took a picture of them first with my phone in case I didn't. In the end, it was a good move as everything completely slipped my mind. So this is the only pic I have of it. At least you can still see the rays!
Well, wasn't my previous post such an insightful one? Has it awoken your inner JY? Well, as great as it was, (Though that's nothing special, all my posts are great.) I happened to have written completely out of point. In fact, it's a all time record. Did you know what the post was originally supposed to mean? Was my writing good enough for you to have picked out the clues to where I was going? Hint, they're all in only the first, second and half of the third paragraph. If you read anything else you'll get confused, like I did. Sometimes, you can't handle all your omniscience at once.
Well, anyway, here's a short analysis as contributed by JY:
Hello there! You have just come to visit as WShGS is experiencing one of its weaker times, just as the economy is now. Nothing like taking a nice light-hearted view of this world. After all, it is just another realm of existence.
But more about that some other time! Back to WShGS. Just like the way governments all around the world are trying hard and implementing all sort of measures to try to get the ascending curve back onto their charts, WShGS is following the same track too. After all, all great wisdom still follows the same fundamental rules. At least for existence as you know it- Whoops, I shouldn't confuse you. Just go on continue living your normal Earthly lives.
Then again, I do have to raise concerns about some of the plans governments are considering, for example the UK's plan involving borrowing (Didn't this whole thing start because of credit?) or the new US ideas about buying local. (Hah. I won't even get started about that.) Why doesn't anyone at all see the real solution to the underlying problem?
Not that the underlying problem is very simple actually, so I don't really blame anyone. You see, apparently the Earth has gotten rather pissed with our digging of big holes in it and then carting its innards halfway across its face. Would you like it? But being the pacifist old globe it is, it's not going to do anything big yet. Big, as it knows, is not the same as we know. take the not-so-recent earthquakes for example, that wasn't anywhere close what its going to do when it loses it temper. They were just trembles of rage.
Of course, even pacifists are actually rather scheming, (That's why the Earth closing the Pacific; its getting tired with the negative connotations that come with it. Attending intergalactic spheres is such a pain like that.) and its actually quietly requested its old pal the Economy to teach the little specks with attitude and MPD inhabiting it a lesson, since apparently no one bothered to heed its warnings. (Did you really believe that its trembles of rage were beyond its control?)
And there we have it! Now that you all understand the problem, all we need to do is to get to work on stopping it. I'll be nice now, and tell you that consigning 'quarry' to only ever appear in history books again would solve the current problems. To be even nicer, I'll tell you that that would only be a short term fix. The Earth is a fickle thing; who knows what it'll pick on next? (Not The Nose, I hope. It's such a nice classic climb. Perhaps someday I'll visit it at El Capitan.) The best thing we could do would be to check back on WShGS every day and listen to JY. At the same time, you should try to instill these simple routines into your subconscious to do your part to please the Earth and its friends- Oh, I haven't told you yet, have I? It can do much more...
Anyway, the JY-washing starts now!
1. Whenever you see any outdoor lights left on in the daytime, turn them off. When it's a clear cut case of unneccessary lighting, don't feel bad at all about doing it. Instead, try to take pride that you're doing your part for the enviroment, the JY way. When it's not a clear cut case, like early morning, just turn off the lights anyway.
Of course, there will always be those jokers who see things the wrong way, which is different from seeing them lightheartedly. They might mock you for caring, or try to undo your efforts and basically other evil things. You can a) go over, pull out a portable JYVPG, then proceed to zap them to the darkest corner of the Jiayusian Void there is, or b) ignore the ignorant morons and get that high from doing your part for the enviroment, JY style.
Note that this applies even more to high-input devices such as air-conditioners or the like.
2. Apply rule 1 wherever you are.
3. Check back to WShGS for more next time!
Hi. I created this page as a placeholder for the offical Marken Saga page. Hold, on it'll be coming soon. I'll be classifying it under a group of pages known as 'permanent pages,' the closest thing I can get on Blogger to a webpage with different pages.
Even JY dreams, the old saying goes. By the way, it is true. I've always had faith in the wisdom of the Old JY people. Anyway, I seem to had the strangest dream last night.
No, the dream was not strange because of what happened in the dream. In this area, it was actually rather normal. Then again, for dreams, what is normal? Would a dream which makes you wonder if there was an extra day in your week be considered normal? Or how about one which makes you wake up and wonder why everything isn't floating around upside down? I have no idea. In this case, I shall just say that in my dream, the laws of physics were followed. Then for what exactly happpened, things are slightly harder to explain, because dreams themselves defy explaination. Sometimes I don't even comprehend what I dreamt about, like the time I was ill in bed with a great headache and fever. That night was so abstract... The best I can put it down into words was that I remembered removing from existence three quarters of the planet with a stray thought.
Okay, I'm getting distracted as usual. I can tell you all about how dreams are portals to the Jiayusian Void which your mortal minds do not comprehend another time. Back to my earthly, normal dream. Since dreams start in the middle of nowhere, I have no way to give a backstory. So in we go. It was something to do with walking around the NY old campus with a group of friends, although the place did not seem to be anything like the NY old campus. I don't remember why it was the NY old campus in my dream. As for the group of friends, things are even more confusing, as if I'm not wrong, I was with either Johnathan or Dong Heng, and 2 Terences, one with his Man U bag and the other with his new checkered bag 0.o Hmm... What else I remember is that the place was about to be demolished. Another 0.o So we were going through it before it was gone I think. Then there were these rooms all filled with stuff. Apparently they were all about to go down with the place, as we found out, and what a waste it was, we thought. So we began to salvage. As we made our way from room to room we disturbed great clouds of dust as we hunted for objects of value or interest. (Dust? Wow the place was old.) I found heaps of picks every here and there. Nice, I thought as I held on to the handful of them, tanbo will never run out of bopians again. (I really found that much. And some of them were the pro double digit price tag ones.) Then, we came across a staffroom, and found Mr. Christ Low's table, where there was this box full of worksheets with my name on them, and...
After this, I really don't remember much. But I really think that I've been rambling on too much about the dream itself. That's not the emphasis. Should I remove it all? As you can see, I didn't. That's because, now that I put it down, I noticed just how weird my dream actually was. Of course, it still did obey the laws of physics, and I have decided that as my criteria for dream weirdness. Even so, weird as things have been so far, it was a dream after all. What this post is all about is something completely out of place in a dream...
It all happened because of my handful of picks. I can't remember who, but somehow another person got introduced into my dream, and I decided to show my takings in picks to him. I took out all of them and spread them out in my hand as you would with a hand of cards. Then came the coup d'eat, when I was suddenly able to have this whole line of bopians, far more than what I had picked up, float between both of my hands as I held them apart. I noticed all the good bopians, and the sheer number of them, and my mind started screaming, 'JY! This is too good to be true!' It was as if I had woken up, and I suddenly remembered my real life. All my genuine memories, not those strange ones that you somehow have in a dream. I also realized that bopians don't float. What I really realized that I was dreaming. And yet, I remained in my dream.
It was just so weird, walking around in the land of dreams as your normal daytime self. I stared at the place which for some reason I remembered as the NY old campus. I don't even know what that means. I found checkered bag Terence looking for Man U bag Terence, and then wondered, since when was I alone? After this point I don't remember a thing, I think my dream ended.
Still more strangeness was to follow, it seemed. I woke up in the morning, and my first thought was, 'Since when did I fall asleep?' For a few moments my bed, my room, this world was entirely alien to me. It was a really new sensation to me. Luckily, everything soon came back to me after a while, and I was left reeling with the sheer strangeness of it all. But at least I didn't stay trapped in my own head and consigned to be a nutcase for the rest of my days. Instead I'm back in this great world with a whole new field of experience, though unusual experience it is.
Wow, it's 5.47PM now. Don't believe it when this post says that it was born from my omniscience at 9.48, that's only when I started writing it. Don't ask why there's such a huge gap, a lot of things happened...
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