Tidal pulls
The jazzy music is soothing, pulling me away from the pain inside. Louis Armstrong is seeing bright blessed days and dark sacred nights and we’re thinking to ourselves. Behind me, a barista is frothing milk and the espresso machine seems to tune into the song. All the way at the back, an adorable little blonde is laughing quietly through her few missing teeth. To my right in a corner, a poor guy is facing two female supervisors in a job interview and sinking himself deeper and deeper each time he opens his mouth. The coffee is slightly vanilla-flavored and tastes heavenly, flowing down my veins and warming me up from the core. It’s a rather cold winter night for BC and the temperature has hovered all day just below freezing. With the chilly outside air that was biting my fingers and icing the tripod’s legs, a hand-written sign posted above the counter sounds a bit surreal:"All our ice cream melted during the power failure caused by the recent wind storm. We do not expect to get restocked until the New Year."The tide cycle is finally favoring my needs and sunsets have caught up with tidal pools. Here’s what White Rock’s
BC Place Roof Deflated!
After yet another violent windstorm followed by a heavy snowfall, the inflated roof of BC Place Stadium seemed to collapse today in front of the amazed eyes of thousands of Vancouverites. The stadium administration eventually issued a statement in which it stated that a tear in the west panel of the roof had forced a controlled deflation. It is assumed that wind strength and wet snow weight were the cause of the incident. It's the first time in its history that the roof was lowered for such reasons. A new panel is being shipped to repair the tear.A 60,000 seats facility, BC Place features the largest air-supported, non-retractable roof in North America. The dome is made of two layers of a Teflon-coated fiberglass fabric only 0.85 mm thick but stronger than steel, the same material used for the sails at Canada Place. Sixteen fans are maintaining the pressure inside the stadium slightly superior to atmospheric pressure thus keeping the roof up. Air locks are used as entry points into the stadium. The design allows for the deflated fabric to cave in but never touch the seats.On a final note, BC Place will be hosting the opening and closing ceremonies of
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Pour alléger, quand on ne peut pas parler, il faut rire.
De soi, des autres, de tout et de rien.
Einstein le comprenait bien, lui qui a écrit :
“Deux choses sont infinies :
l’univers et la stupidité humaine.
Et je ne suis pas sûr que
l’univers soit infini…”