Orlando

I’m in Orlando for a conference. More on that later. I have started taking some pictures and they are here for your entertainment. More will come later.

Also, I took some pictures of the apartment when they were finishing the drywalling so they are now posted here.

On the theme of bad writing I just watched the worst made for TV movie ever. It was on NBC and I was channel surfing, and well, I just couldn’t look away. It was a story about a massive earthquake that created a giant fault line from Hudson’s bay to the Gulf of Mexico (well at least I think it was an earthquake, I missed the first hour). Oh yes, and apparently there is lava 5 km under the earth’s surface. The fault split the ground open and we could see it! I’m guessing either the writers were idiots, they take their audience for idiots, or nobody had any idea how big a kilometer is. This 10.5 richter scale quake didn’t seem to do much other damage that making a building in Las Vegas collapse and swallowing up a few farmhouses on the way (maybe more happened in the first hour). Until, that is, it was about to run straight through a … nuclear power plant!!. So some oddball geologist gets rescued from the same collapsed building in Vegas and devises a scheme to divert the fault … by blowing up some natural gas wells that just happen to be right next to the nuclear power plant. Well if I were looking for a spot to build one and store tonnes of radioactive material that would kill 1/4 of the country, I have to say I’d try to find somewhere a little less risky than adjacent to a natural gas well. So anyway their ridiculous plan works but the fault keeps pushing out to the gulf and – oh no! Houston is in the way!! So Houston gets destroyed. Almost everyone somehow miraculously evacuates safely though, even though they only had a few hours. I guess the earthquake isn’t the only made-up thing in this show. Oh and also the President was crying. Apparently bits of it were shot in Montreal!