20. November 2009 by Samldanach.

My wife said I needed a post with that title.  Now, I just need to find something to write that lives up to that level of awesome.

Um, nope.  Nothing comes to mind.

I will put a note here, though.  When I started NaBlogWriMo, I totally forgot that I’m going to be out of the country for the rest of the month.  Le sigh.  I am taking my puter with me, and will be attempting to continue to write up posts.  As I am currently behind, I aim to write three posts a day.  One for that day, one to catch up, and one about what we did on vacation that day.  Look for a crazy onslaught around the 29th, when I’m hooked up to the intertubes again.

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20. November 2009 by Samldanach.

Anybody else remember that show?  I loved it.  I think it only went 6 episodes, though.

There are a number of mysteries of science that bother me.  These are areas that just, for whatever reason, reveal cracks in the framework of my understanding.  Some of them, I am sure, can be explained well enough by those with much greater understanding than me.  Some of them, I think, cannot.

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20. November 2009 by Samldanach.

This is a concept that was birthed from the “Life after People” show on The History Channel.   Essentially, as our metropolises decayed, skyscrapers would become vibrant micro-ecologies.  As windows shattered and fell out, dirt and seeds would find their way in, creating gardens 15 stories up.  Birds would be the obvious inhabitants, but insects and rats would also dominate, living off plastics, woods, and insulation.  As the joists and beams deteriorated , the whole structure would become too unsound for any large animal, and would require significant climbing ability to negotiate.  The apex predator of this new ecological niche?  Cats.

In my post-apoc setting, Manhattan Island was abandoned, and all the bridges blown.  As water levels rose, the edges of the island became submerged under up to 6 feet of water, with skyscrapers towering above these channels.  Skyscrapers ruled by cats.  And, over the years, the cats had…changed.

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