A fountain of trivia
I’m amazed. This Internet thing is a font of trivial knowledge, with the tap turned on 24/7 just to keep me amused and out of the pool halls (my mother always told me that those weren’t the kind of places I should frequent). For example, I didn’t know until today that the “real” version of Jellystone Park doesn’t have any bears with odd names, but it does have geysers.
I mean, I understand the basic geothermal principles behind a random tower of steam, but to actually go to a website where I could sit for forty minutes waiting for the autorefresh webcam to show me a still image of a puff of vapour was mesmerizing. Here, see for yourself: Geysercam. There, isn’t that better than watching CNN and waiting for Hillary to erupt?
The daily Wiki tidbits also keep me on the edge of my chair. Today I learned that the city of Chicago has two marine attractions that I’d really like to visit, if ever I go west instead of east at vacation time. I’d come to accept that the genuine Abegweit is now docked in a yacht club, where she still attracts errant Islanders. To find that elsewhere in the city they’ve put a real live U-Boat on display is downright scary. What if the grey one decided to attack the old girl, and sink her at the dockside. They’ve probably disarmed the torpedoes, but there’s always a risk (again, my mother warned me to be on the lookout for trouble all the time).
There, enough trivia for today. I’m going to go and rest up, because you never know what tomorrow will bring. Today, our campground called to see when we’re arriving; that means no Chicago Loop in 2008.
