Elementary my dear Watsnow, elementary

Snow before Halloween. The weight of snow on the tree canopy, breaks branches. Elementary. Nobody taught me this in my twenty years of schooling.  Only now I realize why tree shed their leaves before winter.  So what about global warming?  This is the exception that proverbs the rule.

Sailing lesson from Edgar Allan Poe

When I was a kid I read thee or four times The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. What happened with this story? Haven't seen it mentioned once in the last thirty years. If I remember well, Jules Verne has written a sequel. This story taught me never to go sailing without a knife.

Qaddafi investigation

The beheading of Louis XVI totally scared the Eurpean monarchs. And the revolution was followed by the restoration. How is Putin reading this?