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By the way, "Hollis saw tungsten-lit industry beyond the bridge’s railings, a concrete plant". Not even old low-tech concrete plants are tungsten-lit these days -- too expensive in electricity, and you have to change the bulbs too often. Most industrial plants use "sallow-yellow sodium vapor" or "actinic blue mercury-vapor." Both colors are much scarier than the homey black-body yellow of tungsten.
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hello tri44id. I know of some concrete plants (and other industry) that still use tungsten lighting
 But even if there aren't any left in Vancouver, another angle might be that it is temporary mobile lighting for a special 24hr pour on a big structure or...perhaps there's something shady going down under the guise at the concrete plant that requires bright.mobile. 9m-tungsten-halogen-towerlights.  This message has been edited. Last edited by: Eric, ______________________________________________________________ ...after all you can chuck bones in an envelope -- remotepush "Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor not an animator!" -- Thal ...if it's that small a world, it starts to smell funny -- CayceP |
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actually thinking about this while i drove home from the cinema last night - i would tend to suggest it wasn't before PR. i'm sure we've got a feel that this book is set post 9/11 as well, and in an environment of terror/crime/datacleaning that suggests its further into the war on freedom. the pamela thing is most likely entirely coincidence, but it would be an amusing little nugget, to go with the blue ant logo, just to keep us bunch of sad-acts happy. --------------------------------- ::remote voices - compulsive story telling, if not compelling stories.:: |
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I could see Bigend rehiring Pamela and definitely keeping Dorotea on as special teams for those corporate investigations that require their special talents.
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Assuming Dorotea isn't in a concrete-filled barrel at the bottom of some Russian lake.
Re the tungsten thing, maybe Hollis isn't an expert on the lighting used for concrete plants? I wouldn't even be surprised if the identification of the industry as a concrete plant was wrong. The author is communicating the impressions of a character, and characters can be wrong you know, as can authors. By the way, I don't mean to put down your interesting post there tri44id. It's an interesting point that I wouldn't even have noticed otherwise. |
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I do work at an industrial facility, and indeed most of the lights are high pressure sodium lights (best life and luminosity per watt). We do use halogen tungsten incasdencent lights however for point lighting, specially for night construction work, but they give a strong white light rather than the mellow yellow of traditional filament lights, so I doubt those would be associated with tugsten (around here they are called halogen lights).
However reflected high pressure sodium has a softer yellow than the almost orange of the traditional sodium vapor lamps (I can see it by comparing our lighting with the street lights just outside), so from a distance it might be similar. I get the impression this sight is plucked directly from a trip from the airport, so, as Colin pointed out, it is a perception thing rather than reality. José Names. Numbers. Held as though they might be a map, a map back out of the underground. |
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M/V JAMAICA STAR
This gets cooler by the minute. Feels like playing that old console arcade game Spy Hunter where you start out in the car and if you make it far enough you get to boat then the aircraft with that peter gunn playing in the background. Never had enough quarters to finish that one though. Alright, maybe Panama City, Florida, the Myrtle Beach of the Panhandle. Might get to see some rednecks now. Jamaica Bay maybe a redneck against new jersey (derogatory remarks and such to provoke a fight) mafia fight. This message has been edited. Last edited by: Eric, ______________________________________________________________ ...after all you can chuck bones in an envelope -- remotepush "Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor not an animator!" -- Thal ...if it's that small a world, it starts to smell funny -- CayceP |
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the description of the boat reminds a little of snow crash. the refugee ships lashed together in a new hybridised fashion.
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CAFTA and FTAA and with the oil findings
major polarizations taking place between longitudinal hemispheres of course hali was mobilizing in 2003 for the infrastructure upgrades for CAFTA development ______________________________________________________________ ...after all you can chuck bones in an envelope -- remotepush "Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor not an animator!" -- Thal ...if it's that small a world, it starts to smell funny -- CayceP |
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Panama City as port of registration doesn't say anything about the place. But I also saw it to be somewhere south. I looked up Lion Sun. I found the iranian seal/coat of arms (of the shah era) but that could be coincidental.
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Looking for the Jamaica Star.
José Names. Numbers. Held as though they might be a map, a map back out of the underground. |
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Interesting quote in the Wikipedia article on SERE:
Compare:
I notice that he's corrected the typo I pointed out, too. 
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And he change SEAR to SERE.
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core, wavering or hostile? ______________________________________________________________ ...after all you can chuck bones in an envelope -- remotepush "Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor not an animator!" -- Thal ...if it's that small a world, it starts to smell funny -- CayceP |
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A memorial to Vladimir Tatlin would be cool.
"...not the old, not the new, but the necessary..." - Vladimir Tatlin I'll have to check out the documentary _Beyond Cubism_ by Michael Blackwood now. ______________________________________________________________ ...after all you can chuck bones in an envelope -- remotepush "Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor not an animator!" -- Thal ...if it's that small a world, it starts to smell funny -- CayceP |
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Sounds like a recent setting. ------- Birth, School, Work, Death |
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Just listened to Run Run Run for the first time in awhile and the first thing I thought of...
UNION SQUARE Run Run Run Teenage Mary said to Uncle Dave I sold my soul, must be saved Gonna take a walk down to Union Square You never know who you're gonna find there You gotta run, run, run, run, run Take a drag or two Run, run, run, run, run Gypsy Death and you Tell you whatcha do Marguerita Passion had to get her fix She wasn't well, she was getting sick Went to sell her soul, she wasn't high Didn't know, thinks she could buy it And she would run, run, run, run, run Take a drag or two Run, run, run, run, run Gypsy Death and you Tell you whatcha do Seasick Sarah had a golden nose Hobnail boots wrapped around her toes When she turned blue, all the angels screamed They didn't know, they couldn't make the scene She had to run, run, run, run, run Take a drag or two Run, run, run, run, run Gypsy Death and you Tell you whatcha do Beardless Harry, what a waste Couldn't even get a small-town taste Rode the trolleys down to forty-seven Figured he was good to get himself to heaven 'Cause he had to run, run, run, run, run Take a drag or two Run, run, run, run, run Gypsy Death and you Tell you whatcha do ______________________________________________________________ ...after all you can chuck bones in an envelope -- remotepush "Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor not an animator!" -- Thal ...if it's that small a world, it starts to smell funny -- CayceP |
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FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SCREEN
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What is a 'rize'?
I couldn't find that on the net. ------- Birth, School, Work, Death |
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