…actually, it’s not all that bad in Austin. The estimated high today is a mere 99 degrees Fahrenheit (558.67 degrees Rankine).
But I know many of my readers are suffering from the heat, so here’s something that I hope will cool you down for a few minutes:
“The Stranding of the MV Shokalskiy”.
Beyond my interest in polar exploration, there’s a lot of stuff in here that prompted chuckles:
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Reached by the BBC, the poor marketing person for the adventure company put it succinctly: “The hull has a hole the size of a fist and the outlook is not so positive for the ship at the moment.”
The outlook became less positive a few minutes later, when the ship sank.
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There had already been choral music, and there threatened to be more.