AP says:
McCracken said he smelled smoke at the Warren Street station, and people were panicking and coming into his carriage. He said he spoke to an Italian man who was comforting a woman after the evacuation.
"He said that a man was carrying a rucksack and the rucksack suddenly exploded. It was a minor explosion but enough to blow open the rucksack," McCracken said.
"The man then made an exclamation as if something had gone wrong. At that point everyone rushed from the carriage."
Bollocks! My lunch exploded!
It seems that the entire tube has been shut down now: [link]
Just the three stations and one bus, apparently. No casualties, etc. Honestly, I don't know why this is worth breaking in to programming here. They don't know anything, and it seems not so bad.
Honestly, I don't know why this is worth breaking in to programming here.
Just trying to gin up more emotional interest in the War on Terror.
And I'm outtie - taking Mal to the vet doctor for his shots. With any luck I'll be able to spring my husband and give him a ride home, since it's 103 ° out there, but as he's been working until 7:30 every night this week...
Thanks, Fred.
Are you enjoying an exam-fuelled lull right now?
billy, I'm finishing up with that class, and hopefully all the loose ends will be tied today, so that I won't have to think about it until the students' second exam (how do you call that in English, where there is a second exam after the first, for those who failed or couldn't take it on the first time? The Hebrew name is something like "second timing", and I have no idea what is the English equivalent, or even if there is one).
If you miss the test, you can take a "make-up" (different kind of make up) exam. But if you fail, I think you just fail, usually.
you can take a "make-up" (different kind of make up) exam
Thanks, Jesse (funny how the combination of "make" and "up" keeps returning to the conversation).
[Edit: 1+7=6+2]
Mmmm, a Nilly-riffic morning, Very nice.
Not-so-nice news about London, though. Stupid terroristic buggers.
He's, just, well, having a very fluid notion of time. Which, as a physics professor who just finished teaching a class on special relativity, is not necessarily a bad thing, mind you.
This cracks me up.
I swear, this whole waiting for the layoffs to be implemented is tortuous, even for those staying on. Someone teared up in my office the other day. Which, I mean, I get. I sniffled my way home the day I found out about coworker. But...NO CRYING AT WORK PEOPLE. I can be a sympathy crier. STOP THAT.
Plus, with the heat and some other things, I've been running a couple degrees warmer than usual (which mean I actually have the "normal" 98.6) but it is making me feel all yicky. And the cooling at work is all erratic. Which isn't helping.
