On the Roof
The manager actually let me borrow the key to the roof this time, and I went up all by myself! There was a cute girl keeping him company, and he was working through his lunch break handling her departure, if I read the situation right.
Anyway, went up on the roof to watch the lightning, but I missed the best part watching from my room and talking to the manager. Still, it was pretty cool. Gotta go drop off some ninja stuff to the next person in The Conspiracy, so I'm off.
Anyway, went up on the roof to watch the lightning, but I missed the best part watching from my room and talking to the manager. Still, it was pretty cool. Gotta go drop off some ninja stuff to the next person in The Conspiracy, so I'm off.
posted by William at
7/28/2008 02:01:00 PM
12 Comments:
Ninja stuff to next person in The Conspiracy? This sounds interesting.
So, watching the storm on the roof sounds fabulous!
And I am looking forward to pictures that you were talking about from yesterday. Your pictures are often amazing! :)
Being on the roof here was kind of like standing in our front yard. Except the roof is full of machinery and has no grass. There is a little alcove that's pretty cool, though. I'd like to be able to go up there and take naps or something.
Do we get to know the ninja conspiracy business?
Take a picture of the alcove? And the roof in general? It seems odd to think of standing on the roof being like standing in the front yard.
:)
The ninja conspiracy business is over with now, so I can talk about it.
Sandy, one of my friends here, is leaving tomorrow night. One of our mutual friends put together a scrapbook for him, and I was doing two (facing) pages of it. The next person to do it was Melissa, and I had been trying pass it off to her, but I couldn't contact her and just dropped it in her mailbox.
I couldn't take a picture because it was raining too hard and the wind was too strong for me to use an umbrella. And actually, I did try to take pictures through the bag I had my camera in, but between three layers of fogginess and the crappy conditions anyway, nothing really came out.
The reason it's similar to standing in the yard is because there's not as much towering up and above you. It's a little refreshing to see the sky and not have things poking into it from all directions. Kind of a luxury here.
Cool ninja conspiracy...I love it when people do nice things like that for friends. :) That was awesome of all of you.
I bet that made for an interesting picture taking attmpt. Is there something that people use to take pictures in the rain...I mean like something you can buy? I know you would like to take pictures like that, being that you like rain so much.
Oh, I get what you mean about the roof now. That does seem nice to go there sometimes, especially in the rain. :)
Buildings with roof access are fairly rare here, just like in the States. I think they've had too many people commit suicide that way or something. I know my school closed off its roof access for that reason. At our place, there's a big blue grate that blocks off the stair access.
There are lots of waterproof cameras you can buy, and they cost about the same as buying a waterproof housing for your current camera, so...
Yikes...I hadn't thought of that about the roof.
Waterproof cameras are the same price as a waterproof housing...interesting.
Since apparently you've looked at prices, what kind of range for a basic, but decent waterproof camera or a waterproof casing for your camera?
Figure $150 as an average, though that could vary by $100 in either direction depending on brand and what kind of deal you get.
Did you fly a kite in the storm or wrap alumium foil around your self. or paint a target on your self and curse the gods?
Tip from Uncle Milte.. run away from gunfire not towards it.. see lightning addendum
Nah, but I had an umbrella, which is pretty close. It was sitting on the ground, though.
I'm not really comfortable with lightning and other sources of lethal quantities of electrical difference, but I was standing between a 10m lightning rod mounted 2m above where I was standing and a large Yagi array. That puts me in a pretty safe spot, don't you think?
Besides that, Almost all vaguely tall buildings in Kyoto have at least one lightning rod, and many have two, three, or forty. There were plenty of big targets in the area, or I would've been more worried.
I was thinking of all those lightning rods and wondered if some were on top of your own building.
The article on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_rod
has some interesting notes. Ironically, churches, because of their towers, were frequently the attractors of lightning strikes. When people objected to putting lightning rods on the buildings because it defied God's will (to stike churches with lightning...LOL) Benjamin Franklin countered with the fact that they seemed to have no qualms about putting roofs on churches to protect from God's will of having rain pour down upon them. Lightning rods were added, and then became elaborately decorative, also.
At any rate, the material point is that the first buildings to be repeatedly struck by lightning were churches...
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