So it appears that Tropical Cyclone Gonu is done now. Something like 25 Omanis died, and three Iranians.
I had a funny thought yesterday, more of a picture in my head, really. Vice-President Dick Cheney at the helm of some weather machine deep in his undisclosed location secret lair, shooting laser beams into the Arabian Sea churning up the water and creating hurricanes in hopes that they'll destroy Iran.
Oh wait, wasn't that the plot of Superman III? You know, the one where Gene Hackman didn't come back to play Lex Luthor because he was upset they fired Richard Donner during Superman II, so instead they had to hire Robert Vaughn to play pretty much Lex Luthor-Lite?
Anyway, Robert Vaughn wants to destroy the world's coffee supply, so he hires computer super-genius Richard Pryor to reprogram some satellite and ruin the weather in Columbia?
Yeah. For a crummy movie, Superman III sure has a lot of plot points that are cool. Like stealing the fractions of a cent - salami slicing - that they copied in Office Space.
Anyway, ironically last night we got this email from the American Consulate here in Dubai:
This Public Announcement is being issued to alert U.S. citizens to the Hurricane Season in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the Caribbean, and the Gulf of Mexico. The official Atlantic Hurricane Season runs from June through November. This Public Announcement expires on December 7, 2007.
It was meant to be mailed on May 31 (the start of the hurricane season) but they forgot. Probably Gonu jogged their memories ...
