Tuesday, March 09, 2004


underground...
posted @ 10:18 by ryan in [ A journey into the mind... ]

I grew up watching a lot of movies...

it happens when your parents are super paranoid and will not let you go farther from the house than they can see or hear...

that and stolen cable.

in many a movie you would see the hero or villain sneakily make his way through the sewers or access tunnels that were somehow over-looked by whoever.

if you had an adventurous imagination, then you probably imagined that you could somehow get down there and run around and pretend that you were the hero (or villain, because I made you be the bad guy) and that your voice would echo in the cavernous labyrinth of concrete.

this lasted until you saw the movie "Alligator" and then you were either scared of sewers or you actually wanted to find the gators...

then you learned about what really goes through those pipes, and your desire to not catch hepatitis A kept you a healthy distance from most sewer entrances...

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I left my glasses at home, so I must wear my contacts...
they are bothering me right now, probably because I have not taken them off since Thursday last week...

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the snow had thawed, mostly, this past week. But it snowed again, covering the ground with about an inch at most...

but, over the course of the winter (which was sadly short this year, I going snowboarding all of three times this season) there has always been this pathway of thawed ground. No snow cover whatsoever, ever.

I thought this was neat, and I never inquired to the reason that these paths traversed the different buildings of the corporate campus...

So then I though I was seeing the paths of the underground access tunnels the suits use to hide the movement of the genetic experimentations and weapons research... The tunnels were obviously heated, thus causing the ground above it (as heat rises) to be warm enough to dissuade any amount of snow from accumulating...

this was, of course, ludicrous because I am on a corporate campus, so - duh - none of the experiments would take place here... those experiments take place offsite... in a mountain somewhere...

no... my imagination was shattered when I learned that they were nothing more than steam pipes...

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unless...

unless that is what "they" want us to believe...