Water Floats Your Boat

 The Suez Canal is free, free at last, thank god-ah-might, free at last. The stuck container ship is unstuck and that's thanks in large part to an unnamed Egyptian youngster that posed the question, "why don't you all just pour more water into the canal?" And then PRESTO, the stuck container ship floats free. Gosh and I'll bet about two or three hundred hard pressed engineers didn't think of that. Thanks unnamed questioning Egyptian youngster, you've saved the day and the canal and global shipping concerns owe you a 'titanic' debt of gratitude. Get it? There's that comedy thingy again. 'Titanic' and floating boats? With a possible exception being the Titanic didn't float so well after being "breached" by that pointy damn iceberg. So and evidently, the stuck container ship got stuck in the Suez Canal on account of the wind blowing really ferociously (?) off the Sahara Desert, and blowing damn hard enough to "push" that annoyingly top heavy container cargo ship right into the sand on the shore of the Suez Canal. Damn, don't you just hate it when that happens. The wind was a blowing really hard out of the south just yesterday out on the Salt Flats and blew several big trucks and trailers over. On I-80 east and west bound. Dang, don't you just hate it when that happens. Got the interstate stuck. However the interstate being blocked by toppled big rigs isn't quite the same as blocking the only dang waterway that grants shipping concerns access to the world so the shipping concerns don't have to sail around Cape Agulhas or Cape of Needles if you don't understand the Portuguese. Yup, that'd be me. Anyway, I think that's what they call the very southern tip of Africa...'Cape Agulhas'. So it seems that little Egyptian kids were having some sport with that stuck shipping container ship and were throwing rocks and camel cakes at the stuck ship. Bless they little pointy heads and kids will be kids just about in any part of our painfully climate changed world. The guys on the stuck ship were yelling at the youngsters to quit throwing rocks and camel cakes at their stuck ship and the Egyptian kids simply told the guys on the ship to "piss off." Of course the youngsters were yelling in Arabic or possibly Egyptian and I'm not certain as to if there might be any difference language wise. The youngster were daring the guys on the trapped ship to come down off the ship and try to stop them from throwing shit and the guys manning that stuck container ship wanted none of those kids. The Egyptian youngsters did cheer however after all those genius engineer guys got the boat to float once again. Hurray and the global economy is SAVED! The entire episode was pretty damn funny. However, I'm not invested in any global shipping or engineering concerns so I really didn't care if the ship was unstuck or if the engineers figured they'd have to cut the container ship in half. I mean really... moving on to the machine art segment of today's program. 

wildlife in the surreal -

work work work work work will set you free and save the Suez Canal -

now that the container ship is unstuck I'm thinking somebody somewhere has some 'splainin' to do. :]