Monday morning

[owlmoose]

I've already gotten the weirdest question of the day, and it came literally as I was opening the front door:

"Find me any book with Walter Gropius's name on the cover."

At first we couldn't find anything (spelling error, in my defense I can only say that I haven't had my coffee yet), and so the student said that he'd just go to the "real" library. Thanks a lot, kid.

(We did manage to turn one up. He needed it for a book design class -- turns out he really did just care about the cover, not the content. Go figure.)

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[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Nope, no one is making any claims of that sort as far as I've heard. It appears to have been a legitimate accident, just an inexperienced driver taking a turn too fast. I don't know enough about construction materials to say for sure, but I think they already knew that a gasoline fire that hot would melt steel. Whether that has implications for future road construction, I don't know. It'll be interesting to see what all the fallout will be.

I don't make that particular drive all that often anymore, so it shouldn't affect my life on a daily basis. Back when I was crossing the Bay Bridge every day, it would have had a definite impact! One of many reasons I'm glad not to have that commute any more.

Thanks for asking! I actually first found out what had happened yesterday afternoon, when my brother called from Nashville to see if we'd been affected.