Maeda's SIMPLICITY

Beach Interrupted

Snow looks best at night.

As I waited for the guests to arrive on the Cape, I wondered how nature could deal me such a great blow. Could an event that was so meticulously planned be unable to properly control the weather? Nonsense.

In a hotel in Beijing last month, with my morning newspaper I received a little bookmark-sized printout of the weather in Beijing. The "Mostly Cloudy" option was checked off. For a nervous but brief moment, I wondered what would happen if I checked off the "Sunny" option. Would I then look out the window and see the sun appear? I was too afraid to give it a go at that moment in China. The legal system there kind of scared me.

I brought my little weather bookmark along with me to the Cape and checked off "Sunny" to see if it would work. Instead I got "Snow." I immediately thought that there must have been an English-to-Chinese translation error on the little weather strip.

To my surprise, the next day it became sunny! I think I've found a new career ...

Tomasz Zemla in Canada contributes, "You might enjoy the movie about a man who successfully checked off the 'clean air' weather option: [here]." I enjoyed it greatly.

Posted by maeda at March 29, 2005 12:01 AM