http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/11/28/shock-tunnel Comments On: Shock Tunnel by Charles Mudede en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:30:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Charles Mudede]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:07:18 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Charles Mudede]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:01:03 -0800 The Stranger
Nope.

I read: “From Austerlitz, a novel by an author I fell in love with this summer, W.G. Sebald (finishing Austerlitz, which happened this weekend, also meant finishing all of the books published during his life—he died in 2001):”

And then I stopped reading because you had already wasted too much of my time.

Re reading your piss poor prose I see my error (other than reading you at all). Sebald, not Austerlitz, is the author who died in 2001. It is all books by all authors published during Sebald’s lifetime that you pretend to have read. Frankly you made me care so little about the author that he became less than irrelevant to me before I finished your first "sentence."

I have to assume that the failure to clearly communicate is yours. The overwhelming body of evidence that is your “work” supports that conclusion. Taken collectively it resembles the rambling fever deliriums of a syphilitic imbecile. Taken individually, one must assume a monkey got hold of a lap top and was pounding random keys aided and abetted by auto fill and spell correct.

In short, you are a moronic boob and a bloated gas bag. Your efforts are puss weeping boils on the face of this already pox marked whore of a publication.
Posted by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:07:06 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Karlheinz Arschbomber]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 03:00:49 -0800 The Stranger Posted by yuiop]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 01:25:12 -0800 The Stranger Posted by neo-realist]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:06:34 -0800 The Stranger Posted by fixo]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:18:57 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Charles Mudede]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:49:08 -0800 The Stranger
"finishing Austerlitz, which happened this weekend, also meant finishing all of the books published during his life"

I assume you mean all of the books by Austerlitz published during his life, not all of the books published during his life.

You're actually just barely literate. Aren’t you?
Posted by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:32:31 -0800 The Stranger Posted by It's beautiful]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:30:42 -0800 The Stranger
That you bought on credit, and which will be eaten by hungry millionaires.

Look, everything is interconnected. I personally love tunnels, especially old coal train tunnels, but I know exactly what it takes to build them and what the actual costs are.
Posted by Will in Seattle]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:13:21 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Fnarf]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:55:10 -0800 The Stranger
And lighting, pumping (depending on water table), ventilation.

I stand by my Wake Up And Smell The Ecopolypse statement. Stick your head in the burning sands of the Oklahoma-centered Dust Bowl if you want, Fnarf.
Posted by Will in Seattle]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:04:50 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Fnarf]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:54:48 -0800 The Stranger
The most interesting London tunnel, though, is a bit upstream from there -- the tube from Wapping to Rotherhithe (formerly part of the Underground, it's now part of the East London Line of the Overground, which I don't understand at all because it is in fact under the ground, and under the water as well). It was built between 1825 and 1843, and was the first tunnel ever dug under a river. The link light rail that is currently being built in Seattle (and the Highway 99 tunnel along the waterfront coming soon) are both constructed using the shield technology that was invented by Isambard Kingdom Brunel here. You can still see some of the preserved detail of the old construction from the train and at the stations. It is one of the great engineering shrines of the world.
Posted by Fnarf]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:38:18 -0800 The Stranger
Provided you can afford them and don't mind that they quadruple your global warming emissions.
Posted by Will in Seattle]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:30:46 -0800 The Stranger