Book passages

[glacier_kitty]

So I just finished reading Murder on Mt. McKinley (there were more typos, but nothing like the previous book) and it was interesting reading an Alaska novel from a non-Alaskan author lol. Here are some interesting passages:

"In the distance was the Alaska Range and there was the object of my visit, Mt. McKinley, 130 miles away. I took it all in before picking up my menu and scanning the listings for dinner. No moose. That was a good start." (Whaaat..moose is delicious!! Haha. I don't think you're allowed to serve moose at restaurants anyway..)

"A related group is called the Yupik. They live adjacent to them and also over there in Russia." Only in Alaska is Russia "over there"

I'd selected it because it was reputed to be relatively free of hazards and required no technical climbing. I'd mentioned it to a climbing friend who pointed out that given the general ease of the ascent McKinley was known as "The MidLife Crisis Mountain." (I have never heard it called that before, but I found a site from Google that says it has that nickname lol. I doubt it's THAT easy to climb though..)

And then there was this sentence: "We had breakfast in the dark the next morning." Umm..they were climbing the mountain in July..IT DOESN'T GET DARK HERE IN JULY!! OMG lol. There are other parts in the book that mention darkness too (like "after dark.." Really?!)

And later in the book was THIS sentence: "This time of year at this elevation, over 17,000 feet, the sun disappeared from view but the night never grew entirely dark." Wow, way to contradict yourself. And I think he meant latitude..eesh. These books are interesting but very poorly edited :/


That would be this, so that would be pointless too :P

1 Day- A Screenshot of your desktop at the moment.
2 Day- A Screenshot of your tumblr page.
3 Day- A Screenshot of your facebook page.
4 Day- A Screenshot of your favourite comment (any comment).
5 Day- A Screenshot of your favourite youtube user.
6 Day- A Screenshot of your twitter.
7 Day- A Screenshot of your blog.
8 Day- A Screenshot of your crush’s page (accepted famous people).
9 Day- A Screenshot of a song that you are listening a lot lately, played in your favourite program.
10 Day- A Screenshot of your favourite online game.
11 Day- A Screenshot of the last thing you wrote on your computer.
12 Day- A Screenshot that makes you laugh.
13 Day- A Screenshot of your favourite pc game while playing it.
14 Day- A Screenshot of your youtube account.
15 Day- A Screenshot of the person you consider most beautiful on your friends list on facebook (boy or girl, your choice).
16 Day- A Screenshot of your history web.
17 Day- A Screenshot of your contact connected at msn.
18 Day- A Screenshot of your e-mail.
19 Day- A Screenshot of your browser.
20 Day- A Screenshot of google right now.
21 Day- A Screenshot of your last download.
22 Day- A Screenshot of your last asked/responded question.
23 Day- A Screenshot of your description of your tumblr.
24 Day- A Screenshot of your favourite book researched in google.
25 Day- A Screenshot of your favourite music video playing.
26 Day- A Screenshot of the official web page of your favourite band.
27 Day- A Screenshot of all your songs from your favourite band
28 Day- A Screenshot of your anti-virus.
29 Day- A Screenshot of one of your favourite webpages.
30 Day- A Screenshot showing how much memory you have left on your local disk.


Today's trivia: A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth from up to five miles away