Dispatch II: 5 November 2004. Arson, Part II
ATTENTION WILL VILL RESIDENTS
Over the past few days, several small and apparently intentional fires have been set in Stearns West and Stearns East. Although there were no major damages or injuries, the potential for injuries and property loss is alarming. Please be aware of your surroundings to help us keep our community safe. If you see a fire, pull the alarm and exit the building immediately. If you have any information about these fires, please tell your RA or the CU police immediately. The minimum consequences for anyone found responsible for arson is suspension and possible criminal charges.
These signs are in yellow paper so as to be highly visible. All emphasis is by the school, not me.
It's nice that they care about us so much, honestly. Still, it bothers me that we need the signs at all. Growing up as I did in small-town conservative Maryland where we feared God and loved our Country and drove big cars and you could leave your door unlocked and your diamonds strewn about the front yard--growing up as I did in small-town Maryland I always took it for granted that you shouldn't go around setting fires. The potential for injuries and property loss is, after all, alarming.
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It's very windy outside. If I open the window, I then find I cannot open the door, which pulls inward. The sky is also pitch black and it's really, in the end, all quite beautiful. I've tried getting pictures but none of them seem to want to turn out, unfortunately. It's a terrible thing. Nonetheless being a student at the University of Colorado I am surrounded constantly by beauty. It borders on the frightful how much of it there is here. Everywhere, man, everywhere. Need to get pictures up on my website.
Anyway I've got some free time. Why am I not writing? I mean... I mean like story writing. I keep intending to do this and it keeps slipping my mind. Then, when I develop a little bit of free time here and there, I use it to create blogs and then play around with statistics for two hours. I love numbers.
More numbers, for fun. Story ratings from a site I visit--the stories are written on a scale from one to ten, and these come from a random sampling:
1 = 0
2 = 0
3 = 3
4 = 8
5 = 18
6 = 8
7 = 46
8 = 62
9 = 158
10 = 45
Is this website destined to produce an army of Pulitzer prizewinners, or are the ratings simply terribly skewed in favour of giving everyone a '9'? You be the judge.
-Alex
Over the past few days, several small and apparently intentional fires have been set in Stearns West and Stearns East. Although there were no major damages or injuries, the potential for injuries and property loss is alarming. Please be aware of your surroundings to help us keep our community safe. If you see a fire, pull the alarm and exit the building immediately. If you have any information about these fires, please tell your RA or the CU police immediately. The minimum consequences for anyone found responsible for arson is suspension and possible criminal charges.
These signs are in yellow paper so as to be highly visible. All emphasis is by the school, not me.
It's nice that they care about us so much, honestly. Still, it bothers me that we need the signs at all. Growing up as I did in small-town conservative Maryland where we feared God and loved our Country and drove big cars and you could leave your door unlocked and your diamonds strewn about the front yard--growing up as I did in small-town Maryland I always took it for granted that you shouldn't go around setting fires. The potential for injuries and property loss is, after all, alarming.
***
It's very windy outside. If I open the window, I then find I cannot open the door, which pulls inward. The sky is also pitch black and it's really, in the end, all quite beautiful. I've tried getting pictures but none of them seem to want to turn out, unfortunately. It's a terrible thing. Nonetheless being a student at the University of Colorado I am surrounded constantly by beauty. It borders on the frightful how much of it there is here. Everywhere, man, everywhere. Need to get pictures up on my website.
Anyway I've got some free time. Why am I not writing? I mean... I mean like story writing. I keep intending to do this and it keeps slipping my mind. Then, when I develop a little bit of free time here and there, I use it to create blogs and then play around with statistics for two hours. I love numbers.
More numbers, for fun. Story ratings from a site I visit--the stories are written on a scale from one to ten, and these come from a random sampling:
1 = 0
2 = 0
3 = 3
4 = 8
5 = 18
6 = 8
7 = 46
8 = 62
9 = 158
10 = 45
Is this website destined to produce an army of Pulitzer prizewinners, or are the ratings simply terribly skewed in favour of giving everyone a '9'? You be the judge.
-Alex
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