i've been seeing a lot of weather-related news these couple of days; the recent (unwelcome) wet weather in Berkeley has also made me think more about the weather--it appears that while we humans have been able to pretty much tame (or should i say meddle with?) many 'forces of nature'... (i guess i'm thinking more along lines of medical advances, like cloning, organ reproduction and such) we still aren't that successful with the weather. i dun even mean natural disasters like earthquakes and volcano eruptions and such... just normal weather conditions... we still pretty much have to live with whatever happens every single day... it certainly isn't fun to wake up one day to find your house/car/whatever covered with sand! (like Beijing residents did yesterday?) or to have floods destroy your entire home... but then again, i guess i would still very much prefer to have no control over the weather, but instead live with it (at least we're lucky enough to have pretty reliable weather forecasts these days!) life would be increasingly unexciting if we manage to have everything at our beck and call? i would feel cheated if say every sunny day were due to human requests for sunny days (if that is ever possible...) or if we know for sure that there will be snow every Christmas....