Thursday, October 10, 2019

California Returns to 'Dark Ages' During Power Outages (and Alphaville blogger J. Kelly is a criminal)

The headlines are gut-wrenching:
  • 'This Is Going To End Ugly': California's Power Outage Drags On 
  • California’s power outage continues, situation turns chaotic
  • Power Outage California – News Reports Are Grim
  • California buckles under massive power, communications outage
  • California: Chaos After Major Power Outage
Okay, you're on to me.
Those are actually headlines from Venezuela's electricity crisis last Spring with California substituted for Venezuela.

This little exercise was prompted by a) news of the rolling blackouts instituted by the state and the power companies in an attempt to reduce the fire risk of running the 'leccy to people who chose to live in remote, forested areas that have been prone to fires for millennia but are now catastrophic when they occur, and b) the thought of how dependent we all are on keeping that juice flowing,

Which in turn was prompted by a colleague's comment on electric cars now being charged off gasoline powered generators and by this from the editor of the Financial Times' flagship online property, FT Alphaville:
If you read the story you'll see Ms. Kelly described as:
The author is a writer for FT Alphaville.
Which is at variance with the description of Kelly in the Sark Newspaper as a "blogger" and a "Princess".
See "It's Incredible that an institution as well respected as the FT would stoop to this level" if interested.
So is it "Criminal blogger Princess" or "Criminal Princess blogger"? I get confused by the rules.

Order of adjectives
How to order adjectives in English

In many languages, adjectives denoting attributes usually occur in a specific order. Generally, the adjective order in English is:
  1. Quantity or number
  2. Quality or opinion
  3. Size
  4. Age
  5. Shape
  6. Color
  7. Proper adjective (often nationality, other place of origin, or material)
  8. Purpose or qualifier
In the meantime, until I puzzle that out I'll check  NetBlocks to see if their real-time internet usage info is as useful in tracking the California outages as it was for Venezuela's.

I'm leaning toward "The Princess Blogger".
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