The GPS vernier control was way off yesterday- I got pummeled by awful weather off and on all day and Dollar Store Despot got all kinds of aviation flyover action.
You're not hurting to people you're supposed to be hurting.
I didn't know about the bottlecap challenge, where a bumch of martial arts [ and other ]
do a spin and side-kick to unscrew the cap off a bottle.
I saw this first, but then went and found out why it is not only really cool, it is
…..art. https://twitter.com/Complex/status/11464035880481…
Yes. This was literally about 20 minutes ago. My dogs even got up and were looking around. It was very strong but rolling. and it lasted about 15 seconds.
It's just a little jiggling. It's not like we live in brick houses. Everything here's built to roll with it.
Also too the wine and the medical cannabis helps.
Now, that's what I call Prepping.
You'll know it's bad when we stop posting comments because we've been smashed alive in our houses. I got off my couch to check the water in the pool, which honestly was sloshing pretty dramatically, but then I came back in and haven't gotten off the couch since.
I mean, really, whadda ya going to do? Everything's earthquake proofed, it is what it is.
Yeah, *whew*. Glad you're all still safe.
I always keep a healthy supply of rum in the house, for natural disaster reasons.
Now they've renamed yesterday's shaker as a "foreshock" and this is the "main shock". Wait until the big one hits and all the other names will be changed.
I do not want to wait around for that one.
Word on the street is that the worst damage is on the base, but it's restricted. They'll tell us what they want us to know.
I remember during the northridge quake and the 10 freeway through the west side was closed for six months because one section just went SPLAT. And all the older, poorly-built apartments around Cal State Northridge pancaked, it was so sad, horrible. And the parking structure at CSUN just rolled over onto its side like a souffle collapsing.
I was in Playa del Rey during the Sylmar quake. It was rude, threw me out of bed. Got up and stood in the doorway and watched the pool over my back fence empty itself. Then my radio alarm clock went off and the first song they played was that Shango number I posted below.
Oh yikes that's some scary shit.
When the Northridge quake hit I remember realizing instantly that this was a big one and I lept out of bed and raced outside. My parents were ahead of me heading outside, but they were giggling, hahahaha, they just wanted to see the water sloshing in the pool. They thought this was so much fun.
That was the moment I realized that they were declining and could not longer be left to their own devices. It was almost scarier to watch how casual they were about the quake than the quake was itself. And that sucker was BAD.
I didn't feel the big'n, but I felt a little aftershock a few minutes ago. I'm about 120 miles northwest of Ridgecrest, and Searles Lake is about 15-20 miles east from there.
I think Northridge about about 7.4? Don't remember right now. But the difference is that the Northridge one happened in a densely urban area. This is out in the desert, although it is probably triggering a lot of PTSD for Northridge survivors right now.
Seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones said the 6.4 is now a foreshock, and the new, larger quake was on the same fault and part of the same sequence.
So the M6.4 was a foreshock. This was a M7.1 on the same fault as has been producing the Searles Valley sequence. This is part of the same sequence –
— Dr. Lucy Jones (@DrLucyJones) July 6, 2019
It's refreshing to see a 21st century widespread instant communications medium distributing desperately needed, evidence-based knowledge. For a change.
I wonder what research Love Knitting and Love Crochet did before deciding to pool their web presence under the Love Crafts brand.
All hail our great Lord Cthulhu!|
Are there any Old Gods on Ravelry? If so, it's interesting that they'll accept tentacled mind-destroying nightmare beings from beyond spacetime, but they draw the line at Nazis.
I'm with you there. Going to a memorial service for a cuz that's gonna be on her birthday. My bride and I are taking party hats just because she was a happy gal and wouldn't want us being morose.
Suzuki will be representing Kagome in the Tokyo Marathon on Saturday 21 February and intends to wear the Tomatan robot during a 5km fun run, with Tosa running beside him with tools just in case the robot stops working or Suzuki encounters a problem.
A bigger problem than running a 5K while eating tomatoes from a weird automated hat and trying not to choke or vomit?
Kagome worked together with a Japanese artistic studio known as Maywa Denki, which is well known for making unusual musical instruments and other devices.
There's more, but I haven't gotten past "Country Roads".
“Naki” series – nonsense objects done in a fish motif, “Edelweiss” – arty objects done in a flower motif; and “Tsukuba” – their line of musical instruments. Their onstage musical instruments include one that resembles the mating of a xylophone and a helicopter, a robot rigged to play guitar, and various strange percussion instruments.
I need to find out what "the mating of a xylophone and a helicopter" sounds like.
The AP link
“We don’t know if he might even have two squirrels,”
DEEZNUTS!
I'm thinking "Smokey and the Bandit" remake.
[ no not that Smokey ]
Nice time
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/11472282297842…
The question remains, will she boycott the White House?
[Whoa if true!]
<img src="http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/lol.gif" width="300" height="300">
Also, was myself just at The Beast for this
this
https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/11472576…
When knife crime just isn't sufficient.
Teleprompter
https://mobile.twitter.com/ManlnTheHoody/status/1…
This is excellent.
[ Related ]
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https://mobile.twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/…
Buffoons
https://mobile.twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/114…
OMG!!
UNCIVIIL !!!!!!!11111111111111111111
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Awesome.
I would add e pluribus fucem
faecibus exturbandis opitulatur est in porta
Sorry was on the road for the 4th..still getting caught up
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Ahh. That explains why the storms weren't a direct hit on the idiot.
I had to leave the weather control thingamajig on auto/timer control.
The GPS vernier control was way off yesterday- I got pummeled by awful weather off and on all day and Dollar Store Despot got all kinds of aviation flyover action.
You're not hurting to people you're supposed to be hurting.
<img src="https://i.imgflip.com/1njxwa.gif">
I didn't know about the bottlecap challenge, where a bumch of martial arts [ and other ]
do a spin and side-kick to unscrew the cap off a bottle.
I saw this first, but then went and found out why it is not only really cool, it is
…..art.
https://twitter.com/Complex/status/11464035880481…
I suppose you could watch the challenge history first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIpoqHVJlGw
She cheated. The cap is loose, and she hit it on the wrong side to unscrew it anyway. Lefty-loosy, damn it!
OFFS.
Who else wants a live monkey?
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1147282769527…
Fuck those things, they're monsters.
I just felt a doozy of a rolling earthquake. My pool was sloshing.
Pool? Luxury!
It's old. Needs to be re-plastered.
Biff, it is saying 7.1 at Ridgecrest, are you OK? If I felt it all the way here it must have been bad at your place.
Jesus H.
|USGS Big Quakes @USGSBigQuakes
Prelim M7.1 Earthquake 35.767, -117.605 Jul-06 03:19 UTC, updates https://go.usa.gov/xyDfq |
There's an active cluster just west of Ridgefield (USGS site is maxed out, but the | Global Incident Map | earthquake tracker is still loading fast).
Duck, cover, run outside and do whatever you need to stay safe, folks!
If you go on Twitter and put in "Ridgecrest Earthquake" there are people all the way up on Sacto showing videos of their pools sloshing.
Apparently it was felt really strongly down in LA, too.
Holy cow, now there's a cluster of 7 3-4 magnitude hits north and east of the big one, by Little Lake.
Fortunately there's not much out there, it's the Mojave, but still.
Yeah, that's what the Aliens want you to think.
If aliens are behind this and my Hummels fall off the shelf and break, well they just damn well better have good insurance.
| I can hook you up with a fantastic policy ,| but it won't help all that much.
Yet.
Haha, "does it have functional, or rudimentary wings?"
"Honey, can you see if the the are stars right?"
"HONEY IT'S DAYTIME!"
This is classic.
Oops I may have inadvertently left HAARP running while I was out of town
THANKS A LOT
This is almost as bad as what happened to Anak Krakatau after that staff Christmas party.
Worse, apparently there was also a timequake
https://mobile.twitter.com/doctorow/status/114734…
NaNNaN:NaN:NaN
NaNNaN:NaN:NaN
Hey hey, goodbye.
I went through | Cheesequake | one time. Wasn't that bad.
Probably prone to cheeto subduction zone events.
The land is still rebounding from being covered in mile deep cheese during the Parmesanocene Epoch .
https://youtu.be/K7jiCCqPn_Q
This is what I'll be doing after Gruyèreland melts.
btw 3 to 4's are the equivalent of the dog scratching itself and shaking the bed.
Are aftershocks still happening?
I'm feeling some here.
Is that a different one from this?
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/navy-s-china-lake…
Yes. This was literally about 20 minutes ago. My dogs even got up and were looking around. It was very strong but rolling. and it lasted about 15 seconds.
USGS was predicting stronger aftershocks yesterday and it looks like here they are.
Welcome, little aftershocks! Now settle down!
The earth is moving. that's just Wrong.
It's just a little jiggling. It's not like we live in brick houses. Everything here's built to roll with it.
Also too the wine and the medical cannabis helps.
Now, that's what I call Prepping.
You'll know it's bad when we stop posting comments because we've been smashed alive in our houses. I got off my couch to check the water in the pool, which honestly was sloshing pretty dramatically, but then I came back in and haven't gotten off the couch since.
I mean, really, whadda ya going to do? Everything's earthquake proofed, it is what it is.
Yeah, *whew*. Glad you're all still safe.
I always keep a healthy supply of rum in the house, for natural disaster reasons.
That is the best earthquake safety kit.
I reckon it's a new one
It has to have been an aftershock.
Now they've renamed yesterday's shaker as a "foreshock" and this is the "main shock". Wait until the big one hits and all the other names will be changed.
I do not want to wait around for that one.
Word on the street is that the worst damage is on the base, but it's restricted. They'll tell us what they want us to know.
I remember during the northridge quake and the 10 freeway through the west side was closed for six months because one section just went SPLAT. And all the older, poorly-built apartments around Cal State Northridge pancaked, it was so sad, horrible. And the parking structure at CSUN just rolled over onto its side like a souffle collapsing.
I was in Playa del Rey during the Sylmar quake. It was rude, threw me out of bed. Got up and stood in the doorway and watched the pool over my back fence empty itself. Then my radio alarm clock went off and the first song they played was that Shango number I posted below.
Oh yikes that's some scary shit.
When the Northridge quake hit I remember realizing instantly that this was a big one and I lept out of bed and raced outside. My parents were ahead of me heading outside, but they were giggling, hahahaha, they just wanted to see the water sloshing in the pool. They thought this was so much fun.
That was the moment I realized that they were declining and could not longer be left to their own devices. It was almost scarier to watch how casual they were about the quake than the quake was itself. And that sucker was BAD.
Sorry about your folks.
They were old.
Hey wait a minute–I'm old!
Well maybe now you are.
All good here, thanks!
I'm so glad.
Welp, another earthquake.
7.16.9, same neighborhood as yesterday.Are you OK?
I didn't feel the big'n, but I felt a little aftershock a few minutes ago. I'm about 120 miles northwest of Ridgecrest, and Searles Lake is about 15-20 miles east from there.
So that means something in the arrangement of the fault lines is making it radiate northwest, and west, but not northeast, then.
I'm glad you're OK.
Yikes. Is this larger than the Northridge one?
| James Aydelott@jamesaydelott
Oklahoma seismogram showing seismic shock from 6.9 magnitude earthquake more than 1,000 miles away near Ridgecrest, CA |
<img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-w1RzaUYAA-9lK.jpg"/>
I think Northridge about about 7.4? Don't remember right now. But the difference is that the Northridge one happened in a densely urban area. This is out in the desert, although it is probably triggering a lot of PTSD for Northridge survivors right now.
[6.7]
Ah. Thanks.
Seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones said the 6.4 is now a foreshock, and the new, larger quake was on the same fault and part of the same sequence.
So the M6.4 was a foreshock. This was a M7.1 on the same fault as has been producing the Searles Valley sequence. This is part of the same sequence –
— Dr. Lucy Jones (@DrLucyJones) July 6, 2019
Part of the same sequence. Ok got it. DR. LUCY YOU'RE NOT HELPING
She's on MSNBC right now.
She is a force of nature, that Dr. Lucy Jones.
Famous Dr. Lucy Jones.
Luckily, Ridgecrest is a low town, the biggest buildings might be 3 stories high.
My internet backbone runs through there, so it's bound to get sketchier now with everyone looking at it online.
Well I'm glad you're safe.
|Jared Leighton@JLeighton_wx
10 minutes ago
Picture from Ridgecrest, CA showing a smoke column from burning structure(s) in town. #Earthquake. Prelim M7.1.|
<img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-w4EErWsAArDXx.jpg"/>
Oh no.
Things are on fire, but it looks like the power's still on so that's good.
Yes. That's encouraging.
The news is saying 1300 without power.
Awshit
[Day After Day]
This song is a whole lot funner than I remember it being! Haven't heard it in ages.
It came on the air literally seconds after the big Sylmar quake threw me out of bed.
Synchronicity!
Y'all stay safe down there. And also & too you don't have to share – we're also over due for the big one.
https://twitter.com/jedent/status/114735328502145…
Whoa is that what yours looked like?
No. Mine was mild in comparison.
The dog : do it again do it again do it again
Wow
https://twitter.com/chuckletmilk/status/114734878…
No.
Scroll just a bit.
https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/11473457196840…
Wow good thread.
Go here:
https://twitter.com/USGSBigQuakes/status/11473451…
ha!
https://mobile.twitter.com/JasonIsbell/status/114…
This is really putting a crimp in my murder fantasies for my next door neighbor's miserable fucking rooster.
We can have chickens, but the City bans the roosters. Amazing how many "hen's" can do the cock-a-doodle-do-wha-ditty-ditty.
The name of my college friend's Tune They Played To Get Everyone To Leave at the end of the night was called "Rip the chicken's head off"
I wish I remembered how it went.
Two-day long Space Mika earthquake thread
https://mobile.twitter.com/mikamckinnon/status/11…
This is great Twitter.
It's refreshing to see a 21st century widespread instant communications medium distributing desperately needed, evidence-based knowledge. For a change.
"In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits knitting."
|Caro@Liwella
I wonder what research Love Knitting and Love Crochet did before deciding to pool their web presence under the Love Crafts brand.
All hail our great Lord Cthulhu!|
<img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-yMg-EXUAA_cOI.jpg"/>
Are there any Old Gods on Ravelry? If so, it's interesting that they'll accept tentacled mind-destroying nightmare beings from beyond spacetime, but they draw the line at Nazis.
Don't blame them.
Heading to Rockford, IL Mon-Wed next week. Only low 80s, but sky-high humidity. Could be so very much worse.
Personally, I prefer earthquakes over humidity.
I'm with you there. Going to a memorial service for a cuz that's gonna be on her birthday. My bride and I are taking party hats just because she was a happy gal and wouldn't want us being morose.
https://mobile.twitter.com/captainkalvis/status/1…
They'll just set of a whole lot of fertilizer bombs.
<img src="https://media.giphy.com/media/q86Rc75XLVy3S/giphy.gif"/>
Go [West,] young man!
Go [West,] young man!
That young man is funny.
Tomatobot
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/meet-tomatan-wearable-r…
It's a'bot time.
Suzuki will be representing Kagome in the Tokyo Marathon on Saturday 21 February and intends to wear the Tomatan robot during a 5km fun run, with Tosa running beside him with tools just in case the robot stops working or Suzuki encounters a problem.
A bigger problem than running a 5K while eating tomatoes from a weird automated hat and trying not to choke or vomit?
Kagome worked together with a Japanese artistic studio known as Maywa Denki, which is well known for making unusual musical instruments and other devices.
Of course, I just had to go and look at these | "unusual musical instruments" | and | watch them play. |
I'll never understand much of Japanese culture but this is magnificently weird.
Wow, that video, i can't look away
There's more, but I haven't gotten past "Country Roads".
“Naki” series – nonsense objects done in a fish motif, “Edelweiss” – arty objects done in a flower motif; and “Tsukuba” – their line of musical instruments. Their onstage musical instruments include one that resembles the mating of a xylophone and a helicopter, a robot rigged to play guitar, and various strange percussion instruments.
I need to find out what "the mating of a xylophone and a helicopter" sounds like.
Thaanks Otama.
What other items do customers buy after viewing this item?
Obamaphone!
Here, have [this]
'shrooms?
.357?
Didn't this make the "best of wonkville" contest a few years ago? SPS would know.
It's possible; I've slept since then
Late entry in #unwantedivanka
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Pelosi: not really helping
https://mobile.twitter.com/joshjame/status/114761…
https://mobile.twitter.com/ShahidForChange