Yes I love that song from Vanilla Ice (Ice Ice Baby), but that's not what this is about. Two nights ago we felt a 4.7 Magnitude earthquake (I rounded it up to 5 for the title) at our apartment in Huntington Beach. It was funny/confusing because Sadie had just let Fifi to go potty outside and then just as she walked back in the door, the rumbling began. I happened to be standing by the couch and I just grabbed her hand and stared at her. I think we were both sort of paralyzed by the movement, but it was pretty mild and short lived. It lasted maybe 15 seconds. As soon as it stopped Sadie said "should we go under the doorway"? And I replyed, "I was worried about the TV"!
That's the second earthquake that I've felt since moving out here in 2003. The first one was also at this apartment in Huntington Beach, just several months ago...I was home one afternoon for a lunch break and had laid down on the couch for a nap. I was pretty out of it. I had fallen asleep watching some discovery channel show about plate techtonics and massive erruptions (no kidding). Along with having the show in my subconscious, just before the earthquake a big huge garbage truck was in our alley, right next to the apartment picking up the dumpsters and banging them up and down. So imagine waking up hearing the truck banging and banging the dumpster, seeing the TV show about plate techtonics and feeling the whole apartment shake! I was thoroughly confused. I remember running into the office and holding onto the flat monitor thinking it would surely fall over!
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
To Blog or NOT to Blog???
What the heck is a blog anyway? It honestly sounds like Black Frog - BLOG. I mean seriously, why is there such a need to invent new ridiculous terms that there are already perfectly good words for?
Wikipedia describes a blog as: A blog (a contraction of the term weblog) is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video.
So WebLog is the origin of the word apparently, and because it was such a long and hard word to say it needed to be shortened to "blog".
Anyway, I started this internet based journal for purely popularity reasons. It seems to be the thing to do now, and there is a very slight chance that I could become rich and famous from it. So all of you hundreds/thousands of readers....stay tuned.
Wikipedia describes a blog as: A blog (a contraction of the term weblog) is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video.
So WebLog is the origin of the word apparently, and because it was such a long and hard word to say it needed to be shortened to "blog".
Anyway, I started this internet based journal for purely popularity reasons. It seems to be the thing to do now, and there is a very slight chance that I could become rich and famous from it. So all of you hundreds/thousands of readers....stay tuned.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
And Then There Were None...
So I watched an interesting TV show this weekend called "Life After People", a History Channel take on what would happen to the earth if people disappeared or suddenly got wiped out. I've always pondered this idea, because compared to the overall life of the planet we have existed for just a blink of an eye. Even the dinosaurs made it millions of years longer than we have so far, and their remnants are just scattered bones.
It showed how in a few hundred years the planet would easily take back over all of our so called modern marvels and bustling cities. The oceans would flourish again with overwhelming life, recovering from humans treating it like their own personal sewer/fish market. All of our engineering and technology would be no match to weathering, oxidation and corrosion. Famous structures like the Eiffel Tower, Golden Gate Bridge and Empire State Building would make it maybe 100 years before collapsing into rusted rubble. Its amazing how often man has to continually maintain all these structures to keep the elements from taking control.
Even our digital media and film records (DVD's, CD's, hard drives, fixed disks, and all other memory written devices) would make it maybe 200 years before succumbing to humidity, warping and cracking then eventually turning back into dust. It seems that the ancient Egyptians had a better grasp on maintaining their history, buildings, wall paintings/carvings than our present modern societies.
Bottom line is that without constant human intervention to maintain our everyday modern ways of life, planet earth would quickly wrap its motherly arms around itself and bring back a homeostasis of pure...true life. People sure are arrogant to think we are timeless. Great idea for a series History Channel. Check it out: http://www.history.com/content/life_after_people/about-the-show
It showed how in a few hundred years the planet would easily take back over all of our so called modern marvels and bustling cities. The oceans would flourish again with overwhelming life, recovering from humans treating it like their own personal sewer/fish market. All of our engineering and technology would be no match to weathering, oxidation and corrosion. Famous structures like the Eiffel Tower, Golden Gate Bridge and Empire State Building would make it maybe 100 years before collapsing into rusted rubble. Its amazing how often man has to continually maintain all these structures to keep the elements from taking control.
Even our digital media and film records (DVD's, CD's, hard drives, fixed disks, and all other memory written devices) would make it maybe 200 years before succumbing to humidity, warping and cracking then eventually turning back into dust. It seems that the ancient Egyptians had a better grasp on maintaining their history, buildings, wall paintings/carvings than our present modern societies.
Bottom line is that without constant human intervention to maintain our everyday modern ways of life, planet earth would quickly wrap its motherly arms around itself and bring back a homeostasis of pure...true life. People sure are arrogant to think we are timeless. Great idea for a series History Channel. Check it out: http://www.history.com/content/life_after_people/about-the-show
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