Quake 2
So we had a second Christchurch earthquake and this one wasn't so good.
But we survived.
Today the City Council lifted the boil water notice.
Perhaps it's time to blog again.
My new favorite Youtube
Lyrics:
Bernard Fanning - Wish You Well
New Radicals - Get What You Give
Facebook page:
Student Volunteer base for Earthquake Clean up
3 News report:
Students give up break to help quake victims
The Miracle Quake
Two days in and life is, surreally, starting to get back to normal, at least in my part of the city. How much damage have we really sustained? It's still hard to tell, but it all seems to be mostly building and infrastructure, not life. Which is awesome. We have a curfew on the central business district, but elsewhere it's mostly normal. Still a few thousand houses without power though.
I turn on the radio tonight to hear the word "miracle" being discussed in terms of what the quake didn't do. That's not something you hear every day. Or live through, I guess.
My house seems perfectly fine so far. Hopefully the next thing will just be cleanup at work. And sleep.
Earthquake!
At 4:35 am today, Christchurch was hit by a 7.1 Richter earthquake which has locked down our central business district and caused flooding and evacuations in the eastern suburbs, but miraculously it seems our death toll is minimal, if any. All my friends are ok. Addington seems to have plenty of power and water right now.
Updated Addington Space with quake news and forum.
Peace to everyone tonight.
Dan Dare, Fascism and Punk
These are things that I think we've lost, Prime Minister. That Britain has lost. And ever since Space Fleet and the UN fell apart, and the very idea of international cooperation went under, that's exactly what our nation has done: lost.
I first encountered the British space comic icon Dan Dare briefly and late in its Eagle incarnation, the 1967 and 68 Eagle Annuals to be exact, when the stories were atypically short and both the writing and artwork poor quality (the 1968 Annual has one of the worst storylines ever committed to paper: space microbes destroy Earth's entire space fleet with invisible ships. They're invisible because they're so tiny! buttheyhavefullsizelaserbeamsohnevermind.) I never read either the 1950s Frank Hampton version, with the long storylines and the Mekon, or the 1977 2000AD version, or the 1980s Eagle version, or the 1990 Grant Morrison political spoof or ...
(Warning: spoilers for the Garth Ennis 2008 Dan Dare graphic novel)
UFOs in Pennsylvania?
What is happening in Murraysville, Pennsylvania?
They don't look like planes to me - especially if you catch some of the other videos of them being single orbs of light, both stationary and pulsing, then adding new lights.
They also don't look like the classic media 'UFO' - you know, solid disc-shaped craft, what Spielberg did - but they DO look and act like some of the early actual UFO reports - the 'constellation of lights which change' configuration.
A very elaborate Youtube hoax? If it is, I'm impressed by the attention to detail. It's got my attention.
pod bay doors open
New year, new decade, new blog name and look. Let's try starting this thing again.
Our Glorious Three Components
Simon Talbot from Kraft Foods said: "The name Vegemite iSnack2.0 was chosen based on its personal call to action, relevance to snacking and clear identification of a new and different Vegemite to the original. We believe these three components completely encapsulate the new brand."
The call to iSnack action
Resounds throughout the land
Our glorious three components
Encapsulate the brand
On darkest breakfast tables
Dank dusty Vegemite
Made snacking near-irrelevant
Until we joined the fight
To feed the millions craving
Difference and novelty
We prayed to Kraft for a miracle
And lo! Processed CREAM CHEESE!
No mortal mind conceived this snack
'Twere born in circuit's glow!
In awe we serve to you on crackers
iSnack Two - Point - Ohhhh!
(iSnack 2.0 will now be known as CheesyBite. It's cheesy... and it bites! Kraft Foods would like to remind you that it is no longer directly related to the Philip Morris tobacco empire, since a whole couple of years ago, and would all you people please just shut up about that.)