Something went bump
Here we go: a visual indication of my dangerous environment.
That’s not a new coat of arms, or a corporate logo. This afternoon, while I had my two feet firmly on the ground floor, something went whump and buzz. The sensation was as if someone had hit the bottom of my feet with a fat hammer, and the obvious conclusion was that we’d just experienced a mild earthquake. With the help of the local university seismograph site, here’s the view from there. According to the federal government site, the epicentre was about 9 km away, and the estimated strength was a paltry 3.4, hardly enough to get excited over. We only suffer the shaken ground thing about once every five years, so it did capture my imagination. What if???
Now that the Idol contest is “getting dangerous”, I’d like to direct your attention to a site that tries to sway the masses. Over at “Vote For The Worst“, comic relief is everything. It turns out that there is a whole underground following for the Idol, an idle following, if you will. They’ve started doing statistical analysis of the dialed vote (sampling busy signals, etc.) and they also take great pleasure in sharing the details that Fox doesn’t dare. Currently the results from last evening are too close to call (excuse the pun), but we’re only minutes away from showtime where yet another willing lamb will be slaughtered for the rest of us.
Our contribution to the “heavy garbage” collection still hasn’t been removed (two older armchairs), but half of the structural metal from the gazebo has gone to enrich some scrapyard. Pity that the pickers couldn’t do the whole job.
