I feel the earth move, under my feet
 

4.1 quake a few minutes ago. Centered in Milpitas.

I seem to have been the only one to feel it on the 6th floor of my Financial District building. Which is odd, I'm usually the the oblivious one.

I felt it too, my cubicle mate did not.

Yeah, thanks, now I have Carly Simon in my head.

You are mistaken. Earthquake weather is hot and dry. Anything that happens not during hot and dry conditions is not an earthquake.

Compared to my coworkers in Delaware, it is hot and dry here. Maybe, like humidity, earthquake weather is relative.

I always think of millipedes when I hear "Milpitas". And, well, when I hear "Placentia" I think of... never mind, yuck.

http://twilightheadquarters.com/placenta.html

That is the grossest thing I have ever seen.
WARNING: It's really freaking gross. I am warning you.

I was in a meeting (yay) at my office in Mountain View and we felt on medium jolt and then nothing else. Now I'm home and there is apparently no damage and the cats aren't noticeably more (or less) psycho than usual.

Hey! I grew up in Placentia!

Sure, presumably if you're going to eat it, you'd prefer it taste good.

That said, I'm not all that ugged out. If it weren't complete social taboo, and if it could be acquired ethically, and I'd if it weren't for an extremely heightened risk of food-borne illness, I'd be willing to try haunch o' human.

Placenta would fall into that realm of meat products I don't expect to be very pleasant but there's only one way to know.

What do you think of when you hear "Los Banos?"

Exactly what you'd think I'd think.

And whenever I hear "Pico Rivera" I picture some short Latino kid following Geraldo around.

I won't be eating my placenta but I wouldn't begrudge anyone who did. Seriously.

I spent 9 months making a steak...why not get some nutrition out of it?

Ok, it's not really a steak. In fact, they say it doesn't taste good at all and needs some serious processing to get it palatable. However, if it were tasty, I'd be oddly tempted. A rare treat, eh?

Earthquake to Placenta eating in nothing flat. :D Glad to hear it wasn't too big a quake...

(BTW I thought quake weather was hazy...)

Placenta: it's what's for dinner.

That's only in LA, but that's only because it's ALWAYS hazy. It's like saying the sun rising causes earthquakes since, afterall, every time there's been an earthquake, the sun had risen something within 24hrs preceding it.

Sorry hun, I'll still take c0ck: the other white meat. :D

I think we just had another one. Either that, or someone ran into our building in Santa Ana.


ETA: Apparently, it was a 4.3 near Banning

4.3, near Beaumont.

We didn't feel it in Long Beach.

Could you imagine being at Lisa's house when an earthquake hits? All those cats screaming and darting around... It might feel like you're inside a blender.

:D

The same dog can be seen here and here.

I love this comment:

No, I didn't feel it, but Haiti 7.0 today.

Seems I missed Haiti Vista.

I still prefer Haiti XP though

I just read about that. Yikes...

I'm probably behind the times on this but I just found out I could donate $5 to the Red Cross to aid in disaster relief via text message.

Text: give to 24357

Great for lazy people like me who still want to help