KQED reports: Pieces Finally Falling Into Place for Earthquake Warnings in California
We still can’t predict them, but data is faster than seismic waves, so we can give people away from the epicenter a few seconds of warning.
That’s enough to pull your car over, put down a scalpel, climb down from a ladder, get away from a rickety building or under a sturdy desk, etc. The tech is credited with saving lives in last fall’s Mexico City earthquake.
Maybe it’s the Minecraft version? 😉
Some kind of utility box, spotted in San Diego last week.
Interesting vocab mixup with the 7YO last night: He agreed to stop a game at “the first save point” and get ready for bed. When he didn’t, he said he hadn’t gotten to a “safe point” yet.
It turned out he didn’t understand what a save point was, because all the games he’s played up until now either don’t save progress at all, or save continuously.
You know what I miss about CDs and other physical music media?
Liner notes.
Art, lyrics, sometimes stories…
…and credits. Who is that familiar-sounding background singer? Who wrote the song? Is it a cover? This one really reminds me of a certain composer, lyricist, or arranger’s style – can I confirm that?
The performer and title are easy to get, even if it’s not in your own library.
But the rest? If the song is notable enough for Wikipedia, great. Otherwise, who knows?
(This post brought to you by trying to figure out just how many songs on a Bonnie Tyler compilation were written by Jim Steinman.)
They were everywhere. But at least most of them were out of the way.
Kiddo’s been wanting to learn programming, with the ultimate goal of modding Minecraft. We’ve done some Ruby, but he’s impatient, so last night I we started Java with a simple program that repeats a println X times.
He wanted to pass it the integer limit.
After a few minutes, I suggested we watch a movie and check back later.
After dinner, he decided to stop it and we timed some shorter runs.
I think he has a better understanding of scale now!
I’m half-following the build up to San Diego Comic-Con. I haven’t been there since 2014, though I’ve been to WonderCon and Long Beach every year. The first year I couldn’t get tickets I shrugged. It’s exhausting, and there are other cons. I didn’t even try this year or last.
But now I find I’ve started to miss it.
