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Folks in North America (and southern China/Japan) - did you know that there is a solar eclipse this Sunday? It's not a total one, but an annular one which is almost as good (and arguably better). For those of you in west-to-mid-United States, check out this handy-dandy map for an easy reference of when and where and what you'll see. Point Reyes ( Read more... )

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Holy crap, Half Blood Prince trailer. Li'l Tom Riddle's acting sounds lame-ass but damn if the trailer isn't impressively edited.

(Slightly higher-quality version here at MSN, but it took like 10 times longer to load for me.)

I slept dead through the earthquake. Go me.

I find it amusing that there could be a 3.1 earthquake at 12:04am, and there would be enough nerds up and at 'em to make 114 reports online by 12:14am.

Of course, I'm one of them.

Edit: 616 responses by 12:24am.

I wish I can save a sample of the air that's wafting through my tenth-floor window right now, at sunset, on a cloudless virtually-spring day...

(Yeah, even if it IS LA air. Shut up.)

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc40160942.html

Sounded bigger. Set off car alarm and dog somewhere.

It's pouring hard. Just the way I like it--when I can be inside. Before I got back from lab and settled down it was slightly less comfortable ( Read more... )

I think I'm coming down with allergies again. I've never been significantly allergic to anything in my life, but upon coming down to LA last year I had itchy eyes that made me sneeze a lot during the winter months. Winter months, but more like spring weather. Whatever. XP

Ganked from Elwen: The ultimate Nerd Test. I got 54.76190476190476% - ( Read more... )

The air is all smoky and irritating from the fires, though I've heard much worse reports from people at UC Riverside and UCSD. No falling ashes here yet, at least ( Read more... )