It was unavoidable I suppose. It just had to happen. After earthquake two weeks ago and hurricane little over a week ago it was time for tornados today. What used to hurricane and then tropical storm Lee hit us today and it was more impresive then Irene. We got storms since yesterday evening.  A great amount of water has been falling on us and they ( Read more... )

As I mentioned on Tuesday I'm in disaster land. It was an earthquake then. It's a hurricane today. Two in one week, for half a price.

Of course, it not really a disaster where I am (I wouldn't be able to post it otherwise). Just like the last time when all we got was a furniture swaying lightly this one is just a little rain and wind. I'm too far ( Read more... )

I've just experienced my first earthquake today. It was already very weak when it got here - I just flt my desk move because my arms were lying on it but it was moving. The floor trembled and the desk moved sideways. It wasn't even enough to move anything that was on the desk and my friend who was standing only noticed because buffer in gel boxes ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the wedding day. It was everywhere all day long. Well, it was everywhere for a while now but the last week it was slowly culminating and yesterday it was just insane. I find it hilarious that Americans were so overtaken by the whole thing over 200 years after they made sure it was not their royalty. Including the constant reminders ( Read more... )

The tragedy that happened in Japan, the horrifying things those people endured and those they endure still with cold, lack of food and all their possessions taken by water but most of all missing relatives has been pushed away by an easier and more sensational subject. The will it blow up or not show. The media went into a loop explaining that it's ( Read more... )

There are moments you feel how interconnected the world really is and at the same time feel it's completely useless. When I woke up the first thing I learned about the earthquake in Japan and the resulting tsunami. The world reaction is uniformly supportive but in face of such a catastrophe nothing can be good enough. Japan is highly advanced ( Read more... )

This is the last day of 2010. The time to sum everything up.

I didn't read much as I had a problem with reading for a while after my move to US. And most of the books I've read were not at all that memorable. I think that the last book of Peter F. Hamilton's Void trilogy - The Evolutionary Void was the weakest of all Commonwealth novels (I liked ( Read more... )

After two days it's finally stopped raining. The weather actually reminds me of home firstly because that's what Polish autumn often looks like, secondly because that's how it was in Poland for almost all my stay last time I was there few weeks ago. But at home I was too busy with family and friends to care about the weather (although I was hoping ( Read more... )

The complex policarbon molecules that spilled into the Gulf are not artificial. They used to be living creatures and living creatures can turned them back into water and carbon dioxide. Meet the Microbes Eating the Gulf Oil Spill. We weren't the first to discover oil as good fuel.

Unfortunately microbes are alive and they prefer some conditions to ( Read more... )

The difference between the real and made up disasters is that with fake it's all done by the time you live cinema and when it's real the repercussions drag forever. And what's worse when it doesn't affect you you tend to forget when the new shiny thing take it's place in the news. There are still people dieing or trying to live in horrible ( Read more... )