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At least when California eventually drops off into the ocean, we can enjoy nice weather during the ride down. Can you imagine an earthquake during a blizzard? brrr! and agghhh!

The "BIG ONE" in the Midwest

No Escape to the East: "Six million people living in midwestern states could be at risk if an earthquake occured along the New Madrid fault line which runs diagonally from Marked Tree, Arkansas to southeastern Missouri."

Quake forecast: There's 'no escape': "A new Bay Area earthquake forecast gives a seven out of 10 chance that one or more damaging quakes, at least as big as the $20 billion Northridge quake of 1994, will strike the region within 30 years."

evhead:

Tonight I stayed up late implementing a cool new Blogger feature. I'm using it to make this post right now. From anywhere on the web, I can right-click and instantly bring up a Blogger form, populated with a link to the page I'm on, plus any text I have selected. A little edit, and a click, and it's posted here. I love it!

me too!

Go--not knowing where.
Bring--not knowing what.
The path is long, the way unknown.

- Russian Fairy Tale

I listened to an excellent documentary on NPR last night called The Forgotten Fourteen Million. With our economy the strongest it has ever been, it was shocking to me to hear this: "The rate of child poverty in the United States is more than double that in most developed countries." Listen to this.

To what shall
I liken the world?
Moonlight, reflected
In dewdrops,
Shaken from a crane's bill.

- Dogen

The area I live in is described as a "nuclear free zone" on the sign that you see on the way into town. I wish the world was a nuclear free zone. Looks like that's not going to happen any time soon.

I'm back in California. I left my house at 6:45, arrived at work at 9:30. The traffic flow rarely topped out at around 30 mph. I scoured 2 lots and made stunt turns before finding a place to park. and this was a good day.

As ev and meg may have told you, there's a new version of pyra.com up and running. It's definately more us.

I had a dream this afternoon that I had founded a new school of zen based on XML.