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Explosion at Fukushima vid We are not sure if it is the reactor or another building but 1015 micro sieverts per hour recorded at time of explosion - about the same amount as the human limit for one year (NHK).

Just popping into Lj to say I am fine. The earthquake was a long way up north, although it is the longest earthquake I have ever experienced - it went for 3-4 long minutes (or so) and I was kind of stunned and scared about that. I checked the Jpn meteorological site for the details and then went to the loo and it was STILL going! I kept anticipating it stopping - but No! It didn't! ... for what seemed like an incredibly long time I kept looking outside and watching the lamp post sway madly and my building was doing the same, which is a good sign.

Swaying means rubber in the foundations or some such high-tech building thingy. Japan has excellent earthquake- resistant tech, building codes and much better responses since the Great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) quake. It wasn't hugely strong where I am (just looong) and nothing shook loose. Nagoya is also protected by peninsulas, so we didn't get tsunami either.

Hope everyone is well!

I watched this vid of Joe that sgamadison had linked too. In comments, I mentioned that my jaw had dropped when Joe said, 'And then I start bonking ...' LOL! vida_boheme wanted an audio of that one sentence, so here it is, zipped on MGU.

And then I start bonking and um ...

Hello all my lovely friends! I know! work, work, work - such a dull girl! I do read you all though, pretty often, so I keep up with what you are up to!

I just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who wished me Happy Birthday, especially so because I have dropped out of doing the same.

Thanks darling bluespirit_star for the sneak peak snippet of the 1930's story you've got done for Big Bang! I loved it - plus glitterati shades! Also sweetie iadorespike for the half nekkid optimist/pessimist b'day card, which made me laugh! And dear tarlanx for the cupcake - hmm, they featured in iadorespike's card too - I think there's a theme getting up here ...

Hmm, I hope I didn't miss anyone ... I might have ... Please tell me if I missed you so I can add you to this thanks post.

*many hugs*

p.s. I am being lazy and using last years birthday gifts icon. But hey I haven't used it in a long time!

iadorespike ... Thank you for the tulips! You are such a darling!

I have been so inundated with work - it's never ending and just seems to pile up and up. I went to work today (Sunday) - it's university entrance exam time so we had to be on hand for that - same thing tomorrow and then Tuesday we have the Faculty meeting to vote on accepting successful applicants. Even when I come home, I still do work via email. Have to get our new Department's inaugural Journal out soon, so I had it write an article for that. I didn't have the time to write anything original so kind of forced an article out an an old assignment I did for my master's - square peg/round hole kind of thing re genre. I'm not happy with it, it's not nearly focused or pared down enough, but it will have to do. *sigh*

Hope everyone else is well.

My first attempt at handrawn (in combo with digital manipulation) .. oh ... and McPenguins, too ... under the cut.

ETA:These were inspired by bluespirit_star's absolutely adorable mcshepguins, although a different species of penguin. I'm so sorry I forgot to mention this when I first posted.


( Queer Fish )

This is an old manip I made, but I have newly superimposed the fleece as a second skin. I love what the shiny, harder, but still supple leather and the woolly, 'creature of comfort' squishiness of fleece say about John and Rodney's personalities.

Rodney's Sekkrit Algorithmic Obsession Project (and John is determined to find out WHAT it IS!)

I posted this to mcfleece, so just reposting here to get my duck down fleeces in order.

I've been thinking for a while, I'd like to get a graphics tablet and try my hand at drawing - Berlinghoff's adorable mcshep and team stick figures first made me seriously think about it and bluespirit's mcpenguins have given me another push. Now, it's christmas and I could easily justify it as a Christmas present to myself! LOL! So might all knowing flist ... what do you recommend. Does everyone buy Wacom? Any other recommendations? Money isn't an object really - although I don't want to go broke over it. I don't want something too big either.