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Saturday, February 12, 2011

California VS the rest of the USA

This is brought to you by: An article from my school newspaper.

California is known for it's Mediterranean climate and earthquakes. People who live here are used to it like a penguin used to subzero temperatures.

The rest of the nation, especially the Midwest, and east coast areas, is well suited to anything but our climate and events.

Take two people, one from each area, and swap them. This is what happens.

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Person from California in elsewhere


[Average storm in Florida]


The simple sight of dark clouds distresses them. Add a bolt of lightning, they are terrified.


This is nothing to the Floridans. Even hurricanes are a common occurrence to them. But, if a Californian ever sees a hurricane, this happens.



Now lets bring him to a frigid area that receives a lot of snow in the winters.

[Light snow shower in Montana]

First of all, he would most likely freeze up before a snowflake even falls.


But if he doesn't freeze up, the sight of a snowflake would also terrify him.

Average person from Montana doesn't care about snow or cold.



Now we take someone from elsewhere in the nation (preferably the cold northern areas) and put him in California.

The only things that would cause him distress is that searing hot summers in the desert, and the earthquakes.

[Person from northeast in Borrego Springs, July]


I have come to notice that if a mag. 3 quake hits in an urban area like LA or San Diego, a maximum of 20 - 40 bother people report it to the USGS earthquake site. Californians are so used to it that most don't even feel it, or they just ignore it.

But if you put the epicenter of the same quake in an urban area like New York city or Washington, DC, the USGS servers get clogged up from panicking people trying to report it because they think the world is ending.

People in the eastern areas tend to be up to 10x as sensitive to earthquakes as we are, even reporting magnitude 2's waking them up at night.

Last year, a magnitude 3 point something hit in rural DC area and 40000+ people reported it. If it hits in California, a maximum of 40 people would bother to report it.

So, my point is that people from California don't like rain, snow, lightning, and cold and people from elsewhere don't like earthquakes.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Scribbling on the sidewalk should be considered graffiti.

A few afternoons ago, I was walking back from school and along the way, I caught sight of this all over the sidewalk:




Most likely done by my neighbor's idiot children who are partying loudly AS I WRITE THIS.

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I estimate that it covers the area boxed in red in the below image:

(The blue line is the path I walk along to and from my bus
stop.)
And to prove my point, read this: "Graffiti (singular: graffito; the plural is used as a mass noun) is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property." From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti

Friday, February 4, 2011

Evening of insanity 2/4/11 and 2/6/11

2/4/11

A few nights ago was perhaps the noisiest night this year!

All the kids, every freakin' kid, came outside to engage in buffoonery until around 10 PM. They have this one particular lawn they enjoy wrestling, screaming pointlessly, and fighting on, and it gets more annoying every time.

I harassed them with laser pointers, camera flashes, and high pitched noises. Then as it finally began to wind down around 10 PM, I made a few recordings of sound. I'll upload those and put a link for them.

2/6/11

This night, they actually had a real reason to party after over 2 months. If you don't know why, GO DIE.