PS. Caught your talk at the OReilly thing. Loved it.

Aging in California: When I was young and caught in an earthquake, my first reaction was, "Damn, I gotta stop drinking so much." Now I'm older, in the same situation I say "Damn, I'm having a heart attack!". So it goes.......

i guess i can't relate to how scary an earthquake must be...your post had me chuckling all day. that. was. so. wrong. heh.

I haven't been exposed to the laser cutlet meme. Is it worth getting infected?

I'm just glad to be alive, along with the laser cutlet meme.

Cocaine is typically wrapped in plastic in 1 kilo packages. Even if it were exposed to a bit of human urine, it would hardly comprimise the purity of quality product. Or so I've heard.

He might consider the male version of The Keeper called The Peeper.

I sincerely hope that couch wasn't stuffed with millions of dollars of cocaine, or laser-etched cutlets.

I don't care if 5.2 is considered small potatoes.
I was freaked out.

our house is on freakin stilts and I'm not about to hang out and go "cool an earthquake."

nosireebob.

I guess I'm in the minority, but I enjoy earthquakes. Only once, on the top floor of an office building, was it mildy worrisome, as the building swished back and forth.

If you're worried about detecting earthquakes, I suggest a koi pond. Seriously.

Back in 1998, I was in Tokyo for a working group meeting.
One evening, three of us were admiring the garden and pond
behind the hotel (the Takanawa Prince, for the record). The
pond was fairly full of large koi - up to about 18 inches.

Suddenly - EVERY FISH IN THE POND LEAPED OUT OF THE WATER!
This was followed closely by three startled humans leaping
into the air! THAT was followed closely by the sudden sound
of everything - and I mean EVERYTHING - rattling, and the
ground swinging back and forth under our feet.

I estimate it lasted about 10 seconds, and something big
and metallic kept banging away for several seconds after
that. Given that nothing big seemed to be falling in or
down, we went back in the hotel. Several employees were
rushing about in an almost panic stricken state, worried
that customer service and elevators might be disrupted.
(They were no longer worried about the quake, just its
consequences...)

Anyway - I recommend the garden and koi pond. Relaxing
most of the time, and an earthquake warning when you
really need it.

"My urine is still in the sofa."

JUST urine? Must have been a small quake.

I'm one of those people that missed it somehow. I'm used to the occasional big truck rolling by; maybe I wrote it off as that.

Remember in Crocodile Dundee when Hogan's in the the subway and some guy pulls a knife on him? Hogan: "That's not a knife. This is a knife." That 5.2 was the first knife.

maybe it's because i'm an ignorant transplant from back east but i rather enjoyed the quake.

it was my first one also, that i've noticed, and swayed & jiggled the house nicely. this place has been through more quakes than most so i had confidence in it.

yay earthquake!

This was a nice swaying quake. The ones that creep me out are the short sharp snaps that sound like thunder.

And what's with the second mini-epicenter centered around Mountain View? It didn't show up on the other map.