Author: Claire
Are there no limits to what we must “tolerate”? Trigger warning: Some of you will like this a lot and agree with it; some of you will deplore it. A middle ground will read and consider the future.
Okay, getting back to that rudely truncated reader survey on debt and preparedness … the survey company was kind enough to give me a couple of free days in which I could grab the accumulated results. Technically, I could have continued taking data after that, but I didn’t know when access would be cut off again (though I did learn I could pay $19.99 to go on surveying after that). So I made a pdf of the results and here you go: Debt and Preparedness Survey Results as of August 14, 2016. There’s more detail in the pdf, including graphs.…
Via Firehand, I see that the book The Orphan Tsunami of 1700 is available free online via the U.S. Geological Survey.
Though technically a research paper, it is in fact, a lively, well-illustrated account of how researchers in two countries gradually came to realize that Cascadia was never the seismically moderate region once imagined, but is in fact prone to some of the largest earthquakes possible — with accompanying tsunamis (that in this case helped solve the puzzle of the Cascadia subduction zone).
Friend G. and I went to a dog-rescue fundraising event this weekend with her dog Annabelle. Ava, known as the Queen of Mean around other dogs, was not invited to attend. Mer Majesty stayed home, well attended by neighbor J. At the event, there were elegant purebreds … And hapless little mutt-pups. The woman trying to corral that rambunctious little guy is his foster mom. The pup, now 14 weeks old, came into rescue after an unconscionable jackass deliberately stomped on his leg. Abuse hasn’t stopped him from loving everybody and wanting to get into everything. (The foster mom said…
Did you see that fundraising thermometer? Over there on the right side (or scroll to the bottom for you people on mobiles). Did you see that? Holy cats. I owe some extremely serious thank yous and those thanks will be delivered as best I can deliver them. To say this was unexpected when I thought the fundraiser was winding down is an understatement. But every dime will either go into building the new website or go under my house (where the beetles munching on the present foundation beams will be surprised, sometime within the next year, to find themselves evicted…