gangsta snackin'...

gangsta snackin'...
Originally uploaded by decentred.

how good are these? they look bloody awful, but the name (which is yet another case of 'great idea, slightly wrong') more than makes up for it. However, I'm not likely to try one; they seem to be the equivalent of those 'microwave in 70-second' burgers that you can get in service stations. Yukk.

I had a really good voice class yesterday; I learned that, in Japan, horses say hee hee while roosters say (and I'm not kidding) Kokk-Ki-Kokk-Ko, which was a delight to have shouted in the voice room by four middle-aged ladies, to the astonishment of the 25-year-old office worker also present. Also, I learned that 'boing', despite being a lovely, onomatopoeic word used when something jumpes or is elastic, is also (again, not kidding) 'the sound made by large breasts moving'. I ask you...

In other (more dramatic) news, at 5am this morning we had a proper earthquake. We looked it up, and found the following information (thanks USGS Earthquake Monitoring Program):

Nst=175, Nph=175, Dmin=622.1 km, Rmss=0.91 sec, Gp= 47°,
M-type=moment magnitude (Mw), Version=6

In real-person's language, it originated about 70km south of us, was 6.3 on the Richter scale (which is strong), and made all the stuff in the house shake. Lots. Apparently, (I'm not so sure) it went on for two minutes or so, according to Em, but (and this I can believe) I slept through about half of it. Not exactly scary; the only thought that was going through my mind at the time was 'Oh. So this is what an earthquake feels like. I wonder how big this iszzzz'.