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Where's Iben Browning?
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:07 am
by littlebeast13
I just happened to wake up around 4:30, and certainly wasn't prepared for this....
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/rare-large ... 2509990001
It scared the hell out of me when my bed started shaking. Well, there's one more experience I can scratch off my list. I just can't believe in almost 33 years here I have yet to see a tornado....
lb13
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:22 am
by peacock2121
It scared the hell out of me when my bed started shaking.
Sorry, lb, you studmuffin you, this cracked me up.
Re: Where's Iben Browning?
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:27 am
by Bob Juch
littlebeast13 wrote:I just happened to wake up around 4:30, and certainly wasn't prepared for this....
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/rare-large ... 2509990001
It scared the hell out of me when my bed started shaking. Well, there's one more experience I can scratch off my list. I just can't believe in almost 33 years here I have yet to see a tornado....
lb13
I'll see if I can arrange that.
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:49 am
by Iben Browning
My prediction was accurate! I was a miniscule 18 years off! I have finally been vindicated!
I'd have me a celebratory martini, shaken not stirred, if I weren't cooped up in this coffin right now....
Re: Where's Iben Browning?
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:54 am
by silvercamaro
littlebeast13 wrote:
Well, there's one more experience I can scratch off my list. I just can't believe in almost 33 years here I have yet to see a tornado....
lb13
They are far more intriguing when you can watch them on television instead of in the sky.
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:56 am
by minimetoo26
Man, those bastards scared me with that "East of St. Louis" crap until I saw the map, and the epicenter was on the border of Illinois and Indiana, not Missouri and Illinois!
I think earthquakes are worse than tornadoes as far as warning time goes. You get about a week with hurricanes, a few minutes with tornadoes, and "What the hell just happened?" with earthquakes.
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:00 am
by geoffil
My family felt it here in Chicago. Of course it was nothin' compared to the San Fransisco quake I felt while driving on the Bay Bridge back in the day. That is one reason why I don't live there.
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:03 am
by littlebeast13
minimetoo26 wrote:Man, those bastards scared me with that "East of St. Louis" crap until I saw the map, and the epicenter was on the border of Illinois and Indiana, not Missouri and Illinois!
I think earthquakes are worse than tornadoes as far as warning time goes. You get about a week with hurricanes, a few minutes with tornadoes, and "What the hell just happened?" with earthquakes.
I don't think we have any actual fault lines running near here. The big scare here is always a repeat of 1811 down south. I still have a bag of dirt from New Madrid, MO in my junk box that they were selling as souvenirs around here back when the whole area was under Browning-mania in 1990. If we ever get the biggie, it'll be coming at us from that-a-way, and I doubt I'll be able to post about it from the wreck this place would become is 7.0 or so came through here.....
lb13
Re: Where's Iben Browning?
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:14 am
by Appa23
silvercamaro wrote:littlebeast13 wrote:
Well, there's one more experience I can scratch off my list. I just can't believe in almost 33 years here I have yet to see a tornado....
lb13
They are far more intriguing when you can watch them on television instead of in the sky.
Since I was a kid, I have really had the need to run outside whenever the sirens start wailing.
A wife and, especially, kids have made me focus on something else now when bad weather is a brewin'.
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:28 am
by PlacentiaSoccerMom
When I worked, the corporate office was in St. Louis. One of the computer gods (I can't call him a guy, he was a god because he could fix anything) used to talk to about St. Louis being due for a huge earthquake.
I never believed him.
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:34 am
by MarleysGh0st
PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:When I worked, the corporate office was in St. Louis. One of the computer gods (I can't call him a guy, he was a god because he could fix anything) used to talk to about St. Louis being due for a huge earthquake.
I never believed him.
Computer guys are humble, PSM.
You may call him a guru.
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:03 am
by PlacentiaSoccerMom
MarleysGh0st wrote:PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:When I worked, the corporate office was in St. Louis. One of the computer gods (I can't call him a guy, he was a god because he could fix anything) used to talk to about St. Louis being due for a huge earthquake.
I never believed him.
Computer guys are humble, PSM.
You may call him a guru.
He was so much more than that.
The funny thing is that he was sort of a Luddite out of the office. He doesn't have a computer or a television.
Every year I get a six or seven page hand-written letter from him telling me about his views of the world.
He's one of the coolest people I've ever met.
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:11 am
by MarleysGh0st
A hand-written letter!?!?
Doesn't sound like any computer guy I know. Maybe he
is a god.
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:11 am
by littlebeast13
MarleysGh0st wrote:A hand-written letter!?!?
Doesn't sound like any computer guy I know. Maybe he
is a god.
I wonder if he drives a stick shift....
lb13
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:12 am
by MarleysGh0st
OTOH, he sounds a bit like Ted Kaczynski.
Don't open any packages from him.
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:13 am
by minimetoo26
littlebeast13 wrote:MarleysGh0st wrote:A hand-written letter!?!?
Doesn't sound like any computer guy I know. Maybe he
is a god.
I wonder if he drives a stick shift....
lb13
Was his name Ted Kazinski, or however he spelled it?
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:14 am
by PlacentiaSoccerMom
littlebeast13 wrote:MarleysGh0st wrote:A hand-written letter!?!?
Doesn't sound like any computer guy I know. Maybe he
is a god.
I wonder if he drives a stick shift....
lb13
Actually, if I recall correctly, he lives close enough that he jogged to work every morning.
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:14 am
by PlacentiaSoccerMom
minimetoo26 wrote:littlebeast13 wrote:MarleysGh0st wrote:A hand-written letter!?!?
Doesn't sound like any computer guy I know. Maybe he
is a god.
I wonder if he drives a stick shift....
lb13
Was his name Ted Kazinski, or however he spelled it?
No, not at all.
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:15 am
by littlebeast13
minimetoo26 wrote:littlebeast13 wrote:MarleysGh0st wrote:A hand-written letter!?!?
Doesn't sound like any computer guy I know. Maybe he
is a god.
I wonder if he drives a stick shift....
lb13
Was his name Ted Kazinski, or however he spelled it?
Now mini cracked me up! it's supposed to work the other way around....
lb13
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:15 am
by MarleysGh0st
minimetoo26 wrote:Was his name Ted Kazinski, or however he spelled it?
Jinx, mini!
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:18 am
by littlebeast13
MarleysGh0st wrote:minimetoo26 wrote:Was his name Ted Kazinski, or however he spelled it?
Jinx, mini!
I didn't even see your response, just like I missed Nelly's LS answers that one time we got rolling in the LS thread.
Mini gives me tunnel vision.....
lb13
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:27 am
by peacock2121
MarleysGh0st wrote:PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:When I worked, the corporate office was in St. Louis. One of the computer gods (I can't call him a guy, he was a god because he could fix anything) used to talk to about St. Louis being due for a huge earthquake.
I never believed him.
Computer guys are humble, PSM.
You may call him a guru.
Ha!
and
Ha!
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:37 am
by minimetoo26
littlebeast13 wrote:MarleysGh0st wrote:minimetoo26 wrote:Was his name Ted Kazinski, or however he spelled it?
Jinx, mini!
I didn't even see your response, just like I missed Nelly's LS answers that one time we got rolling in the LS thread.
Mini gives me tunnel vision.....
lb13
Did you just say tunnel?
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:37 am
by minimetoo26
minimetoo26 wrote:littlebeast13 wrote:MarleysGh0st wrote:
Jinx, mini!
I didn't even see your response, just like I missed Nelly's LS answers that one time we got rolling in the LS thread.
Mini gives me tunnel vision.....
lb13
Did you just say tunnel?
...tunnel?
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:37 am
by littlebeast13
minimetoo26 wrote:littlebeast13 wrote:MarleysGh0st wrote:
Jinx, mini!
I didn't even see your response, just like I missed Nelly's LS answers that one time we got rolling in the LS thread.
Mini gives me tunnel vision.....
lb13
Did you just say tunnel?
No, I typed it!
lb13