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Warp wrote:
> One could think that some law (hmm, what's "kaavoitus" in English?)
"Zoning laws"?
> would prohibit building too close to train tracks and other such noisy
> environments, but I suppose not.
English has an expression "you come from the wrong side of the tracks",
i.e., you grew up in the poor neighborhood close to the noisy railroad
tracks, unlike us rich snobby folks.
You don't even need to be particularly close to the tracks. I was in a
dorm room in university about two blocks away, and when the train with 4
locomotives pulling 450 cars behind it hit the horn, it set off the car
alarms for like 3 blocks.
Now I work across the street from Mirimar Airforce Base (also known as
"Top Gun", as in Tom Cruise), and it gets seriously difficult to test
audio processing software sometimes. :-?
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
"That's pretty. Where's that?"
"It's the Age of Channelwood."
"We should go there on vacation some time."
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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Heh, I was wondering how things were over there. "An earthquake near
> London" was not something I expected to hear. Glad you're OK, though.
Well, apparently it's "the biggest earthquake in almost 25 years" (so
that's, what, 24 years then?)
And I guess Lincolnshire is near to London for suitable definition of
"near"... ;-)
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>> would prohibit building too close to train tracks and other such noisy
>> environments, but I suppose not.
>
> English has an expression "you come from the wrong side of the tracks",
> i.e., you grew up in the poor neighborhood close to the noisy railroad
> tracks, unlike us rich snobby folks.
I'm pretty sure some of the train tracks in London are a tad nearer than
200 meters. (Try 200 inches...)
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"St." <dot### [at] dot com> wrote in message news:47c556e3@news.povray.org...
> Yeah, you would have felt it more than me, I think. It felt like a
> gentle rumble for about 5 seconds.
I think I should explain the above further. I was lying on the settee
watching the telly when it hit, and I thought, "Why is the telly looking
jerky?" But I finally came to the assumption that it was 'me' that moved!
Lying on three soft cushions, I felt it more I guess(?!) I *think* I heard
it too - that rumble. Not sure. Some said it sounded like a deeper (read:
massive) thunder rumble. I'll go with that if they were closer than me.
Think about it though; that's giant rock structures/formations underneath us
having a bit of a wobble. Ah, you gotta love Mother Nature... :o/
Some places are saying that it was 10 seconds long, but for me it was
nowhere near that, (and I felt it from begining to end).
~Steve~
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Over here in Utah, we get fairly regular quakes - usually not strong
enough to really feel (or it feels like a large truck driving by - I've
felt a few of those, but not recently - you kinda get used to it after a
while). But we're due for "a big one" along the Wasatch - we're a little
overdue, actually.
Which means that we probably need to look at CERT training....Anyone here
done that?
Jim
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On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:42:47 -0500, Warp wrote:
> hmm, what's "kaavoitus" in English?)
"Zoning" looks like it would be the appropriate word.
Jim
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> Oh, and in other news, apparently there was an earth quake last night...
>
I saw that on the news this morning.
JHB gets a fair number of 'tremors', mostly as a result of all the mining
that's happened under the city. Last year we had three very noticable shakes
in about 10 minutes. Pretty scary when you're sitting on the top floor of a
6 floor building.
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Oh, and on the "dreams" side of things, I had a very strange one last
night as I was falling asleep the first time - from Indiana Jones and the
Last Crusade, when Indy and his dad are boarding the Zepplin and the
officer asks for their papers - in my dream version, Indy held up a slice
of pizza and tried to pass that off as a photo ID of some sort.
I sometimes wonder about what's going on in my brain....
Jim
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Jim Henderson escribió:
> Oh, and on the "dreams" side of things, I had a very strange one last
> night as I was falling asleep the first time - from Indiana Jones and the
> Last Crusade, when Indy and his dad are boarding the Zepplin and the
> officer asks for their papers - in my dream version, Indy held up a slice
> of pizza and tried to pass that off as a photo ID of some sort.
>
> I sometimes wonder about what's going on in my brain....
>
I had a strange one today too. And when I woke up, I thought I should
model in POV the place I was in, before I forget it...
BTW, check this out: http://www.dreamjournal.net/
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> Oh, and on the "dreams" side of things, I had a very strange one last
> night as I was falling asleep the first time - from Indiana Jones and the
> Last Crusade, when Indy and his dad are boarding the Zepplin and the
> officer asks for their papers - in my dream version, Indy held up a slice
> of pizza and tried to pass that off as a photo ID of some sort.
>
> I sometimes wonder about what's going on in my brain....
...da hell?! o_O
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