My ramen bowl just moved two inches of it's own volition. Oh.

Drawing on years and years of school earthquake training I knew only one proper course of action; I ran downstairs and hopped into the shower. I'm leaving this world like I entered it, stark raving nude. While lathering up I began to collect a mental list of adjectival phrases of what it would be like to experience an earth quake dampened and bald as a coot. To my utter disappointment, no second tremor hit while I was bathing. But if it had, this is how I would have described it:

• Dancing the naked death dance
  
• Slip, slide, silence.
  
• Sudden seesawing of suds and bubbles
  
• And then I knew, I was going to have one cool obituary
  
• And that's when I noticed the "stop earthquake" button on the toilet

It's that time again: Domo Domo's First Annual Bloggers Freak Out About Japanese Natural Disasters and Stuff. A common experience shared from many perspectives that illustrates the power of a new emerging media? Not quite, but it is earthquake hoedown time!

Jim: Just had a quake here. No damage, from what I can tell. Apparently, it was a 5.1, centered around Ibaraki prefecture.

Stuart: I swear I can feel earthquakes wobbling my flab a good 5 seconds before other people notice...

Mie: just had a horrible thought. If I get stuck somewhere under a building, but systems are still up (since this is on Dav's server in SF), technically, I could keep posting and communicating to you from under the building. Eeeeew. I'm NOT gonna think about that possibility.

Jeremy: Seemed a long way away because the rocking was more horizontal than vertical. Horizontal good, vertical bad.

Jessie: Wow, talk about news as it happens...! Just as I was about to post the above, the ground started shaking, for what felt like ages. Still waiting for the NHK report...
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