@hazardwarning Back when people didn't live so long, all of that fell to people who were younger than we are now. Another side effect of longevity, I suppose.
@matigo No, you usually spam the timeline at the wrong times. Right now, you're spamming the timeline at the correct times. :-)
@literary Never forget that out there somewhere is a child who, decades hence, will have insights we cannot possibly imagine, and in the process become his generation's Stephen Hawking. And thus does civilization and knowledge move inexorably forward.
@hybotics I would never call Jason strange. Smart, hardworking, polyglot, and delightfully eccentric, perhaps, but not strange. ;-)
@matigo
Good morning, folks. So strange to see Jason in a North American time zone. :-)
@phoneboy Precisely. The death toll in Santa Paula would have been higher, except for a policeman on motorcycle who got a radio call and rode through town warning people to move to higher ground. Additionally, we don't really know how many were killed, because there were many migrant farm workers living near the riverbed who would not have appeared on any records. It's likely the true death toll was in the thousands.
Good article on, and photographs of the 1928 collapse of the St. Francis Dam, of which my mother-in-law is a survivor, and which happened 90 years ago today.
My Sunday morning so far:
Woke up with a visual migraine. 1
Dropped the iPad and shattered the screen.
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This the kind where you have visual disturbances (auras), but no pain, thankfully.