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Friday, April 18th, 2008
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5:07a - Magnitude 5.4 southern Illinois/Indiana
Magnitude 5.4 - ILLINOIS
Earthquake Details
Magnitude 5.4
Date-Time
* Friday, April 18, 2008 at 09:36:56 UTC
* Friday, April 18, 2008 at 04:36:56 AM at epicenter
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Nope, didn't feel it (I'm in the northwest Chicago suburbs). I woke up on my own at 4:45, about 10 minutes after that. If dog felt it--she was sleeping in the hallway--she didn't come looking for me.
It's interesting listening to the Chicago-area local news shows, because they have no background on this. Folks who were awakened by the shaking (including one just 10 miles south of me) are phoning in. Someone who used to live in San Francisco phoned Chicago's 311, but they didnt' know anything. So she phoned one of the SF local news shows, who told her about the earthquake, so she phoned 311 back and told them. Funny.
EDIT: Huh. Someone from my town was awakened by it.
EDIT: another funny phone in: (paraphrased) "I didn't feel anything. I was out walking my dog--I live in a high rise--and my neighbor sticks her head out the window and says, 'We just had an earthquake. It woke me up.'."
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10:27a
Ooh, I felt that one, a few minutes ago. Other people did, too. It shook the metal shelves and the CDs in AV and rattled a computer.
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8:04p - Naoko Mori interview
'Torchwood' star reveals all about alien kisses, 'Ab Fab,' being a geek. Show Patrol ("RedEye's TV Blog"). RedEye, April 18, 2008.
http://weblogs.redeyechicago.com/showpatrol/2008/04/torchwood-star.html
"As British actress Naoko Mori ticks off items on her 'bucket list' of things to do before she dies, she’s grateful for her role on the sci-fi thriller 'Torchwood.' 'I think it’s pretty much been one of the best jobs I’ve ever done insofar as it’s ticked so many boxes for me,' she told me this week via telephone from her London home. 'It’s not just sci fi ... It’s like, 'run around in the rain chasing aliens in heels—tick,' 'shoot a gun while trying to do this—tick.'' ... Mori plays Torchwood team member Toshiko Sato, which concludes its second season at 8 p.m. Saturday on BBC America. ... I won’t spoil anything for fans, but suffice to say, you will be surprised by the episode. ...
Are you geeky in real life?
Exactly. [Laughs.] I am a geek in real life. Hmm, maybe someone’s trying to tell me something.
Can you build a sonic booster or whatever that thing was?
No, I can’t do that, but I can build flat pack furniture. Actually that’s one thing I’ve always liked—I am actually a geek. I built my first vending machine when I was 8-years-old for no reason whatsoever—as you do, you just build a vending machine. I think it dispensed tissues, like little packs of tissues. And I made it all from cardboard and wood. I don’t know why I built a vending machine.
And it worked?
It worked, but the only problem was it was exact amount only. It wouldn’t dispense change. I couldn’t work that out. It was all manual. How sad is that that I built a vending machine when I was eight?
[More, including AbFab and singing in Avenue Q]
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