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Can you believe this:

Minutes after a massive earthquake rocked the Indian Ocean on Sunday, international ocean monitors knew that a tsunami would likely follow. But they didn’t know whom to tell.

“We put out a bulletin within 20 minutes, technically as fast as we could do it,” says Jeff LaDouce of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. LaDouce says e-mails were dispatched to Indonesian officials, but he doesn’t know what happened to the information.

That seems like a pretty shitty excuse to me. The article goes on to say that it could have been a false alarm and: “A 1986 false alarm in Hawaii cost more than $30 million in evacuation costs.” Well that’s great and all but can you really put a price tag on HUMAN LIVES? Aparently so.. because if I recall, was it 26,000 dead, 10,500 injured and 60,000 missing?

UPDATE: My man Jay has this on point with some link’age for donations.

• Red Cross - Choose “International Response Fund”
• Unicef
• Mercy Corps
• International Federation of Red Cross and Crescent
• Care
• Americares

Woo, what a holiday weekend. Good food, good family, drunken frien… err, good friends.. The way times with your loved ones should be Got lot’sa goodies and stuff for the new house. I love the cup set, cookware and def. the George Forman Rotissarie was a nice touch!

Christmas time was fun, drove to Palmdale to meet up the fam, nothing like a brisk 200 mile drive on a cold pre-stormy cali night into the high-desert to eat some turkey and hang with the fam. Sunday was relaxing, cleaned up ’round here a bit and caught up with some work finally. This week we have this huge storm movin’ through. I know it’s nothing compared to half the country or at least the mid-west where travis is this week, but still, for our under-saturated and malurished, begging for another El Nino Cali we need this.

All we have to do is wait 2 weeks after the rain so all the crap floats out to sea and we dont get infected with stomache viruses again from the LA polution. *cough* not like that ever happend to me or anything.

I know it sounds kind of petty to be talking about a few inches of rain when the coast of Thiland has been wiped out by the recent Tsunami, I was talking to Jen today and she told me she was there on her honeymoon to Thiland and remembers seeing all the huts on the bay and can only imagine how terrible it must be for the people at this point. I found this site has already been set up with the facts from wikipedia to clear up the numbers and death/injured toll count. Scooble posted about Andrew Shutton’s experience first hand.. pretty intense, I’m still looking around for some first-hand pics or more stories on it.

Merry Christmas-eve

Good Ole iWillPress is back at it with the StarShmucks Coffe Cup size madness.

So tall is small and medium is what?
“When was the last time you went to Taco Bell and orderd a taco grande and got a medium taco?”

*chuckle*

…literally. Haha I don’t know how I discoverd this so late in life but google calculator will convert just about anything you can throw at it.

btw, it took me about 0.00892857143 fortnights to get home tonight.. what, i only live 280 furlongs from long beach you know.

Anyone see this article this morning? hooooooly crap is that just fucked up! Reminds me of last season of 24 where the terrorist held the CTU Supervisors wife’s life at stake unless he helped him escape. I mean this is $40million dollars of other people money, but how do you put a price on your family’s life?? Including yours. One of those circumstances that I wouldn’t know what is right vs what’s wrong. Basically you realize that at this point in life you either die tomorrow or spend the rest of your life in jail for contributing to crime/terror.

Here’s a couple vid’s for your Pre_Christmas _Thursday fun:

• Pimp my Bride
• Don’t Buy a mac