Ramblings of an Anonymous Coward

Waves of all Types

so i'm driving home around 9pm last night and the radio station i was listening to was interupted with one of those emergency broadcasting system alerts.

...A TSUNAMI WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE COASTAL AREAS FROM THE CALIFORNIA-MEXICO BORDER TO THE NORTH TIP OF VANCOUVER I.-BC. INCLUSIVE...
noaa link

wtf? i kept waiting for the dj to say this was some sort of funny ad or joke. he never did. once back, i asked around to see if anybody else heard the warning. all answers were "no". it has to be a joke that i just wasn't catching. sometimes i get the subtle hints/jokes, other times they go right past me and i feel like a dope afterwards. this time; however, it was apparently real and i guess i was there to hear tsunami bulletin number 001. cool. oh, and no abnormally large waves hit the coast. almost disappointing. for those that want to track waves, there is the norcal buoy data page.

sunburned from being outside for commencement exercises, i'd have felt a little better about it had steve jobs done the address like he did over at stanford. he left the students with a few things to think about. steve jobs commencement address.

and now a little rant...

apparently some guy took some pictures of president george bush and various guns and did an image mash-up. big deal? apparently somebody thought so and informed the secret service.

the images were on flickr and have apparently been removed. having read the account in the blog of the guy who make the pictures i'm left shaking my head. crap like this simply reinforces the "big brother" or "police state" the current administration seems to be bent on moving us to. don't get me wrong -- if someone threatens the life of the president (including gwb) i think the secret service absolutely has to follow up and take it seriously. now is putting bush and a gun in the same picture really a threat? since the images aren' there, maybe there were captions that implied something, but it just doesn't sound that way.

hopefully we aren't waving bye-bye to our freedom of speech so soon...

Posted by ac at June 15, 2005 02:04 PM