Although I don't drink it often due to being a poor loser, I love soy milk. Even the organic unsweetened Silk stuff is amazing; I'd drink it over normal milk any day. I'm a bit crazy though, well, everyone thinks I am as they all won't even take a sip of soy milk.

I've seen Silk has an almond milk at my local store for awhile now, but haven't tried it yet. Always wanted to though.

edit: Guess I should post something of relevance to the earthquake topic here. I dunno when they added it, but I downloaded an Aid Japan theme off the Playstation Store last night. You can buy it for $2, $5, $25 and I think $50 and 100% of the money will go to the Red Cross for Japan relief efforts. Just thought it'd be an easy way for some people to show their support and donate, even if just a little.

Earthquake <---> Animals
Animals <---> Earthquake

Animals!

Tokyo's new tower survives quake to reach full height

震災でも予定通り６３４ｍ「ひと安心」　スカイツリー

Edit: Here's a timelapse of it being constructed, from July:

Edit 2: This is more recent:

I'd hate to have been up there during the earthquake.

Here is a view of tsunami from a ship:

http://xkcd.com/radiation/

That is so awesome.

vix86 Wrote:http://xkcd.com/radiation/

That is so awesome.

radiation is everywhere, can't avoid these types of things

Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Starts Twitter

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/03/was...ust-nuked/ ← More appeals to focusing on the earthquake and tsunami, rather than nuclear hysteria.

http://www.plainenglishnuclear.net/

We left Tokyo last Wednesday morning to spend some time down in Fukuoka with my fiancé's family. Though there have been reports of water and food contamination we are thinking of heading back on Thursday since things are looking pretty stable. Any thoughts? How are people living in Tokyo doing?

nest0r Wrote:http://www.plainenglishnuclear.net/

great site, thanks

captal Wrote:We left Tokyo last Wednesday morning to spend some time down in Fukuoka with my fiancé's family. Though there have been reports of water and food contamination we are thinking of heading back on Thursday since things are looking pretty stable. Any thoughts? How are people living in Tokyo doing?

I just got back from Nagasaki yesterday and have noticed that food stocking seems to have been picked up since late last week. Although, it was difficult to find toilet paper (finally got it ). I kinda wish we had less food on the shelves though, so that they would divert some of their resources to helping out Tohoku. Tokyo is ... pampered ...

My biggest worry right now is the complete lack of explanation of the gray smoke from yesterday accompanied with white smoke (steam perhaps) that lasted until even this morning. My thinking is that the gray smoke could have been the result of electrical fires while setting up electricity, but that would not explain the radiation release. Just so ya know, the radiation levels have picked up again following the smoke releases. Also, if my guess were correct, I would expect them to say so. All we are currently getting is "it's being investigated." Also, the wind was reported as "easy to change" this afternoon, but is currently headed north east I think.

Also, geologists just warned us of the high possibility of large 6+ aftershocks still possible in the pacific ocean area. Wow, while typing that, I just felt a 3 aftershock that hit off the coast of Miyagi (4).

That's the story from the ground in Tokyo

Edit:
I just want to add that when I say "Tokyo is pampered," I mean the 23 wards, since Tama is less fortunate as far as blackouts are concerned. I also don't know how stocked shelves are in Tama either.

Quote of the week so far:

PM Kan: SDFs, the police, & fire departments R risking their lives 2 work on saving the people of Japan and Japan.

(from twitter).

i'm not even sure whether to laugh...

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You guys be careful...

Cluster eruption of large quakes off the coast of Japan

It's on USGS too.

ファブリス Wrote:You guys be careful...
Cluster eruption of large quakes off the coast of Japan

"The Extinction Protocol: 2012 and beyond"?

Did Woody Harrelson hack your account?

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Glad you enjoy the blog title. I find the blog posts there not much more sensationalistic than your average mainstream media, so ymmv. *wink*

ファブリス Wrote:You guys be careful...

Cluster eruption of large quakes off the coast of Japan

It's on USGS too.

OMG Did you read what this guy wrote ?????!


The geological clock is ticking for turbulence in the Pacific as the planet tilts more towards the spectrum of the catastrophic. The magma below the planet is stirring, forces are building, and tectonic plates are growing restless from the pressures though men do not discern a great season of change is upon us. More quakes will follow. As I have said before, the Japanese islands will eventually break-up and descend into the sea. The firey chasms that has ignited volcanoes on land will unleash their fury under the sea and the process which created the volcanic islands in the Pacific will reclaim many of them one by one.

I mean , it's already hard to keep a clear head with the frenzy of hysteric message broadcasted by medias so I think we 're better off without reading this herald of the apocalypse

TEPCO sure loves false inspections:

Japan Extended Reactor’s Life, Despite Warning

"the company admitted that it had failed to inspect 33 pieces of equipment related to the cooling systems, including water pumps and diesel generators, at the power station’s six reactors "

The older scandal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tepco#Scandal

Would the situation have been different if everything had been in perfect working order?

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ghinzdra Wrote:OMG Did you read what this guy wrote ?????! (...)

penny Wrote:OMG The Exctintion Protocol, could this be leading up to another MEGA QUAKE?

Lol, did you troll there? :p

The blog author has his views, I'm mostly interested in that it keeps track of major geological changes around the world. Okay... I'll admit I do enjoy a little seasoning of DOOM here and there. ^_^

ファブリス Wrote:

ghinzdra Wrote:OMG Did you read what this guy wrote ?????! (...)

penny Wrote:OMG The Exctintion Protocol, could this be leading up to another MEGA QUAKE?

Lol, did you troll there? :p

The blog author has his views, I'm mostly interested in that it keeps track of major geological changes around the world. Okay... I'll admit I do enjoy a little seasoning of DOOM here and there. ^_^

Do you know all the words to the DOOM song?

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No (no idea what it is).

ファブリス Wrote:No (no idea what it is).

Look up Invader Zim and Doom song and you should find something on youtube.

Power restored, lights on in no. 3 control room
電源復旧 ３号機制御室が点灯
No. 3: restoration of cooling system underway
３号機 冷却機能復旧進める

Not out of the woods yet, perhaps, but you can see the groundwork being laid for the post-hysteria narrative. “Japan barely survives nuclear crisis despite corporate corruption and inept government, your favourite incisive news team was there the whole way, is nuclear energy safe? Continue viewing as we explore what went so terribly wrong and we make so-and-so pay... ”

Now I've become guilty of my own tangential nuclear obsession, e.g. the horrible ‘journalism’.

ファブリス Wrote:You guys be careful...

Cluster eruption of large quakes off the coast of Japan

Did you see about the bees disappearing...? Who's gonna make the honey??

Hopefully after all this somewhere in the news will be the fact that using less electricity is super easy, as anyone currently power saving will have realised.

Why not just have less power stations and use less electricity..

Good old TV-Japan... now for some reason is showing LOTS of old Koshien baseball.

WHY?!?!?

Oh, also random cut-ins telling people "Don't eat the following foods, they're radioactive. Maybe. So is some of the water, so stay out of the ocean. Maybe. But everything is under control. Sort of. Now watch some Koshien."

Then more old Koshien reruns for 4 hours.

So surreal.

EDIT: Come to think of it, maybe NHK's Tokyo office is having to do their blackout? That may explain the weirdness.

Radioactive iodine levels in Tokyo water facilities are unacceptable for infants.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20110323...21000.html

I hope I'm not misreading that, but it certainly makes me want to move to bottled water.