Flowers...

Poignant story of Olga Grushin's reactions to the news of the recent bombings in Russia.  She's living in America, but her parents live very near the site of the bombings...

Kinda Scary...

The video below shows a robot, a “copy” of a flesh-and-blood human.  While it's not a perfect replica, it's far better than the animatronic devices I saw in Disneyland as a kid...

Rocking and Rolling: Update...

We've not felt any aftershocks at our home, but as you can see from the map at right there have been a great many of them (all much smaller than the magnitude 7.2 initial quake).

Check back with the USGS site for updates...