John Bredehoft

hehe, sure, I'd watch that. - JC unwired

Oh boy, I gotta watch The View tomorrow. Watch Whoopi, Cheri (sp) and Joy dance around Elizabeth and go, "Nener nener nener, you're guy lost and our guy won!!!" - Thankful Molly

L@Leather That would be awesome. - Jenny R.

"“I get worried that all of us who wanted Obama will take themselves too seriously,” mused one [comedy central] writer. “But that’s what we’ll make fun of. All the deflated expectations. All the people that now think they can just sit at home and expect a miracle.” His face flashed with a smile. “Hey, Obama, where’s my jet pack? Where’s my savior?” With that, another writer began to laugh at her own idea: “I want him to get on TV for 30 seconds with a turban, just to scare everyone. And then, oops, ” ‘Psyche!’ ”" - edythe via Bookmarklet

This makes sense. That's a lot of users with 5 business days... - Bill Sodeman

"For the past few years, the Inland Empire in Riverside County has been one of the fastest growing counties in the state - home to a major housing boom. But now the Inland Empire is pretty much the poster child for the foreclosure crisis. In the newer developments, house after house sits vacant - either up for auction, for sale by a bank or going for what’s called a “short sale” which is when the owner owes more than the house is worth. SoCal Connected tracked down some surreal sights associated with the crisis - a company that specializes in removing whatever people leave behind in their foreclosed homes. The process is called a “trashout” - a term the company came up with because it perfectly describes what happens. Everything that’s left is dumped in a trailer and taken to the landfill." - Jason Toney via Bookmarklet

Sobering. Click on over and watch Lisa Ling's report. - Jason Toney

This is really sad. - Melissa

I had to shoot a site out in Redlands in fall '06. Brand new housing development (347 houses) being built. Went back out in winter '06, saw Christmas decorated home, many with for sale signs out from. Reshot the site in fall '07. There were 4 inhabited homes in the entire development. In March of this year, I had a site nearby, took my pictures went to the old one, completely empty, for sale signs on every house. There was a brand new housing development being built across the street. It's empty now. - Anika Malone

This has also been cross-posted to my "Empoprises" music and Inland Empire blogs. - Ontario Emperor

Don't tell me CMT has bad reality shows, alternating between camera-hogging teens and midlife-crisising has-beens. "Tonight, Roseanne Cash confronts Packerboy about his meth lab." - Ontario Emperor via fftogo

Bobby Brown, Carnie Wilson, and Maureen McCormick? Sounds like they pulled three names out of a hat. Let's try Robert Plant, Gabe Kaplan, and Dionne Warwick. And they can operate a Church's Fried Chicken....Heck, Brown & Wilson & McCormick is more demented than anything I can make up. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo

Brown Wilson and McCormick were competitors on Gone Country Season 1 - hence the VH1 like recycling of them into another show. - Jeff Quinton

So when did Page and Jones start associating again? I thought Jones was estranged from Page & Plant at one point. - John Bredehoft

growing up in the SF Bay Area, that's the most common way that I associate distance. The second is by how long it'll take by car or walking. 10 miles through city streets by car is not the same as 10 miles outside of the city if you take in account time. - Alan Le

As UK cities tend to be a lot older than US ones we don't really use blocks as measurement here. One block maybe longer than the next. The one after might bend round a corner and twist up a hill! - Martin Bryant

Blocks is a very American thing. I live in Glasgow (Scotland) which is designed on a US-style grid system and would never use 'blocks' as a unit of distance. Time, miles, or metres only. - Cozen

Here's the map. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqc... - Andrew Leyden

doubt there are any casualties, based on what i've felt/seen so far.... trying to keep my feed updated based on what i see/learn... - Anthony Citrano

Ha! I was munching through GoogleReader feeds when it started. When I realized it really was a quake, my next thought was, "I'd better get a tweet out in case it gets any worse". Actually, I was hoping to be the first. The only scoops I ever get are in my catbox. Speaking of Spot, I don't think he's coming out from under the couch for a while. After the '94 quake, he hid in the cavity of an old console color TV for 2-3 days, but that was a lot bigger event. - Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ ᴷᴵᴹ ᴬ

I wonder if TwitterSearch could be useful for Amber Alerts. Certainly a much faster way to distribute the message and it has a mobile platform which is important since much of the time the target is in a car. - AJ Kohn

@AJ - Make your idea happen. - Zach Underwood

@Zach: I'd love to but I'd need some serious tech help. Any takers? - AJ Kohn

Christopher Laurie, 33, was killed when his vehicle crashed into the back of a Caltrans truck on the eastbound 91 Freeway near Serfas Club Drive in Corona, Calif. He was on his way to Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside. - David Wallace

I think it's if they list job inquiries under their interest. I have done it couple of times and I can say it works and it's more effective. I used two criteria: 1) if they are interested in inquiries 2) if they allow direct messaging or list their email address. Good luck! - Turker Keskinpala

I agree intoduction may have not worked, recruiters are pretty much disposed to be contacted after all they use Linkedin for that purpose. I think those are the people you should care less interrupting as after all it's their job. I suggest you are pretty upfront with them talking about why you contacted them - Julius via twhirl

Here are the major elements: _10 a.m.: The San Andreas Fault ruptures, sending shock waves racing at 2 miles per second. _30 seconds later: The agricultural Coachella Valley shakes first. Older buildings crumble. Fires start. Sections of Interstate 10, one of the nation's major east-west corridors, break apart. _1 minute later: Interstate 15, a key north-south route, is severed in places. Rail lines break; a train derails. Tremors hit burgeoning Riverside and San Bernardino counties east of Los Angeles. _1 minute, 30 seconds later: Shock waves advance toward the Los Angeles Basin, shaking it violently for 55 seconds. _2 minutes later: The rupture stops near Palmdale, but waves march north toward coastal Santa Barbara and into the Central Valley city of Bakersfield. _30 minutes later: Emergency responders begin to fan across the region. A magnitude-7 aftershock hits, but sends its energy south into Mexico. Several more big aftershocks will hit in following days and months. - RAPatton

The largest quake I felt was the SF quake in 1989 (?). I was in a meeting when my wife called. She told me our daughter was down the street and came running home. I was also at USC in the early 70's when another quake hit and wiped out some freeway. - Russellreno