1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

I do feel a little bad; haven't talked to pops in about a year in a half?

Talked to mom a few weeks ago; apparently she got me a BestBuy gift card for my Bday last month...haven't picked it up yet

 

Didn’t feel anything. I was driving though. No “breaking news” reports here either.

 

you're all fucked



But seriously. I find it funny that people are loosing their shit over a 4.8 EQ in the Bay Area. All I see are headlines like "Bay Area rattled by earthquake". Rattled? IMO you don't get to start using the word "rattled" until you hit high 5's or 6's and stuff starts falling off shelves.

A 4.8 is a gentle massage.

A 4.5+ in the mid west? Sure, that's a little more significant and unusual.

EDIT: Bay area one was a 4.5. One near hollister was a 4.8...

 

It can be shitty feeling for sure, but on the other hand if you're not close with them or didn't have a good relationship maybe it can be for the best

 

It can make the times you do see them more meaningful too.

 

My brother was on the ~20th floor at SFSU when Lome Prieta hit.

 

ok, somebody was able to use them!

 

A Facebook friend shared this in lieu of recent events:

 

Uhhh, we don't have a building with 20 floors here haha. You might be thinking of USF or UCSF.

 

Sorry to hear that.

 

I hope that is the case for @Kwikvette at least

 

Not any more...

Pretty sure he was as SFSU, so might not have been that high. Well, he was probably high, but.... oh nevermind...

 

Yeah, it's amazing how short peoples' memories are.

THIS is a bay area earthquake:

 

Did he live on campus? We used to have a student housing building called Verducci Hall that was damaged during Loma Prieta, sat abandoned until 1999 when they demolished it. Was only ~13 stories though. My Freshmen dorm last year was actually built on the land it used to be on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JQZM5nA-l0

 

I know I wasn't around for it, but I am really damn happy that quake damaged the Embarcadero freeway. Was such an eyesore.

 

Yeah, that could be the one he was in.

I remember they condemned the building because the EQ broke loose all the asbestos, and campus was like "that's bad, right?"

Don't remember if they ended up rehabing it or if they demolished and started over.

 

You should walk through some of the older 60's buildings on campus. A lot of doors have this on them:

 

@jbrandt You don't know of a giant pendulum at Sac State do you? It's in a new science building. @Sperrunner 's dad builds them.

 

Nah, I'll pass. thanks tho.

lol

 

I didn't know about the pendulum, but I attended the grand opening of the building a couple weeks ago. I was more interested in the planetarium.