You guys are just upping my week FAIL. MK protest poop, damnit!

I need to stop reading about the nuclear plant, because many people are wrong on the internet. Also, right now people are wrong on ABC. There is no China syndrome. Putting Three Mile Island and Chernobyl in the same sentence is insane. Chernobyl had no containment. Chernobyl was graphite-moderated, an early technology not used in the West. Graphite burns. Also, it was being operated by insane people who deliberately turned off the safety systems.

This is extremely minor, but irritating. CNN.com says:

Potentially dangerous problems in cooling radioactive material appear to have cropped up there, as well as at another of the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s nuclear plants. Both plants are named Fukushima Daiichi and both have nuclear reactors, but they are separate facilities.

Uh, no. There are two plants in Fukushima prefecture, Fukushima Daiichi (I), a six-unit plant, and Fukushima Daini (II) a four-unit plant. It's a little hard to tell, but it looks like Fukushima Daiichi units 3-6 were already shut down for a scheduled outage and units 1-3 were affected by the loss of power. Unit 1 is the one in the most trouble.

because many people are wrong on the internet

They really, really are.

There was a guy who was being histrionic-ish on BBC. I Googled his org and realized he was not News, he was Public Relations. But really I only checked because he was so wrong on the tv. A lot of people might believe him talking about China syndrome, which, yes, he said was possible in Japan...

Ginger,

units 3-6 were already shut down for a scheduled outage and units 1-3 were affected by the loss of power

This is consistent with the careful reporting I have read.

You might like this:

[link]

Pix, I have 8 paper sets now. Seriously... I'd say let's get together except I am proctoring tomorrow (a practice AP exam).

Kat, let me know if you do want to meet at any point this weekend. I will be writing comments nonstop until the sun sets Sunday. I've only finished 4 of 68 as of now, and each one takes me roughly 8 million years to write. To be fair to myself, I did finish grading a set of quizzes and doing a bunch of other lose ends from the quarter earlier today, so it's not like I completely slacked off, but I seriously want to go to bed now, and that is just not an option. I was supposed to do 22 today. I've done 4.

I am watching the original Tran. Because the tumblr feeds I follow are either Tron, Sherlock, Inception, or Supernatural. And A LOT OF TRON. I didn't remember shit from the first time round. It's kinda gay. I see why it's tearing up. It's very shiny. And gay. And Shiny. HE just derezzed in his friends hands, man. That was sad. That CLU.

Pix, definitely maybe for a meetup? Probably not long and dependent on how much I get done tomorrow.

I hate that I keep being in places where my family has to worry about my whereabouts re: natural disasters, but we are still in Australia, not due to hit Japan until the 30th. It's so scary, though. There was a trivia game in the crew bar last night but we all kept being distracted by the news coverage of the earthquake and the tsunami. I hope all this extreme weather calms down soon, but judging from how things have been going I highly doubt it.

I hope everyone here is well!! I'm just fine otherwise. I'm sitting in an internet cafe in Darwin, Australia, and we'll be in Brunei in a few days! I'm super excited about that.

I didn't have to have radiation today because the treatment center was having a computer upgrade, so I decided to celebrate by taking the car in for routine maintenance, which somehow evolved into two new tires too.

As soon as I finish doing the laundry I need for tomorrow, there's going to be wine.