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It is storming here like crazy. I just overheard my boss say "I have no overcoat. I am grossly unprepared for the apocalypse!"

Earlier, my phone alarm went off to remind me of something, and I have it set to the blaring EMERGENCY DOOT DOOT DOOT alarm so that I actually hear it.

Cube neighbor: What the hell was that?
Me: Sorry, that was my phone alarm.
Cube neighbor: I thought the world really WAS ending.
Me: Yes. My iPhone knows when the world will end.
Cube neighbor: I suppose there's an app for that.
Me: It's the app-pocalypse!

I couldn't find an app that would inform me when the world was ending. Which is a shame, because the internet will probably know before I do.

When I used to RP Ianto, at one point he posted a screencap of his iPhone, complete with an App of Rassilon. "It just showed up one day. It doesn't do anything...yet."

I'm still bitter no App of Rassilon has appeared on my phone yet.

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[shadoedseptmbr.livejournal.com]

I don't know about the 'app pocalypse' ( though I think you should patent that) but I do believe there's an app that will calculate your theoretical lifespan and run you a countdown. If you like that sort of thing. Sort of a personal appointment with the end times.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Ahahahah, oh my god, I would get so paranoid, checking it every day...

[aunty_marion]

I really ought to get back to those Wristwarmers of Rassilon... (I got confused about how long to make them before and after the thumb opening to accommodate the design.)

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

LOL! Well, no rush, it's summer here now and my wrists definitely won't need warming for a few months :D

[carmy-w.livejournal.com]

Here's hoping the storm will drop the temps a bit (before the wet sauna comes back into being an hour later, at least!).

We are sweltering here in Kansas; we've been over 100 every day this week, and it's supposed to drop to a cool 99 on Sunday, then right back over the triple digit mark again. Heat indices have been around an additional 10 degrees on top of it. *bleh*

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I am shocked there isn't an end-of-the-world app, either counting down to the Mayan Apocalypse or some sort of calendar with all projected End Dates. In 1999 NPR ran a story on predictions for the end of the world in the coming year and I wrote them all down on my desk calendar so I could have the thrill of ripping off that page the following day. (That year was very dull.)

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Well, there are apps that list all the projected End Dates and such (hey, did you know the Westboro Baptist Church thinks it's happening this month?) but none where you can just click on it and it tells you "No, it's not the end of the world yet!"

Actually it would be quite reassuring.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

the Westboro Baptist Church thinks it's happening this month

Well, now I'm worried, because goodness knows they've been right about everything else ... |:[

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I'd say I'm going to be gleeful when it fails to end, but these people just let it roll off them and declare a new one.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Well, gotta get a few mulligans in, to practise your swing ...

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Well, that's just a little scary. Because when a religous group declares the end times, that's when the badness ratchets up several notches.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Eh, they've done it before. They're much too interested in hatin' folk to actually do themselves in, more's the pity.

[dreamwaffles.livejournal.com]

This isn't anything to do with the topic at hand, but I think that fusion cuisine might have been invented by really hungry houseguests whose host hasn't awakened yet, because they don't know the kitchen.

This morning, for example, I made Thai peanut-sauce noodles with Italian pasta. Only I couldn't find any soy sauce, so I used some gyoza dipping sauce, and some brown mustard went in because I couldn't find anything else.

It's not half bad though.

[dreamwaffles.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, I just realized I don't even understand the phrase 'it's not half bad'. What did I mean?! I was trying to say 'it turned out okay'. What did I saaaaay?

[dreamwaffles.livejournal.com]

(I may not have finished my tea yet.)

[etharei.livejournal.com]

Never thought of it before, but now you've drawn my attention to it, I don't know what "not half bad" is supposed to mean(edited for clarity) comes from, either o_O Like, I know what the phrase means, and I've heard it used numerous times, but if you consider each individual word, it doesn't actually make sense? "It's not bad" makes sense. But what's a "half bad"?

[marsdejahthoris.livejournal.com]

I think there's an understood "even" in there. "It's not bad, it's not (even) half bad."

[jonaht.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't the rain break the heat? That would be cause to rejoice.

[sandrayln.livejournal.com]

Depends on the rain. Hot rain does no good in the heat, and a lot of "oh, god, did I move to a swamp?!" Cold rain usually heralds a change in temperatures and relief.

Hooray for living somewhere that the phrase "if you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes" is... not entirely inaccurate.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

As sandralyn said, it depends. It did lower the humidity a bit, but that's about all. In the desert, the rain definitely breaks the heat more often than in humid climates.

[stasya-lj.livejournal.com]

there's really no End-of-the-world app yet? SHAME!

[stephani673.livejournal.com]

Seriously needs to be an app-ocalypse, especially since the zombie apocalypse seems to be starting.

"Police in Wenzhou detained an inebriated bus driver yesterday after he blocked the car of a female driver and began gnawing on her face."

http://shanghaiist.com/2012/06/29/china-face-eater.php

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

I'm now tempted to bust out my coding skills and write both of those. Although the App of Rassilon would be quick to do...just a icon and something to check for updates..

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Hee! If you make an App of Rassilon I will totally pimp it out on the journal. I have the graphic I used, if you want it.

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Sure, I just had a quick google and there's a ton of free app builders out there, so I'll have a go.... if nothing else it'll be a laugh.

Email to silicon dot shaman at gmail dot com.

[hkpadfoot.livejournal.com]

I actually got the new Droid Razr a few months ago. It comes with an app that you cannot get rid of that sends you emergency notifications. You can't turn off the one from like the President (in case of terrorist attacks) but you can switch local emergency alerts on and off so you can know if there's a tornado or whatever coming.

If you set it to have noises, the default is the emergency alert system. I'm almost scared for the day it goes off. Not for "What's going on? A tornado?" but because I'll probably be turning every which way.

"TURN OFF THAT DAMN TELEVISION OR RADIO! I HATE THAT NOISE!" without realizing it's coming from my ass.

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

I envy you your storms. *dejected sigh*

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I don't blame you, the one last night was AWESOME.

[mcgonagalls-cat.livejournal.com]

Sam-pocalypse - the ultimate powah!
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[lots42.livejournal.com]

Hell, at this point the internet is faster then eartquakes.

[justice-turtle.livejournal.com]

You know, I've only just gotten to this point in my read-through of your archives (and I couldn't let you know when it happened because the internet was out for several days here), but this post was the only warning I had of the derecho that blew through from Chicago to Washington DC at the end of June. (I'm about 4-5 hours' drive eastish of you. We got the worst of the wind, istr, though the sparse population here made it less of a disaster than the DC-area stuff.)

Anyway, it was pretty amusing in a dark-humor way to be huddled under the stairs, listening to the warning sirens and the flying branches in the wind, and wondering if you actually had managed to BLOG ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD. ^_^

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

BLOGPOCALYPSE!