 So I dialed up the numbers, and I was within one or two digits of getting through when the quake struck. Oh, brother. And for about two seconds, I was exultant. I raised my fist in the air. I got my quake, and then I didn't want it because the tiles were undulating, and I was crashing all my rock collection, and the books in the library were tumbling out, and the whole floor was shaking, and a giant...