July 2011
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June 2011
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jacobkevin asked: I knew you would reblog that photo! The Bay Bridge is absolutely beautiful; the Golden Gate gets too much press.
Four-pocket canvas vest: sand →
I kind of want this vest.
How 1906 of me, yeah?
Geotweeps Discuss...: Fear the quake, ignore the... →
geotweeps-discuss:
Another day, another example of California quake fear-mongering, in the form of a piece ‘reporting’ on a paper just published in Nature Geoscience.
“ Weather Channel has a “monster quake to come” article about San Andreas. You /know/ some people will take that as imminent…
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Tentative San Franthropomorphism calendar plan
I had enough positive response to the personified San Francisco landmarks calendar idea that I’ve decided to go ahead with it. It may be June, but I figure this might be a longish-term project, so I should get going!
Here’s a tentative list of who I’ll be including, in no particular order:
Golden Gate Bridge
Bay Bridge
Sutro Tower
Coit Tower
Cable cars
F-Market historic...
“The Earth is a big thing. If you divided it up evenly among its 7 billion...”
– From The Economist story “The Geology Of The Planet.” How much does the Earth weigh, um? (via tart-pastry)
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I’ve been paying more attention to my appearance lately, both in terms of what I’m wearing and how much I weigh. These are not things I’ve paid much attention to in the past, because I wasn’t objectionable at either one. Just not particularly good-looking.
It occurred to me only very recently that I may be focusing more on this all of a sudden as a way to deflect from...
Debating on whether or not I should try and meet up with the asexual group at San Francisco Pride. I’ve never really met anyone else who’s asexual, and I know there’s a group here, but goodness am I awkward with the whole groups thing. And would inviting myself to this thing (since it’s not a huge group) be awkward since I’ve never met any of these folks and since I...
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So, I’m in San Francisco this week, and it’s already been a very productive time. I got here on Monday night, and in the past two days, I’ve written a conference abstract and travel grant application for that conference, as well as most of the draft of a journal article. I expect to finish that draft today, and I hope to also get around to commenting on the draft of a paper on...
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Guess where I am right now!
Hint: not southern California!
Enthusiasm For Heat
fakescience:
The site-specific version of this curve for Riverside, California, is a little different. It reaches its peak in January, when it is rainy and 55 and people are freaking out about how cold it is. It plateaus for a little while, until that anomalous 90-degree late-February day when people realize that, if it’s this hot in February, August will be murder. From there, it is a...
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Places I'm going this summer...
Definitely
San Francisco (as many times as I can manage!)
Los Angeles (though this barely counts as travel)
Chicago
Pittsburgh
Washington DC
Portland (Oregon)
Vancouver (Washington)
Seattle
Palm Springs (yes, in summer)
If I have enough money to travel beyond those places
Sidney (British Columbia)
Vancouver (British Columbia)
Victoria (British Columbia)
If I get accepted to the...
if you do not know the difference between the bay...
lianaloves:
seriously. they’re not even the same color!
YES. And they also do not get points for being disappointed by finding out the grey one is “only” the Bay Bridge. It is a beautiful and important structure in its own right! Poor thing has a complex about that.
San Francisco Paper Cut
internationalorangesf:
Title: San Francisco Illustration by: Julene
Whoa. So cool! I’m impressed by the details, and by the patience this must have taken!
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prairie-homo-companion asked: Hey, Julian! Is there somewhere I can download an mp3 of the keroncong Alejandro, or are you guys gonna put out some kind of little album I could buy?
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Keroncong is a style of Indonesian and Malaysian...
“For a vulcanologist a volcano is a kind of enormous sick animal whose fever,...”
– Haroun Tazieff
The Daily Volcano Quote
(via migeo)
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Polling the audience...
Would it be obnoxiously spammy if I uploaded some older (ie. within the past year) drawings I’ve done of personified San Francisco landmarks?
If it isn’t obnoxious, would it at least be of interest?
Or should I just stick to uploading drawings only when I have new stuff?
lianaloves asked: hi! thanks for the follow! this is kinda random, but does the name don prothero mean anything to you?
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jacobkevin asked: Holy shit. Your blog is awesome. A: I used to want to be a volcanologist SO BAD. I spent all of childhood/adolescence buried in geology books pining to be like Maurice and Katia Krafft, minus the killed-by-your-work aspect. B: I love love love San Francisco. I'm moving to Oakland in August if all goes well; it all depends on me getting into school.
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