April 26, 2005
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I don’t want to alarm anyone, but Mongolia may be off.
My advisor just got an email stating that prices are up 70% from last year, without any explination… included in this is a “tax” of 15% of our total. This means instead of $6-7k (cost on the ground, no airfare), it would cost $10.5k+. Not acceptable. She sent a email stating our max that we’d pay, and our displeasure in the hikes. Basically, this means that we might have to work through someone else (e.g. Ivanho Mining) or I may not go this summer and just do sample prep.
In other news today: tragic mix-up in Cleveland. Many people killed…uh… also, I got rejected by GSA. That makes me 0/4 with 2 left. Sucks to NSF, SEPM, WEST, and GSA. C’mon AAPG and SEG!
While watching the draft this weekend for a record LOW of 10 hours, I was doing this:
This is a GIS project for my thesis. In the lower left is the Altyn Tagh Fault, and in the upper right is our field areas around the East Gobi Fault Zone. They may connect in some way… The dashed faults inbetween may help that. I had to draw the geology on there with a different shapefile for each unit. That sucked. GIS is like AI except less logical (but more powerful).
Matt’s Stick Death
P.S. Free Violent Femmes concert on campus tonight! See y’all there!
Comments (8)
it is a milk snake, and that sucks about Mongolia
hope you can still go… and someone gives you guys $$$!
If you had a heart attack that nitro could come in handy.
Remind me to burn you the XXX clips of Family Guy. Yep…i got bootleg stuff with hidden extras.
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Dig the Stick Death drawings, man! This coming from a guy who reads the funnies section before any other part of the paper.
totally sucks about mongolia. free femmes concert!? I wish I could go. boo. orals in an hour. ahhh!!!
Ahh mongolis is overrated, you don’t even like fermented mares milk…..and data is overrated too it just messes you all up you know scerwing with your science……
who do you want me to kick for you? That totally sucks! ugh, is this the life we signed up for by trying to be scholarly? And um, GIS– such a nerd
why don’t you want us responding to the kitty cat? because cats (other than Buzz) are stupid?