September 29, 2009
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Crossroads
I am such a nerd.
Lately, I’ve decided to abandon my quest on Yahoo! Answers (for the most part), because democratic learning is hard. Instead, I have converted my online nerdishness to Wikipedia. Refernces are great.
Click here to see my user page. I spent some time on it, and added lots of hilarity if you mouse around. On that page, you can see how I’ve now created many pages, including QFL diagrams, Gazzi-Dickinson point-counting method, Lithic Fragments, and Durell Price, among others.
The most important page I made was Dollaseite-(Ce), the mineral named after our beloved Wayne Dollase from UCLA. Not only did I make the page, but I now have a piece!!! I went online, found a guy out of the Netherlands that had a (small) piece, and bought it. Only 30 Euros (about $44 bucks), so not too bad considering it is only known from Sweden. Why doesn’t the ESS depertment have a big chunck of this on display, showing off to the world the WE (UCLA) have a prof who has a mineral named after him?!?!?!?!?
I did recently go on a Snake Valley trip, where I talked about our project with many folks from all backgrounds, including SNWA people.
Strangly, the highlight of the trip was a cement plant that I crossed a hundred times on the way to Snake Valley. It was amazing… this pic came out cool because of the aresol limestone that was in this room… you can only slightly see the giant pulversizing cylander.
Last night, Shawn and I saw David Cross! Very funny…
Not much else going on… looking forward to the weather changing! Yesturday’s high: 89 F, low: 50 F, hot. Tomorrow’s high: 47 F, low: 31 F, chance of snow overnight. Crazy, no? That must be the biggest change in weather since the hall or records mysteriously blew away…
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Thank God for the weather change. Here, too. I was walking into my garage-house-mini-apartment right now and thinking, “Hey! this is earthquake/Halloween weather!” It’s fantastic. Okay, time for exercise and food and freaking out that I didn’t get to the post office on time. And oh crap. Also I have an assignment due tonight. And grading to finish before Back to School Night. And I have to grade that college exam. Gah. But yeah, the weather is GREAT!
Oh crap! That sounds really insensitive of me now. I had no idea there was an earthquake and a tsunami warning when I wrote that — yikes! So there you have it – I’m not an asshole, I just got home from work! Okay, now to check out the news on this. Holy moly 7.9. Okay, night.
@sheilster -
It’s not even the 17th yet…
@rooney -
ZOMG.
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@sheilster -
20th anniversary of loma prieta!!! and i agree on the eq weather! i went from shorts and flip flops to jeans and shoes!
i’m still waiting for my sample of affolterite to arrive in the mail …
hey matt!
can’t wait to see you (and the girlfriend?!) this weekend! plenty of drinks (non-alcoholic too!) and foods!