July 2010

The Role Of GeoBlogs

July 22, 2010

The Accretionary Wedge has put out a call for posts on the purpose of geoblogging and the geoblogosphere. … how bloggeology can “impact” society and “real geology”, should and can we promote the “geoblogosphere”, and are blogs private “business” or public affairs, and institutions underevaluating the possibilities given by this new method of communication? Should [...]

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Indians Welcome

July 22, 2010

Ray and his family toured Alcatraz Island recently and made sure to bring this to my attention. Indians welcome? Right on! You know us Indians – always happy to be invited to any party. To my dismay, this sign was painted for the The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz from 1969 to 1971. Fine. Tweet

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I Need Me A Hot Pink Sari

July 21, 2010

A rose is a rose is a rose. Slate | Wear a Pink Sari and Carry a Big Stick The founder of the gulabis is the fearless Sampat Pal Devi, 40, who was married off at the age of 12 to an ice-cream vendor and had the first of her five children at 15. The [...]

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Homegrown Produce

July 21, 2010

First harvest from this year’s garden. These two took almost seven weeks and there are many more on the vine that will be ready in another couple of weeks. It’s a start. Tweet

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HST On Khadafy

July 20, 2010

The release and repatriation to Libya of the PanAm Flight 103 bomber, Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed Al Megrahi, put me in mind of several paragraphs of Hunter Thompson’s Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the 80s which came out in 1989. Thompson would have turned 73 on July 18th. Another birthday, same old shame [...]

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Day 91 Well Integrity & Relief Well

July 19, 2010

A good general primer on WTH is going on with the blown out well’s integrity and the function of the relief well in this morning’s Q&A with John Hofmeister, former Shell president. What needs to happen right away? The near term fix is to release the cap and control the flow of oil to surface ships. [...]

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Rude Girl

July 16, 2010

The magical power of the YouTubes gives you my new hero: Rani Taj. The “first Kashmiri woman dholi in the UK” and senior player with the DholBlasters. (Thanks, Anil!) I’m not a huge fan of Rihanna’s Rude Boy but think I can bhangra to this version all day. Girlfriend brings it at the 1:55 mark and [...]

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Day 88

July 16, 2010

Hard-hitting journalism: “Did you feel the earthquake, Mr. President?” I am not for Geology PR at all costs, even if deep fault reactivation on the eastern continental margin is hella cool. BP halts Gulf oil flow for first time since April. Now waiting on test and seal of the dud well and the relief well [...]

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Day 87 “Somebody Actively Takes Steps To Defeat The Safety Protection”

July 15, 2010

Note: Just in case the history books say otherwise, let it be noted here that it took 87 days to cap the Macondo well. Now we wait on the relief well for “final” work. *** Set aside the catastrophic risk aspect of this disaster for a few minutes of preventative analysis. No “comprehensive,” company-wide safety program [...]

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Day 85 OilSpill: Disaster Pr0n Now In 3D HD

July 13, 2010

In which we find out that the methane is just the farts of the Decepticons submerged at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico who were getting bored of waiting to take over the world once again so they ordered out for Taco Bell. No, don’t read that. Read this: The Gulf of Mexico spill is [...]

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