The geologist's 100 things meme, from Geotripper.

Bold the ones you have done:

1. See an erupting volcano
2. See a glacier [March 2007, in the Canadian Rockies around Lake Louise, Alberta]
3. See an active geyser such as those in Yellowstone, New Zealand or the type locality of Iceland
4. Visit the Cretaceous/Tertiary (KT) Boundary. Possible locations ( Read more... )

Ahhh, how much do I travel in a year? Quite a bit it seems, and here's the rundown ( Read more... )

This describes me perfectly ( Read more... )

You are 86% REAL Texan!!

High five, you're a complete Texan. People from other states should tremble in your presence because they're simply not worthy. Let them bow before you and convey their undying adoration to you while they announce their true desire to be Texan.

How Texan Are You?

...I was such a Hillary fan -- I had been thinking either Obama or Rudy.

70% Hillary Clinton
69% Barack Obama
67% John Edwards
66% Rudy Giuliani
65% Chris Dodd
61% John McCain
59% Bill Richardson
57% Joe Biden
54% Dennis Kucinich
52% Mike Gravel
50% Mike Huckabee
49% Mitt Romney
41% Tom Tancredo
41% Fred Thompson
24% Ron Paul

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching ( Read more... )

Yesterday I completed my second trip to Jackson Hole in 3 weeks. Why did I go back a second time? Well, thanks for asking! There was a conference put on by an industry consortium that my company participates in, and the original guy who was supposed to go from our Dallas office had to back out at the last second, and I got roped into going. It ( Read more... )

Snarked from adelaides_prose1. Explain what ended your last relationship? lack of interest ( Read more... )

Got back home from Wyoming yesterday. Saw a fault with 40,000' of displacement. Lots of other good geo stuff too. Truly an amazing part of the world.

So the "resort" I'm staying at tonight and Friday night has free wifi. Pretty nifty. When my flight took off from Dallas at 9:30 this morning it was already in the mid 80's heading for the 90's later in the day. When the plane landed at Jackson Hole at 11, it was freakin 35!!! Snow is covering the mountains that surround Jackson. Not quite the ( Read more... )

So I'm now established enough in my career that I am now trusted to interview people at my company. This is new. Oh how the tables have turned. 1 year ago I was in my own personal hell in a very negative work environment. Now I'm being trusted to interview potential employees. Yay for new company ( Read more... )