Tim Dawson

At least you don’t delegate this to ChatGPT. I’m wonder about the value of letters of reference if people start using AI for these tasks. Is this an issue yet?

Good to see that salsa ad has found a second life as a meme.

A view of the Golden Gate Bridge in the late afternoon sun with a puer in the foreground

A view of downtown San Francisco with the Bay in the foreground

A National Park annual pass with a pink bird on it (and not a sitting president who hates democracy)

Managed to get a late afternoon walk in at Crissy Field. Nice views and I got my new annual National Park Pass (good until 12/26) before they put an addled, corrupt, anti-democratic, wanna-be king on it.

I was 1200 in line, got in and there was nothing left except a single seat for one of the nights.

The rest of us will!

That is an awesome win!

I love @opentopography.org Been using them since they started.

My eye keeps getting drawn to the repeating-like earthquakes at around 37.60 latitude. Some funky patch on the Hayward or Calaveras fault?

This is intended for our office holiday party.

Chunks of beed on a grill

Various dried chiles in a cast iron skillet

A pot of chile con carne simmering on a stove.

Today’s project was a new chile con carne experiment. The big change is I smoked the pieces of chuck roast for a couple of hours before adding it to the chile base that I made in the usual fashion. We’ll see how this turns out.

It’s concert season in Melbourne. Last weekend Lady Gaga was rocking Marvel Stadium hard enough to shake our office seismometer 5.6km (3.5mi) away. Here’s the set list order plotted next to frequency and ground motion over time.

🎶“I live for the Applause, applause, applause….” 🎶

A view of the Bay Bridge looking down a city street.

San Francisco is always full of amazing views.

I just realized I really want a good Orcas attacking yachts Christmas tree ornament for the tree this year.

I once saw the aftermath of a car that was completely demolished by a commuter train. Driver was on the tracks and froze when the crossing gates went down. Sadly,didn’t survive. It was gnarly. Also was on a train that hit the rear of a trailer and sheared off the entire back end.

Murder alert: Once again, near sunset, every crow in San Francisco seemed to fly by our house on their way downtown. Took almost 10 minutes of this before most of them flew by.

I had the live stream on TV but then it felt like there needed to be a soundtrack, so queued up the first song I could think of: “Fire on the Mountain”.

How many more bad decisions must we have before people realize the legitimacy of the court has been compromised? It feels like the proverbial frog in a pot of water coming to a boil. No one notices until it is too late…

Screen grab of an onion headline saying “Geologists reccommend eating at least one small rock per day

This one is a classic and even funnier (for insiders) because the photo is of a well-known Stanford Geophysicist, not a geologist and not a professor from rival UC Berkeley.

We are still waiting for information regarding what caused the false Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) alert that went out to CA and NV this morning.

While we’re waiting it’s worth mentioning that there is a trade-off between speed and accuracy and when it comes to earthquakes, seconds matter. 1/

This was all while we were sorting out if this was a real or false event. The upside is that it was good practice for a future real event as it forced us to walk through our response in real time. More importantly, when an alert comes in, it is good practice for taking protective actions. 3/3

- Communicate with our emergency response partners who operate our state’s aerial recon aircraft about potential deployment.
- Contact our partners at the NV Sesimo Lab and Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology about field deployments.
-Communicate internally at CGS about next steps. 2/3

A screenshot of a cell phone showing a MyShake app earthquake early warning alert

Like thousands of people in Northern CA, I received the earthquake early warning false alert. While these alerts can be annoying, or even scary, false alerts can be useful. During the moments after the alert came in I was able to:

- Consider & take protective action like “drop, cover, hold on” 1/3

There was an earthquake alert that went out this morning for a M5.9 near Reno, NV. This was a false alarm. There was no earthquake.

The USGS is working to identify the issue.

More soon.

Downtown San Francisco skyscrapers on the left side of the image with a full moon on the upper right of the image.

Had to take in the view of downtown SF and the near full moon on my way home from work.

Way to waste tax payer money defending against blatantly unconstitutional laws that they will lose, lose, lose. The taxpayers of Modesto should be outraged that their money is being wasted.

Claude, an American alligator with albinism, lounging on his favorite heated rock.

It's with heavy hearts that we share that Claude, our beloved albino alligator, has passed away at the age of 30. Claude brought joy to millions of people at the Academy and across the world during his 17 year tenure. We will miss him dearly. 🤍

Those are the best!

I think it is just the usual post-Thanksgiving return traffic. My annual hobby the Sunday after Thanksgiving is looking at the traffic on I-5 and thinking to myself how glad I am not driving home.

a mascot is dancing in front of a house with confetti falling ALT: a mascot is dancing in front of a house with confetti falling

#GoDucks!