I have Marriott gold status which is not normally enough for anything like this. I don't even get breakfast!

My balcony is stupidly big, with two tables, eight chairs and two sun loungers

My living room has a dining table that seats seven and a leather couch that seats about as many again

Nice view of the San Gabriels from the balcony!

The hotel fairies have, preposterously, put me in the Presidential Suite! Look at the size of that balcony! I should throw a dinner party or something.

a blurry picture of a man with the words pasadena where you at on the bottom Alt: GIF of Dr Dre and Tupac with the words pasadena where you at on the bottom

Arrived in Pasadena for the SSA annual meeting!

As someone who grew up in England and now lives in SoCal, seasons are overrated. And so is weather.

Thought it was a side of medium to medium-rare roast beef for a minute there

Nah, was up prepping for class tomorrow. But no more earthquakes please, I'm going to bed.

Thrust mechanism! Interesting! Probably not on a major known fault, then. And too deep and too small for InSAR or GPS, so not much in it for me. Plus it probably woke up half of the USGS, so I'm sure they've got it covered.

The batphone just rang! (Not really.) M4.9, close to the San Gregorio fault, looks like. Hope it's not a foreshock!

Saw it all live on TV when I got home from school in the UK. About 8 years old. Not something I'll ever forget. Yikes.

Watched the Artemis launch with some students on campus today, and it was all I was thinking about.

Still, there were NASA themed donuts and they made it to orbit, so exhale...

Some donkeys in front of a house

More donkeys in front of the same house

More donkeys in front of a different house

Another donkey emerging from beneath a tree

Normal service would appear to be resumed! (Fancy getting yo' asses over to my house? We've got plenty of dead grass that needs eating!)

Some kind of filthy martini!

Map of the United States with geologic and geomorphic processes highlighted. For instance, the central US landscape was caused by farming, while the Appalachian mountains were caused by continents colliding, while Florida was caused by ongoing disputes between limestone and water, and the southwest was caused by water and time

Xkcd does it again!

m.xkcd.com/3221/

I just wrote a response to the Dear Colleague Letter and so should you. (In essence I quoted a bunch of the questions in the letter and answered 'no' to all of them...)

Get on with burning all of that oil, then! Sea level rise in no time! (Actually, please don't.)

i bet this shit sounds magical if you're fucking stupid

Glad to hear they're still at it!

I see the Archers and Shipping Forecast mentioned, good choices both, and throw in Test Match Special – officially commentary on cricket, but actually days-long rambling conversations about cakes, lunches and the weather; a form of crystallised Englishness that is at least 20 years behind the times.

Until there is a change of administration, I doubt there will be.

See also: science grant funding, graduate student fellowships...

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

You should find someone to accompany you on recorder!

From the SW, I'd guess, given the prevailing wind. You have various clay units that way, in the Weald Basin, some of them are hydrocarbon sources.

The cliffs are chalk. But there is longshore drift!

Molly Zebker at Scripps said you could just simlink or rename the HDF5 files as '.nc' and the files would be readable in QGIS!

Me (left), Baoning (center) and Evan (right) eating lunch with a view of the Pacific

Spent the last couple of days having great discussions and conversations with colleagues at Scripps, as well as presenting our group's results on the Kamchatka earthquake! Also ate in some splendid locations! Thanks for the hospitality and interest!

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This is vandalism. Senseless vandalism.

FFS!

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