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Zanzibar
Age. 39
Gender. Female
Ethnicity. that of my father and his father before him
Location Altadena, CA
School. Other
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The Link To Zanzibar's Past
This is my page in the beloved art community that my sister got me into:

Samarinda

Extra points for people who know what Samarinda is.
The Phases of the Moon Module
CURRENT MOON
Croc Hunter/Combat Wombat
My hero(s)
Only My Favorite Baseball Player EVER


Aw, Larry Walker, how I loved thee.
The Schedule
M: Science and Exploration
T: Cook a nice dinner
W: PARKOUR!
Th: Parties, movies, dinners
F: Picnics, the Louvre
S: Read books, go for walks, PARKOUR
Su: Philosophy, Religion
The Reading List
This list starts Summer 2006
A Crocodile on the Sandbank
Looking Backwards
Wild Swans
Exodus
1984
Tales of the Alhambra (in progress)
Dark Lord of Derkholm
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Lost Years of Merlin
Harry Potter a l'ecole des sorciers (in progress)
Atlas Shrugged (in progress)
Uglies
Pretties
Specials
A Long Way Gone (story of a boy soldier in Sierra Leone- met the author! w00t!)
The Eye of the World: Book One of the Wheel of Time
From Magma to Tephra (in progress)
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Harry Potter 7
The No. 1 Lady's Detective Agency
Introduction to Planetary Volcanism
A Child Called "It"
Pompeii
Is Multi-Culturalism Bad for Women?
Americans in Southeast Asia: Roots of Commitment (in progress)
What's So Great About Christianity?
Aeolian Geomorphology
Aeolian Dust and Dust Deposits
The City of Ember
The People of Sparks
Cube Route
When I was in Cuba, I was a German Shepard
Bound
The Golden Compass
Clan of the Cave Bear
The 9/11 Commission Report (2nd time through, graphic novel format this time, ip)
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Twilight
Eclipse
New Moon
Breaking Dawn
Armageddon's Children
The Elves of Cintra
The Gypsy Morph
Animorphs #23: The Pretender
Animorphs #25: The Extreme
Animorphs #26: The Attack
Crucial Conversations
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
A Great and Terrible Beauty
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Dandelion Wine
To Sir, With Love
London Calling
Watership Down
The Invisible
Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The Host
The Hunger Games
Catching Fire
Shadows and Strongholds
The Jungle Book
Beatrice and Virgil
Infidel
Neuromancer
The Help
Flip
Zion Andrews
The Unit
Princess
Quantum Brain
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
No One Ever Told Us We Were Defeated
Delirium
Memento Nora
Robopocalypse
The Name of the Wind
The Terror
Sister
Tao Te Ching
What Paul Meant
Lao Tzu and Taoism
Libyan Sands
Sand and Sandstones
Lost Christianites: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
The Science of God
Calculating God
Great Contemporaries, by Winston Churchill
City of Bones
Around the World in 80 Days, by Jules Verne
Divergent
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Old Man and the Sea
Flowers for Algernon
Au Bonheur des Ogres
The Martian
The Road to Serfdom
De La Terre � la Lune (ip)
In the Light of What We Know
Devil in the White City
2312
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Red Mars
How to Be a Good Wife
A Mote in God's Eye
A Gentleman in Russia
The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism
Seneca: Letters from a Stoic
The Juanes Module


Juanes just needed his own mod. Who can disagree.
Prepared
Sunday. 3.27.11 10:52 am
I was thinking about impact craters again. Impact craters, those giant divots in the ground made by the collision of asteroids and comets into the surface of a planet...

There is a deposit on the outside of an impact crater, people usually call it the "ejecta blanket".



My advisor doesn't like this term, because he feels like it doesn't capture the essence of how the deposit is emplaced. He says it makes it seem like it is laid down gently from above, like snow.

In fact the emplacement process consists of a giant shockwave that moves along the surface, forcing material outwards, overturning whole packages of rocks, creating a curtain of solid, burning rock fragments that advance in a growing ring. Large pieces of rock are continuously hurled into the surface, excavating even more rock, which in turn excavates more, further out, creating chains of elongate secondary craters.

My advisor always says that you'd like to have a "side-view" of that one. Of course I always imagine trying to get a side view of a radial process, and it's impossible.

I stared out the window of my room, where there is a high school with a large expanse of athletic fields. If a meteor were to crash into the field, the vantage point that my room offered would be the perfect side view.

I imagined it, streaking through the sky, slamming into the green space between the overgrown baseball diamonds, the impact flash, the vapor plume, the steaming hole it would leave behind.

Of course all of the scientists would be asking me about it afterwards. What angle did it come from? How fast was it going? Were there any colors associated with it? How did the crater look immediately after the impact? Did it collapse? The local authorities would be doing their best to control access to the site, and to make sure that the impact did not let off any toxic gases, which they are sometimes known to do. I would get there first, of course. I would call my professor who studies impacts, yes, but I would do so from the edge of the impact crater, where I would be looking for shards of meteorite to steal for my collection.

How imperfect, the human memory, I lamented. When my professor asked me all of the questions above I would only have the millisecond of flawed human memory to to rely on to estimate speed, color, and the process of the impact. How much nicer if I had got it on video. Depending on the speed of the video and the speed of the meteor, he could probably get a least two frames so that he could estimate speed. He could measure some angles to try to back out what direction it was coming from. I could post the video to YouTube or sell it to CNN. It would play over and over again, ad naseum.

I stared at my computer, and then back out at the empty grass outside. I walked across the room to fetch my video camera. I placed it on the window sill.

Just in case.
12 Comments.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxdqC8kZlQo
» undisputed on 2011-03-27 06:56:26

and why do you have to write about stuff that's so over my head? it reminds me of the conversation i had with your roomie where i asked her what she was sutyding and how she'd like it and i got about three minutes of charlie brown's teacher lecturing
» undisputed on 2011-03-27 06:57:51

babygirl you can move in with me instead ;)
» undisputed on 2011-03-27 08:44:40

as long as you bring dem cookies
» undisputed on 2011-03-27 08:44:49

er.. actual cookies, no metaphor here
» undisputed on 2011-03-27 08:45:02

:)

RC: Maybe I should. Chaotic Evil Warlord with like... fists of death or something.
» jinyu on 2011-03-27 11:38:22

WHY ARE YOU SO COOL
gosh
» The-Muffin-Man on 2011-03-28 05:25:05

I agree with Muffy!
RE: Yeah, I definitely feel more confident about living independently now. It's crazy to me that before this school year I was freaking out, wondering how I could possibly survive by myself. Now I'm doing all sorts of crazy stuff! Next thing I know I'll be living in the Alps, directing a project at CERN!

That would be...cool.
» middaymoon on 2011-03-28 05:33:10

Thank you for leaving your honest opinion. I agree fully with the idea of being more patient and understanding with people. I just happened to not be in any sort of mood for it that morning, and felt that my initial brush-off (which was admittedly rude) would have stopped her.

While I had no intention of making her cry, and certainly felt bad that she did, I also had to wonder why she persisted. At this point it doesn't matter, but I still wonder.

I also understand how mean people can be. My last job involved public outreach, and I basically had to go to weekend events (fairs, community events and such) to try and educate people on the importance of picking up after their dog. As you can probably imagine, I didn't gain a lot of respect from many people and also got a lot of heat about the fact that the utility I was working for was paying me (with the public's hard earned money!) to do so. You would think I'd be nicer to people who are in her situation, seeing as I was in a similar place, but I think that job made me more cynical and short tempered with canvassers.

I don't know, I'm not trying to excuse my behavior, it's just kind of an explanation I suppose. I think my real issue is patience, of which I have none. And for that I blame my father. Just kidding. Kind of.

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Do you have a big collection of meteorite shards? I've always wanted to try and find some. Not many places around here to do that though. :/
» Amelie on 2011-03-28 07:06:08

Okay, I wanted to say something about your blog, but then I looked over to the left and noticed that you have STEVE IRWIN AS YOUR HERO.
...AND A COMBAT WOMBAT.
BUT MOSTLY STEVE IRWIN!
EXCITEMENT CAPS!

re: Well put, on all parts. I think you might be right about that aspect of my personality profile--I used to be an F, but received a T in my more recent scores.

As for the long-distance thing, I agree completely. The thing is, I never understood it before I tried because no one explained it like you did. XD
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