Comments for Ed Medley http://edmedley.com/blog a melange: this flotsam of memorabilia in a matrix of scribbles and snapshots Thu, 10 May 2012 05:31:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Comment on On First Encountering Melange by A Mélange of Emotions « The Beagle Project http://edmedley.com/blog/2009/02/07/on-first-encountering-melange/comment-page-1/#comment-3675 A Mélange of Emotions « The Beagle Project Thu, 10 May 2012 05:31:04 +0000 http://edmedley.com/blog/2009/02/07/on-first-encountering-melange/#comment-3675 [...] Mélange (from edmedley.com) [...] [...] Mélange (from edmedley.com) [...]

]]> Comment on oozing hillsides by Ali Salehian http://edmedley.com/blog/2011/03/30/oozing-hillsides/comment-page-1/#comment-3510 Ali Salehian Sun, 18 Mar 2012 16:29:53 +0000 http://edmedley.com/blog/?p=3147#comment-3510 Sorry that I wasn't clear. The reporter's interpretation of the incident was funny! I like to entertain the students with real world geotechnical examples. Though, I'll be sure to tell them the real reason. :) Sorry that I wasn’t clear. The reporter’s interpretation of the incident was funny! I like to entertain the students with real world geotechnical examples. Though, I’ll be sure to tell them the real reason. :)

]]> Comment on oozing hillsides by Ed Medley http://edmedley.com/blog/2011/03/30/oozing-hillsides/comment-page-1/#comment-3509 Ed Medley Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:46:37 +0000 http://edmedley.com/blog/?p=3147#comment-3509 What is interesting? The hot air nonsense?? Please don't share that silly idea with your class... Better to share the real reason: one cause of landslides is rising groundwater! What is interesting? The hot air nonsense?? Please don’t share that silly idea with your class… Better to share the real reason: one cause of landslides is rising groundwater!

]]> Comment on oozing hillsides by Ali Salehian http://edmedley.com/blog/2011/03/30/oozing-hillsides/comment-page-1/#comment-3506 Ali Salehian Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:33:45 +0000 http://edmedley.com/blog/?p=3147#comment-3506 That is an interesting way of imagining what happens under the ground! Going to share this with my class. Ali That is an interesting way of imagining what happens under the ground! Going to share this with my class.

Ali

]]> Comment on On First Encountering Melange by Ed Medley http://edmedley.com/blog/2009/02/07/on-first-encountering-melange/comment-page-1/#comment-3501 Ed Medley Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:53:58 +0000 http://edmedley.com/blog/2009/02/07/on-first-encountering-melange/#comment-3501 Kris: Franciscan Complex is correct. OK to shorten to Franciscan. Using "Franciscan Formation" is out-of-date and implies strral continuity which is often incorrect in the Franciscan. "Franciscan Greenstone" not really correct either: a greenstone block in one location may have only slight similarity to a greenstone block at another location in the tectonic jumble of the Franciscan!. for more info: See recent papers by myself (http://bimrocks.com/bimsite/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Medley-2008-INDIV-DISTBN-ONLY.pdf) and by Prof John Wakabayashi (http://www.csufresno.edu/ees/Faculty&Staff/Wakabayashi/Publications/Wakabayashi2008.pdf). Email me directly with your request and I will provide you with PDF of my most recent paper "Geopractitioner Approaches to Working with Anti-Social Melanges". Also be aware of my website bimrocks.com which has most of my papers and some presentations. Good luck. Kris: Franciscan Complex is correct. OK to shorten to Franciscan. Using “Franciscan Formation” is out-of-date and implies strral continuity which is often incorrect in the Franciscan. “Franciscan Greenstone” not really correct either: a greenstone block in one location may have only slight similarity to a greenstone block at another location in the tectonic jumble of the Franciscan!.

for more info: See recent papers by myself (http://bimrocks.com/bimsite/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Medley-2008-INDIV-DISTBN-ONLY.pdf) and by Prof John Wakabayashi (http://www.csufresno.edu/ees/Faculty&Staff/Wakabayashi/Publications/Wakabayashi2008.pdf).

Email me directly with your request and I will provide you with PDF of my most recent paper “Geopractitioner Approaches to Working with Anti-Social Melanges”. Also be aware of my website bimrocks.com which has most of my papers and some presentations. Good luck.

]]> Comment on Best Employers Should Have Best Restrooms by Ed Medley http://edmedley.com/blog/2009/07/19/best-employers-should-have-best-restrooms/comment-page-1/#comment-3500 Ed Medley Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:33:37 +0000 http://edmedley.com/blog/2009/07/19/best-employers-should-have-best-restrooms/#comment-3500 Yes: lying- and worse, being caught lying- dooms a candidate! Thanks for your comment! Yes: lying- and worse, being caught lying- dooms a candidate! Thanks for your comment!

]]> Comment on On First Encountering Melange by Kristofer Korth http://edmedley.com/blog/2009/02/07/on-first-encountering-melange/comment-page-1/#comment-3494 Kristofer Korth Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:51:30 +0000 http://edmedley.com/blog/2009/02/07/on-first-encountering-melange/#comment-3494 Mr. Medley- I first met you when you came into Professor Sitar's CE281 engineering geology class to present your BIMROCKS lecture this past 2010-2011 academic year at UC Berkeley for the geoengineering masters candidates. I wanted to let you know that I found your site by googling, "ed medley franciscan." You see, I am writing a proposal for a geotechnical evaluation by my firm. The site is in Hillsborough and the Brabb & others (1998) geologic map indicates (fsr) Franciscan Sheared Rock (melange). I wanted to let you know that your lecture stuck with me and to this day I do not consider the Franciscan Complex to be a formation! In fact, since I have been working up and down the peninsula, I have finally started to gain firsthand experience in realizing that the word "Franciscan" in a geologic description really does not work as a general umbrella term for the material. For example, Franciscan Greenstone vs. Franciscan Sheared Rock- very little similarity in terms of the strength of the material as it applies to engineering. Thank you very much for your lecture last year, which continues to put things into perspective today. A question for you- when you address the complex as a whole, do you like to call it the "Franciscan Complex," or do you use a different phrase? Sincerely, Kris Mr. Medley-

I first met you when you came into Professor Sitar’s CE281 engineering geology class to present your BIMROCKS lecture this past 2010-2011 academic year at UC Berkeley for the geoengineering masters candidates. I wanted to let you know that I found your site by googling, “ed medley franciscan.” You see, I am writing a proposal for a geotechnical evaluation by my firm. The site is in Hillsborough and the Brabb & others (1998) geologic map indicates (fsr) Franciscan Sheared Rock (melange). I wanted to let you know that your lecture stuck with me and to this day I do not consider the Franciscan Complex to be a formation! In fact, since I have been working up and down the peninsula, I have finally started to gain firsthand experience in realizing that the word “Franciscan” in a geologic description really does not work as a general umbrella term for the material. For example, Franciscan Greenstone vs. Franciscan Sheared Rock- very little similarity in terms of the strength of the material as it applies to engineering. Thank you very much for your lecture last year, which continues to put things into perspective today. A question for you- when you address the complex as a whole, do you like to call it the “Franciscan Complex,” or do you use a different phrase?

Sincerely,
Kris

]]> Comment on Best Employers Should Have Best Restrooms by Nana http://edmedley.com/blog/2009/07/19/best-employers-should-have-best-restrooms/comment-page-1/#comment-3315 Nana Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:02:47 +0000 http://edmedley.com/blog/2009/07/19/best-employers-should-have-best-restrooms/#comment-3315 I have aeohtnr thing to add to the first list: claiming a particular project as your own when in fact it was done by the company you are interviewing with!My boss interviewed a guy who’s firm did some geotech work on a freeway traffic interchange. There were some pretty poor soils, so the firm hired us to design a ground improvement scheme as that design was a little over their heads. Later on in an informal interview, this guy talked about how he knew how to do ground improvement design and how he had designed it on this particular project. My boss reminded him that our firm did that work and he promptly and clumsily backpedaled. But it was clearly too late for him to have any chance with our firm! I have aeohtnr thing to add to the first list: claiming a particular project as your own when in fact it was done by the company you are interviewing with!My boss interviewed a guy who’s firm did some geotech work on a freeway traffic interchange. There were some pretty poor soils, so the firm hired us to design a ground improvement scheme as that design was a little over their heads. Later on in an informal interview, this guy talked about how he knew how to do ground improvement design and how he had designed it on this particular project. My boss reminded him that our firm did that work and he promptly and clumsily backpedaled. But it was clearly too late for him to have any chance with our firm!

]]> Comment on Motley View: Engineering Geology as a Vital Phase in the GeoSpectrum by Engineering Geologists .NE. Geological Engineers | Ed Medley http://edmedley.com/blog/2011/02/06/motley-view-engineering-geology-as-a-vital-phase-in-the-geospectrum/comment-page-1/#comment-3004 Engineering Geologists .NE. Geological Engineers | Ed Medley Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:08:41 +0000 http://edmedley.com/blog/?p=2867#comment-3004 [...] JahnsJahns Jaunts, Venues and LecturesList of Jahns LecturersMotley ViewsRandom ShotsContact ← Motley View: Engineering Geology as a Vital Phase in the GeoSpectrum ikebana [...] [...] JahnsJahns Jaunts, Venues and LecturesList of Jahns LecturersMotley ViewsRandom ShotsContact ← Motley View: Engineering Geology as a Vital Phase in the GeoSpectrum ikebana [...]

]]> Comment on Kaukahi Kayaks by Ed Medley http://edmedley.com/blog/2009/06/25/kaukahi-kayaks/comment-page-1/#comment-2761 Ed Medley Tue, 31 May 2011 22:10:16 +0000 http://edmedley.com/blog/2009/06/25/kaukahi-kayaks/#comment-2761 Arnold: I do not know. But the idea was so good that somebody somewhere is making inflatable kayaks, if Sevylor are not. A German firm used to make folding kayaks.... Arnold: I do not know. But the idea was so good that somebody somewhere is making inflatable kayaks, if Sevylor are not. A German firm used to make folding kayaks….

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