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Category Archives: Geopractice
Engineering Geologists .NE. Geological Engineers
This post title includes the Fortran Boolean logical operation .NE. , computer programming parlance that I used to be more familiar with than I am now. It means ” Engineering Geologists Not Equal to Geological Engineers. The title and this piece are prompted by an interesting recent thread … Continue reading
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Motley View: On the Rewards of Being Fired and Other Career Road Blocks
Some road blocks will stall your career for a while… (Kipahulu Lava Flow, Hawaii, 1987: E Medley) You are driving along your well-planned career track en route to the next success. You are being considerate of others, following the Rules … Continue reading
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The Motley View: On Seeking Dirty Work and the Value of Shoveling S–T*
*A dirty mind would read this as SILT I started work in 1959, delivering groceries by bike in West London. By the time I left my teens, I had worked part-time as a sales clerk in grocery, food and book … Continue reading
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Motley View: The Vitality of Good Contacts
My career evolved because of my vital network of contacts. By “vital” I mean both life-sustaining and necessary. Over the 40-year random walk of my adult life, the suggestions, encouragements, ideas, insults, challenges, job leads and personal introductions from other people … Continue reading
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Good Soil, Bad Dirt
In 1978 and 1979 I worked at the Syncrude oil sands mine at Fort McMurray, Alberta. I was part of a Dames & Moore team mapping the characteristics of the overburden, the non- or poorly-bituminous near-surface soils above the economic … Continue reading
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Geopractitioner
I am a practicing Geological Engineer with specializations in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology. But I choose to call myself and my new website Geopractitioner. Why?
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Ho Hum, Another Dirty Day in Paradise
I was based in Hawaii between 1979 and 1989. At the time there was a popular car bumper sticker showing a rainbow and the wacky observation: Ho Hum, Another Shitty Day in Paradise. That bumper phrase cracked me up then, … Continue reading
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Buccaneering BIM/Geoengineering
It is with increasing amusement that I peruse the subject lines of emails containing the acronym BIM. Many years ago I coined the acronym bimrocks (block-in-matrix rocks). The bim bit has prompted gleeful scribbles over the years, what with bimbo … Continue reading
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