sitting amidst crowds I look up at lights solitary stars accompanied It has been 4 years since I wrote anything on the website here be a haiku written in 2014 and retrieved 6 years later still not too-decayed. Mayhap I am decaying…
Category: Just sayin’
Odds and ends and naughty and flighty and off the cuff and otherwise uncategorized
N07h1ng 15 51mpl3
I just learned yet again: Nothing is Simple. Or in leetspeak: N07h1ng 15 51mpl3. (Leetspeak is short for “elite speak”: communication where a letters replace numbers or other characters. e.g.: “leet” in leetspeak is 1337). But “N07h1ng 15 51mpl3” is perhaps more positive than Nothing is Simple backwards: Simple is Nothing. OK: time to go back…
oozing hillsides
Today’s San Francisco Chronicle newspaper had a story on hillside failures in the San Francisco Bay town of Hercules: “Oozing Hillside Imperils Home“. “Oozing hillside” is a poetic way to describe “landslide”. Even more poetic is the explanation given by the reporter (attributed to the “associate city engineer”) for the cause of the ooze:
Motley View: Engineering Geology as a Vital Phase in the GeoSpectrum
I have written and lectured often on the GeoSpectrum of professionals, spanning Engineering through Geology. Recently, I wrote an invited Editor’s Commentary (Engineering Geology- A Vital Phase of GeoEngineering) for the March/April 2009 Engineering Geology edition of the Geo-Strata magazine of the Geo-Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers. The 11,000-plus members of the Geo-Institute are primarily Geotechnical Engineers,…