Traveling, working, family, my boyfriend, friends, Sunday brunch, painting, reading, camping, dining out, music, live shows, hiking, homebrewing, wine tasting, learning, cooking, dancing, Impressionist art, museums, Hiroshige, science, Hawaii, airplanes, Stinson, sunsets followed by sunrises, drives on curvy roads, Jeeps, Switzerland, shopping, shoes, cuckoo clocks, clocks in general, water pens, Ireland, punctuality, good times, dive bars with good jukeboxes, sriacha sauce, sand dollars, Tiffany & Co., NYC, living in Marin, acting like a tourist in San Francisco, 1929 Model A cars, Irish breakfasts, candles, Majolica..ok I am tired...oh that reminds me...power naps & my comfy bed....
The Presets, Editors, Moving Units, Stellastarr* Ghostland Observatory, Junior Boys, The Strokes, Boy Kill Boy, Elefant, Athlete, Ratatat, The Organ, The Sunshine Underground, Blazer, The Faint, The Knife, Now It's Overhead, Digitalism, Action Action, Nightmare of You, British Sea Power, Pulp, Razorlight, The More Assured, Mew, Franz Ferdinand, Blue Oyster Cult, Suede, Keane, Journey, Eastern Lane, Bloc Party, Rialto, The Kinks, The Departure, Soberskin, Social Distortion, The Three O'Clock, The Smiths, Madness, Ministry, Joy Division, Flogging Molly, The Cribs, Mr. Review, Desmond Dekker, The Pretenders, Marvin Gaye, Ian Brown, Maximo Park, Daft Punk, Bad Religion/American Lesion, Loquat, Echo and the Bunnymen, Screeching Weasel, Buzzcocks, Boomtown Rats, The Specials, The Busters, The Long Blondes, Snow Patrol, Bauhaus, The Dubliners, Logh, Interpol, Fugazi, The Local Division, I love You But I've Chosen Darkness, The Rakes, The Hives, The Stills, Hard-Fi...to name a few.
The ones I am in.
James Rollins, Daniel Silva, Dan Brown, Clive Cussler, Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child, Mattew Reilly, David Morrell..any suggestions?
For his Ph.D. at Princeton, Dr. Shoemaker conclusively showed that Barringer Meteor Crater, located near Winslow, Arizona, arose from a meteor impact. Shoemaker has done more than any other person to advance the idea that sudden geologic changes can arise from asteroid strikes and that asteroid strikes are common over geologic time periods. Previously, astroblemes were thought to be remnants of extinct volcanoes -- even on the Moon.Shoemaker gained this insight after inspecting craters that remained after underground atomic bomb tests at the Nevada Test Site at Yucca Flats. He found a ring of ejected material; in both cases it included shocked quartz (coesite), a form of quartz that has a microscopically unique structure caused by intense pressure.Dr. Shoemaker helped pioneer the field of astrogeology by founding the Astrogeology Research Program of the USGS in 1961. He was its first director. He was prominently involved in the Lunar Ranger missions to the Moon, which showed that the Moon was covered with a wide size range of impact craters. Dr. Shoemaker was also involved in the training of the American astronauts. He was set to be the first scientist to walk on the Moon but was disqualified due to a disorder of his adrenal gland.Coming to Caltech in 1969, he started a systematic search for Earth orbit-crossing asteroids, which resulted in the discovery of several families of such asteroids, including the Apollo asteroids.Dr. Shoemaker received a National Medal of Science in 1992. In 1993, he co-discovered Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. This comet was unique in that it provided the first opportunity for scientists to observe the planetary impact of a comet. Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter in 1994.Dr. Shoemaker died in a car accident in Alice Springs, Australia in July of 1997. Some of his ashes were carried to the Moon by the Lunar Prospector space probe. To date, he is the only person to have been buried on the moon.