FInally, well after he is gone, the people remember him fondly, even putting him on the Mount Jurassic!

Where he serves a long and beloved career

And they vote him into office

Extending the story - the community really decides to embrace Godzilla

And finally, when Godzilla makes peace and utopia reigns:

What the same attack 200 years in the future would look like:

What is great about modern times, you can let your imagination run wild. After a short conversation with ChatGPT, I was able to envision a Godzilla attacking my neighborhood in the 1950s:

No major injuries, but so much happens within 100 ft of my window, and this is one of the oldest blocks in Denver. What it looked like 115 years ago!

I was assembling a takehome exam today - seems all resources of NCBI are down, been down since this morning.

What the #NationalScienceFoundation means to me that is often hard to communicate = They invested in a 22 year old and told me I had promise. Even 17 years later, I know I have been repaying and will continue to repay that debt and honor for the remainder of my career. (1/4)

Reading at the Populus in Denver (a beautiful building I can rave about for hours), I'm getting a better appreciation of my profession! For example, there are about only ~300,000 science/engineering profs in USA (about 0.1% of population). We each therefore have to be good stewards and advocates!

Decided to continue my practical productivity streak. I always have loved pouring concrete, going back to my UMN BCE days.

Data from www.nifc.gov/fire-informa...; mostly posting to highlight how much of a great resource they are for everything fire related. They update this chart M-F, it will have a large jump of ~30k acres on M. Also, we have a long season ahead - on average, 7 million acres burn annually in the US.

Students in my office and houseguests at home note I have a very particular style. But I am more emphasizing my laziness with my flip clock approach to time change. From this clock alone, I am not opposed to giving up on daylight savings.