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javacatquake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc51209305.htm There was a small earthquake today, about a mile away, that looks to be on the Hayward Fault. My new office space is almost directly over a structural cross-beam, and I barely felt it. There was a tiny jolt that made me think, huh, I wonder if that was an earthquake? which I dismissed until I heard other people asking if they'd felt anything. And so the internal calibration of my personal Richter-scale goes.
I took the day off yesterday to do some errands and *finally* go on my friend's docent tour at the SF Botanical Gardens. I'd never been there before, and enjoyed it greatly. Afterwards, I picnicked overlooking a soccer field, then toured the new Cal. Academy of Science. It's pretty awesome. I loved the living roof, on which lots of birds were happily hopping around. www.calacademy.org/academy/building/images/poppies.jpg That's the tower of the new DeYoung behind it, in this photo. The view from up there is FABulous. Ariel view of building: www.calacademy.org/
I've logged a few hours at the old Aquarium between their marine bio classes & others at City College, and it was cool to see how they updated the same collections. It has a Monterey Bay Aquarium feel to it now (minus that awful earwormy song in the Splash Zone). The artifical coral reef is to die for. How I wanted to put on a mask and fins and jump over the railing into the water. ::sigh:: I did not see the sardine and tuna fish-go-round, come to think of it. Must investigate. I can't find any photos of the interior of the Aquarium. The walls are of wavy molded/shaped aluminum,with blue light cast on them. It's magnificent and looks almost what it looks like diving underwater.
I took the day off yesterday to do some errands and *finally* go on my friend's docent tour at the SF Botanical Gardens. I'd never been there before, and enjoyed it greatly. Afterwards, I picnicked overlooking a soccer field, then toured the new Cal. Academy of Science. It's pretty awesome. I loved the living roof, on which lots of birds were happily hopping around. www.calacademy.org/academy/building/images/poppies.jpg That's the tower of the new DeYoung behind it, in this photo. The view from up there is FABulous. Ariel view of building: www.calacademy.org/
I've logged a few hours at the old Aquarium between their marine bio classes & others at City College, and it was cool to see how they updated the same collections. It has a Monterey Bay Aquarium feel to it now (minus that awful earwormy song in the Splash Zone). The artifical coral reef is to die for. How I wanted to put on a mask and fins and jump over the railing into the water. ::sigh:: I did not see the sardine and tuna fish-go-round, come to think of it. Must investigate. I can't find any photos of the interior of the Aquarium. The walls are of wavy molded/shaped aluminum,with blue light cast on them. It's magnificent and looks almost what it looks like diving underwater.