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I went to a lecture last night on Geohazards and Large Geographically Distributed Systems presented by Professor Tom O'Rourke from Cornell University. It made me realize two things: 1) I am a huge geek, but I was with 70 or so of my fellow geeks, so all is good. 2) I may be ready to start considering academia again. It was an amazing presentation, but it was on something that really only academia has the time or resources to fully investigate. It gave me another great example of how academia can work for industry though.

Helping Professor O'Rourke's presentation (at least in my eyes) was a case study on San Francisco that included many photographs of my beloved and missed city.

He also confirmed my thoughts about three places not to live: LA, New Orleans, and Christchurch.

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