Chris Rowan is a geologist specialising in the dark arts of paleomagnetism, and getting people to pay him to travel to exotic destinations for fieldwork. Having drilled up New Zealand during his PhD, and South Africa in his first post-doc, he now works at the University of Edinburgh.
Anne Jefferson has a love of all things water-related and blends hydrology, geomorphology, geology, and climate change in her work. She has a Ph.D. from Oregon State University and is now an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.David Ng at the World's Fair has come up with a new game for net-enabled procrastinators everywhere: the "I rank number one on google" meme:
I'd like to suggest a meme, where the premise is that you will attempt to find 5 statements, which if you were to type into google (preferably google.com, but we'll take the other country specific ones if need be), you'll find that you are returned with your blog as the number one hit.
This takes a bit of effort since finding these statements takes a little trial and error, but I'm going to guess that this meme might yield some interesting insight on the blog in question.
This was actually a more time-consuming exercise than I thought it would be, since for reasons that escape me some of the more obvious combinations (like "Highly Allochthonous" or "Chris Rowan geology") all seem to point to ye olde blog rather than the current incarnation. Still, here's my five:
Personally, I'm not sure whether there's any interesting conclusions that you can draw from that selection. On the other hand, I was rather amused about how appropriate the first hit for professional doom-mongers was...
Comments
Number 2 is a good excuse to pass this on (sent to me by a Scottish friend):
Q: What do you call the seventh/eighth place play-off in the Rugby World Cup?
A: The Bledisloe Cup
Bob
Posted by: Bob O'H | October 26, 2007 3:56 AM