21st Birthday and Boredom

July 16th, 2010

Luckily, I was able to install onto my machine the digitization program I found. It doesn't run well on Mac OS though so I have to use Windows Virtual Machine (Parallels) to run it. Also, the program takes 1000 years to load the seismogram images before I can start editing/digitizing them! When I say 1000 years I really mean 30 minutes. But that's still a ridiculous amount of time to wait for each image. Unfortunately, there is nothing more I can do than to wait for them to load. It is very b.o.r.i.n.g. Once they're loaded I'm going to be checking the possible sampling rates for different resolution images. Thus far it appears to have a better sampling rate than the previous program I was using - which was my main reason for ditching that program. 

On a brighter side, I recently had my 21st birthday! For my birthday, my professor made me cupcakes and I made a presentation to the seismology/geomechanics group about the L'Aquila '09 earthquake indictment controversy. It sparked a very interesting conversation about earthquake prediction politics. It looks like for now Seth Stein was right about not being able to effectively predict earthquakes.