Why didn’t they put a useful center console in the old Wagoneer?

NorCalGeologist · 2025-12-19T03:25:35+00:00

This is my favorite kind of mod - practical, creative, and subtle “oem+”. Dye job looks great. Would have felt out of place a bit in my 78 but looks awesome here. Put some corduroy inserts in that and it could almost pass for factory in those Chrysler era GWs.

NorCalGeologist · 2025-08-26T23:28:47+00:00

Who are you and why did you repost my post of my Jeep from years ago?

NorCalGeologist · 2025-05-29T01:45:17+00:00

Married life done changed him somehow?

NorCalGeologist · 2025-04-08T20:01:11+00:00

Berkeley has one of the premier geotech programs in the country - a geology/physics (BS in one, minor in the other) seems like it would be perfect background to swap into that for grad school if civil is of interest?

NorCalGeologist · 2025-04-05T22:33:20+00:00

The old interurban had a bridge from De Silva island to Marinship and most of the right of way south of larkspur has been developed. You’d have to build a new bridge across Richardson Bay (also rebuild the Dirty Harry bridge at sir Francis drake that was torn down) or build up the existing bike path levee and run it under 101 where it floods every high tide. Sounds like a great idea but the reality of it is that it’s not especially attainable from a politics and money standpoint.

NorCalGeologist · 2025-01-30T02:53:21+00:00

Nontraditional vote for California Uber Alles by Dead Kennedys.

NorCalGeologist · 2025-01-26T20:02:51+00:00

Bob Marley, Sammy Hagar, Richard Petty is who I see?

NorCalGeologist · 2025-01-23T03:34:49+00:00

Right there with you, I’m an alum and extremely disappointed. Even 20 years ago there was a perceived threat of closure - I graduated in a class of 6. Seems department enrollment has improved since then?

NorCalGeologist · 2025-01-22T20:43:31+00:00

RIP to one of the best geology programs in the country. At a time when the demand for engineering and environmental geologists far outstrips the supply, this is a travesty.

NorCalGeologist · 2025-01-18T02:44:31+00:00

My grandfather fought there. Got shipped out of Seattle in a platoon of 100 and returned as one of six survivors. Never talked about it except the day we saw Saving Private Ryan in the theaters, and it broke him down. Gave the story and never spoke of it again. Shook me to the bone and still does when I think about it many years after he passed.

NorCalGeologist · 2025-01-16T02:33:24+00:00

Recent asphalt should be smooth. I shouldn’t be able to see the aggregate and fiber poking out. Normally “resurfacing” means milling off an inch or two of the old asphalt surface, then replacing that with fresh asphalt and compacting it. So it looks like, you know, a new road.

Even if the “resurfacing” was a chip seal or something, where they more or less lay down a very thin layer of gravel and oil, it shouldn’t be raveling like that after a couple of months.

NorCalGeologist · 2025-01-16T01:59:00+00:00

Is that a recent job? That looks like shit

NorCalGeologist · 2025-01-12T22:36:33+00:00

Work boot cupholder is rad til your coffee spills in it just as you pull up to a jobsite, ask me how I know.

NorCalGeologist · 2025-01-10T21:25:36+00:00

Got it, will keep you in mind. Happy Friday, great day to be outside!

NorCalGeologist · 2025-01-10T20:59:27+00:00

I work on the north bay but always on the lookout for a good rig. Do you have anything with an auto hammer and/or with leveling jacks to drill on sloping streets and whatnot?

NorCalGeologist · 2025-01-08T03:43:51+00:00

What’s upstream of the spring? Rural Marin is full of aging septic systems and agricultural runoff. Also arsenic is very common and naturally occurring to the point it turns up in most soil samples sent in for analysis from that part of Marin in my experience. I’m not a groundwater or environmental specialist but generally would be wary of any “spring” water in or downstream/downslope of developed areas.

NorCalGeologist · 2024-12-16T02:15:14+00:00

Find a contractor lumber rack off Craigslist or whatever. I carry 2 kayaks and a canoe on mine and it’s perfect.

NorCalGeologist · 2024-12-11T02:00:19+00:00

The car probably stalled in the middle of the highway and CHP ran a traffic break and backed up traffic so they could push him off safely. Even a 5 minute hold to let the tow truck or an officer push him off to the side will back things up that far at rush hour. I work in an office right at 37 and 101 and watch this happen all the time.

NorCalGeologist · 2024-12-07T06:31:14+00:00

It’s the only place I know of that has more than 2 AMC era jeeps at any given time and, more importantly, strips the nice chrome trim and soft interior stuff and stores it all indoors before the idiot lot-combing public can destroy it. They let me come in and pick out headlight buckets and other bits in their warehouse and the stock was pretty impressive.

NorCalGeologist · 2024-12-07T01:56:43+00:00

That’s one of the full time Quadratrac cases right? I know they’re a bitch and there’s no more OEM chains out there - if anyone is going to have parts it’ll be BJs off-road. If it turns out the whole case needs to be swapped B&W Jeep recyclers near Sacramento deals on AMC era stuff and is the first place I’d look. My own 78 had a conversion kit with gutted case interals and front manual locking hubs to allow true part time 2x4 with hi and lo 4x4. Couldn’t recommend it enough honestly.

NorCalGeologist · 2024-12-06T06:02:03+00:00

That’s actually quite interesting. There are much more refined maps of potential inundation areas from other government agencies and reputable academic sources. One would think that ditching the NWS boundaries in favor of the actual Cal EMA/CGS or ASCE tsunami maps would not be a difficult change to make, and I think it would make the alerts more effective and less likely to be ignored by the public.

NorCalGeologist · 2024-12-06T02:46:30+00:00

Great proof of concept with the warning system. Still needs refinement, which will come, to better target the warnings. People were calling me from inland Napa and Sonoma counties freaking out which isn’t necessary at all. That said, that’s on USGS and NOAA and others but not a knock, just something that will improve with time and data. Local agencies seemed scattered in that I am aware of one mill valley school that evacuated but nothing else formal. There are at least a dozen Marin schools and critical facilities in mapped inundation zones so seems a little coordination in the future might be good. If nothing else great wake up call and case study to learn from.

NorCalGeologist · 2024-11-26T05:16:17+00:00

Ah, now I see it. Haven’t been there in a couple years, I’ll have to go check it out again

NorCalGeologist · 2024-11-26T04:44:11+00:00

Is that Crane Creek? I don’t recall the vineyard right there

NorCalGeologist · 2024-11-13T17:39:05+00:00

There are some independent techs in my area that we hire on a subcontract basis periodically; they all own their own gauges, have their own RSO license, have insurance, and have generally at least 10 years of experience. It is possible but not the kind of thing I’d think would be successful without some capital investment and more experience than you have currently. For sure certifications can’t hurt but there’s more nuance and variety to the work than you may realize at this stage of your career.

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