Vaughn

One of the most magical aspects of my life was the privilege of to grow up doing conservation and exploration in South Africa. I had a bird hospital for about 15 years. My first patient was at the age of about 6 or 7. Rehabilitated many 100s of birds into the wild. There were some that refused to leave and I would awaken in the morning with them in my bed, and this one, Tufty, refused to join a flock and stuck around living inside and outside my home as a young man. Mousebirds (family Coliidae, order Coliiformes) are a phylogenetically isolated, Africa-endemic group often called living fossils, with only six extant species. These small, gregarious birds feature soft, fluffy plumage, crests, and very long tails, with pamprodactylous feet enabling mouse-like scrambling and upside-down hanging while foraging on fruit, buds, and leaves. Most curiously, they enter facultative torpor to drop body temperature and metabolism during cool or food-scarce conditions, often huddling communally for warmth and basking belly-up in the sun. This is her basking in my head.

@J_Wise_geology If I had 5000$ for a specimen like that, it would be worth the 5000$. Otherwise $5

Is this copper worth $5,000?

@J_Wise_geology You’ll enjoy my next paper. Coming soon. If you in Bakersfield area ever soon let me know and I’ll meet you at my new outcrop.

@GeologistVaughn Here is sort of the inversion problem, window eroded holes in an outcrop of ignimbrite in Bolivia.

What do you see?

@J_Wise_geology That’s brilliant. Well then take it from the expert :-)

@GeologistVaughn Sounded good- I didn't study those round things, I drove over them with my Jeep! But I did take that picture for my photography collection called "Patterns in Geology"

@J_Wise_geology Haha! I have nodules in my brain. So was I half right or what?

@GeologistVaughn Another geological module!

@J_Wise_geology *nodules etc. Ok I’m gonna have to start checking my spelling before hitting send. Can’t trust nutin no more

@J_Wise_geology Probable Aeolian sandstone beds g surface with preferentially exposed modules exhibiting amalgamation (funny how the sets of triplets follow an apparent circular pattern) and individual some with radial fracturing (cool) and limonite crystals and possible manganese staining. ?

@BillyM2k Rather be dead than cool

what's cooler than being cool?

@RogerSeheult @triggerpod @paleochristcon Nicely put

“An eye for an eye.” Most people quote it as proof the Bible promotes violence. But the truth is exactly the opposite. The Bible shows a progression: Violence → Justice → Love Let’s walk through it. In the beginning, humanity didn’t practice fairness. It practiced escalation. Genesis 4:23-24 (KJV) “I have slain a man to my wounding… If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.” That’s not justice. That’s revenge multiplied. By Noah’s day: Genesis 6:11 (KJV) “…the earth was filled with violence.” So when God gave the law, He wasn’t endorsing brutality—He was restraining it. Exodus 21:24 (KJV) “Eye for eye, tooth for tooth…” This wasn’t a license for personal revenge. It was a limit. In a world where people might kill over an insult, God said: Punishment must be proportional. No escalation. It was a step up from chaos. But that wasn’t the destination. Even in the Old Testament, God was already pointing higher: Exodus 23:4 (KJV) “If thou meet thine enemy’s ox… thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.” Proverbs 25:21 (KJV) “If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat…” So the trajectory is clear: Not just equal justice… but mercy toward enemies. Then comes Jesus—and He does something revolutionary. He corrects how people were using the law. Matthew 5:38-39 (KJV) “Ye have heard… An eye for an eye… But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil…” In other words: Stop using justice as justification for retaliation. Then He raises the standard to its highest point: Matthew 5:44 (KJV) “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you…” This is not a contradiction of the Old Testament. This is its fulfillment. God was leading humanity step by step: From unchecked violence → to restrained justice → to self-sacrificing love And Jesus didn’t just teach it—He lived it. Luke 23:34 (KJV) “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.” At the cross, He absorbed violence… and returned forgiveness. That’s the heart of God. So “eye for eye” was never the goal. It was a guardrail. The destination was always this: Not to overcome evil with equal force— but to overcome evil with good. Romans 12:21 (KJV) “Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.”

“Christianity was never a ‘be passive and get walked over’ religion.” Andrew Wilson @paleochristcon pushes back on the idea that Christianity is a pacifist religion. Forgive your enemies, yes, but that doesn’t mean allowing harm to continue. He points to Jesus forgiving on the cross, yet also cleansing the temple and speaking about the sword. What do you think? Where did the idea that Christianity = passivity actually come from?

@TomLoughrey_LFE Always unpredictable. Except long always up.

Repeating myself: Futures / Strip is not predictive. The 6 m WTI contract to realized has a std of $30 and a p-value of 0.4, so feel confident, that prices will be +/- $60 from the contract. For underwriting, unless you are hedging with those contracts, you might as well regress sun spots. So... What do you think the price will be?

@oilmutt Nothing new just now there’s hope colliding with reality colliding with WE WERE FUCKING RIGHT ALL ALONG. And all that jazz. And, the cycle will continue.

Me trying to guess which way oil prices are going this week

@J_Wise_geology Control

Mining is politics- and from what I have seen over the last 36 years the Democrat Party in the USA pushes policies that are anti-mining.

@clintbarnette @OnScumbags Prayers to the hands and the company.

H&P 440. Revenant Energy. Hope everyone is ok.

@RogerSeheult Amazing! Scary, but wow!!!! Privileged.

My neighbor sent this photo to me.

@KettlebellDan Yes. And then they discover after all those, what really matters. And that only happens when you have lost one of them after acheiving them. And this is said with positivity and love, not in a negative sense at all! Yes again!

guys only want one thing and it’s to find a beautiful wife and have a bunch of kids and become a millionaire and stave off death

@paulsaladinomd Sunrise or set? Wondering where that might be! Nice and good for you. Nailed it!

What's the point living forever if you don't have adventures with your friends? This past weekend somewhere on planet earth...

@2020Upstream Thanks. Just found that photo in a box and it brought back such wonderful memories of simpler times.

@GeologistVaughn Very cool

One of the most magical aspects of my life was the privilege of to grow up doing conservation and exploration in South Africa. I had a bird hospital for about 15 years. My first patient was at the age of about 6 or 7. Rehabilitated many 100s of birds into the wild. There were some that refused to leave and I would awaken in the morning with them in my bed, and this one, Tufty, refused to join a flock and stuck around living inside and outside my home as a young man. Mousebirds (family Coliidae, order Coliiformes) are a phylogenetically isolated, Africa-endemic group often called living fossils, with only six extant species. These small, gregarious birds feature soft, fluffy plumage, crests, and very long tails, with pamprodactylous feet enabling mouse-like scrambling and upside-down hanging while foraging on fruit, buds, and leaves. Most curiously, they enter facultative torpor to drop body temperature and metabolism during cool or food-scarce conditions, often huddling communally for warmth and basking belly-up in the sun. This is her basking in my head.

@Derrick_NOLA My friend met you recently and said amazing things! I wish you all the very best in your endeavors! We need more nature lovers and open-minded folks in local leadership! Thank you for bringing that! With respect.

@GeologistVaughn A beautiful one for sure

Good night, Santa Monica.

Yes. I live here (Ventura). It’s awesome. But not the politics. Imagine being an oil geo. My neighbors hate me. Sad that they choose to see me “their way” rather than as a human being that loves earth and serves society -providing its most important commodity, without which would lead to immediate societal collapse.

I get the California crazy woke politics, etc etc., but I am out here in Del Mar and it is pretty damn amazing