[Rockhounds] Glacial erratic, Texan Erratica

[J. R. Hodel]

Hi:

I'm out here in Arizona, combining personal business (visiting dear cousin, attending to retirement strategy) with visits to Tucson to indulge in pointless desire of ultra-expensive yet beautiful rocks!

I agree that the photoshop work on the glacial erratic seems to indicate that the two slabs of rock MAY be part of the same giant boulder - an ironic use of the tool to prove factual things instead of to put my face on a gila monster, with a giant tongue, and show it to everyone at my retirement luncheon!

I also agree that Mineralogical Record tends to cater to the ultra-wealthy portion of their subscriber base a little more than I would prefer, but would point out that it is probably good business to support the not-to-strange whims of the wealthy when continued quality publication might one day depend upon the support of said wealthy subscribers.

I too would like to see frabjulous beautiful personally-collected specimens, with photos of the digging, the muddy but victorious miner/collector, and the finally cleaned and perfect specimen, and a description of the research in dusty geographic and geologic maps in forgotten university research libraries which led the collector(s) to their wonderful finds!

But the pretty pictures are also OK.  I just hope they keep up the good work.  At least the Texan Collector edition wasn't the magazine itself, which is still relatively intact and interesting.  I even didn't hate the goniometer edition much, they were interesting ancient scientific research tools, after all.

Well, off to bed.  Anyone who plans to be in Tucson, drop me a line, maybe we can stroll among the fabulous crystals and fossils together, or, alternatively, drink beer together with wonderful exotic Sonoran food!

KoR
JR




      

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