Mike Ross

🤣 I wouldn't rally a CX.

I had a Thing for Weird French Cars.

I finally got cured of it.

Introduce yourself with 5 cars you've owned

1978 Citroen CX
1987 Citroen CX
1990 Citroen CX
2002 Renault Avantime
2025 IM6

The Highland Scot in me says 'Meh - we went to and from school in the dark in December!'

You can ask @bluescsi.com directly, they're here!

I've only used ZuluSCSI and SCSI2SD myself, but will definitely be giving BlueSCSI a whirl if they have a production release that supports AS/400...

...in addition to what we already knew; don't trust Russia or China.

Slightly speculative prediction: Taiwan, South Korea, and Canada will quietly develop nukes, and do so more quickly than most people would believe possible. Only domestic political unthinkability will prevent Japan doing the same.

Thinking of...

- The people of Iran, who mostly hate their government
- The people of Israel, who mostly hate their government
- The people of Palestine, who mostly hate their government
- The people of the USA, who mostly hate their government

You missed a golden opportunity to deploy "Long time no sea"...

Tephra seismites—Understanding seismic hazard of hidden faults by analyzing liquefied tephra layers in lakes CT images of lacustrine volcanic-ash layers ≤8 cm thick provide a key liquefaction database for seismic hazard assessments.

One of my GNS Red Team colleagues has been busy doing some paleoseismology!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Screenshot of dashboard for the NZ Post 'YouShop' service, with the tracker for 'number of destroyed parcels' highlighted.

A post office where the service dashboard allows you track your current number of 'destroyed parcels'?!

I don't know if I should be terrified, or awestruck by the honesty in marketing here! 😆

Where do you put a seismo-tectonophysicist? Asking for a friend.

Unsurprised. I was there - in Manhattan on 9/11.

There was nothing recognisable in hardware from the towers - not a desk, a chair, a phone - everything pulverised.

But there was paper *everywhere* - the streets covered in it. Dense stuff pulverised, paper floated and blew away.

I refer you Larry Niven's "Intent to Deceive".

I am Pentium of Borg
Division is futile
You will be approximated

Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title…

“How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work”

Way to devalue my experience.

I think FinDer has been on the magic mushrooms.

IYKYK.

Get into retrocomputing.

Try running and learning TOPS-20; a great improvement on its successors!

Where I Work, we have occasional test fire evacuation drills; everyone should respond as if the alarm is real (they don't know it's a test).

Facilities are supposed to inform us prior to such tests, so I can judge, as team leader, if it's safe for my team to participate in the drill. They never do😞

Oh sure - but not relevant to my point about tipping, we're not about to import that cultural feature!

(And taxis are one of the few types of business I would say *deserve* to be obliterated! Across the world it seems to be a shitty business model; I have little sympathy there)

*offer may not apply in Aotearoa New Zealand, where tipping does not exist because we expect all workers to be paid a fair wage.

Yep. Huge chain of recycled/secondhand goods shops all over Japan. They've opened a few stores in Hawaii and West Coast USA AFAIK - the branding there is 'EcoTown'.

Other related brands in Japan - 'Book Off' & 'Off House' etc. Google them.

First time I've seen anything priced over one million Yen at a Hard Off store!

View of train tracks in Aomori, Japan showing deep snowdrifts.

Daddy & daughter holiday in Japan and encountering some *serious* snow!

A clear view of Fuji

A rare clear view of Fuji today - you can practically *feel* the geohazards!

Mamiya RB67 camera in great condition for sale in Hard Off store. 38,500 Yen / $248USD

Multiple original Playstations on sale in Hard Off store, plus a Nintendo Super Famicon

Assorted thermionic valves for sale in Hard Off store.

I'll be there on Monday!

Dammit they have drawers full of *valves*! And some pretty great pricing... how many original Playstations would you like?

Exterior of Hard Off secondhand store

Interior of Hard Off store

There are many great things about Japan, and you have listed a few of them - but missed the greatest: Hard Off stores. Lots of them, everywhere, with aisle after aisle after aisle of pre-loved electronics, games, musical instruments, cameras... amazing. I fill a suitcase every trip!

"'cause that's the problem with plutonium, Craven; it's limited in its application..."

Beautiful! I was lucky enough to get a batch of similar NOS I/O Selectrics - military variety, used shipboard apparently.

It's NEVER too late; I gave up being a full-time dad and got back into geoscience - geohazards, no less! - at 56! Five years later and I'm happy as a pig in sh!t, one of the leaders of a team of geohazard analysts at the sharp pointy end of Aotearoa New Zealand's geohazards response.

IBM i: everything is an object

I live in Welly but I've never been to Weta Workshop - maybe I now have a reason to change that!

(But not soon - I'm off to Japan in 5 days!)