Posts by Paul Campbell
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walking through the local CountDown here in Dunedin today was interesting, looked like a going out of business sale, 1/3 of the shelves were empty - but with signs saying that the contents had been sent to Christchurch
looking more closely at what was empty and what was not it would appear that you must be out of cheap champagne
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apparently those 'coon-skin hats cause some sort of brain contact rabies or something ....
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A vaguely Aussie friend posts this image of looky-loos checking out the quake damage
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I'm not sure you can loot an empty mailbox - perhaps you have to stuff a few bills in it or something
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My daughter texted me to tell me about the tree in the driveway and the damaged mailbox but she was wrong the mailbox had actually been done in by hoons the night before (4th time in 5 years)
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I remember that after-the-fall sort of feeling as I mentioned above - after Loma Preita people didn't seem to know when it was OK to go on with their lives - no one says "OK, it's over" - you just have to ease back into it
Hopefully the worst of last night's storm passed you by (how is Islander doing?) gusts over 100km/hr last night, we had a tree come down in our drive, missed the car by 6 inches
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The Blitz spirit
It was the same in the bay Area after Loma Prieta - everything just sort of stopped for a few days even in places that weren't so badly damaged like our neighbourhood - people just had this one common experience to share (the day after 9/11 and after the Oakland Hills fire were a bit like that too)
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Mary Wilson: So how much energy did it release?
GNS scientist: I'm not sure what you mean!Silly man - this is typically done in the MSM using units of "atomic bombs"
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I lived on top of the Hayward fault for 20 years (no relation) - with the big one always forecast for us at any time - you get use to them and a bit blase .... "oooh an earthquake" .... transitioning after a while to .... "that's gone on a bit too long" ...
We lived through the "little big one" - Loma Prieta - in fact we got warning (the whole speed of light faster than speed of sound thing) the guy on KQED said "oh my god an earthquake" and the station went dead - then we saw it rippling up the street - we were living in a safe part of Berkeley, just a little chimney damage - I was saved by the World Series though - I was supposed to be on that double decker freeway that collapsed at that time - didn't go to work that day because I thought the traffic would be really bad
We always felt we missed a bullet moving back to NZ but I've felt 2 7.0 in the past 2 years (from a distance) - I look under my house and shake my head - piles of bricks - I know what needs to be there to save us from earthquakes and it's not that - the 6.0 in Taipei at xmas was scarier (on the 12 floor of the hotel where do you go?_
So last night in Dunedin got to the "that's gone on for a little too long" stage to the "throwing on a bath robe" stage .... a friend found herself standing naked in her front door way
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I think one of the good things Jobs did when he returned as "interim" CEO was to crack down on that culture, which really had got out of hand and had little to do with the good of the company. I gather there's a little more direction these days -- although it's amusing how little the different divisions know about each others' marching orders.
Well - I was also working in and around them before Steve left (they got free Mac 2 hardware debugging and actual fixes from me) - I've heard people being dressed down by Steve, from a distance and seen people trying to look invisible in their cubes. I honestly think he started that whole culture of groups competing against each other - maybe it all got more out of hand after he left with out him at the top