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Just in time for my move to San Francisco: A detailed look at just how bad things can get if a big earthquake hits.

Click through for a super detailed high-resolution version.

Posted on 2008/10/16 by dominic in personal | Tagged earthquake, san francisco | Leave a comment

devindra:

Via ajhan

The Peanuts gang go Watchmen style

I want to add something to make this more than just a reblog, but the picture is so full of awesome I can’t think of anything.

Posted on 2008/10/16 by dominic in personal | Tagged peanuts, reblog, watchmen | Leave a comment

T-24 days

It is 24 days until I fly out to yet another country to start at a new company. This time, and there have been a few times already, it’s a bit different as this will be an internal transfer.

I’m writing about this now because this week everything has really kicked into gear: The relocation company have contacted me, IT have started arranging the transfer of my email (3Gb of email in one year, and that’s after trimming out things I don’t need to keep for reference) and the flight is finally booked, with room for Oliver.

At this point in the process in the past, I’ve had a similar feeling to when I was looking forward to starting at a new school: What faux-pas will I make on my first day? Will I encounter any cliques? If I make friends, will they be the right friends?

This time, however, I already know many of the people I will be working with and I know how the company functions. I am aware of the internal politics and the political factions that have formed over different issues. I’m left wondering if I will be treated differently by them than if I was starting completely fresh. If so, will it be a more positive experience, or a more ‘constructive’ one?

PS – Squeeeeee! New country, new city, new job!

Posted on 2008/10/11 by dominic in personal | Tagged work | Leave a comment

Next Job (via Hans van Reenen).

I have a thing for bees so I often search for bee photos on flickr, and this picture seems fitting as I leave my job in this country and fly on to another.

Posted on 2008/10/05 by dominic in personal | Leave a comment

EINSTEIN’S FORMULA DETERMINATION INDIVIDUAL SPECIFICS RELATIVITY READS QUOTE ENERGY EQUALS MASS TIMES THE SPEED OF LIGHT SQUARED UNQUOTE SPEED OF LIGHT IDENTICAL SPEED ALL RADIATION COSMIC GAMMA X ULTRA VIOLET INFRA RED RAYS ETCETERA ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY SIX THOUSAND MILES PER SECOND WHICH SQUARED IS TOP OR PERFECT SPEED GIVING SCIENCE A FINITE VALUE FOR BASIC FACTOR IN MOTION UNIVERSE STOP SPEED OF RADIANT ENERGY BEING DIRECTIONAL OUTWARD ALL DIRECTIONS EXPANDING WAVE SURFACE DIAMETRIC POLAR SPEED AWAY FROM SELF IS TWICE SPEED IN ONE DIRECTION AND SPEED OF VOLUME INCREASE IS SQUARE OF SPEED IN ONE DIRECTION APPROXIMATELY THIRTY FIVE BILLION VOLUMETRIC MILES PER SECOND STOP FORMULA IS WRITTEN QUOTE LETTER E FOLLOWED CLOSELY BY EQUATION MARK FOLLOWED BY LETTER M FOLLOWED BY LETTER C FOLLOWED CLOSELY BY ELEVATED SMALL FIGURE TWO SYMBOL OF SQUARING UNQUOTE ONLY VARIABLE IN FORMULA IS SPECIFIC MASS SPEED IS A UNIT OF RATE WHICH IS AN INTEGRATED RATIO OF BOTH TIME AND SPACE AND NO GREATER RATE OF SPEED THAN THAT PROVIDED BY ITS CAUSE WHICH IS PURE ENERGY LATENT OR RADIANT IS ATTAINABLE STOP THE FORMULA THEREFORE PROVIDES A UNIT AND A RATE OF PERFECTION TO WHICH THE RELATIVE IMPERFECTION OF INEFFICIENCY OF ENERGY RELEASE IN RADIANT OR CONFINED DIRECTION OF ALL TEMPORAL SPACE PHENOMENA MAY BE COMPARED BY ACTUAL CALCULATION STOP SIGNIFICANCE STOP SPECIFIC QUALITY OF ANIMATES IS CONTROL WILLFUL OR OTHERWISE OF RATE AND DIRECTION ENERGY RELEASE AND APPLICATION NOT ONLY OF SELF MECHANISM BUT OF FROM SELF MACHINE DIVIDED MECHANISMS AND RELATIVITY OF ALL ANIMATES AND INANIMATES IS POTENTIAL OF ESTABLISHMENT THROUGH EINSTEIN FORMULA

Concise | Futility Closet – Buckminster Fuller explaining Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity in a telegram in 1936.

Posted on 2008/10/05 by dominic in personal | Leave a comment

The US Election VP debate

I’m trying to think of what to write about the VP debate I watched this morning, but I want to avoid writing what other people around the world will put far more eloquently than I.

I’m taking a greater interest in the US election this year than I have in any previous year. Mostly, this is because I’m moving there in a few weeks (on election day, no less) but also because I feel it is getting better or clearer coverage with the online technologies that have really matured in the last four years.

My conclusion from the debate must be taken alongside my limited knowledge of the history of these candidates. I have based my assessment on how the candidates communicated and discussed their points, as well as the content of their arguments.

I am left with the feeling that Biden is self-assured with a demeanour that suggests a wealth of experience and an inherent honesty, while Palin has been very well coached on how to solidify her party’s core demographic, but comes across as insincere through her efforts to appear to be a simple character.

Given the role of the vice-president, I am left hoping that I arrive in a US in which Biden is the successful candidate.

Posted on 2008/10/03 by dominic in personal | Leave a comment

riotclitshave

Link: riotclitshave

While it doesn’t have the quality of images as Boston Globe’s Big Picture feed, riotclitshave has a range of subjects and surreality that is captivating. And a great name.

Posted on 2008/10/03 by dominic in personal | Leave a comment

Oliver Twist, the most curious of pooches, investigating the thing I insist on pointing at him.

Posted on 2008/10/02 by dominic in personal | Leave a comment

I’ve loved seeing the tilt-shift effect in photos and have often browsed the flickr group, but I’ve never seen the effect in video before…

Posted on 2008/10/02 by dominic in personal | Tagged tilt-shift | Leave a comment

You are as American as the Olympics are.

David Hasslehoff

Posted on 2008/10/01 by dominic in personal | Leave a comment

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