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On Birds, Ghosts, Velocity and Serendipity (1)

July 13, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

We were sitting eating our lunch earlier today when there was a percussive thud from the the French door at the end of the table. A recently fledged Robin hadn’t seen the glass. No immediate or obvious harm, the little bird turned and flew back into the undergrowth. Sheepishly, it seemed to me. Perhaps such a stunning might temporarily cause an avian to adopt mammalian ungulate behaviour.

Texas was almost my first thought because of the memory of a Painted Bunting that crashed into the window of my office long ago in Sugar Land. Almost the same sound today resurrected a long parked memory.

Twitchers in Galveston 1988
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: birds, geophysics, moore's law, texas, travel, twitchers

Build your own?

June 22, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Intro: I stumbled onto the notes for this post on a back-up disk. I’ve re-worked and expanded them today. The 15 year old grandson is now 19. He just built himself a new rig for gaming. A lesson in delayed gratification, it took months for all of the parts to be delivered in this era of pandemic.

Back in the 1980’s, I was involved in a group charged to implement three-dimensional seismic imaging technology for a service company. My qualification for membership in the team was the prior two years working in another seismic 3D start-up company, where innovation and determination became failure and frustration which manifested as constant corporate re-organisations.

Rotten Tomatoes and Seismic Recording 1982
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: chapter 11, computing, geophysics, moore's law, pandemic, photos, seismic

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