Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Political Incorrectness Gone Mad

May all JAMSTEC's pathetic middle management, who have used us to bolster their own careers, be swept away.

North Shore, Pipeline

North Shore, Pipeline

Hopefully the sweeping away will not be actually due to physical waves, but instead there will be a revolution in Japanese so called "science", and they will start fostering scientific development, new ideas, even perhaps climate science.

North Shore

Yes... James forced me to sign my abusive (and illegal - in Europe) contract - he says we can leave whenever we want. Hmph. I might have already reached the limit of working hard to make other people look good. I'd rather stay home and sew up my fabric stash. He says I would get bored quickly and that he would have noone to help him pedal to work (and, of course, tell him what work to do...).

[photos are from the North Shore of Oahu, where, for the first time in living memory (or rather the 7 years that our guide, Oli, has been resident) there were no surfers out. However, as a former wave modeller, I've long wanted to see the famous nonlinear interactions caused by the offshore coral reefs around Hawai'i, so I was absolutely delighted with the show, and would very much like to return to inspect some of the other beaches.]

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Friday, March 9, 2012

Wildlife

I think I know this one.

bird
Egret! What was weird was the way it was wading through the grass creeping up on and stabbing nuts that had fallen from the trees.

But what are these?
bird

bird

This one I Googled easily
Red crested cardinal
Red-Crested Cardinal imported from South America.

Later on it rained so much that all the birds flew away and these were swimming past the hotel window.
jellyfish
Jelly fish.

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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Turtley awesome

They do not often come up for air...

turtle

But sometimes the waves try to beach them...
turtle

turtle

I'd no idea that turtles just turtle about in the shallows a short distance from residential neighbourhoods. Some of them were really big. At this beach it really was turtles all the way down.
turtle beach

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Monday, March 5, 2012

Oahu touristing

We had some free time today so went on the tourist walk to see Manoa Falls. On the way up the falls were flowing quite enthusiastically,

Manoa Falls

but then the rains really started. By the time we passed the falls on the way back there was water flying in all directions off the cliff. Unfortunately the waterproof camera was stuck in the depths of James' rucksack, so I didn't try a water immersion shot. Meanwhile, the unwaterproof camera was starting to explore new artistic directions...
Manoa Falls walk

Manoa Falls walk

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Sunday, March 4, 2012

Looking up

looking up
Workshop over. All talked out. Only good for staring at sky, although at this point we still had the workshop buffet to complete. Unusually, possibly uniquely, at this workshop no shopping at all was achieved, but quite a lot of work was done. So, now you know not to refuse, should Gavin Schmidt (the little one in this photo) and Axel Timmermann ever invite you to a workshop.

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Saturday, March 3, 2012

Caption Competition

science R US
It's deja vu all over again. Only this time, not only are there windows, but they don't even have glass in them!!!

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Friday, March 2, 2012

Let's tropics

1st of March and the weather continues unseasonably warm. More confusingly, only 50% of the people are speaking Japanese. The rest gabble in some weird, primitive English dialect (which sounds a bit like "yada yada yada"). And there is still something funny about the vegetation:

tropical
tropical
tropical
tropical
orchid

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