soubriquet

Thanks team. A search found this: http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php/topic/1/2930.html#000000

Just thought I'd bump this one for anyone interested in canting.

You can get your stuff shipped from Narita. My partner does this regularly if she doesn't want to have a suitcase on the train. I'll ask her for more details tonight.

Thats what I think. An acid reaction.

Far out. Subjectivity rules.

I'm going for a swim in eastern Honshu on the 4th. If I survive, I'll post an impression.

Fun, yes, I'm very happy with them. Mind you, they are the first skis I've owned, a big improvement on rental gear. Another question. I stand/ski on the outside edges. I know it is possible to get boots with adjustable cant, but mine are not. I'd guess a competent fitter could measure and adjust. Any comments?

I guess I'm asking for a run down on the terminology. I took local advice when I bought them. Carving sounds fine, because my days of off-piste heroics are long gone. You can never find a dood when you want one......

Question for you techies. My skis are Atomic C9. 170cm, 105-65-95. What do I have? They suit me just fine, but I'm not as demanding as I used to be.

Bali squirrel. They have an amazing ability to rotate their back feet and hang. Never tried eating upside down. If I did, I'm sure everything would come out of my nose

It's hard to say. As a teenager in the sixties, I was pretty gung ho. When the shuttle first came out I was still keen. It looks like the real deal, and flies like a brick. Cool. My 8yo son has a lego model which he loves, so it crosses generations. As NASA is publicly funded, I'd guess there is public and political support. My beef is that finite resources are being spent on the vehicle instead of the science. The solution I expect to emerge is to separate the crew from the cargo, and send the latter up unmanned.

I preferred the "Infobahn". If you don't like the way I drive, then stay off the footpath,

Quote: Originally posted by rach: Hey, what was so good about Virgin, soubriquet? They were cheap and the fleet is new. Individual screens and streaming video, so you can watch whatever is in the library (40-50 vids) and pause it if you need a piss. Good selection too, not just hollywood.

Virgin's fleet is all new. The Tokyo-London-Tokyo flight was excellent and cheap. They had a choice of about 50 films, all individually streamed. Tokyo-London was a blast, travelling with the day across Siberia. Coming home I drank heaps of wine and caught up on four films

In theory yes. However, there is no right or wrong with English, only preferred usage. As long as we communicate successfully, the jpb is done.

Cat, short for "caterpillar tracks".

Yes and yes. The foam fell off the tank, so it's not a problem per se, but if the foam hits the shuttle potentially it is. The broken tile is a separate issue. The shuttle always loses tiles on re-entry anyway. Normally this is also not a problem, unless the break is on the leading edge of the wing or similar critical area as happened last time. NASA has now painted itself into a corner because the vehicle they have cannot meet their own safety standards. Without the shuttle the ISS is stuck, incomplete and undermanned. There is no Plan B.

Due to underwhelming public response. These are the three basic (end member) types of fault. Normal Strike slip Thrust For normal faulting, the crust is in tension (E-W in the diagram). The relatively small surface area limits the amount of strain (stored energy, like bending a spring), and because it is being pulled apart, the fault tends to move easily. You would expect numerous small local earthquakes from this style. Strike slip faulting is shear. The best known example of this is the San Andreas fault. Similar to the normal fault, the fa

I had a quick check through my stuff, and I have plenty on faults. I can do that from memory, but not much relevant to Earthquakes. I can put up some stuff on plate tectonics too, if anyone is interested, but this is generic geology. Tsondaboy is (should be) the real expert, with respect to Japan. The problem for Kanto and through to Kanazawa is that there are three plates in collision, which causes some very complex motion. There's a good site here which gives current and historic information: http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/current/japan.html Taguchi. I don't believe in "earthqu

Taguchi. The rule is very simple. Internet is a noun, and nouns do not take a capital "I" unless at the start of a sentence. The exception is when the noun is a "proper noun", that is the actual name of someone or something. Therefore the person known as Ocean11 (proper noun) lives in Matsuyama (proper noun).

Moral dilemma: hohoho. He doesn't want to be pushed around by a thug. He hasn't resigned the directorships or given up the money. Money and power are the antithesis of morality, so is this.

Very generally, numerous small earthquakes will reduce the strain over a given area, so I would say the former. Not all earthquakes are the same, however. The amount of energy that can be stored, and released is a function of the surface area and geometry of the fault(s), and there can be different faults behaving differently within the same area. So I'll give the infuriating response, probably, with qualifications. A lot of very clever people have put a lot of energy into studying these problems, and they really are intractable. I'll post something on faults later, got work to do now

Spud. I don't think Australians are any worse than any other nation, and most of the xenophobia is a background hum based on ignorance rather than malice. I agree with your comment on foreigners in a foreign land. There are very few caucasians where I live, so I'm an object of curiousity, especially for the kids who like to come up for a real close look. It's ok, because I am remarkable here and I'm comfortable with being different. Fifteen years as a Pom in Oz ceertainly thickened my skin

My Karrimor day pack lasted 20 years. That adds up to about a year of fieldwork, and carrying a lot of rock. No problems. I have a very nice Berghaus now, but it's a tad too large.

Clearly not been designed by committee. I wonder what that one would look like?