Baby, it's cold outside...
Jul. 21st, 2002 02:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jayI'm in camp now, everything's OK. Tent is up... but a bit moldy. Sigh. At least I got it up before it started raining. Currently it is bright, overcast, and about 3C (37 degrees F).
Images exist online
Images exist online
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I'm in camp now, everything's OK. Tent is up... but a bit moldy. Sigh. At least I got it up before it started raining. Currently it is bright, overcast, and about 3C (37 degrees F).
Images exist online <a href="from webcams here."
http://www.marsonearth.org/interactive/multimedia/2002/webcams/" target="_blank">from webcams here.</a>
I have David's drawing up in front of my laptop... One of <lj site="livejournal.com" user="therealjae">'s stories on the table next to the red box, and the blue fabric hanging out of my organizer is one of <lj site="livejournal.com" user="clairaide">'s Gordian Designs bookmarks.
Work is going well, actually... slow (10kB/sec) transfer speeds plagued the dry run earlier today, but by playing around on this end we have a workaround that boosts speed 3x. Granted, <lj site="livejournal.com" user="hopeforyou">'s scripts will have to look at a different, local machine... with one day left to change and test it. But it appears that a workable approach exists.
This morning, I gathered my things and left Old Strathcona behind, going first to Yellowknife and then on to Resolute. This last hop will become harder next year, when a small once-weekly turboprop replaces jet service. Finding the airfreight crates, I gathered my things and the remaining equipment and headed over on a Twin Otter with four others... it was good to be back. I knew most of the people here :-), and traded smiles and handshakes (and one hug). And we have a answer for the slow ftp transfer-rate problem (push from here, rather than Hope pulling the files from her side).
Tomorrow we will have our testing hampered... by a visiting VIP contingent. Environment Minister David Anderson, accompanied by his UK, Danish and Norwegian counterparts, and the ambassadors from those countries, will be visiting our camp tomorrow from 9:30-12. Joy.
Since in Pascal's absence I'm the senior (practically the only) NASA guy here, I'm supposed to welcome them... and there's no agenda. (imagines leading them off on a huge ATV traverse...) And they want to see our experiment's ATV. Sigh.
It's late, time to head to my tent and sleeping bag... I'll try to upload some pictures later.
Images exist online <a href="from webcams here."
http://www.marsonearth.org/interactive/multimedia/2002/webcams/" target="_blank">from webcams here.</a>
I have David's drawing up in front of my laptop... One of <lj site="livejournal.com" user="therealjae">'s stories on the table next to the red box, and the blue fabric hanging out of my organizer is one of <lj site="livejournal.com" user="clairaide">'s Gordian Designs bookmarks.
Work is going well, actually... slow (10kB/sec) transfer speeds plagued the dry run earlier today, but by playing around on this end we have a workaround that boosts speed 3x. Granted, <lj site="livejournal.com" user="hopeforyou">'s scripts will have to look at a different, local machine... with one day left to change and test it. But it appears that a workable approach exists.
This morning, I gathered my things and left Old Strathcona behind, going first to Yellowknife and then on to Resolute. This last hop will become harder next year, when a small once-weekly turboprop replaces jet service. Finding the airfreight crates, I gathered my things and the remaining equipment and headed over on a Twin Otter with four others... it was good to be back. I knew most of the people here :-), and traded smiles and handshakes (and one hug). And we have a answer for the slow ftp transfer-rate problem (push from here, rather than Hope pulling the files from her side).
Tomorrow we will have our testing hampered... by a visiting VIP contingent. Environment Minister David Anderson, accompanied by his UK, Danish and Norwegian counterparts, and the ambassadors from those countries, will be visiting our camp tomorrow from 9:30-12. Joy.
Since in Pascal's absence I'm the senior (practically the only) NASA guy here, I'm supposed to welcome them... and there's no agenda. (imagines leading them off on a huge ATV traverse...) And they want to see our experiment's ATV. Sigh.
It's late, time to head to my tent and sleeping bag... I'll try to upload some pictures later.
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Date: 2002-07-21 02:14 am (UTC)BTW, there's a problem with that Webcam link, but I can't see what...
Very best of luck with the Official Visit!
baby its cold out side
Date: 2002-07-21 08:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-07-21 09:14 am (UTC)*warm hugs*
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Date: 2002-07-21 10:13 am (UTC)Let him know UK science funding needs a boost if you get the chance :-)