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by **Lance** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 5:45 am

tubeswell wrote: No visually detectable change

Thank GOD!!!

by **Мастер** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 6:08 am

It's the changes you can't see which get you . . .

by **Arneb** » Sat Jul 26, 2014 2:59 pm

Hey tubes, time to say it for once. I admire your determination and will to get this thing done, and I wish you the best for your long days in the cubbyhole.

And now I am going to play soccer with my boy.

by **tubeswell** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 12:07 am

Sunday 27 July. Final lurch toward the finish of the research method (3rd) draft chapter. Maybe I'll catch the commonwealth games highlights on TV tonight when I get home

by **tubeswell** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 1:13 am

Yay! 3rd draft chapter submitted for supervisors comments at 1:11pm Sun 27 July. I'm taking the rest of this afternoon off - might catch the CW games highlights after all.

by **tubeswell** » Sat Aug 09, 2014 11:56 pm

Since handing in my draft 3rd chapter (which will be the 4th chapter when the introduction is added in front later), I have gone back and done a 2nd version. Now I am contemplating a 3rd version. At home today instead of in the cubby hole. Sun is shinning outside. Dishes are done. Washing is hanging on the line. House is tidy. Email's checked. Bill payments made. Eaten breakfast and lunch. :D/

by **tubeswell** » Thu Aug 14, 2014 10:02 pm

Back in the cubby hole again - I've 92.8% completed coding on one of my three district scheme case studies - got to catch up with my supervisor this afternoon.

Don't know if I've mentioned it before, but for some context for interested readers the thesis title is: "‘Top-down’ and ‘bottom up’ influences on renewable energy development: district plans and the regulation of wind farms in New Zealand". For the research part I'm looking at 3 different sets of district scheme provisions for wind farms, in the context of NZ's multi-level governance system for natural and physical resource allocation (not that it would interest most people I imagine).

The cracks on the wall look the same I think.

by **Lance** » Fri Aug 15, 2014 1:48 pm

tubeswell wrote:The cracks on the wall look the same I think.

And they will, right up until they fail catastrophically. Think of them like faults and their failure like an earthquake. They will withstand the stress until they can't anymore.

by **Enzo** » Fri Aug 15, 2014 8:35 pm

Then they go postal...

by **tubeswell** » Fri Aug 22, 2014 5:54 am

Managed a tiny weeny bit of work on it today, and some yesterday and some on Monday. We'll see what tomorrow brings

by **tubeswell** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 10:12 pm

Been a teeny while since my last entry. Never fear - academia prevails ;-)

Cracks in the pillar look about the same today

by **Lance** » Fri Sep 26, 2014 1:27 pm

tubeswell wrote:Cracks in the pillar look about the same today

"About" the same? So not EXACTLY the same? Potentially WORSE?

OMFG! RUN!

by **MM_Dandy** » Fri Sep 26, 2014 3:44 pm

No, they're better. It was reverse-quake.

by **Enzo** » Fri Sep 26, 2014 4:07 pm

An Ekauq. They started in Alaska, I think...

by **MM_Dandy** » Fri Sep 26, 2014 6:56 pm

Aksala, acutally.
Actually, Ekauqs start at a perimeter and propagate to a center point.

by **Enzo** » Sat Sep 27, 2014 3:36 pm

Everything shakes into place.

by **tubeswell** » Sat Sep 27, 2014 7:28 pm

Yes it does. Hoping it stays in place for the time being

by **tubeswell** » Mon Sep 29, 2014 7:46 am

I took the day off work today, and stayed home writing a heap of stuff on my draft 4th (results) chapter, which alone is up to about 70 pages and over 30,000 words. (The whole seven chapters of the thesis is supposed to be limited to 45,000 words tops. I may have to get a dispensation or something.)

by **Heid the Ba** » Mon Sep 29, 2014 9:16 am

That is what editors are for, find someone you trust to read it over.

by **tubeswell** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 1:03 am

Back in the cubby hole. Took a different day off this week. Seeing my supervisor in 2 and a bit hours - hopefully will sort out a few issues.

by **Lance** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 2:14 am

Have him come to you, and make him stand by the crack.

by **tubeswell** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 2:41 am

There was a 5.5 mag quake here about an hour ago, although it was far down (113km) and it didn't seem to make the cracks any bigger AFAICT (which is Irish for 'a faict'). To the alarm of some of my cell block mates I've started marking and dating the cracks (kind of like a 'how tall where you when?' thingy)

by **Arneb** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 11:36 am

Oh nice. There growth will be SO nicely documented.

by **Heid the Ba** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 1:02 pm

Traditionally surveyors n the UK use a "17p tell tale"*, by sticking a postage stamp across the crack and seeing how it is affected with time. Your postage may vary.

* postage is far more than that now, but the term remains.

by **Мастер** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 1:44 pm

Heid the Ba' wrote:* postage is far more than that now, but the term remains.

Well we can probably identify with some accuracy when this technique was developed then :)

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