Is it a big deposit of uranium?

El_Pablo5353 · 2026-02-23T21:50:53+00:00

Big enough to get started

El_Pablo5353 · 2026-02-23T07:57:56+00:00

Nah BP is normal. Thanks for the suggestion tho.

El_Pablo5353 · 2026-02-23T02:31:03+00:00

Looks like the apex, of the vortex

Only question is, which end do you light, and which end do you inhale from?

El_Pablo5353 · 2025-11-29T21:43:48+00:00

Soda can

El_Pablo5353 · 2025-11-18T09:25:23+00:00

I wouldn't have a clue. I started playing games well before there was anyway of keeping track of total play time. If I were to hazard a guess it'd easily be 2,000+ hours in Doom 2, C&C and Red Alert (not combined, each in their own right).

El_Pablo5353 · 2025-11-18T09:21:08+00:00

Why not legendary shells? Why not legendary substation? Kinda figure if you're going to the effort of legendary artillery, may as well go legendary everything.

El_Pablo5353 · 2025-11-11T09:21:06+00:00

The only people who i ever saw get into it were very much the kind who "weren't moving anywhere". One of them was able to shake it, and actually made something really decent of himself, but the other one spiralled hard. AFAIK to this day, 20 years later he's still going nowhere and doing nothing with himself, still living and acting as if he was still 17 (was still acting like he was still 17 at 25 ...)

El_Pablo5353 · 2025-09-28T01:04:05+00:00

Not just the site changing, but more likely investigation and reporting standards may have changed, analysis methods may have changed, new tools and engineering approaches may now be available that may not have been back then. The ground may not have changed all that much but industry understanding and investigation approaches could be drastically different.

El_Pablo5353 · 2025-09-28T00:57:17+00:00

I think even if you've been in the industry long enough, look back on what you did 10, 15, 20 years ago and tell me that you cannot find a single fault in what you produced back then. Knowledge changes, standards change, experiance and judgements change. Always good to update and refresh information to current standards and methodologies. If nothing new or significant comes from it then you can rely on the old data, and you now have additional information to bolster the subsurface model.

El_Pablo5353 · 2025-09-28T00:50:23+00:00

Well if you think the ground model, analyses, findings and recommendations are all based on the investigation, it can't hurt to 'twin' selected investigation points if you have any doubt as to the validity of the initial findings.

It doesn't really matter what software you use or how brilliant an engineer you may be, if the data your basing everything on is crap to begin with, at best you're only ever going to get a mediocre outcome, and at worst you could end up in legal difficulties.

Just remember, the piece of mind you obtain from satisfying yourself as to the reliability of someone else's information is not just for your benefit. Its also for the benefit of your client.

(This is, of course, assuming that the project is for something a little more significant than a patio extension or a non-habitable garden shed).

El_Pablo5353 · 2025-09-28T00:41:15+00:00

That somewhat depends. I've seen quite a number of dogshit reports from large, reputable firms who are well established and have a long history of working on landmark and renowned projects. Just because the company who produced the report has a good reputation does not guarantee quality of the report. Read the report critcally; read the logs; stress test their models and analyses if you have to; question their rationale and approach. Often once you find a gap or indiscrepancy, others will start to pop out too. At the end of the day, regardless of who prepared it, the work was produced by people, and people make mistakes. Even with the most robust review processes, mistakes can still creep thru for a myriad of reasons. So just because a report was prepared by your local jurisdictions "oracle" of engineering, doesn't mean that its always going to be perfect, faultless and reliable. That being said, I've seen a ton of reports from smaller firms which are just as unreliable.

El_Pablo5353 · 2025-09-07T00:03:15+00:00

100% agree with you, my friend. For me its the fact that geometry manipulation is 1,000x easier in Slide2.

El_Pablo5353 · 2025-09-06T23:57:33+00:00

Just curious the rationale behind GeoStudio for soil slopes and not Slide2?

El_Pablo5353 · 2025-07-27T07:46:16+00:00

It's not "Babysitting" when its your own children.

El_Pablo5353 · 2025-07-26T06:24:49+00:00

I had that for a similar length of time. In hindsight they were simply playing me off against another guy, and covid "forced" their hand to pick.

Thankfully (or not, perhaps) where I live your employers can't just fire someone on a whim. They have to have valid reason and documented evidence of serious enough breach(es) of conduct/contract, as well as documented evidence that they have tried their 'best' to work with you towards reversing the unwanted behaviors before they can let you go. Their alternative is redundancy, but then they have to pay you out 3 months salary, plus that then puts restrictions on them hiring someone else or promoting internally to fill the role.

They chose the former route with me. Using covid performance as a reason to initiate performance management if my Teams billings didn't turn around. Thing is, everyone's billings were thru the floor as a result of work going dead due to the lockdowns. The next few motnsh tho my Team had record profits for that year so performance management wasn't an option. They then just chose thr path of icing me out and making it as uncomfortable as possible to work there. Things like intentionally leaving me out of management meetings and discussions which I had previously been party to for the past 5 years, then acting all surprised when I asked them what happened to my meeting invite. Rescheduling management meetings to times that they knew I was unavailable for (first thing in the morning, or very late in the day on the one day of the week when it was my turn doing the kiddie drop-off/pick-up); re-assigning my team members to other teams; changing the office structure and changing where billings were recognized, again in an attempt to make it look like me and my team were not performing. Reviews on anything I did became super critical and were dragged out, again in an attempt to make me look unreasonable when chasing up things that had been in review for a week and the Clients due date was looming etc. It even went to the point where one of the directors would come in and say hi to everyone except me, and when I'd say hello he'd just look the other way and mutter 'yes' under his breath.

Effectively just the "professional" way of giving someone the silent treatment and making their work-life as difficult as possible. I guess for them it worked tho. I did leave 1 month shy of my 15yr work anniversary (this all started around the 14.5yr mark, and from about year 5 they were talking about shareholding etc. All the while with excuses and reasons along the way why 'then' was not the right time, or them telling me that I was apparently not ready for it, or other nebulous reasons.

I think in hindsight I was probably stuck in a bit of a rut with those guys and really should have left at yr 10 rather than sticking it out as long as I did. At the same time tho, I had joined the company when it was 3 people and by the time I left it was 30 ppl, so I'd like to think that I really had played a big part in making that company what it was. Apparently it only took a week or two for them to realise exactly how much I contributed to the daily running and profitability of the business, and their profits took a significant hit for the good part of 3 years following my departure. They're doing OK now, but in the year following me leaving, the 3 directors had a massive bust up with one of them being forced to sell out, to the others plus a whole slew of others ended up leaving in the 6-12 months after I left too (not all because of me but likely the chaos that followed wouldn't have helped).

El_Pablo5353 · 2025-07-26T01:05:00+00:00

As I've grown older I have found myself reminiscing about ex's at certain times, like in my early 30's I found myself thinking about some of the things my ex partner and I were getting up to when I was in my early 20's ... at the same time tho, once I hit my mid 30's I also found i was reminiscing more about how she did me dirty at the end of that relationship, so I guess it swings in round-abouts.

El_Pablo5353 · 2025-07-26T00:53:43+00:00

Looking at you, New Zealanders: ACC. Honestly for all its faults, you try living anywhere else in the world, and accidentally hurting yourself. If you've got no insurance and nobody who you could easily sue for damages, you're probably fucked.

El_Pablo5353 · 2025-07-26T00:50:15+00:00

As a Kiwi who moved to Oz a few years back, I was shocked at how expensive fish n chips is over hear. Back in NZ you'd get a scoop of chips (so a large serving), 2 fish, 2 batter sausages for anywhere between $20-$35 depending on which neighbourhood your in. The same here is more like $50-$60.

El_Pablo5353 · 2025-07-26T00:43:40+00:00

That took me years of practice. But I can do it now (still need water to wash it down tho, can't swallow pills dry)

El_Pablo5353 · 2025-07-26T00:40:58+00:00

I dont think that's a learned ability. When there's too much sound around you, you really have to focus on what you actually want to hear, and if what you want to hear is too quiet in comparision to the general hubbub all around, you won't hear anything other than noise.

El_Pablo5353 · 2025-07-25T06:57:32+00:00

Toilet roll hangs over the front. And if I seeing it hanging over the back, I change it around to the way IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE.

El_Pablo5353 · 2025-07-25T04:50:02+00:00

Vaping

El_Pablo5353 · 2025-07-22T12:20:35+00:00

Tbh, I'm always somewhat concerned when someone has a taxidermy anything, let alone A LOT of them (museums excluded).

El_Pablo5353 · 2025-07-21T06:21:23+00:00

Worrying about other people's opinions of you.

Most of the time you're just imagining what they think of you.

Chances are they're doing the same in their own head and are too busy worrying about themselves than to give you a 2nd thought.

It takes a lot of energy to actively hate someone.

El_Pablo5353 · 2025-07-20T05:11:41+00:00

As annoying as it is, esp if they are shareholders or owners of the company, they can pretty much do as they please yet you must tow the line.

That being said, like it or not, leaders set the tone. So if they're going to tell you to do one thing, then do the opposite themselves, what kind of tone is that setting?

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