Richard Easther

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Father, husband, scientist, Kiwi diaspora returnee, prof @ U of Auckland - opinions mine. "Astrophysics - it's like a barfight with God" [email protected] He/him.

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The whole point of the original Internet was to stay online even if a nuclear strike took out part of it. Big Tech monopolisation is flying in the face of this very idea.

Australian banks, media, airlines hit by major IT outage

Australian banks, media, airlines hit by major IT outagewww.bbc.com Major banks, media outlets, telecom providers and an airline are among those reporting to be affected.

When Nancy Pelosi is telling you it is time to leave the stage - it is time to leave the stage.

Still trying to make weinerdog happen.

Wondering why it is the pole and barn paradox and not the dachshund and kennel paradox.

2.5 out of 5 Hamiltons here in Auckland right now.

And husband in Europe...

Darleen Tana: Husband's bike shop closed, insolvency firm combing through storewww.nzherald.co.nz A notice was placed in the Newmarket Bikes and Beyond window this afternoon.

Draft tutorial problem. Any typos?

Was looking at this on @planet4589.bsky.social's site and wondering "why did the USSR launch so many more satellites that the US through the 1970s and 1980s?" and it seems that the answer is lots of spy satellites...

As my Dad got older, he used to gently extend his age via the trick of saying he was "now in his 90th year" when he turned 89. . So today he would be in the 8th year of his 10th decade. www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-time...

I've seen Maxwell's Equations tattoos, Einstein field equations tattoos, Standard Model Lagrangian tattoos -- but for a really useful equation, maybe go with this one...

Putting notes together for teaching relativity. Want to start with the simplest example of a change of coordinate frame and came up with two kids in the back seat of a car thowing a tennis ball "A car driving on the highway with two children in the back seat throwing a tennis ball"

Mmmmmmm. Cantaloupe.

"Imagine an object the size of a cantaloupe, with a mass of roughly 30 trillion trillion cantaloupes." (Talking to a journalist about primordial black holes)

Some prime chonk there.

Has anyone seen Freyja?

Thought for the day

Getting my notes together for "Introduction to Rocket Science" (ASTRO 110) and even though he gets less attention that von Braun, Hermann Oberth was hugely important and also, it seems, a full-on unrepentant Nazi.

Rainbow connection. As it were.

Winter...

Facebook still has its uses.

Let the feasting commence!

My word. That's a headline.

Had a meeting at the airport today - and learnt that the e-bike really can cover 50 kms on a single charge :-)

Me: a couple of years ago, driving across town to get phone in most attractive colour Also me: buying new and very non-transparent phone case to connect it to my bike for navigation purposes.

Every time someone posts to social media with the tagline "new kind of guy just dropped" -- this is how we got here.

they keep inventing new guys

Holidays are good, actually.

I did not know they could do that.

Grinding this into powder and snorting it through a straw.

Office views...

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Let The Story be Told - the case against Brian Tamakigivealittle.co.nz Rainbow Storytime are suing Brian Tamaki and members of Destiny Church.