News

I think that it is high time that the public started calling the media on the garbage they are spewing about global warming, sea level rises and all of the associated ills which they are making up as they go along. Take a look at the old pictures and quotes below and make up your [...]

New Server Home for Seismic Talk

I have not made any posts for some time as I tried different software to run Seismic Talk and a couple of different hosting accounts. I tried using another gallery style as well with the images hosted on another service but could not get things set up to make it easy for other people to [...]

Airport Security

I thought airport security was over the top when I couldn’t get into an airport because I was carrying a windproof lighter as “It could be used as a weapon” but this is just plain downright ridiculous.
Brad Jayakody, from Bayswater, central London, was stopped from boarding because his Transformers T-shirt depicted a robot with a [...]

Oil price "may hit $200 a barrel"

A Goldman Sachs energy strategist warns that this may happen in as little as six months. This is because of the demand driven price of oil.
Goldman Sachs energy strategist Argun Murti made the warning as benchmark US light crude passed the $123 mark for the first time.
Surging demand was increasingly likely to create a “super-spike” [...]

Singapore Prices

Technorati Tags: Singapore,hotel prices,exchange rate
With the exchange rate at around $1.42 per $US it looks like Singapore is pricing itself out of business. I called the usual hotels that I use and found them all full due to an ASEAN conference so I stopped by the hotel booking booth at Changi airport to see what [...]

Things you may not have known

Technorati Tags: strange facts , human body
The human body contains enough phosphorus to make the heads of 200 matches, enough fat for seven bars of soap, and enough iron to make one nail.
The human body has over 45 miles of nerves.
The human body has over 600 muscles, 40% of the body’s weight.
The human [...]

Personnel department computer system

Technorati Tags: personnel department , personnel shortage , computerized systems
While on a crew run by one of the biggest name seismic outfits recently I was surprised to hear that one of the staff had been bid for multiple jobs at the same time. Bidding in this manner is not unusual but what [...]

Fur flies over Miss Universe

Technorati Tags: PETA , animal rights , Miss Universe
PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and some of the other raving loony animal rights types are campaigning to get the reigning Miss Universe, Japan’s Riyo Mori, to stop wearing animal furs by accusing her of promoting cruelty.
Ms Mori, 20, a ballerina [...]

Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok

I recently had the rather dubious pleasure of transiting the new airport in Bangkok. I had already been through the place on my way into and out of Thailand three times before, so I was already aware of its post industrial decor and metal seats, but this was my first time in transit.
To start things off I had [...]

Passive Seismic Mapping PSTT

I recently came across an interesting article about a 3D seismic technology which does not use traditional type sources making it possible to use the technique in places otherwise locked out due to environmental concerns.
Passive seismic mapping using passive seismic transmission tomography (PSTT) is a seismic technique which uses a sparse array of 3C [...]

Christian Taliban

An article on the ABC news site shows just how far backward the clocks are being turned in the name of “decency”. The country that is promoting democracy and freedom in the middle east should take a look in their own back yard first.
It seems that numerous parishes in the state of Louisiana are busy [...]

Partial News Reporting or PC Bias?

I was on a crew in Ethiopia’s southern Ogaden region in April. I left the crew just three days before an attack by ONLF (Ogaden National Liberation Front) rebels, a muslim based group from the pictures shown. The attack killed sixty-five local employees (the people that the rebels claim to be fighting to liberate) and nine of [...]

HSE in Seismic

Once again I am back to the subject of HSE and its insidious effects on the industry. This episode is brought about by a HSE representative who massages the books by saying that people visiting the doctor on the crew and receiving medical treatment do not constitute medical treatment cases.
How on earth does this get [...]

Tesla Roadster

While I have worked in the seismic industry for more than 30 years and believe that everybody who makes a living in the oil industry should drive a big block V8 powered gas guzzler I have to admit that I do like the look of this electric roadster.
Looking at the car you would never [...]

Everybody can contribute

No, it isn’t what you think. We aren’t going to ask you for money. We just want to tell you that everybody who is a registered user on this site is automatically registered as a contributor which means that you can send us stories to add to the site. See the How-To page for details [...]

Canon EOS-1D Mark III, 10 MP, 10 fps: Digital Photography Review

Canon are planning to release a completely new version of their flagship EOS-1D, not just an upgrade to the older Mark II model.
The latest offering has a 10.1 megapixel sensor with dimensions of 28.1 x 18.7 mm so it is still not going to offer the same focal length as the old film cameras [...]

Nokia E90

Nokia just may tempt me back into the fold with their new E90 smart phone which was shown at the 3GSM trade show. It will replace its older 9300 “brick” model. This latest offering has more svelte dimensions than the older phones it replaces at 132 x 57 x 20 mm. The phone runs [...]

We want your photos

The picture at the left was uploaded to the gallery by one of our readers on the very first day he registered. I find it hard to believe that with so many new registered users nobody out there has any pictures they would like to share with the rest of us. We add a [...]

There is still hope

One of our contributors sent a piece of good news for those of us who are very attached to our elbow bending lifestyles. Apparently a drug has been discovered which, if it fulfils its promise, can cure any damge to the liver even if we keep drinking!
The drug, which is still undergoing clinical trials, may [...]

Could this be seismic heaven?

I don?t know about our readers but this looks like Larry?s version of seismic heaven. His only complaint would be “So many beers, so little time”. As you all know Larry is the entertainment manager at Swinger?s Bar & Grill currently trading on the Sinai Peninsula. We don?t get very many drop-in customers here [...]

Is the next downturn close?

While I don’t like to be the bearer of bad tidings I read a rather disturbing article today regarding the state of the seismic industry. The author, David Bamford, holds a PhD in geophysics and has been involved in the technical and exploration fields for 23 years and has a rather startling prediction.

Design breakthrough

A committee formed at the HSE department of a major seismic firm have come up with a breakthrough design for handling traffic congestion in the area surrounding the base camp. They are confident that this will completely eradicate the current confusion and milling around that so often occurs when everybody is entering or leaving the [...]

The battle of the bulge

Due to the increased occurrence of obesity on seismic crews the HSE departments of the major seismic companies have decided to take the initiative and combat the problem.
A HSE spokesman from a major company told us "The new water has only one tenth of the calories of the brand that we had been providing which [...]

Seismic Talk welcomes Larry

Larry is joining us as a Seismic Talk editor. He will be taking time from his busy schedule as the entertainment manager and chef d’barbecue extraordinaire of Swinger’s Bar to help us get this site moving. Let’s all welcome him as we look forward to lots of posts and photos from his desk.