Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Compact sand having single direction ridges, loose sand with cross ridging. Also more clams. 000
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Gull working hard in Kye Bay to liquefy that sand and free the noms. 100
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I remember explaining pavement to coders once and them looking baffled at how ‘primitive‘ it was. As for water, it must always be respected. 062
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026If for some reason your are writing stuff you are properly paranoid about there is duksbak paper. It is waterproof to the level of put it in the sink and take a metal scrubby to it and it will be fine. 110
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026@translink.ca When are you going to get around to having 4 cars to VCC?Three trains full is not a useful transportation system if you are near the terminus. 000
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I was press ganged last week to give a seminar at UBC this week. Always a fun time and a chance to update my slides. Looking forward to Nick Zentner's Cascade Ice A-Z as there is some interesting timing going on. 000
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026A quarter of the size of Newfoundland and Labrador with three times the population. Nah, it’s big. 030
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026And in the game of human interest species, marmot > eagle. At the time there were 21 marmots. 010
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026If the SC overturned Obergefell I had imagined it being the dumbest way possible. Think Edict of Restitution. The marriages were never valid thus creating the great contractual shit show trying to unwind a decade of marriage, life, death, and property. Funny Alito shies from that. 100
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It was. Will that class of modelling be something I ever do; no, unless I jump to BC Hydro. Will it inform everything I do seismically; yes, because it is forming the basis of the 7th gen seismic hazard model (Can.) for NBC 2030. 020
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026How the seismic hazard is constructed is also of interest to engineers but that is before the code so to speak. On the Canadian side we need more money and people for fault characterization so the uncertainty factors have less weighting in the overall hazard. 121
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Engineer adding his two cents on #2: Code requirement for base isolation for high importance structures where it makes sense (e.g., hospital = yes, pump station = not so much because it is much harder to do and the interior use is different). 121
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026@patrickwyman.bsky.social When you are in Vancouver, walk along the Coal Harbour sea wall and should find your cormorant. 000
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Scramble means everyone hits from the best ball of your group. So that takes the pressure off. I’d say trust your dad since he likes it enough to own clubs. In my case I would go 3W, 5I, 9I, sand wedge, putter. 011
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026My goal is to just do good enough to not be at/too near the bottom. 000
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026What sort of format? Full course / Par 3? Individual / best of group? Use as few clubs as possible. 5 iron and putter are your base. Go hit a bucket with a 5 and don’t wail on the ball. Only as much power as you can manage and keep it going sort of straight. 200
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Do you know if the AGU as a top level organization has internalized a lot of the event planning or do they still rely on local chapters doing the heavy lifting? 200
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026That being said, my first appearance was arranged three bottles in at a post-conference dinner to cover for someone’s attendance at another conference. Oh those geomorphology grad students did not know what was coming. 010
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026That is why I am happy as a consultant to guest lecture at my nearby university. Fun not toil. And I am not throwing shade on staff, one is a case history class which all of the lectures are invited and the other is a one class insert on the history of and the actual use of bearing capacity theory. 111
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I was reading it as if it made sense. Now having glanced at the paper the 3 km offset makes no sense as they are seemingly pulverizing rock 2 km out. 020
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This is a time for the classics. From an engineering standpoint less than 25 mm/s is probably not damaging but the lower the frequency the greater the potential for damage. And I have no idea about the frequency content of an atomic bomb detonation, but I would imagine low. 120
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 07/09/2026North Rustico is a lovely place. Got a very fine sweater there and I’ll watch the video later today. 010
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Caitlin, your space reminded me very much of a painting in Bologna. Now back to the program. 150
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I have been watching that play out in Comox for almost 30 years. Armour the slope, starve the spit. I am just waiting for the day the beach cutting initiates the deeper seated slope failures. 021
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Your phone knows where home is. Living in Vancouver, I still have Lake Ontario on my phone, table, and PC. 000
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026You got lucky. This was the first year in a while they have the room open for regular tastings. But yes, mighty fine riesling there. Tantalus in Kelowna is the other riesling benchmark, but low RS and high acid. Opened an '07 a few years ago and it has many years to go. 000
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026And if you want the best kind of unhealthy breakfast. Hammer's House of Hog in Oliver tomorrow at 1130 before the rib run out. And it is not a house so much as a trailer in the parking lot of a park. 100
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026If you want to visit a winery, I am sure your friends will have their favourites. I would endorse Intersection and La Stella. You should be familiar with Nk'Mip. They are north along the highway before Oliver. 100
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026If you want the view from on high you can drive almost all the way up Mount Kobau. A good gravel road was roughed in for an observatory that was never built. It is northwest of town and the south end of the summit ridge. 100
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Had Falcon toughed it out BCU/BCLib would have good odds of being the next government. Instead, comedy. 010
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 24/08/2026A friends neighbour for a time was from a farm near the Colorado-Wyoming border. His accent was a marvel. Flat, uninflected, unhurried. 010
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Why not just say Trump? Trump’s administration/government/regime? Inserting Quisling is redundant unless the implication is good czar bad boyars which I do not think is your aim. 120
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 05/08/2026The most impressive layer cake I have seen was SNCF from Avignon to Dijon. The bowl was full. 000
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Gas Station Memory: Working nights there was the occasional homeless guy who bathed in the washroom. Usually wet, but not actually messy, just needed a mop. The worst atrocity was a gaggle of HS grad girls who went in and left a disaster, the worst being a layer cake of shit and tp in the toilet. 100
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 04/08/2026She probably will at some point, but I have never binned cat poop and smoke together as far as smells. You feed her cinders or something? 100
Marc Bossé @marcbosse.bsky.social · 04/08/2026The smoke has arrived in Vancouver. Big change from yesterday, although Baker was still obscured. 120
