Still with PDO in Oman. It all sounds a bit boring I suppose, but from the technical side it most certainly isn’t.
PDO are very progressive in their use of technology and in testing new – and even old ideas. Quite interesting for me, because I have lots of ideas, and as it has worked out, some better than others. But if we don’t test, we never know for sure.
Something I like to say to people when they question the value of a particular test is that
we are doing Geoscience, not GeoArt. In science, we start with an idea, generate a hypothesis, test it and then develop a theory, which we then strangely enough look for ways to disprove with more data. If we can’t, then it becomes accepted.
But without the tests, even ones where we are reasonably sure of the outcome, we cannot say our theory is valid.
The problem in seismic these days is that to test on the scale required to prove an idea is expensive. It means we have to be very careful how we design tests, and be prepared to accept that the test results we receive, although valid, may not end up being as useful to us as we expected. But they can often lead to new ideas, and new tests.
This is what keeps me interested in working with PDO – and to paraphrase an old colleague from my Geosource days in Oman – this stuff is never ending.
But going back to the boring side – the crew I am working on is working in the most boring place I have ever been.
I know I have said it before, but I was wrong. Every other boring place pales into insignificance compared to this place. It is flat, featureless, dry and hot, very very hot in the summer and fucking cold in the winter.
Why didn’t I become an accountant instead? (Just joking, I do have some morals and ethics, and I like women)
Anyway enough of seismic and a bit on technology, or more accurately the abuse of it.
There is a poofter in the Netherlands trying to hack my WordPress page.
It’s IP address is 5.39.218.140
This individual deserves nothing less than a slow and painful death.
I have no time for these pricks who think they can steal other peoples property with impunity.
Time for a purge of Internet thieves (and of accountants).