71: Chris, aka @yorrike: monday.micro.blog

@monday Thanks @macgenie, this was heaps of fun.

@yorrike @macgenie Ooh, I got a mention! Thanks, Chris. Great Micro Monday too.

@yorrike @macgenie Oh, and then the mystery… When and where did I meet Chris? Hah! One of the things I love about New Zealand — there are so few degrees of separation.

@Miraz And so, so few Mirazes. OK, I’ll try an be as general as possible… you know me from waaay back in the late 80s/early 90s. I was best friends with Dylan when Dylan and I both went to that school nearby to where you lived.

@yorrike Ah, I did wonder if it was the Dylan connection. On casting my mind back, I thought he had a friend called Chris. You'll be glad to know I have also grown up a lot since then. 😀

@Miraz @yorrike Ooh, the mystery teasers have me extra-interested in this Micro Monday episode; hopefully I’ll be able to get to it tomorrow.

@Miraz One of my chilhood memories is you having a Macintosh of some sort. An SE? A IIe? It was a late 80s monochrome Mac and there was an isometric pacman game you let us play a few times which back then was the most amazing video game I’d ever seen. I also seem to remember you wanting to adapt a German learning program you had written so it could teach us French, but it may have been too big a project. But that was 30 years ago so the actual details may be mangled by tue fog of time.

And yeah, I’ve grown up a lot.

@yorrike Greetings, fellow GeoCities 1996er ;-)

I really enjoyed the meteorites talk, too. I knew some of the general science so I wasn’t lost, but you filled in a lot of fascinating detail, so I know a lot more know (also how a mass spectrometer works!).

Every now and then, one of the scientists here like @tgray starts a little science series, which I’ve found interesting, especially since my Timeline is mostly humanities and web/software-focused in terms of discipline-related posts. I wonder if you could all post something occasionally but semi-regularly, like “Science Saturday” or “Science on the Second (of the Month)”?

@smokey Could maybe do “Monthly Meteorite”? @gabz @macgenie

@yorrike I like it !!

@yorrike 👍

@monday @macgenie A great episode! I love that you hosted a geological podcast, @yorrike.