Mike Ross

@eruptionchaser.bsky.social

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Mike Ross (he/him) Red Team Leader | PSA Delegate National Geohazards Monitoring Centre | Te Puna Mōrearea i te Rū Geologist, firefighter, hacker, dad. Technomancer. Tolerance for intolerance zero. Toitū Te Tiriti.

Work jacket with badge informing that the wearer is a PSA union delegate
IBM POWERstation 320 - first generation RS/6000
Satellite images of a submarine eruption. Without the L2 filter, eruption is just visible as a faint ambiguous smudge; with the filter, it glows bright green.
Two of my CM-2 supercomputers; black cubes of cubes on shipping pallets.
A crystal clear view of Taranaki Mounga and its surrounding ring plain from 30,000ft
View over an expansive harbour, the sun getting a bit low in the sky. Foreground partially blocked by trees and tree ferns.
A BlueSCSI Ultra Wide SCSI disk emulator being shoehorned into an AS/400 drive carrier; the SCSI cable is connected, the power cable is a work in progress
Screenshot from a webcam of Sakurajima volcano. A large plume hangs over the volcano, casting visible shadows on the ground.
Apricot cordless mouse/trackball from 1984. Communicated via IR, you roll the trackball, or lean it forward and the trackball rolls on the desk like a conventional mouse.
Closeup of a keyboard with a key marked 'REPTRY'
Screenshot of dashboard for the NZ Post 'YouShop' service, with the tracker for 'number of destroyed parcels' highlighted.
View of train tracks in Aomori, Japan showing deep snowdrifts.
A clear view of Fuji
Mamiya RB67 camera in great condition for sale in Hard Off store. 38,500 Yen / $248USD
Exterior of Hard Off secondhand store
A photo of a Japanese fan, bearing the logo of 'IAVCEI 2013 Kagoshima', taken on the Sakurajima ferry, with the Sakurajima volcano (part of the logo) in the background
Plot of Kr index showing the signal clipped at the maximum intensity on this scale (9)
Screenshot of an IBM DS Storage Management screen showing a RAID where one controller is allegedly missing.
Dashboard of an IM6 EV on charge, showing a charge rate of 260kW.
Striking firefighters, some wearing uniform, displaying placards on a picket line in Lower Hutt today
Image of Apple Lisa with keyboard, mouse, and ProFile drive on top, up and running the Lisa OS.
NeXTdimension Cube display showing OpenStep 4.0 desktop running the 'molecules' demo with a rotating 3D view of an aspirin molecule.
SGI Indy displaying boot options screen
A DAS plot from the Icelandic Met Office. It contains a few diagonal lines - representing traffic - and over a dozen horizontal lines, representing small earthquakes.
Image shows a DECSYSTEM 2020 computer rack with the door closed. A TU45 tape drive cabinet is partially visible to the right.