Peter Lyall Easthope

Boundary Pass, Stuart Island, Haro Straight, Moresby Island, Portland Island
and Saltspring Island, viewed from North Pender Island.

Morning on the Salish Sea
A composite photograph from the southwest shoreline of North Pender Island, about 6:00 hrs near the summer solstice. The left edge of the picture is bearing approximately 100 degrees and the right edge is approximately 280 degrees; the center is approximately south. At the far left, Boundary Pass is between North Pender and Stuart Islands. To the right of Stuart is Haro Strait. Approximately in the center of the picture is Moresby Island. Portland Island is behind the leftmost of the two large Coast Douglas-firs and Saltspring Island extends from the largest fir to the right margin. The ramp shaped peak at the far right is Baynes in Mount Maxwell Provincial Park. Stuart and more distant islands to the east of Haro are in San Juan County, WA, USA. North Pender, Moresby and other islands to the west of Haro are Southern Gulf Islands within the Islands Trust of British Columbia, Canada. Mountains of the Olympic Peninsula, WA at the horizon are indiscernible in this picture. This view has remained essentially unchanged for at least ten millenia.
Image Copyright (c) 2008 by Kelly Irving; All Rights Reserved.

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A. Public schooling: Steveston Senior Secondary, diploma 1968.
Registered as a Professional Engineer in British Columbia, 1982
while working in the pressure vessel design office at Victoria Machinery Depot.
Registration retired 2018-12-31.
GRE 1984
General Test Verbal Score 630, percentile 87.
General Test Quantitative Score 680, percentile 82.
General Test Analytical Score 530, percentile not provided by GRE.
Engineering Test Total Score 730, percentile 87.
MCAT 1984
Biology scaled score 12, percentile rank range 91-97.8.
Chemistry scaled score 12, percentile rank range 90-95.8.
Physics scaled score 13, percentile rank range 93.8-97.8.
Science Problems scaled score 13, percentile rank range 95-98.4.
Skills Analysis: Reading scaled score 8, percentile rank range 40-54.
Skills Analysis: Quantitative scaled score 7, percentile rank range 34-47.

A. 48.7693d N, 123.3053d W, 30 m to be more specific. I'm not satisfied with the urban lifestyle. It facilitates obliviousness to the biosphere, destruction of ecosystems, inefficient use of resources and a generally crass mentality.

Q. Why did your eaddress change from peter_easthope... to egeria... to shark...?

A. About the middle of September, 2003 the GulfNet account began receiving messages, apparently generated by the swen worm. During the weekend of September 20/21 my account received enough bogus messages to fill the disk drives and put GulfNet out of commission for a few hours. GulfNet was a small system maintained by volunteers. The only workable solution was to close the original account and open a new one with userid egeria. Not long after resubscribing to a few mailing lists egeria began receiving spam. The account name was changed to shark. The problem wasted about 16 hours of my time and more time of the voluntary administrators of GulfNet.

Swen has capabilities never seen previously. Any author of a virus can aim to incorporate similar and worse capabilities in his code. Swen appears to be the miniscule tip of a big iceberg. The number of viruses continues to grow without bound while the time available for execution of virus scanning software is bounded by constraints of usage. The prospect is not good, even for people who refrain from using the operating systems in which these viruses propagate.

Q. Where did you find the odd names, egeria and shark, for previous email addresses?

A. Refer to a chart of the Pender Islands and vicinity. Canadian Nautical Chart 3452, Moresby Passage to Gabriola Passage, for example.

Q. Aside from lottery tickets, a fortunate inheritance & etc, how can I ever become a millionaire?

A. Earlier X-ray films were lost in a clerical error. In the event that the femur is fractured again, these images will be helpful to the surgeon. They might also interest a candidate for similar repair or an orthopaedic resident.

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