@mjg59 Love it, reminds me of a friend in the 90s arranging a permanent newsgroup by just posting a control message and presumably no one looked at it, bunch of NNTP admins just sighed and added the group to their servers.

@mjg59 I'm only at syncing with convoy TZ and feel like I need a drink before I can handle the rest...

@mjg59 "I was burn in Murmansk, a state far beyond the Arctic
Circle; this is my fifth antarctic wintering; fourth wintering at Vostok base; second as the chief of the base. And my personal achieve is eighty degrees sub zero."

Honestly this sounds like how Matthew Reilly would write a Russian Antarctic base chief

@mjg59 This is hilarious. This has Jon Postel vibes, "hey can you change those text files that control everything? cool thanks."

@mjg59 This is amazing.

@mjg59 I love the revelation that the base has just been on the wrong time zone for >10 years and no one said anything.

@mjg59 "Comments show that polar people may treat timezones rather arbitrary."

God, I wish it was just polar people.

@mjg59 I need a dramatic reading of this whole thread on YouTube

@mjg59 oh this is glorious

@mjg59 that was so fun, thanks for sharing. Had the perfect background music playing to accompany that exchange too.