Russel's Teapot
Sunday, June 22, 2008
8:09PM - The internet.
So, I lost my cell phone on Friday.
That sucked, and I'll likely get a new one within the next week or so.
Today, I get online for the first time in a long time to tell people this and what is the first news I see?
George Carlin, one of the funniest motherfuckers ever to walk the earth, is dead.
He's dead.
This is the closest I've come to real tears of sadness in a long time.
Almost enough to make one forsake this marvel of information and communication.
Fuck.
I had more to say, but fuck it. I'll get to it when I get to it.
Wasn't gonna drink tonight, but how can I not, now?
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
4:26AM
Howdy, y'all...
Break time, watching BSG and surfing the web. What a life I lead...
Thursday, March 27, 2008
1:21AM - Ze plane, boss, ze plane....
Arrived in Honolulu safe and... well, I wasn't particularly 'sound' before, so I can't make that claim.
Had a lovely hour plus delay of my flight from San Francisco followed by an uncomfortable flight during which I couldn't raise the arm rest on my outside near the aisle, the only bathroom that wasn't constantly occupied was out of order, and I couldn't get comfortable enough to sleep.
Lots of changes in my department since I left, but I'm just here to do my job to the best of my ability and stick out the 4 cruises this boat has left.
Now to watch Letterman for the first time, then go to bed.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
4:04PM - Back to Work
Here I am, sitting at gate 82 in the San Francisco airport, waiting for my flight to Honolulu in about an hour. The airport is larger than most malls I've seen, and bears a strong resemblance to a mall, food court and all.
Nothing else to report at this time.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
11:35AM - Just a note:
Haven't posted in a while, which will change sometime in the relatively near future, but after reading a few links in LJs on my friends list I needed to state this. I hate everything and everyone in the news, and that create the news, and that report the side.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
7:21AM - NCLA: a play in one scene
Cast of characters:
The Retarded Frenchman (RF)
The Persistently Angry Englishman (PAE)
The Friendly Englishman (FE)
The Psychotic Short Woman (PSW)
The Deranged Short Man (DSM)
Yours Truly (YT)
Everyone Else (EE)
The place, an office on a rickety shambles of a ship. The time, recently.
DSM: I'm getting a new position, so you'll need to put your paperwork for my job in again.
Yours Truly: I'm thinking about it. Not sure I want the headache.
DSM & PSW: Get that paperwork in now!
Yours Truly: Fine. (Turns in paperwork)
Training begins, with annoyingly stressful circumstances. Enter PAE and FE,
PAE: This place is a mess, if we're going to pass this inspection a LOT of work is needed. It WILL get done.
Everyone Else: Ok
YT: This is going to be fun.
DSM: Lots of it.
PAE: This and this and this are wrong. Fix them now, or peoples jobs are on the line.
EE: Ok.
FE: Good job guys, just a few more things to fix.
PAE: This and this and this are still wrong. Fix them now, or peoples jobs are at stake.
EE: Ok.
DSM, YT & PSW: You can only have your job threatened so many times before the threat loses effect. Daily is far too often.
Elsewhere. Later.
YT: I needed this cake earlier today. Why isn't it ready?
RF: I dont know about this cake. Nobody tell me anything.
YT: The email was sent out almost a week ago.
RF: I dont get this email.
YT shows RF where he's had said email for two days.
RF: I don't have the materials I need.
YT: How long should I give you before I come pick it up?
RF: What? (Random garbling of might-be-english and might-be-french)
YT: Can I get a rough estimate on how long it will take?
RF: What? (Random garbling of might-be-english and might-be-french)
YT: How long is this going to take?
RF: Oh, twenty five, thirty minutes.
YT: Thanks.
Back to PAE, FE, and EE.
PAE: People are going to get fired if these things I just now said are wrong and arent in your control arent fixed immediately.
EE: So what else is new?
FE: If they're not fixed, let me know and I'll do something about it.
EE: Yay!
PAE: I'm leaving today. Everything better be perfect.
Scene fades on Yours Truly twitching from stress at well before seven in the morning.
This has been NCLA: a play in one scene, the story of my life for two weeks.
Thank you, and goodnight.
drainedSaturday, October 20, 2007
9:03PM - life, beurocracy, and video games
Ship life continues to be pretty good. Not working the living dead shift anymore as of yesterday, and am highly amused by people welcoming me back after 5 or 6 weeks on board.
Only one thing keeping life from being truly vonderful. Found out the only reason I haven't been promoted yet is that the paperwork I submitted to HR after interviews and things didnt get put in and processed. Now they seem to have no recollection of even seeing it. Yay for updating resumes and resubmitting paperwork. Oh, and retaking interviews for a position I already interviewed for. Like I said, other than that, life's grand, but it'd be better if not for this teensy snafu.
As for video games, I recently picked up The Orange Box for the xbox 360. Didn't even know it was going to be released for consoles. Go me. Anyway, Portal is a fantastic game and would be worth every penny of the 60ish dollars if it were a full length stand-alone game. Unfortunately, without a regular internet connection, can't play Team Fortress 2, but Half-Life 2 seems pretty interesting so far.
Only an hour and a half-ish until I can go to bed.
Hooray for bed.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
7:48AM - I'm not dead... I feel better...
Ah, the ship life.
Much less stressful and much more fun when you realize how very important you are not. More on that later.
In other news, been watching Heroes on dvd. Fantastic show. Got that, Eureka, and Invader Zim. Haven't gotten around to so much as opening the other two, but I know from past viewing that they're good shows. Also been reading a fair bit. S.M. Stirling's Dies the Fire and it's sequel The Protector's War about a catastrophe that effectively disables the world's high technology is quite good. Also read, but can't for the life of me remember the author of, The Looking Glass War.
I'm gonna try to take a page out of ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
dethtoll's book and start a week-in-review type thing. Won't be anything in-depth, but it'll be something besides silence here. Heh.
Paz y amor,
Sunday, February 18, 2007
4:21PM - *cues jefferson airplane*
Welp, folks, back to the cruise ship I go.
it's been fun. catch y'all later.
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
10:01PM - phones, laptops, internet, and booze
So, I'm about to go watch LOST, but before I do, 4 things:
1 - I loves me some cheap scotch.
2 - I'm going back and forth between Mac and Alienware for future laptop purchases.
3 - I think I may decide to go with nextel/sprint for my cellphone service once I get back out to the Boat.
4 - Anyone know anything about this whole 'mobile internet connection' thingy? I've been trying to research it, but not finding too much useful info.
discuss at your liesure, and any comments or advice on any of the above is welcome(nay, requested!)
that is all.
dorkyFriday, February 2, 2007
3:02PM - peak-chewers
I was bored today, so I shaved my face and head, and used my camera phone to document
Monday, January 29, 2007
7:33PM - mememememe..... since I've no other content to share right now
1. Grab the nearest book
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest."
"Is this the greatest? So when it set, he said: O my people! I am clear of what you set up (with Allah)."
~The Qur'an
1:23AM - Fun Stuff
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Monday, January 22, 2007
11:30PM - when in an irc chatroom...
best line I've 'heard' in a while...
"now i'm thinking about squashes penetrating watermelon :( "
heheheh
Saturday, January 6, 2007
9:25PM - wow
I missed two days with the new word thingy, but got one today.
A word I recognized but didnt really know. Palindrome. A word, sentence, or number, that reads the same forwards and backwards. Neato.
Thursday, January 4, 2007
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
11:31PM - One of my resolution thingies...
Well, I dont make resolutions for new years, but this year I've decided to make up a list of things I'd like to accomplish or at least start over this year. One of them is to learn a new word every day.
On the 1st, I was reading through the Questionable Content archives and came across the word "trope", meaning in that particular case an overused or cliche theme or idea.
On the 2nd I dont know what I was reading that I came across the word "rube"... I kinda knew what it meant before, but never would have used awkward or unsophisticated to describe it.
Today, I had to look at an online dictionary to find a new word, but that's ok... todays word was "parse" meaning to break things down into their basic parts and examine them.
Yeah. that was exciting, wasnt it?
Monday, January 1, 2007
4:03AM - happy new year, motherfuckers
love some of you to death.
hope some of you die horribly.
you know where you fall in this spectrum.
happy new years, regardless.
Friday, December 29, 2006
10:42PM - Something that might be of interest to one or two of you...
well, at least one.
http://publications.mediapost.com/index.c
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