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kinzelCertainly not to send a cloud of smoke above the Dry Tortugas, you betcha!
Happy New Year, from the morningside. We did get to hear the olde year wrung out and the new year rung in on our own key-wound Howard Miller Westminster Chime clock, which, with a week's worth of fine-tuning behind it, was within a second or so of the weather-station's atomic time.
No New Year's Resolutions here per se, rather an on-going climate of evolutionary system adaptation. Yesterday I worked on the SRM Publisher office downstairs, starting with moving the wood pile and a pallet of books (so we can safely use the wood stove for heat once again if we need to) and today I'll find a place for the pesky monitors which have taken roost on top of the wood stove and then I'll move that box of old SFBC books upstairs so we can portion them out among local libraries -- some of the books, no doubt to circulate until they collapse, others to find homes from book-sale aficionados.
Also yesterday I played with The Gimp, creating the SFSteve icon which may yet get adjusted again... and also yesterday did some webwork and realized that I'd missed the pre-holiday messages I meant to send to several people who only access their computers from work, and who work actual Monday through Friday jobs. Maybe this year I'll remember. I'm still not good with The Gimp, but I'm learning....
Oh yeah, the SFSteve icon is from a photo used in a magazine article about me and my job at UMBC as Curator of Science Fiction. Since the artwork I'm holding is the cover of SF Bibliodd, published in September or maybe August of 1974 (when did WorldCon start that year?)I'm guessing the photo was taken in late July or very early August.
Work beckons. Have a good year, and hope to see many of you during our travels as the Liaden Universe World Tour continues.
Happy New Year, from the morningside. We did get to hear the olde year wrung out and the new year rung in on our own key-wound Howard Miller Westminster Chime clock, which, with a week's worth of fine-tuning behind it, was within a second or so of the weather-station's atomic time.
No New Year's Resolutions here per se, rather an on-going climate of evolutionary system adaptation. Yesterday I worked on the SRM Publisher office downstairs, starting with moving the wood pile and a pallet of books (so we can safely use the wood stove for heat once again if we need to) and today I'll find a place for the pesky monitors which have taken roost on top of the wood stove and then I'll move that box of old SFBC books upstairs so we can portion them out among local libraries -- some of the books, no doubt to circulate until they collapse, others to find homes from book-sale aficionados.
Also yesterday I played with The Gimp, creating the SFSteve icon which may yet get adjusted again... and also yesterday did some webwork and realized that I'd missed the pre-holiday messages I meant to send to several people who only access their computers from work, and who work actual Monday through Friday jobs. Maybe this year I'll remember. I'm still not good with The Gimp, but I'm learning....
Oh yeah, the SFSteve icon is from a photo used in a magazine article about me and my job at UMBC as Curator of Science Fiction. Since the artwork I'm holding is the cover of SF Bibliodd, published in September or maybe August of 1974 (when did WorldCon start that year?)I'm guessing the photo was taken in late July or very early August.
Work beckons. Have a good year, and hope to see many of you during our travels as the Liaden Universe World Tour continues.
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2006-01-08 19:18 (UTC)Okay, this sounds like a reference to something I should recognize, but I don't, so would you care to clue me in? References to the Tortugas in everyday life aren't very common, so my curiosity is getting the better of me here.
Puffs of smoke in the Tortugas would presumably have something to do with cannons, but cannons and amaretto don't have any obvious connection that I can see.
In truth though, at this time, any puffs of smoke there would probably be coming from Cuban chugs, which seem to be becoming common there. ("Chugs" are the not-very sea-worthy boats the Cubans use to try to reach the US.) My sister and I ran away to the Tortugas for Christmas, and 8 Cubans landed the first night we were there. I guess they got themselves a nice Christmas present, since they'll be allowed to stay in the US, having made land before getting caught.
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2006-01-09 06:30 (UTC)Hope it isn't a spolier, but at one point Jack Sparrow awakes to discover a signal fire burning and ask "But why is the rum gone?"
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2006-01-10 07:42 (UTC)