Comments on: Niña, Pinta, Knot Workin’.

By: LAMary

LAMary — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:13:38 +0000

I think they are protecting the company from computers full of videos, photos, you tube stuff and illegal music downloads. Occasionally there is a glitch and I get the photo or video, but mostly I have white space. Until recently we had no sound, either. The computers throughout the hospital were not able to play cds or dvds or hear music or view video. About 18 months ago we implemented a new online applicant tracking system which receives applications and attaches them to appropriate jobs, follows the workflow through to hiring the person. The genius the company hired to introduce this applicant tracking system had several hundred training DVDs made, packaged in cute little boxes that looked like movie theatre candy and inclosed some microwave popcorn and some jujubes or junior mints or something. These training DVDs were given to all hiring managers in all four SoCal hospitals this company owns. No one could watch them. The consultant was sent awaty but paid to the end of his contract
and peons like me and the rest of the recruiters had to visit each hiring manager and train them on using the new applicant tracking system.

By: jcburns

jcburns — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:50:00 +0000

LAMary says: “My company protects me from photos and most videos, so I have to imagine what you’re talking about up there.” To which I react: “!!!” What is it they think you MIGHT see? There are so many corporate IT weasels who I’d like to take out on a long ride beyond the Florida Keys on the Busted Flush…and, well, they would be on-board only going one way.

By: basset

basset — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:08:44 +0000

Kid Rock… feh. could not name you a single one of his performances.

Seger, on the other hand… there you could find some boat names. “Against the Wind” is too obvious, though.

and it’s good to see that Madame has discovered the polarizing filter.

By: Dexter

Dexter — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:48:33 +0000

http://www.barefootsworld.net/windwalker/windwalker.html

I post this link here because this is a nautical thread today.
My acquaintance Bob Hardison of Idaho stopped by for a visit in early January of 2003. He told me of his plan to sail a Trimaran across the ocean. He was 69 at the time. He was on his way to Montreal when he stopped for a visit and a meal.
The story is told in precise detail via his posted log books, a lot of it is sailor jargon and details of repairs. Check it out, read a bit, and make sure to read the last posts from the Gibraltar shipwreck and how Bob landed in Egypt with nothing but the clothes on his back, rescued by a freighter. Bob still lives in Idaho.

By: Dexter

Dexter — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:37:56 +0000

Box of Rain reminds me of a personal Top Ten movie, “Hatful of Rain”, which starred Lloyd Nolan.

The extra “L” conundrum…that jumped out at me, too…I had never seen it like that, even though I spell like The New Yorker editors have for years, for words like “fuelling”, they always double-up on the final “L” in a word.
Deep Trout
Aquaholic
DotCalm

By: coozledad

coozledad — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:43:30 +0000

Brian: They wound up being towed about 70 miles by a Coast Guard vessel, which is apparently an experience only marginally better than being wrecked and drowned.

By: brian stouder

brian stouder — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:30:43 +0000

Danny - great call! (folks would think Pam was a pediatrician)

Cz - so now, you’re referring to this ersatz sailor exclusively in the past-tense……which makes me think the movie would end unhappily.

I’ve been reading a book called Last Flag Down, about the voyage of the commerce-raiding (essentially pirate) CSS Shenandoah near (and beyond!) the end of the Civil War; caught the authors on C-SPAN and snapped up the book, which is written in a somewhat melodramatic fashion - but good nonetheless.

By way of saying, I get the impression that lots and lots of ‘ersatz sailors’ became real sailors only under extreme duress (and after being “triced” a time or two [or three])

By: coozledad

coozledad — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:17:35 +0000

I was trying to dig up an old story from Durham’s now defunct Urban Hiker about a guy who was half owner of a bar my wife and I would go to occasionally. He was in college when he got an offer of employment from an uncle in St. Kitts?, with one condition: He had to bring his uncle’s 28 foot sailboat over from Miami. The boat had the complete charts on board, plus Loran, and a small inboard engine, so nothing was likely to go wrong.
Plus, he had two guys to help crew, one of whom was a neurotic drug dealer, and if they made good time, they’d miss the worst part of hurricane season.
I’ll keep looking for it. I always thought it would make a hell movie.

By: Danny

Danny — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:11:31 +0000

Brian, Even Flow.

By: LAMary

LAMary — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:50:49 +0000

Here are a couple of boats owned by my big bro:

http://www.sundownercharters.com/

Anyone want to go fishing off the north fork of Long Island?