Sometimes I get to see the coolest things. We are installing (I am supervising the installation of) a Whole Body Imager here at Miami. This thing is amazing. Using RF in the millimeter wave field it creates a 3D holographic image of the person inside. It is so detailed that there is MAJOR issues and concerns over privacy. Once you step inside, the image displayed on the monitor is basically a full 3D b/w nude shot of you. They are taking a whole bunch of precautions like making sure the person scanning the images never sees the live person, no way to save or transmit the image… They know that this could be used for evil purposes. But damn, technology is cool.
On to low tech shit. My website sucks. It needs a major overhaul and I just don’t have the know-how and I really just don’t have the time to learn from scratch. I want to do cool new things but I just don’t see it happening any time soon. I may try to clean up the site a little bit but as for any major changes to make it LOOK good, well we’re all going to have to wait until I get the time and motivation (both at the same time).
I am working on something new that isn’t directly connected to the website but when I have it perfected you’ll read about it here first. It may be nothing, it may be something, it may be cool, it may suck… Just roll the dice and try.
I have to get some sleep here sometime soon. I was up all night Saturday with Fred, KC and Zephyr. We had fun playing Wii and making fun of bad hair-metal videos until 4am or something like that. Sunday night Teresa gave me all the pictures she wanted put on discs for her Girl Scout troop. I already made sure I had plenty of CD-Rs and covers so that I wouldn’t be caught by surprise. She had 2.7 Gigs of pictures and videos. SURPRISE!!! So I had to run out to Wal-Wart and pick up some DVD-Rs to burn them all. My computer is slowly dying and was only burning at 2x so by the time I made 15 of the 20 DVDs it was 4am again. I crashed and made the last of them in the morning. We got up at 6:30 to take Becca to school and get my rental car. I had breakfast, finished those DVDs and then drove to Miami. I got here at 3pm and had to be at work by 6pm. So when we finally got done last night (this morning) at 5am, I was very happy to get to bed. But I couldn’t sleep long because we had a 9am conference call we had to be on. I joined the call and then crashed hard until 1pm. I got up, dealt with the airport administrators for over an hour and they finally told me I needed proof of citizenship for my badge application. Back to the hotel for a nap, until Steve calls and tells me that they are delivering the equipment an hour early and we need to be there now. It is 3am now and we’ll be here until 4:30 or 5… When I get back to that hotel there better not be a phone call, a maid, a low-flying jet, ANYTHING that dares to wake me up!
We have to do this again tomorrow night but that should be it for the week. I get to come home Friday morning I hope. Next week I get my badge and we’ll do this all over again at the “Concourse G” checkpoint. I had a week of down-time last week where I spend Monday -Thursday in the hotel just waiting for everything to get started. Now that it started we’re running hot. This will go on all summer long. I just got the call that they need engineers to cover work at Las Vegas International this weekend and could I leave tomorrow morning? I very politely but firmly said, OH HELL NO! Teresa has plans to spend the weekend relaxing by a pool and that sounds fine by me. I need the down time with the family. I haven’t seen much of them recently. Hell, I haven’t seen much of myself… I know I was scared a few weeks ago when the job came to an end and I was relieved that I fell into HSS. Things look busy again for a while and that is a good thing but really, if it all ended tomorrow and I had to go back to flipping burgers and we had to move into a 2-room shack; I’d be happier.
So now I’ll leave you with something cheerier than my own self-destruction. Some funny thoughts that occurred to me while watching television.
First; from the world of the Superfriends. I was watching the old cartoon on the Boomerang channel (Thanks for ordering that T!) and I got a great laugh out of two particular statements. Lex Luthor was beating Superman and he says, “I didn’t know that the S on your chest stood for Sucker!” It was really funny especially because Teresa and I were trying to decipher whose voice it was and the closest we could come up with was Morgan Freeman.
Another Superfriends moment was when the Hall Of Justice gets a distress call from a distant planet and Superman says, “Planet (whatever the name was)? That’s over 6 trillion light years from here, we’d better leave soon!” That shit made me laugh for 20 minutes. That was almost as funny as “It’s the ship that made the Kessel run in 12 parsecs”.
And my final television moment was from watching the Biography channel. They have a channel for damn near everything now don’t they? I watched the Bio on Elton John and I have come to believe that if Elton John walked up to you anywhere at any time, you’d never recognize him unless he was wearing oversized glasses or a lot of sequins. They showed some footage and pictures of when he owned a soccer team and although I knew he was in the picture, I had a hard time spotting him. Without his costume he looks like an ordinary guy. And we rarely see him out of costume. A lot of people are just the same way, except we don’t have costumes. How many times have you seen your friend do something completely out of character and gotten upset? Or at least a little confused. That’s because we don’t wear sequins or blue tights and a red cape. Our alter-ego looks just like our Clark Kent types. Unlike Elton John, a pair of glasses don’t hide our super/sub-human powers. We look like we always look, we look like the guy on the corner, we look like you. The truly scary part is, we act just like you too, we just don’t have much control over when/where. Don’t make me angry, you wouldn’t like me when I’m angry. So now that sleep deprivation has cause me to rant about home I’m worthy of my own superhero comic I’ll come back to earth now. I believe I have thirty spare minutes before I have to get showered and back in to the airport…
Insomnia attacks
Watching flies with my eyes till sunrise
It’s daylight when I hit the sack
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