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Jan. 11th, 2010 01:22 pmMoira bought me a book all about steamship disasters on the great lakes. I got to the end of it last night. It was fun. A bit plainly written; almost like a catalog of ship names, dates, and lost crew. But Reading all the stories of ships colliding in the fog, ships' boilers exploding, ships foundering in heavy seas, and ships catching on fire did a lot to fuel my imagination into thinking about what life in the merchant marine was like in the first half of last century.
This lead me to doing things like reading more online about the Walk-In-The-Water and the Edmund Fitzgerald. (I'd never realized the Edmund Fitzgerald was a steam ship!)
Then I started reading about other famous lost ships, like the Titanic, and the Marine Sulfur Queen (lost in the Bermuda Triangle). Then I started wondering what it's like to be on a huge sinking ship. I started trying to find accounts, by Googling things like 'how survive sinking ship'. I didn't find much that was very useful, but I found one result that's just hilarious.
From the web site for Best Caribbean Cruises comes this gem of an essay about what to do if you're on a cruise ship that goes down: How to Survive From Sinking Ship. I'm guessing this was written in another language and run, unchecked, through an automatic translator. How else does one produce such gems as "a life jacket will forever wrench you towards the ascend" or "minimise ardor thrashing and growth you chances of people seen by rescuers"? Now, I'm a fan of thrashing in ardor, but I'd have other things on my mind at that point.
The opening sentence could possibly be the best part. "Sinking happens." Very reassuring, that.
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I boxed up all my computer related CDs and took down my CD racks. They joined the growing pile of stuff in the back of my closet that will be coming with. I also have my bag full of hundreds of convention buttons; I added the strings of con badges that were hanging on the CD racks to it. My keyboard and stand, as well as theremin and stand, and amps are packed up back there too. They were too in the way for packing. I'm trying to decide what to do about some of my vintage game boxes and materials. I don't know if I want to sell my Ultima stuff on Ebay, or keep it. I'm leaning toward keeping it. I'm certainly keeping the cloth maps anyway, since I'll be framing them and putting them on my wall at some point. I've gotten rid of tons of stuff, so I don't feel bad about keeping a little.
But I have things like Riverworld, Inherit the Earth, and even two different Leisure Suit Larry games, all thrift store finds. The collector part of my brain doesn't want to get rid of them. I think it'll be talked down by the I-don't-want-all-this-cruft-anymore!!! part. I'll make a list of them for anyone who might be interested. Although, and no offense meant, I think I'll see what, if anything, some of them go for on Ebay first.
This lead me to doing things like reading more online about the Walk-In-The-Water and the Edmund Fitzgerald. (I'd never realized the Edmund Fitzgerald was a steam ship!)
Then I started reading about other famous lost ships, like the Titanic, and the Marine Sulfur Queen (lost in the Bermuda Triangle). Then I started wondering what it's like to be on a huge sinking ship. I started trying to find accounts, by Googling things like 'how survive sinking ship'. I didn't find much that was very useful, but I found one result that's just hilarious.
From the web site for Best Caribbean Cruises comes this gem of an essay about what to do if you're on a cruise ship that goes down: How to Survive From Sinking Ship. I'm guessing this was written in another language and run, unchecked, through an automatic translator. How else does one produce such gems as "a life jacket will forever wrench you towards the ascend" or "minimise ardor thrashing and growth you chances of people seen by rescuers"? Now, I'm a fan of thrashing in ardor, but I'd have other things on my mind at that point.
The opening sentence could possibly be the best part. "Sinking happens." Very reassuring, that.
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I boxed up all my computer related CDs and took down my CD racks. They joined the growing pile of stuff in the back of my closet that will be coming with. I also have my bag full of hundreds of convention buttons; I added the strings of con badges that were hanging on the CD racks to it. My keyboard and stand, as well as theremin and stand, and amps are packed up back there too. They were too in the way for packing. I'm trying to decide what to do about some of my vintage game boxes and materials. I don't know if I want to sell my Ultima stuff on Ebay, or keep it. I'm leaning toward keeping it. I'm certainly keeping the cloth maps anyway, since I'll be framing them and putting them on my wall at some point. I've gotten rid of tons of stuff, so I don't feel bad about keeping a little.
But I have things like Riverworld, Inherit the Earth, and even two different Leisure Suit Larry games, all thrift store finds. The collector part of my brain doesn't want to get rid of them. I think it'll be talked down by the I-don't-want-all-this-cruft-anymore!!! part. I'll make a list of them for anyone who might be interested. Although, and no offense meant, I think I'll see what, if anything, some of them go for on Ebay first.
