OT: The OT Thread: Work sucks. Dogs don't. (Warning in post 368)

[Chainshot]

One beer league team got new jerseys that were sponsored by the business owned by one guy on team with his girlfriend's business as the secondary sponsor on the bottom of the back of the jerseys.

He owned a real estate business. She was a therapist for child abusers.

Yeah...

Good to know Doug Gilmour can play in a rec league.

 

[TheMistyStranger]

Job openings?

Dispute that led to assault at Antarctica base is revealed

The scientists are currently stationed at Sanae IV base, a research centre located on the northern tip of Antarctica some 4,000 kilometres from their South African homeland

www.dailymail.co.uk

Sounds like that guy was going to SANAP

 

[brian_griffin]

One of the guys on my trivia team did a deployment to a science center in Antarctica. He loved it.

6 day work weeks, 9 hour days, but it sounds amazing in a lot of ways. Hell of an experience.

I work with a Russian who in his younger days did military science work (lasers and such) at both Franz Josef Land and Antarctica. He brought up Antarctica in conversation and I threw in the reference to the former from the polar competitions of the early 20th century and, after noting he had been there too, he was amazed I was aware.

Just talked this past weekend with a fellow usher at church who had the opportunity in 2011 to visit Antarctica on a work assignment and he started describing the journey beginning with the arrival and I said "McMurdo?" and he asked "you've been there" and I said no, but I've read "Race to the Pole" the story of Robert Falcon Scott vs. Roald Amundsen and "Endurance", the story of Shackleton's failed over-land crossing. After talking, we both agree Shackleton / "Endurance" is the greatest saga of human leadership ever told. I encourage anyone with remote curiosity to read it.

Aside from the space race / lunar challenge, the polar expeditions of the early 20th century are perhaps the best examples of the will of man (meant as human / mankind, but also acknowledging the male dominance in that era) exhibited in the modern era. Note I am not a student of the classic Greco-Roman-Phonecian (sp?) civilizations. The architectural work of the Egyptian pyramid era is unfathomable, but I separate that from the polar era as the latter was voluntary voyages.

 

[TheMistyStranger]

I work with a Russian who in his younger days did military science work (lasers and such) at both Franz Josef Land and Antarctica. He brought up Antarctica in conversation and I threw in the reference to the former from the polar competitions of the early 20th century and, after noting he had been there too, he was amazed I was aware.

Just talked this past weekend with a fellow usher at church who had the opportunity in 2011 to visit Antarctica on a work assignment and he started describing the journey beginning with the arrival and I said "McMurdo?" and he asked "you've been there" and I said no, but I've read "Race to the Pole" the story of Robert Falcon Scott vs. Roald Amundsen and "Endurance", the story of Shackleton's failed over-land crossing. After talking, we both agree Shackleton / "Endurance" is the greatest saga of human leadership ever told. I encourage anyone with remote curiosity to read it.

Aside from the space race / lunar challenge, the polar expeditions of the early 20th century are perhaps the best examples of the will of man (meant as human / mankind, but also acknowledging the male dominance in that era) exhibited in the modern era. Note I am not a student of the classic Greco-Roman-Phonecian (sp?) civilizations. The architectural work of the Egyptian pyramid era is unfathomable, but I separate that from the polar era as the latter was voluntary voyages.

I actually don't know that much about it, so this was a fascinating post. The deployment, should I be selected, would be to McMurdo.