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 Wednesday, May 29, 2002
started 5/29/2002; 11:37:41 AM - last post 6/6/2002; 2:07:07 AM
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Doc Searls - Wednesday, May 29, 2002 
5/29/2002; 3:37:41 PM (reads: 6566, responses: 2)
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And, 5407 miles to the Northwest, one more on the water 
Here's a map of bloggers in New York, organized by subway line & stop.
Downsized thanks
I had written a long
Rock & Groan
Got sick late yesterday. Something lower-intestinal. Not fun. I don't think it had anything to do with the motion of the boat, though that hardly helped.
I feel better this morning, but not much. Right now I'm writing my SuitWatch newsletter while sitting in the Explorer Lounge, as the ship glides slowly up Stephan's Pasage toward Juneau, where we'll arrive in a couple hours. The sky is overcast, and everything outside — sky, mountains, glacirs, woods, sea — is gray. The only color is a slight hint of green in the water. Yet the scene is other-world spectacular. The mood would be improved if the boat would turn off the loud, incongruous music coming through the speakers in the ceiling. Right now it's playing Lynard Skynnard's Sweet Home Alabama (where the skies are so blue...). Hey, AK isn't that far from AL, no? Now they're playing some even more incongruous oompah music while a pod of geezers steps between my couch and the window to ooh and aah at some whales. I'm joking with the guy next to me. "Whaddayasay we point at fictitious things in the distance?" "Look! There's a crack in the Earth! All the water is flowing in!" Now John Denver warbles: "Hey, it's good to be back home again."
We're going out on a whale/glacier watch this afternoon. The forecast looks encouraging. Fifty-two degrees. Rain. Wind. Nice.
Okay, enough. I gotta work.
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Ralph Hempel - Re: Wednesday, May 29, 2002
5/29/2002; 5:47:30 PM (reads: 664, responses: 0)
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Doc,
I've emailed Niel Bauman about having a fun time for geek
kids (and grownups) using LEGO Mindstorms on the cruises. He's
sorta interested, but now it's time for some guerilla tactics.
Wouldn't you and your little guy enjoy a fun geek bonding
experience building LEGO robots? Or maybe pointing at cracks
in the Earth is more fun on a rainy day :-)
I'm the guy that wrote pbForth for Mindstorms, and I've taught
kinds between 10 and 12 years of age how to program their bots
using a simple text-based language.
I really think that we need to get kids into thinking about this
kind of stuff in a fun environment, and these cruises (or corporate
bring your kid to work days) might be the ticket....
Cheers, Ralph
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Bernie Dunham - Re: Wednesday, May 29, 2002
6/6/2002; 6:07:07 AM (reads: 1157, responses: 0)
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We imagined being in the Truman Show: "4-3-2-1, release the mountain goats. Zoom in - now prepare for the bear, on my mark. In 5 minutes, que the orca."
I have a few hundred pictures of ice to relive my trip. Blue ice, floating ice, dirty ice, ice falling from ice, ice in the distance, ice drifting past the ship, ice moving at eight feet per day. Now I want to go to Antartica and photograph huge icebergs.
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