Posts Tagged ‘Google’

• This isn’t the Hilton

  Date: 2010.01.20 | Category: desert | Response: 2

  This place isn’t the Hilton, Sheraton, or Best Western. Think of it as a scattered Motel 6… that sublets your room to other people.

  I wish were sleeping in tents. Really, I wish we had tents instead of containerized housing units. First and foremost, I could have some privacy as its fairly easy to segment off a section of a room so that it is yours. This space belongs to you day or night. There is nobody else sleeping in there when you have your day off. You don’t feel bad when you need to go into your room and grab something. The guy that works nights (and who happens to be sleeping) is by far the lightest sleeper I have ever come across. I sleep through almost everything – people banging around in the room, lights getting turned on, controlled detonations by EOD, and fighter jets screaming down the runway.

  Sure, the heating/cooling system in a tent isn’t entirely optimal but the tent does have the opportunity to breath a little. The night sleeper likes to turn off the air during the day and get the room nice and cozy… and he likes to make it smell like warm human ass. That smell you notice from the unwashed masses at your local dollar store or Walmart – yep, that’s the smell I’m talking about.

  Oh well, at least they feed me well and the only thing I have to complain about it a slightly smelly light sleeper.

  I’m doing a slightly different job this time around and everything has been new for me – new is good – new is distracting. I’m working in the inspection section so if it comes in or goes out of the bomb dump I get my hands on it. We are the nexus of the bomb dump.

  The term bomb dump sounds terrible to people that directly dissect the words. Its not like a garbage dump where things are left randomly. We have a collection of warehouses, pads, revetments, and buildings where assets are stored in a neat and orderly fashion. We don’t have a death wish so we keep things clean and we make sure that not too much of explosive A gets next to explosive B. If explosive A should catch on fire we could have an extremely bad day.

  Unrelated note – ever Google your name? Found this old article from the base paper. A few spots down I found another link. I don’t live a particularly private life – not many people from my generation do either.

• Changes to the place

  Date: 2009.01.03 | Category: Life as we know it, Series of tubes, photos | Response: 0

  For years I’ve hosted my own gallery on this server but it’s grown too large for the software that serves the pages. It took me a few hours to dig through all of the previous posts and remove any erroneous links but I’ve done so. I still have a gallery but I’ve moved it to a Google hosted service – Picasa.

  The software at their site is far superior and has all sorts of neat goodies – geo-tags, facial recognition and tagging, and mobile support. Feel free to check out some of my favorite photos at my Picasa gallery.

  Jessica had a few photos hosted at the gallery and they are gone. She will need to fix her blog at some point to fix the errors.

• More goofy crap

  Date: 2008.05.06 | Category: Life as we know it, Series of tubes | Response: 0

  Due to my ever present boredom and need to share anything I find interesting to anyone who will listen I added my Google Reader RSS feed to my page. Check it out on the bottom right – you’ll find a listing of the latest and greatest stories that I felt were worth sharing but didn’t feel were worth blogging about. I have no idea why someone would come to me for information but if you’re here you might as well see what I’ve found interesting the past day or two.