Walking out to the little park for my 11:00am break to do my Bible reading in the Living Bible (for all my bad habits... this is the one good habit I have right now).
I was blocked by a big pickup with camper shell backing out of the parking structure entry.
The driver, "older" guy, shaved head with grey stubble, asked if I knew where "Arrow Tech" was located.
My tablet was just on the threshold of our company wifi peaking out of tall building behind me, so I tried to look it up for him.
It was Aerotec... and seemed to be some sort of a staffing company.
But no location other than one in Maryland could be found.
He talked on as he sat there in his idling truck.
"They helped me out a few years ago, and I thought they were over here somewhere".
The man also spoke of how he was tired of all these online "opportunites" and "come ons" that were just out to take his money.
So although I could not point him to his Aerotec, I did offer what I think is golden, platinum even advise:
"Have you gone to the county career center yet?"
I spoke more about the advantages to be found there, but I don't know if it sunk in. Hopefully he'll try there.
Good contacts, good information, free training, other good stuff.
The career center!
Monday, August 19, 2013
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
The Weather on Mars
Have I blogged about this before?
Perhaps so... or perhaps I only just intended to.
This will be quick... with little fact-checking and research, relying on memory.
I would LOVE to visit Mars!
The weather? Well, it's a cold, small, desert planet, with amazing features like a mountain that dwarfs any on Earth, and some pretty red desert landscape.
Would I enjoy a trip to Mars?
No way!
Why not?
Well, it would take 2.5 years to get there. It has something to do with timing and the orbit of the planet Mars in comparison with the orbit of the planet Earth.
2.5 years in a space craft... it's like 2.5 years in prison. Can you imagine being in a building (we'll call the space craft a "building" out of kindness... though it's probably not as big as the Discovery in 2001: A Space Odyssey) for 2.5 years? Not being allowed outside? That would get old pretty quick.
Would there be artificial gravity inside the craft on this 2.5 year voyage? There'd need to be! The long-voyage Cosmonauts all had to be carried from their spacecraft. All but one, who was religious about exercising fanatically with rubber ropes, doing deep knee bends in zero-gravity. He walked off. The rest... carried off for lack of muscle strength and bone density.
What is someone on board takes ill? How can they get to the hospital? Well... they're already there, since that's all the hospital they're going to get.
Okay... but what if you get to go with your closest friends?
Sure... remember that long road trip with your closest friends? How close were you at the end of that week? Ready to part ways? Well... this trip is 2.5 years long.
The facts may not all be correct, but the feeling is mine... no trips to Mars... I'll enjoy the red planet remotely with robots and cameras and video and sound.
Oh... but how wonderful it would be stand on Mars? It would be awesome... I would love to go to Mars.
I just wouldn't want to GO there.
Then I should say I'd love to BE on Mars... but not go there.
Perhaps so... or perhaps I only just intended to.
This will be quick... with little fact-checking and research, relying on memory.
I would LOVE to visit Mars!
The weather? Well, it's a cold, small, desert planet, with amazing features like a mountain that dwarfs any on Earth, and some pretty red desert landscape.
Would I enjoy a trip to Mars?
No way!
Why not?
Well, it would take 2.5 years to get there. It has something to do with timing and the orbit of the planet Mars in comparison with the orbit of the planet Earth.
2.5 years in a space craft... it's like 2.5 years in prison. Can you imagine being in a building (we'll call the space craft a "building" out of kindness... though it's probably not as big as the Discovery in 2001: A Space Odyssey) for 2.5 years? Not being allowed outside? That would get old pretty quick.
Would there be artificial gravity inside the craft on this 2.5 year voyage? There'd need to be! The long-voyage Cosmonauts all had to be carried from their spacecraft. All but one, who was religious about exercising fanatically with rubber ropes, doing deep knee bends in zero-gravity. He walked off. The rest... carried off for lack of muscle strength and bone density.
What is someone on board takes ill? How can they get to the hospital? Well... they're already there, since that's all the hospital they're going to get.
Okay... but what if you get to go with your closest friends?
Sure... remember that long road trip with your closest friends? How close were you at the end of that week? Ready to part ways? Well... this trip is 2.5 years long.
The facts may not all be correct, but the feeling is mine... no trips to Mars... I'll enjoy the red planet remotely with robots and cameras and video and sound.
Oh... but how wonderful it would be stand on Mars? It would be awesome... I would love to go to Mars.
I just wouldn't want to GO there.
Then I should say I'd love to BE on Mars... but not go there.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Please Deposit Seventy-Five Cents
Why can't I make up my mind and stick with it?
There's someone standing right outside this phone booth looking in... they have so many more people to place calls to than I... and yet I just stay in here, making call after call after call.
Why am I so selfish?
Get out, boy, there's only room for one at a time!
There's someone standing right outside this phone booth looking in... they have so many more people to place calls to than I... and yet I just stay in here, making call after call after call.
Why am I so selfish?
Get out, boy, there's only room for one at a time!
Monday, June 3, 2013
Just
From a 7-year-old boy (at least I'd estimate him at 7, that's how he behaves) in reference to a rabbit he's seen on display in the window:
I tried to be its friend. But that didn't work.
I tried to be its admiring fan. That didn't work either.
I tried to go back in time and never walk past that window! No luck there either.
What do I do now?
I tried to be its friend. But that didn't work.
I tried to be its admiring fan. That didn't work either.
I tried to go back in time and never walk past that window! No luck there either.
What do I do now?
Friday, December 21, 2012
It finally happened
The same thing that is happening to the guy in the blue shirt also happened to me today.
It's a dark day. Very inclement. I don't like it.
However, I thought I'd report it since the information could be useful to a person, helping them to realize that instead of missing out on a "prize" they rather "dodged a bullet".
Friday, September 28, 2012
Friday, September 7, 2012
Star Trek 46th
Best Google doodle in the UNIVERSE today:
(sorry, the above is just a screen print... not interactive like the real one today)
interactive Adventure!
(sorry, the above is just a screen print... not interactive like the real one today)
interactive Adventure!
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