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So, it is finally my last day in San Francisco. The conference was even more dull than the average conference! I fortunately negotiated my new job which means more time in New Jersey may be on the cards.
The weather is beautiful: sunshine and cool breezes. I am now officially allergic to every sun lotion I have tried and I have skin as white as a porcelain doll. Well, it is usually that white, right now it is red and blotchy although not as bad as the Miami Beach elephantitis/small pox/raging itch attack the last time I wore sun lotion 18 MONTHS AGO! I am the only person using makeup as sunblock and putting their sweater on to step into the sunshine. I am taking anti-histamine by the handful. I have used sun lotion my entire life and suddenly develop an allergy to them now I have the opportunity to travel all over the world. What a crock!
Still, I made it to Alcatraz Island yesterday which was pretty cool. There was an ex-inmate there signing his book. I wanted to go and say hi but I was too ashamed of the tacky Alcatraz souvenirs I was buying (Mr PigDog will soon receive his strainless steel USP Alcatraz prison cup, how grand!).
Anyway, keep your fingers crossed for me that my journey home is not as bad as the 40hour marathon out here.
*is sick of travelling*
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Alone in California and allergic to sunlight! I need a bubble to live in.
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Posted 17 September 2009 - 05:58 PM
Burn rubber =/= warp speed
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Posted 17 September 2009 - 06:42 PM
I'm reading "fortunately I get to spend more time in New Jersey" - never underestimate the charms of the garden state...
I hope you were doing impressions of Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage on your way around Alcatraz.
I hope you were doing impressions of Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage on your way around Alcatraz.
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Posted 17 September 2009 - 07:31 PM
Cougar, on 17 September 2009 - 06:42 PM, said:
I'm reading "fortunately I get to spend more time in New Jersey" - never underestimate the charms of the garden state...
I would nuke New Jersey if I could.
Wait a minute, Jerzee people are like cockroaches. Can't get rid of 'em. They'd all crawl back out of hiding even ruder and more grossly mutated than before.
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Posted 17 September 2009 - 07:35 PM
Clint Eastwood impressions, surely...
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Posted 17 September 2009 - 07:44 PM
You should have come and kicked it in Seattle Mez. We're getting to the time of year where the sun goes into hiding for long periods of time, like months.
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Posted 18 September 2009 - 03:18 AM
The Pacific Northwest is the closest thing we have to the good ole UK.
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Posted 18 September 2009 - 05:52 AM
Hell, I live in Berkeley, just across the bay, and I hate sunlight as much as you do (I just can't avoid it, damned pleasant weather).
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Peopleare harrasing me... grrrrrh.
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Peopleare harrasing me... grrrrrh.
Also people with big noses aren't jews, they're just french
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Posted 18 September 2009 - 08:10 AM
Could be worse. You could have been in Seattle a month ago.
Suck it Errant!
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Posted 18 September 2009 - 06:14 PM
Yay, I'm home. No more travelling abroad until.....Tuesday. Stupid holidays 
The flight home was more entertaining than usual. 10hours sat next to something of a Silver Fox (not the Malazan kind, the hot sugar daddy kind!) and got chatting. When I woke up from a snooze I was more or less cuddling up to him and drooling on his arm. I'm always impossible to resist!!
The flight home was more entertaining than usual. 10hours sat next to something of a Silver Fox (not the Malazan kind, the hot sugar daddy kind!) and got chatting. When I woke up from a snooze I was more or less cuddling up to him and drooling on his arm. I'm always impossible to resist!!
Burn rubber =/= warp speed
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Posted 21 September 2009 - 12:02 AM
stone monkey, on 17 September 2009 - 07:35 PM, said:
Clint Eastwood impressions, surely...
Was he in The Rock too?
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Posted 21 September 2009 - 12:24 AM
I am ashamed to say I haven't seen Escape From Alcatraz. You know how everyone always says "Nobody ever escaped from Alcatraz"? (they do say that don't they? I haven't dreamed it up?). Well it turns out that 3 guys DID escape from Alcatraz! They did the plaster head thing and dug out through the drain, Shawshank style. The ex-guards on the audio tour reckon they drowned. The ex-cons on the audio tour reckon they are in South America. I also got to look at the holes left by grenades thrown in by the US Marines during a riot. It was a good day out. I heartily recommend it.
Burn rubber =/= warp speed
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Posted 21 September 2009 - 01:59 AM
Mezla PigDog, on 18 September 2009 - 06:14 PM, said:
When I woke up from a snooze I was more or less cuddling up to him and drooling on his arm. I'm always impossible to resist!!
Mez, you devil....
Suck it Errant!
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Posted 21 September 2009 - 05:05 AM
Mezla PigDog, on 21 September 2009 - 12:24 AM, said:
I am ashamed to say I haven't seen Escape From Alcatraz. You know how everyone always says "Nobody ever escaped from Alcatraz"? (they do say that don't they? I haven't dreamed it up?). Well it turns out that 3 guys DID escape from Alcatraz! They did the plaster head thing and dug out through the drain, Shawshank style. The ex-guards on the audio tour reckon they drowned. The ex-cons on the audio tour reckon they are in South America. I also got to look at the holes left by grenades thrown in by the US Marines during a riot. It was a good day out. I heartily recommend it.
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Posted 21 September 2009 - 07:18 AM
Mezla PigDog, on 21 September 2009 - 12:24 AM, said:
I am ashamed to say I haven't seen Escape From Alcatraz. You know how everyone always says "Nobody ever escaped from Alcatraz"? (they do say that don't they? I haven't dreamed it up?). Well it turns out that 3 guys DID escape from Alcatraz! They did the plaster head thing and dug out through the drain, Shawshank style. The ex-guards on the audio tour reckon they drowned. The ex-cons on the audio tour reckon they are in South America. I also got to look at the holes left by grenades thrown in by the US Marines during a riot. It was a good day out. I heartily recommend it.
You never watched the Alcatraz episode in Mythbusters? It was in one of the first seasons. They proved it is possible that they could have made it off the island, but whether they made it to the shore was a different situation. The current is STRONG.
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Posted 21 September 2009 - 09:10 AM
Aptorian, on 21 September 2009 - 07:18 AM, said:
You never watched the Alcatraz episode in Mythbusters? It was in one of the first seasons. They proved it is possible that they could have made it off the island, but whether they made it to the shore was a different situation. The current is STRONG.
I find the power of logical thought negates the need to watch such things
Burn rubber =/= warp speed
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Posted 21 September 2009 - 01:24 PM
Speak not ill of the mythbusters, for verily they are men of science and knowledge and masters of blowing shit up on high speed cameras for our enjoyment.
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