Crew members needed to sail historic tall ships

lucybellwood:

ventureonwilderseas:

Hawaiian Chieftain is critically under crewed at the moment and is willing to take on crew with no tall ship experience. (If “running away to join Chieftain’s crew” is a little spur-of-the-moment for you, both of Grays Harbor’s ships are accepting applications for 2018 jobs.)

I can’t recommend working with Grays Harbor enough. Their boats are welcoming, supportive, and a ton of fun. If you want a look at what it’s like to start with zero experience, you can read my comics all about it!

Crew members needed to sail historic tall ships

at home on my own, all night, again – L is asleep, and I will be with him all day tomorrow. 

It’s almost 10 and I really should be going to sleep, but what I really want is a cocktail. A nice one. For some reason, started self-reminisce about Milk&Honey, when it still existed. They had really nice house rules.

  1. No name-dropping, no star fucking.
  2. No hooting, hollering, shouting or other loud behaviour.
  3. No fighting, play fighting, no talking about fighting.
  4. Gentlemen will remove their hats. Hooks are provided.
  5. Gentlemen will not introduce themselves to ladies. Ladies, feel free to start a conversation or ask the bartender to introduce you. If a man you don’t know speaks to you, please lift your chin slightly and ignore him.
  6. Do not linger outside the front door.
  7. Do not bring anyone unless you would leave that person alone in your home. You are responsible for the behaviour of your guests.
  8. Exit the bar briskly and silently. People are trying to sleep across the street. Please make all your travel plans and say all farewells before leaving the bar.

These are good rules for pretty much the rest of one’s life. Also, they make good cocktails.

There are entire planets of intimate information, our most interior level of consciousness, that we will never fully be able to share. Our longing to connect, to bridge this divide, is a driving human desire—one that Hiroshi believes will someday be satisfied through humanlike machines. He is convinced that human emotions, whether empathy or romantic love, are nothing more than responses to stimuli, subject to manipulation.

Alex Kar, Love in the Age of Robots

feeling like a total douche: the (new) guy on the conference call with Chennai apologized for his (unusual-sounding) voice, and I apologized for mine in return (because I have a cold).

But then I realized that the reason his voice was so off is because he is using some sort of breathing apparatus. Whatever it is that he has is way more serious than my cold.

he said that my voice is fine.

minus229k1:

NASA is looking for names for New Horizons’ next target, 2014 MU69, and actually asks the public to help them. 

Current choices are already on hand, like Z’ha’dum, the fictional planet from the Babylon 5-universe, Camalor, after the fictional city in the Kuiper Belt in Robert L. Forward’s novel Camelot 30K, and Mjölnir, after Thor’s hammer. 
What comes into sight is that 2014  MU69 might actually be a binary body, so proposals of names that go well together are quite handy as of now. In case they actually  build a contact-binary – in which the two celestial bodies touch – a single name will do, though.

Less “serious” proposed names are nut-themed, since the body is a bit shaped like a nut – ranging from Peanut to Almond to Cashew; another one is Spacerock McSpaceface. Nomination guidelines for bodies are quite broad, although no political, religious or commercial suggestions are accepted. The name should refer to the tiny world as it is  cold, distant, and old, at the outer fronter of the solar system.

The contest is on tip 1 December; the flyby will take place on New Year’s Day 2019. Fellow worlds in the Kuiper Belt are often named after creation myths from all over the globe.

“Something is wrong on the internet – James Bridle”

imadeit-davidjanes:

Might be of interest if you have kids, it’s about weird videos being made for kids by Algorithms

@phos4rescence – this also popped up in my (algorithm-driven?) Medium mailing.

“Automated reward systems like YouTube algorithms necessitate exploitation in the same way that capitalism necessitates exploitation, and if you’re someone who bristles at the second half of that equation then maybe this should be what convinces you of its truth. Exploitation is encoded into the systems we are building, making it harder to see, harder to think and explain, harder to counter and defend against. Not in a future of AI overlords and robots in the factories, but right here, now, on your screen, in your living room and in your pocket.”

“This is a deeply dark time, in which the structures we have built to sustain ourselves are being used against us — all of us — in systematic and automated ways. It is hard to keep faith with the network when it produces horrors such as these. ”

“Something is wrong on the internet – James Bridle”