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Regulators…Mount Up! — Science in My Fiction with a lateral take on world building.
Analogies — xkcd is funnier than normal.
Head Spotters: 1942 — “Head Spotter” has to be one of the weirdest job titles ever.
Dutch courage for climate mainstream — The BBC on climate change ‘scandals’ and the underlying reality.
?otD: What’s the weirdest job you ever had?
7/5/2010
Writing time yesterday: n/a
Body movement: n/a
Hours slept: 9.5 (decent but interrupted by fireworks)
This morning’s weigh-in: n/a
Yesterday’s chemo stress index: 3/10 (fatigue, peripheral neuropathy)
Currently (re)reading: Ringworld by Larry Niven
Posted: 11:26 am Mon July 05 2010 |
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July 6th, 2010 at 5:38 amWeirdest Job: I’ll go with the time when I had to show a group of Romanian businesspeople around who wanted to buy an inland water vessel. An inspection of a suitable vessel had been arranged, I only had to take them there. The vessel, I was informed, was moored at the steelworks quay, which should have tipped me off. Turned out that it was a coal freighter, which was not only in the process of being unloaded by a monster crane, while we were on board, it was also completely covered in coal dust. The captain spoke only German, the businesspeople only Romanian and one a little English, so I had to translate the German captain’s explanations into English, which were then translated by the one English-speaking businessman into Romanian. It was a bit like the telephone game and I can only guess what came out at the end.