A Wonderfullyrich World

So I’m on the list that get’s the daily satellite images and I thought you might like to see where we are at and what the krasin’s channel looks like. Rich —–Original Message—–From: mcm.terascan@usap.gov [mailto:mcm.terascan@usap.gov]Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 8:36 AMTo: MCM-DL-TeraScan-DailyImagesSubject: 20 Jan 2006 Ross Island area sea ice & bergs Hi All, The … Read more

One is considered a man’s sport, the other a women’s domain.  Down here, all lines seem to be a bit looser, or maybe the gender equality is finally becoming a reality.  Over the last two month’s I’ve learned to do both.  Stick welding and knitting have been added to my repertoire of random things I … Read more

I wrote this a month or so ago for the Antarctic Sun so the holiday season is a bit out of date, but it’s still an interesting piece. Rich This is probably the first time in my life I’ve been so deprived of smell.  Sure I’m on the windiest, driest, coldest, an arguably the most … Read more

So it’s that time of the year.  Even here in McMurdo, we suffer the tourist.  The Krasin has beaten a path into us and the vessels can now arrive so tourist have started to arrive at random intervals.  How odd that we as “residents” of McMurdo are amused at the tourist that come into our … Read more

I was cleaning out a storage space for Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS) earlier today and it’s your average crawl space.  Dirty, dark, small, dusty, and full of boxes.  We were cleaning out stuff that’s been here for 5, 10, or perhaps more years.  It’s hard to say because this place is dry … Read more

So the friends I have at Chipotle have informed me of a cute feature that their webmaster/marketing department has been doing. Take a picture of you with your chipotle shirt on and they’ll put you on the web… Go check me out: www.chipotle.com Click Play Under Tripotle I’m the 2 to last picture right now. … Read more

I’m currently living 9000 miles away from the country to which I hold citizenship, in a place that is wholly surrounded by more then one ocean,  which is between two and three times the size of the continental United States, has no government, is not owned by anyone by international treaty, an to which no … Read more

So I’m focusing on the sun a bit as many of my post has been about the sun down here, but I’d have to say that’s because it’s by far the most indelible mark that we are not in Kansas anymore.  How strange does it seem that in one of the coldest environments on the … Read more

So I’m a little late in mentioning this.  We have a bunch of DVs in town and they’ve been hogging the galley, kicking people out of Hut 10, flying to the south pole for a day, taking a chopper out tot the dry valleys, and generally making a ruckus of town. Thank goodness they leave tomorrow.  As I’m writing this they just … Read more

I think I’m starting a trend. Bunny ears in the weirdest places. How’s this for a photo?