JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Saturday, September 03, 2005 7:30 PM
Chechaquo
This is an excerpt from To Build A Fire that made an impression with me early on and has felt especially relevant for the past few years:
But all this--the mysterious, far-reaching hairline trail, the absence of sun from the sky, the tremendous cold, and the strangeness and weirdness of it all--made no impression on the man. It was not because he was long used to it. He was a new-comer in the land, a chechaquo, and this was his first winter. The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances. Fifty degrees below zero meant eighty odd degrees of frost. Such fact impressed him as being cold and uncomfortable, and that was all. It did not lead him to meditate upon his frailty as a creature of temperature, and upon man's frailty in general, able only to live within certain narrow limits of heat and cold; and from there on it did not lead him to the conjectural field of immortality and man's place in the universe. Fifty degrees below zero stood for a bite of frost that hurt and that must be guarded against by the use of mittens, ear-flaps, warm moccasins, and thick socks. Fifty degrees below zero was to him just precisely fifty degrees below zero. That there should be anything more to it than that was a thought that never entered his head.
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"Space: Above And Beyond"
"R & R"
12 April 1996
Episode 15 DVD:
00:00:00
US Marine Corps 1Lt Paul Wang: Got a bogey about 10K klicks out.
US Marine Corps Captain Shane Vansen: I.F.F. says... it's the Bacchus.
US Marine Corps 1LT Paul Wang: Bacchus. It's like Vegas, New York City and Oz all rolled into one.
US Marine Corps 1LT Vanessa Damphousse: Right now, I'd settle for a night in Buffalo.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 11/1/2006 3:14 PM
May 4, 2005, was the day I went to the Kent Police department for help. I named George W. Bush specifically as one of the people harassing me. The policeman didn’t ask me any questions. He dumped me off at the St. Francis hospital in Federal Way where the first thing they did was secretly drug my food. I found it very hard to restrain the urge to laugh shortly after I had eaten. I wanted to leave the hospital and go back to my apartment the next day, the 5th, but they talked me out of it and I stayed there until the next day, the 6th. I didn’t know which bus would take me back to the Kent Police Department and I ended up having to walk a long ways. With a single red folder in hand, I walked all the way from the intersection of I-5 and Kent-Des Moines Road, taking a left on West Meeker Street, to the Kent Police Department where my Jeep was parked. I saw some chatter online after I got back to my apartment about how interesting it was that I wanted to leave on the 5th, which the date could have been written as 5-5-5. A few days after I got back to my apartment, I ran out of food and went for those 9 days without anything to eat. At the point of a one-way trip to a tall bridge, as a stroke of luck would have it, I discovered that the three hundred dollars in my checking account was then unfrozen and I ate that night. Maybe this happened before the starving period or after, I’m not certain. Actually it was at the end. After nine days, I was going to kill myself rather than stay there for another 30 days or so and starve to death. I had enough money to eat again for a while but I didn’t have enough money to pay the rent, so on May 31st, I moved out. I sleep in my Jeep for the next 14 days before I went into the Redmond Police Department, exhausted, and asked them for help because I had lived in that town before Kent and I had worked for Microsoft, which was based in that town. They didn’t ask me any questions and just dumped me off at the hospital. They took me to Overlake in Bellevue first. The nurse seemed too eager to introduce herself to me, my instincts telling me there was something wrong with her introduction, but I couldn’t understand why. It reminds me of that time, after moving to Kent from Spokane and I was in the Wal Mart somewhere around Federal Way or Auburn. A woman on two different occasions said out loud, “Oh my God!” as she walked into an aisle I was in and saw me. The other woman told her to stop doing that. So they shuffled me around from that hospital and I stayed for about 4 days at UW Medical Center. After that, I went to the VA and I was there for about ten days, all drugged up.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099423/quotes
IMDb
The Internet Movie Database
Memorable quotes for
Die Hard 2 (1990)
[after the terrorist attack]
Holly McClane: Why does this keep happening to us?
http://www.cswap.com/2001/Behind_Enemy_Lines/cap/en/25fps/a/00_10
Behind Enemy Lines
:10:02
You've had an interesting career, Lieutenant.
http://www.cswap.com/2001/Behind_Enemy_Lines/cap/en/25fps/a/00_10
Behind Enemy Lines
:10:37
Just out of curiosity, Lieutenant,
what happened to you?
:10:41
Sir, I signed up to be a fighter pilot.
I didn't wanna be a cop.
:10:45
I certainly didn't wanna be a cop walkin' the
beat in a neighborhood no one cares about.
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http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19900124&slug=1052416
Wednesday, January 24, 1990
Redmond Plans Old-Fashioned Police Beats
By Margarita Overton
-- REDMOND
Whatever happened to Mayberry, that small, fictitious town with the friendly sheriff and deputy who spent more time chatting over pie and coffee at the local drugstore than chasing after criminals - because there weren't many?
The best guess is that Mayberry grew up. Development brought more people and the police force grew. There wasn't time for an afternoon snack and a rambling talk with the drugstore owner.
Harris said he's not convinced the rebirth of the beat cop will solve all the criminal activity in Redmond, but he believes it will help.
``There's got to be a solution rather than just responding to a complaint,'' he said.
Maybe Redmond's not ready for Mayberry. But, Harris, said, ``Without trying, we won't know.''
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20000808&slug=4035840
Tuesday, August 8, 2000
NEWSWATCH
Council unanimous in [ fraudulent ] vote to confirm Kerlikowske
Seattle Times staff: Seattle Times news services
SEATTLE - The City Council confirmed Gil Kerlikowske as the new police chief yesterday. He will take the oath of [ fraudulent ] office Monday.
http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2000/aug00/sqlserverpr.mspx
Microsoft News Center
News Press Release
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enters Production, Ships to Early Adopters
Customer Applications, Partners to Be Highlighted In Sept. 26 Enterprise 2000 Launch
REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 7, 2000 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that following the release of Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 to manufacturing, over 100 enterprise customers will be going live on SQL Server 2000 over the next three months as part of a Rapid Deployment Program supported by Microsoft. In addition, Microsoft revealed that a select group of customers has been in production on SQL Server 2000 for up to six months as part of an Early Adopter Program. These customer applications will be among the many featured in the Enterprise 2000 launch on Sept. 26, 2000, which will unveil the first customer successes built on the recently announced .NET Platform.
SQL Server 2000, the first .NET enterprise server product, is the data management and analysis backbone for the coming wave of .NET applications and services. It is tailored to rapidly deliver Web-enabled applications for e-commerce, data warehousing
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