Pat - Jets Playoff Game

Another workday at the Darwin Gillette box.

Stuck

Like I thought, a cluster.

Sixty Degrees

Incredibly on January 6, it is sixty degrees outside at 9:00 AM, even with rain and overcast clouds. I'm sure that the global warming crowd will be freaking out soon.

We took Mike to the Landing last night for a family dinner - the last time the family will be together for awhile since Mike is relocating to Washington DC for his new job at Bearingpoint. It felt like winter in California with the temperature so high.

Too bad I'm not far enough along with the sanding on the Tender, since this temperature is perfect for coating epoxy and varnish.

Irons in the Fire

The weekend will be killed because I will have to go to Darwin Saturday and finalize the draft network services submittal, and we have customers going to the Patriots – Jets Playoff game in the Darwin Box at Gillette Stadium. You have to meet the customers at the Box and act like you enjoy all of the eating, drinking, and climate controlled playoff football action. I don’t know how I’m going to pull it off.

Between Darwin, Sundance, the Boatbuilding Book and a couple of other entrepreneurial exploits, wouldn’t you think that I would be raking in the dough with all of these irons in the fire? My rake must be missing some tines.

Can’t see much hope in gaining some hours on the nineteen estimated to be left in interior sanding on the Tender. Maybe one or two on Saturday afternoon.

1-07 POTW

A New Year. A new start for Nanepashemet Peep of the Week Selections . To those who forget the criteria, you'll have to check the past posts, I can't keep repeating it over and over again.

Nanepashemet Peeps OTW 1-07

• Dale Johnson
• Steve Livermore
• Sarah Jane Freymann
  
• Michael Porter
• Jim Hormann
• Jay Ohanian

May they receive the accolades and/or ridicule as appropriate that they so well deserve.

Rumpf and Livermore

The A and E boys came up big time in the Sundance design. We should be on a roll by next week. Thanks to Eric Rumph and Steve Livermore - two class acts.

A Special Role

Why is it that I am the only one in my family who can change a roll of toilet paper ? Would it be a unique gene and DNA structure in my makeup? As far as I can remember, nobody in my family has ever changed a roll. If the toilet paper is hanging in my house, that is documentary evidence that I have been in the vicinity.

Darwin Account Reviews

We'll be conducting account reviews in the next two weeks and all of the business development managers will be heading to Wakefield. Maybe we will take another group photo this time.

A New World of Information

"One of the most infamous men of the 20th century met a very 21st century fate Saturday morning. Within hours of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s hasty execution at the hands of masked hangmen, amateur cameraphone clips taken by eyewitnesses joined television feeds of the event on video distribution sites YouTube and Google Video. Television clips available on the internet within hours of his death showed executioners roughly placing a noose around Hussein’s neck. An amateur video clip of the event, taken on the cameraphone, then shows a pause before Hussein’s sudden plunge from the gallows. The grim amateur footage—unavailable on mainstream outlets such as the web sites of CNN and The New York Times—marks an era where eyewitnesses can crank out accounts of news events seen by millions within just a few hours. " - Red Herring

Nanepashemet Peep of the Year - 2006

I know that I've created a monster.
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In a light hearted process of acknowledging the triumphs and foibles of various Peeps every week, I have caused a strange and invective cult to emerge, filled with hundreds of mindless drones whose only life function is to anguish and obsess over the merits or inequities of the Nanepashemet Peep of the Week selection.
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If only I could turn back time, I never would have set this juggernaut in motion. Woe that I have lifted the lid on this Pandora's Box.
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What's done is done. I will have to live with this burden of my own making, trying to make the best of a whirlpool of bad karma.
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There can only be one Nanepashemet Peep of the Year 2006.
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I have selected the one Peep among you who has solved the riddle of the shroud.
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Only one of the multitudes has found the truth... that the shroud is not linen wrappings of antiquity, but a sheet of Big Brawny brand paper towel.
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Announcing....

The NANEPASHEMET PEEP OF THE YEAR 2006 - TOM McMAHON






To those of you who know McMahon, it cannot come as a surprise.

Matinicus Island

We'll be spending a little time researching this island since we have decided to build the Maine Matinicus Peapod for the next project.
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This is an antique 1906 USGS map.
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Click on the map for greater detail.

Competition to Shroud of Turin

In the midst of all the controversy regarding the visage of Christ on the Shroud of Turin, a new mystery arises.
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This one is especially baffling.
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Don't be distracted by the devastatingly good looking image on this ancient shroud of antiquity.
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Some say it's not a man at all... but some sort of a Greek God. I don't think he is Greek though. In fact, nix the Greek idea altogether.
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To me, this man exudes deep knowledge, and animal sexuality. His piercing, intelligent gaze, and confident smile portend superiority, yet ultimate humility.
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Please help us find the truth! If you have any idea of his identity, please email me at this special address that will support the mountain of mail that this mystery will generate.

Send to stupid@whatamoron.com