That ferry that sunk in the Philippines where all those people died? This story says Titan are gonna try and refloat it.

I cant geek out over this. Thats just horrible. Imagine having to work on a ship with all those dead people in it.....gotta admire those guys if they can handle it.

All the retards blaming lil Rudd for the fuel prices and the economy going to shit makes me want to hit something - it would have happened whether Labor or Liberal were running the country nimrods! BUT I do love that ad!

For non aussies - the aussie govt is implementing a thing where service stations have to post the cost of petrol they are selling 24 hours ahead of time. They are hoping that it will help consumers find the most affordable prices, and also to curb things like petrol station tendencies to change their fuel prices half way through the day by a HUGE amount.

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New New Carissa salvage pics at the World Link. Colour me HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Labels: new carissa, photos, salvage

Lots of online news sites have info about the New Carissa but for some reason I like The World Link the best. Anyways they had articles about it on Friday and Saturday.

I just wish they would update that cool gallery page of theirs with some new pics.

Anyway, my life is soooo boring at the moment. I have nothing else to talk about.
My friends and I had fun at karaoke on Friday and then had ramen for dinner. My evil illness from earlier in the week hadnt gone away and I got this gawd-awful stomach pain on the train home but thankfully it settled down. I would rather DIE then use the toilets on any of CityRails trains!

Our internet connection was acting up when I got home on Friday and most of saturday so I have been rereading fanfic I have saved on my computer.

We are looking after my sisters dog this weekend. Because she cant be trusted to not pee or poop everywhere she has been banished each night to my room. Typical!

Shes just so cute. She keeps giving me miserable looks because 1) i wont let her out of my room once she has been put in here for the night, and 2) because I dont get into bed soon enough so she can snuggle under the blankets with me. haha

Speaking of cute - check out Hannah and her CURLS!

WOO! Two new stories about the New Carissa! Yays for new information!! And more woo!! New photos too!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyhoos - at work today one of our clients had received a bunch of issues of Lloyds List and I didnt have time to be super nosy and read but I was looking at the pics and headlines on the cover. One of the issues had a pic of some huge oil tanker (I think). Dude that thing was ginormous! It had a couple of tugs that looked like they were pushing it and they looked so tiny next to it!
The client I was working on actually gets a LOT of maritime-related journals and I wanted to have a read but I was being a show off showing the inferior beings at work who like to whinge and take 2 days to do this client that it can be done quickly with very little fuss. DENIED!
Also sometime recently my friend sent me yet another chain email (damn i hate them), but this one had pics of a heavy-lift ship - I think it was actually this one. ARGH! Wouldnt it be cool seeing that sucker sailing by with something huge on it?

Anyways - haha - how to get from San Diego to Sydney sans airplane! Google Maps never stops being helpful!

Other random news - I might be going to karaoke with my mates after work tomorrow (well tonight). We havent been for AGES! I am excited!

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Hello interwebs. I have been quiet for a few days. I have still being dogging the web for stuff about my previous posts but not quite as hard core....plus New Carissa news has been quiet except Friday (my time) when there was a bunch of links related to the second jack-up barge moving into place. Dude the squealfest I had at work when i saw the Google Alerts...but then the whining because I wouldnt get to look at them till Saturday because I was going out that evening..... :D

Anyways I was meeting up with some friends Friday but before that I went and visited the new Apple store that had opened the previous evening in Sydney.

1) its shiny 2) on the ground floor they had all the different Macs available and you could just rock up and play with them (once someone else had moved because EVERY machine was in use MOST of the time) 3) the net connection is faster than mine at home (DAMN!)
It was so shiny and pretty and I would LOVE a Mac one day. I wanna play with that GarageBand program! That looks interesting!

Today (well yesterday NOW) I have been reading the His Dark Materials trilogy. I read the Northern Lights (aka The Golden Compass) before the movie came out but mum stole my omnibus so she could read it too so I couldnt read the other two stories for a while.
Its taken me a while to feel compelled to read again because lately I have been rereading The Farseer Trilogy (I am so in love with Fitz, The Fool and Burrich that I could hurl! I LOVE THEM PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And Patience too - I think she is a darling. Molly and Kettricken keep pissing me off.)
ANYWAYS, so I finally finished the Subtle Knife today and started on the Amber Spyglass. GAH! I want to keep reading but dude the book is HEAVY so I dont want to cart it around to read on the train. So have to wait till I get home.

Anyways thats about all thats new with me. Thrilling eh?

You know - I havent posted on Livejournal for a while. Thats soooo weird for me!

Labels: random stuff

It doesnt stop.
Seriously...I should be in bed - I want to get to work an hour earlier tomorrow and dude - I am SO not waking up on time. BUT the salvage geekery continues. Have salvage dudes had fangirls before??? I apologise to you all!

Anyways so there is this nifty page run by the Oregon state govt about the New Carissa project. Has lots of info, some different photos to the ones I have already seen, plus that Youtube video I linked the other day.

I also found this article from March with a great pic showing the barges arriving in Coos Bay.

Anyways, a few weeks ago I got my mum to read the Wired article that started all this and so I can ramble to her about it and the darling acts interested - go mum!
And I was telling my friend Maddison on Saturday night and she is my fellow sci fi/fantasy book reading co-hort and she pulled this book out of her bag by a guy named Clive Cussler and said if I want some fiction related to this weird maritime obsession then read some of this guys stuff. Sadly money hording Rebecca may have to hit the library to get some books. Too poor to buy atm.

I have to say I am sad that if you do a search for New Carissa on google you have to get to page 14 before my blog shows up, and page 8 if you search for Titan Salvage... T.T
But then no one reads this thing do they? :D

Oh hey - I walked across the Harbour Bridge and over to Wynyard station tonight (well last night now) and the only dramas was my usual Achilles tendon pain! Shocking! Usually I get weird semi-numbness from my feet to my knees followed by other charming pains. SO yeah - was pretty pleased. And even teh Achilles tendon pain would sometimes disappear if I rolled my foot a certain way. AWESOME!
If it will just stay rain-free a bit more in the evenings I will try and do it more often. I definately prefer walking the bridge in winter - there is no sun or evil heat torturing me.

In other news - channel seven are reairing that stupid Playing It Straight show - i swear that Campbell guy went to my high school for a while.

Okay - its now 1:35am - I am going to sleep.

Labels: new carissa, random stuff

Brand me a fangirl because this article made me soooo excited!
There is gonna be a National Geographic series called Salvage Code Red about the salvage industry including stuff about the New Carissa!! WOO!

In other exciting stuff (thanks Google News!) the cable car has been installed and is being tested at the New Carissa worksite.

Why am I so excited about this????????????????

Anyways there are lil news clip videos for both the above links.

Labels: fangirling, new carissa, salvage, titan salvage, WOO

Do you know what I hate? Our dept has thousands of magazines passing through our hands every week but there is no time to stop and read unless we get an extra one that we can read at lunch or something (OR you are one of the people I wanna take a sledgehammer to for wasting time slacking off...but thats another story).
Today there was the latest issue of Popular Mechanics and it had this cool looking article about the US Coast Guard rescuing people from a sinking vessel in the Bering Sea. There is a bit of stuff on the Popular Mechanics website about it but it doesnt have the whole article. DAMNIT!
I hope we get some extra copies.

Labels: Alaska, magazine articles, Popular Mechanics, US Coast Guard

Man - too much time spent looking for stuff! I gotta find something else to do! I blame the fact that I am trying to save money so I can waste money on other hobbies!

But look what I found - the start of the vid just shows shots of the New Carissa but later on it shows Titan peeps preparing to set one of the legs on one of the jack-up barges!!! AWESOME! I love teh interweb!

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