sounds great fun:
http://www.thehousenextdooronline.com/2008/06/great-ecstasy-of-icecarver-werner.html
― caek, Thursday, 12 June 2008 22:33 (5 years ago) Permalink
this is one of my favorite threads ever.
― Maria, Thursday, 12 June 2008 22:38 (5 years ago) Permalink
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 12 June 2008 22:43 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://www.apple.com/trailers/thinkfilm/encountersattheendoftheworld/trailer/
― caek, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 11:09 (4 years ago) Permalink
anyone interested?
http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/fbh/928514274.html
― clotpoll, Saturday, 22 November 2008 01:17 (4 years ago) Permalink
I have my suspicious on that. All the US Antarctic hiring is done through Raytheon:http://rpsc.raytheon.com/Employment/
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 22 November 2008 01:38 (4 years ago) Permalink
suspicions
I think it's legit. The contact e-mail is from the usap.gov site.
― clotpoll, Saturday, 22 November 2008 01:41 (4 years ago) Permalink
it doesn't make sense because they don't need to advertise. they get hundreds, if not thousands, of applications. and i'm talking just for dishwashing.
― that special someone (jergins), Saturday, 22 November 2008 01:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
Apparently hiring is done through the NANA company that posting mentions as well as Raytheon...but the USAP and NANA sites say applications go to a general NANA HR email, not the specific name on that ad. So I'm also suspicious.
― Maria, Saturday, 22 November 2008 02:22 (4 years ago) Permalink
RIP Jerri Nielsen
BOSTON (AP) -- Dr. Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald, who diagnosed and treated her own breast cancer before a dramatic rescue from the South Pole, has died. She was 57. Her husband, Thomas FitzGerald, said she died Tuesday at their home in Southwick, Mass. Her cancer had been in remission until it returned in August 2005, he said Wednesday.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 23:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
dude on the left is frightening me
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 14 February 2011 21:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
Shackleton is an all-time bad ass.
― gtfopocalypse (dan m), Monday, 14 February 2011 22:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
Got that right.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 February 2011 22:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
apparently bad-ass enough to allow a zombie with no pupils on his expedition team
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 14 February 2011 22:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
and the dog on the far left is a shapeshifter!
― uncle twikkelingssteurnissen (unregistered), Monday, 14 February 2011 23:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
has anyone seen this?
http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff/node/461
― caek, Monday, 14 February 2011 23:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
apparently it's been screening on discovery in the UK
― caek, Monday, 14 February 2011 23:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
Robert Scott's abandoned hut is just astonishingly beautiful and terrifying (you can see some high-res photos of it here and here: best viewed in full size). some of the furnishings came from the Shackleton Expedition, which reused the hut years after Scott met his doom.
that video looks interesting, caek. I hope it shows up on Discovery in the US at some point.
― uncle twikkelingssteurnissen (unregistered), Monday, 14 February 2011 23:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
i read the worst journey in the world last year and posted this:
Will finish The Worst Journey In The World this weekend. Incredible book. Surprisingly funny. Not Jeeves and Wooster, but occasionally laugh out loud good. And obviously what happened is incredible and it can't help but be thrilling. It's a bit "one crevasse after another" (lol sounds like my friday night) for the first 300 pages or so, but from the winter journey to the penguin rookery onwards (obv. including the polar journey) it's just wonderful. And I really enjoyed the unusual structure of the last couple of hundred pages, which is assembled from diaries of multiple people in multiple parties and ends up jumping backwards and forwards revealing what happened in a rather crafty way (although obviously you know the basic story).
― caek, Monday, 14 February 2011 23:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
tl;dr version: read if u like antarctica
― caek, Monday, 14 February 2011 23:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
― caek, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 00:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
south pole bar, winter 1977
― caek, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 00:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
first sunrise after winter, 21 september 1977 just before flights start arriving againand this is what they sang http://www.southpolestation.com/spring/c130.mp3
― caek, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 00:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
― caek, Saturday, 5 March 2011 01:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
― caek, Saturday, 5 March 2011 01:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
via http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/03/recent-scenes-from-antarctica/100019/
this appeals to me on so many levels, make me sad that I've not seen places like this for myself.
― not_goodwin, Saturday, 5 March 2011 01:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
they are adapting big dead place!
http://www.deadline.com/2011/09/james-gandolfini-to-produce-possibly-star-in-hbo-antarctica-comedic-drama/
― caek, Friday, 7 October 2011 15:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Cool!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 7 October 2011 15:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
(the zombie guy is frank wild)
― mark s, Friday, 7 October 2011 15:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
Great stuff (and a link to the original piece if you'd like to go all in).
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 23:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
nature had a seriously good week this week, with these mountains and ionian water
― caek, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 23:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
european even
― toandos, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 02:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
In which mark s digs deep, with Scott/Amundsen as a launching point for all kinds of things:
http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2012/04/inuit-science-and-the-commodification-of-victory-scott-versus-amundsen-a-century-on/
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 April 2012 14:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
deep into the zone of pitchforkmedia
― Ms Tum-Bla-Wi-Tee (nakhchivan), Monday, 30 April 2012 14:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
Heck yes:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/become-antarctic-explorer-with.html
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:53 (11 months ago) Permalink
"I'm going online, I may be some time..."
― second dullest ILXor since 1929 (snoball), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:57 (11 months ago) Permalink
RIP Nick Johnson, writer of the terrific Big Dead Place book and blog: http://feralhouse.com/nick-johnson-rip/
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 December 2012 08:44 (6 months ago) Permalink
Yeesh. Heavy stuff. Rip.
― caek, Thursday, 6 December 2012 10:32 (6 months ago) Permalink