Archive for the ‘Entertainment’ Category.
Captain Tom Bushy, master of Mass Maritime’s T.S. Kennedy, will be appearing on WGBH’s program “Greater Boston” tonight at 7pm to discuss the piracy problems off the coast of Somalia, and to provide some insight into life aboard large commercial ships.
If you miss the show, I will try to get a copy of it posted here.
On a whim, I happened to look up Mass Maritime on Google Maps tonight, and discovered that they have recently updated their imagery of this area. You can now see the addition built on top of the 1st and 2nd company dorms, as well as the 81kW solar array on top of the addition. The windmill is also clearly visible, along with the new turf field.
I received a suggestion this week that I explain the basis/history of my name, and why it has an unusual spelling.
The spelling of my name is Dutch, having two A’s at the end. When my parents were picking names, they considered naming me Christian, but decided it was too common (though I don’t even meet too many people with that spelling). My dad was reading a book one day which mentioned a Dutchman with the name Christiaan, and my parents decided it was unusual enough.
I used to be frustrated by my name sometimes, since it is very uncommon, but I’ve come to realize that it’s a gift to have such a unique name. When I bought the web domain for this blog, for example, I was sure that there were no other Christiaan Conovers who may have already bought it.
My name is so uncommon, in fact, that according to an online check I did a few months ago, I don’t even exist.
That’s the story of my name, and I’m stickin’ to it!
After seeing a post on Peter Stinson’s blog Tidewater Musings, I thought I’d see if there were any other people in the U.S. with my name. As it turns out, not only are there no others with my name, I apparently don’t have it either!
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So usually I try to avoid writing these posts because I generally regard them as filler, but I thought it might be appropriate this week. We have some unique events going on over the next couple of days that I felt would be worthy of some introduction prior to my post-event write-ups that will follow (man, it’s just hyphen city back there, isn’t it?).
Tomorrow is Emory Rice day, which is our annual field day at the end of the year. The day starts off with a marching competition between the companies. Each freshman platoon in the regiment represents their competition, just as we did for Recognition back in September. This time is a little different however, because we will be marched by the upcoming company commander for our company, providing them with their first real experience in publicly leading the company as an officer. The afternoon is filled with activities aimed at providing us with some fun near the end of the year, such as an obstacle course done by ROTC and a rock wall. All activities are done by company, and are worth points towards Honor Company. I’ll explain Honor Company in a later post, so stay tuned for that.
Wednesday afternoon is Change of Command. Now that Coasties are over and we’re only weeks away from the end of the year, it’s time for this year’s graduating seniors to step down from their officer positions and hand the reigns over to the upcoming officers for next year. There’s a formal ceremony that will be held Wednesday afternoon on the Parade Field. Since I haven’t seen a Change of Command at MMA before, I’m not really sure the details of the ceremony. Since I’ll most likely have to be in formation for the duration of it I won’t be able to take pictures, but I’ll try to get some pictures to post from someone here at MMA (if there’s anybody reading this who’ll be here and would like to share their photos-maybe the Admissions office-I’d appreciate it, shoot me an e-mail).
Not much else to report from Taylor’s Point, except that the weather’s getting too nice for us to be indoors. I vote that classes start being held outside, who’s with me?
I’ve recently been spending a lot of time surfing and exploring on Flickr. I’ve been uploading my photo archives to Flickr, so while they’ve been sending I’ve been checking out other photos on the site. Through some natural stumbling, and some guidance from other bloggers, I discovered OneEighteen.
His real name is Louis Vest, and he’s a ship pilot in Houston, Texas. He has a large array of absolutely amazing maritime photographs, covering ships of all shapes and sizes in various lighting and weather conditions. Here are examples of some of my favorites from him:
If you’re interested in maritime photographs, or photography at all, I’d recommend checking out Louis’ Flickr photos.
This past week I talked with Peter Mello over Skype for a feature on the Messing About In Ships podcast which he and Capt. John Konrad co-host. It ended up being more than a half hour, and is included in full in the latest MAIS podcast episode!
If you’re interested in checking it out, you can find it here.
Peter Mello over at Sea-Fever found a service that translates whatever ye type into scurvy pirate shout. It gunna also message your scurvy pirate message directly to twittArrr, PirateSpace, or send an e-mail. I can see myself usin’ this a lot, fer no reason at all. Avast!
