Olympus-OM
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [OM] Chuck is back, was: Chuck will be gone for a week

Subject: Re: [OM] Chuck is back, was: Chuck will be gone for a week
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:40:24 +0000
How exciting, Chuck!  You should have been on deck to see ...

Chris

On 15 Feb 2010, at 15:17, Chuck Norcutt wrote:

> Yes, too late for advice on motion sickness but it wasn't a problem and 
> I've not suffered from that in the past.  After leaving IBM I was for 2 
> years the engineering design manager for a small defense contractor 
> which specialized in work for the Navy.  After developing some hardened 
> navigational displays for them I and the senior members of my team spent 
> 10 days on the USS Nimitz during a shakedown cruise in the Pacific. 
> Despite her size (nearly 1100 feet long) she does a lot of rocking and 
> rolling.  My biggest problem was not seasickness but trying to sleep 
> underneath the catapults during night operations.  But I'm not sure I 
> could say the same if the ship had been a tin can (destroyer).  :-)

-- 
_________________________________________________________________
Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus
Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/
Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>
Sponsored by Tako
Impressum | Datenschutz