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The South Pole has a zip code. To be more precise, the military
personnel stationed in Antarctica have an armed forces zip code.
In college, I published a bunch of fanzines; self-published
amateur magazines of interest (I hoped) to science fiction readers
and fans around the world. While building my mailing list, I ran
into a little tidbit about the South Pole and the mailing address for
the military stationed in Antarctic bases. Because the address was a
US zipcode, it only needed regular postage! Navy personnel all have
a Fleet Post Office (FPO) address, usually mailed out of San
Fransisco, while others have an Air Post Office (APO) address, though
it seems the zip code number is more important to the mail sorters
than the designation.
This
site has several postmarks from Antarctica including those that
show McMurdo at APO 96559 or APO 96598 while other sites have a move
generic Armed Forces Pacific disgnation of 96698-xxxx for some ships
and, presumably, individual soldiers. I used to mail fanzines to "A
Science Fiction Fan/McMurdo Base/Antarctica/" with one of the FPO
codes. I never heard back; it's possible such a non-specific address
never got there. But youthful hopes were not dashed quite so
quickly, and I maintained an interest in Antarctica. That interest
was largely theoretical until my journey to The White Continent
Nov-Dec 2006. I was eager to met someone stationed in Antarctica back
then. A reminder: It's never too late to loc.
The last Antarctic landfall our expedition made was to the US
research station Palmer Island.
Palmer had, iirc, 46 people stationed while we visited; the summer is
the most crowded. Our expedition could not fit in all at once, so
half of us went across the bay to Torgerson Island first, then on to
the
station. Read the
Daily Expedition Report on Torgerson Island.
All pictures taken by Baron Dave or Ethel. For the complete and
unedited set of 2389 trip photographs plus a Best Of album, go to Porpoising To
Antarctica.
Baron Dave, Intrepid
Photographer, Torgerson Island on the safe side of green
flag
Orange lichen on the
rocks of Torgerson Island, Antarctica
Palmer Station on Anvers
Island, as seen from Torgerson Island
Approaching Palmer Station
Approaching Palmer Station
One of the scientists at Palmer
Station acting as guide
The Endeavour at Palmer Station
The research aquarium at Palmer Station
The research aquarium at Palmer Station
Palmer Station water storage
Inside Palmer Station compare bar
with Vernadsky
Station Bar from previous column; scroll down a bit
Handmade krill-shaped
weather vane a hobby of some Palmer scientists
Coda: Postcards mailed from Palmer station arrived in Mpls on
January 13, postmarked from Denver.
Remember this special offer:
The Vernadsky Station CD, chock full of great pictures from the
Ukrainian research station in Antarctica, goes for $20 US if you
visit Antarctica For $40 plus $3P&H, I will make a copy of this
CD and send all the price of the CD to Vernadsky. You'll get
an unadorned CD plus thin case (pretty much how it comes) filled with
astonishing pictures and the knowledge that you are helping a
scientific station perform important work... but you don't have to
travel to the South Pole! What a deal! E-mail Baron Dave for mailing address
and details on how to order.
Sign placement puts GOP in negative light in Dover (dispatch.com)
... U.S. Rep. Bob Ney, [who is] the target of a bribery investigation, ... made his re-election announcement Thursday at the Tuscarawas County Republican Party headquarters in Dover, which shares a building with Cash Land, a consumer loan business. Side-by-side on a pole outside the two buildings are two signs: "Republican Headquarters" and "Cash Land."
Poor Elijah (Peter Berger): The Silicon Bullet (irascibleprofessor.com)
The fact is that two years and $34 million worth of laptops later, Maine's math scores improved only slightly, while writing, reading, and science scores either dropped or didn't change. A University of Chicago report found "no evidence" that the Internet has "any measurable effect on student achievement." An extensive German study concluded that students who use computers at school several times a week actually perform "sizably and statistically worse" as a result. That's because computers and the Internet commonly distract students from the task of learning.
Ibn Warraq: Democracy in a Cartoon (spiegel.de)
Best-selling author and Muslim dissident Ibn Warraq argues that freedom of expression is our western heritage and we must defend it against attacks from totalitarian societies. If the west does not stand in solidarity with the Danish, he argues, then the Islamization of Europe will have begun in earnest.
Macky Alston: The Challenge of Bonhoeffer (beliefnet.com)
Countering the notion that some, like Bonhoeffer, are destined for greatness while the rest of us can sit back and watch history go by, Tutu observes that we are all called by God to participate in creating a just world. Giving your life to freedom fighting, to God, is not easy, he says. "There is no shaft of light that comes from heaven and says to you, 'Okay, you are right.' You have to hold on to [the call] by the skin of your teeth and hope that there is going to be vindication on the other side."
Christopher Stone: John Waters: here! to Corrupt You (afterelton.com)
John Waters: I started the series with Freeway, which is a great movie, but not as jaw-dropping as Irreversible (2002), or Porn Theater (2002). I put my foot in the water to see how far they'd go, and they kept going for it. In the end, they made the decision to let me push the envelope as far as I could. The thinking was, if you're going to have a John Waters show, why would you have a half-baked John Waters show? Let's go all of the way.
Sharon Hadrian: True Life: I Have Gay Parents 9 afterellen.com)
Originally produced by MTV Networks for Logo, a GLBT entertainment channel, the episode follows three young people with gay parents: Aidan, a liberal-minded marching band member with two moms; Hope, an adopted African American girl with two white fathers; and Cooper, a 19-year old waiting to meet his biological father (with the support of his two moms).
Darren Frei: What a character!
Leslie Jordan takes a break from Will & Grace to reprise his juicy roles in Sordid Lives and Southern Baptist Sissies, part of a yearlong Del Shores repertory in Los Angeles.
Pittsburgh Squealers beat the Seattle Sea Dogs by a score of 21 scrunchy toys to 10 balls.......
In a 3 hour battle witnessed on the Animal Planet as an alternative to the "Human" SuperBowl, these cute little warriors chased, and chewed there way back and forth across the hash marks...the cardboard crowd went WILD........
For the half time entertainment they had the "Rolling Bones" prance around!
EXPERIENCE THE MOST INTIMATE LATE NIGHT ANGER AND FRUSTRATION WHEN A SENSITIVE YOUNG MAN ENCOUNTERS THE SO RIGID AND THE SO FRIGID IN THE PRIVATE SETTING OF THE ULTIMATE REJECTION!
But Timmy took hundreds of hours of film footage of himself in this pristine and "protected" place mugging and hugging these magnificent and monstrous creatures as if he were Mr. Rogers….."Hi folks….welcome to my bear neighborhood….this is Monica behind me…isn't she beautiful….I love her…I wanna be like her!!!!! This maniac actually believed that the Bears give a shit about him…..that he was their friends….and that he was protecting them…..Ha Ha Ha…what a fucking fool….how dare he be so asinine and insane in this Ursine sanctuary?????
I guess Werner Herzog must have seen a little of himself in Treadwell's Wilderness Video Diary ….Les Blank made a brilliant documentary called "Burden of Dreams" (1982) about Herzog's own descent into near insanity in the jungles of Peru and Bolivia obsessively filming "Fitzcarraldo" (1982) and something must have prompted Werner to make a documentary about Timothy Treadwell and his seeming descent into madness…all the way up to his death by Bear.
The whole time I was watching scene after scene of Treadwell putting the camera on himself and spouting about how he loves the Grizzlies and how nobody else is doing what he's doing and how he knows that the bears love him and even showing himself in his tent at night with his childhood Teddy Bear as his pillow still yammering about how important he was….I kept yelling out…"What a fucking IDIOT"….he's gonna try and kiss the wrong unhappy and hungry Grizzly and get EATEN…….and then he brings his new girlfriend Amie up to Alaska with him…and she's holding the camera while Treadwell does take after take of "Hi I'm Tim and I'm here to save the bears and I love them….but they might kill me if I'm not careful!" "What a fucking IDIOT"
Herzog acts as the Psychotherapist throughout the film, commenting on Treadwell's increasing dementia and interviewing his incredibly dippy looking parents and his dumb ass "Grizzly People" friends….and then the real clincher to this odd movie…….He thinks he's being harassed by the Parks Department on his way out in October of 2003, so he decides to take Amie back in just as all the bears are beginning to hibernate…..Bad Timing…..a hungry rogue Grizzly attacks and kills both he and Amie and it is all caught on audio tape! Nobody has ever listened to this tape and Herzog films himself listening with headphones in the presence of Tim's mom……the look on his face is heart wrenching….he turns it off and tells the mom to never ever listen to it and destroy it……..
What would have happened to Timothy Treadwell if he had never taken a camera and his Teddy Bear up to Alaska?????? He probably would have died as a junkie in some L.A. back gutter…..but why can't people just leave nature alone? By the way, the idea that Timothy Treadwell may have had a "Death Wish" seems perfectly logical to me…he certainly wasn't a scientist and he had no business bothering the bears…and bringing his girlfriend up there (she probably trusted him…big mistake) was foolish and fatal……My conclusion…."What a fucking IDIOT"!!!!!!!
Purple Gene gives "Grizzly Man" 5 cute little red fox snuggles out of 10 for being a cute and cuddly expose about the "nature" of a really wacky dude who really didn't understand "nature"!
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'King Of Queens', followed by a FRESH'How I Met Your Mother', then a FRESH'2½ Men', followed by a FRESH'Courting Alex', then a FRESH'CSI: The 2nd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Harrison Ford and Michael Buble.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Mary Steenburgen and Big & Rich.
NBC begins the night with the SEASON FINALE'Surface', followed by a FRESH'Las Vegas', then a FRESH'Medium'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Terry Bradshaw, "Go Daddy" Girl Candice Michelle, and Yo-Yo Ma with John Williams.
On a RERUNConan (from 9/30/05) are Tiger Woods, Amy Poehler, and Against Me!.
On a RERUNCarson Daly (from 1/12/06) are Rulon Gardner, Sean Paul, and North Mississippi Allstars.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Wife Swap', followed by a 2-hour FRESH'The Bachelor: Paris'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Mischa Barton, Travis Barker, Shanna Moakler, and James Blunt.
The WB offers a FRESH'7th Heaven', followed by a FRESH'Related'.
Faux has a FRESH'Skating With Celebrities', followed by a FRESH'24'.
UPN has a FRESH'One On One', followed by a FRESH'All Of Us', then a FRESH'Girlfriends', followed by a FRESH'Half & Half'.
A&E has 'Cold Case Files', 'Flip This House', 'Iceman Tapes', and a FRESH'Rollergirls'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Goonies', followed by the movie 'Dazed And Confused', then the movie 'The In-Laws'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'Creature Comforts' - Episode 9;
[2:30pm] 'Black Books' - Cooking the Books;
[3pm] 'Black Books' - Manny's First Day;
[3:30pm] 'Black Books' - The Grapes of Wrath;
[4pm] 'At Home with the Braithwaites' - Episode 2;
[5pm] 'Monarch of the Glen' - Episode 7;
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'House Invaders' - Episode 4;
[7pm] 'The Benny Hill Show' - Episode 3;
[8pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 3;
[9pm] 'Conviction' - Episode 2;
[10pm] 'The Night Detective' - Episode 2;
[11pm] 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Light Entertainment War;
[11:40pm] 'The Mighty Boosh' - Episode 1;
[12:20am] 'The Mighty Boosh' - Episode 2;
[1am] 'Conviction' - Episode 2;
[2am] 'The Night Detective' - Episode 2;
[3am] 'Murphy's Law' - Go Ask Alice;
[4am] 'Murphy's Law' - Convent;
[5am] 'Murphy's Law' - The Group;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'West Wing', another 'West Wing', and 'Kathy Griffin: Allegedly'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Dogma', an old 'Jon Stewart', an old 'Colbert Report', 'Chappelle's Show', 'South Park', and 'John Leguizamo's Freak'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Former Assistant Defense Secretary for Public Affairs Torie Clark.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Sen. Barbara Boxer.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Alien Engine', 'Stonehenge', and a FRESH'Decoding The Past'.
IFC -
[6AM] Frazetta: Painting With Fire (2003);
[7:45AM] Seven's Eleven (2004);
[8AM] The Last Waltz (1978);
[10AM] Dancing to New Orleans (2003);
[11:30AM] At The IFC Center (2006);
[1:45PM] Seven's Eleven (2004);
[2PM] IFC Short Film Collection II: February (2006);
[4PM] Dancing to New Orleans (2003);
[5:30PM] At The IFC Center (2006);
[6PM] Akira Kurosawa: The Last Emperor (1999);
[7:05PM] You See Me Laughin' (2002);
[8:30PM] Independent Spirit Award Nomination Show (2005);
[9PM] Dirty Pretty Things (2002);
[10:45PM] IFC in Theaters (2005);
[11PM] She's Gotta Have It (1986).
[12:30AM] At The IFC Center (2006);
[1AM] Dirty Pretty Things (2002);
[2:45AM] IFC in Theaters (2005);
[3AM] She's Gotta Have It (1986);
[4:30AM] At The IFC Center (2006);
[5AM] Crossover (2001). (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has 'Surface', 'Stargate SG-1', another 'Stargate SG-1', and still another 'Stargate SG-1'.
Sundance -
[7:15AM] The Flower of Evil;
[9AM] Fansom the Lizard;
[9:15AM] Salt;
[10:45AM] The Last Just Man;
[12PM] Year of the Bull;
[1:30PM] Claude Chabrol L'Artisan;
[2:30PM] Far From War: Chechnya, The Endless War;
[3:30PM] In His Own Words: Brian Williams on Hurricane Katrina;
[4PM] The Last Just Man;
[5:15PM] Portrait of a Bookstore as an Old Man;
[6:15PM] Year of the Bull;
[7:45PM] Underdog;
[8PM] Ladette to Lady: Episode 1;
[9PM] Arna's Children;
[10:30PM] With No Direction Home;
[11PM] Iconoclasts: Redford on Newman;
[11:45PM] Ryan;
[12AM] 1 Giant Leap;
[1:30AM] Breasts: A Documentary;
[2:30AM] Something Wild;
[4:30AM] Arna's Children. (ALL TIMES EST)
U2 lead singer Bono, center right, and wife Ali Hewson, left, attend a party presenting fall fashions from their EDUN clothing line, joined by musician Lou Reed, second from left, and performance artist Laurie Anderson during Fashion Week Sunday, Feb. 5, 2006, in New York.
Photo by Stuart Ramson
The writers of "Brokeback Mountain," the sweeping tale about the longtime forbidden romance between rugged ranch hands, won best adapted screenplay Saturday night at the 58th annual Writers Guild Awards.
The screenplay was written by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana and based on a short story by Annie Proulx. The film stars actors Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal and received a leading eight Oscar nominations.
The writers of the ensemble drama "Crash," which follows the lives of a cast of characters over a chaotic 36-hour period in Los Angeles, won for best original screenplay. The screenplay was written by Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco based on a Haggis story.
Larry David, the writer and star of the HBO comedy "Curb Your Enthusiasm," won for best writing in a comedy series.
Former CBS news anchor Dan Rather, center, presented George Clooney, left, and Grant Heslov, unseen, with the Paul Selvin Award at the Writers Guild Awards at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Saturday Feb. 4, 2006.
Photo by Branimir Kvartuc
He is known nearly as much for his quiet modesty as his incredible songwriting, but on Sunday night the notoriously reclusive Leonard Cohen was in the spotlight at a star-studded gala that's as glitzy as it gets.
Musical superstars Willie Nelson and k.d. lang were among the performers to honour Cohen as he was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Anne Murray was also to be honoured at the ceremony with a legacy award for her lifetime achievement.
Hunks of hand-crafted clay trounced modern computer-animated images Saturday to take top honors at the 33rd annual Annie Awards, honoring achievements in feature film and television animation.
"Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit" from DreamWorks Animation SKG took the prize for best feature production. The film, which used computer animation only for some short scenes, beat the digitally animated films "Chicken Little" from The Walt Disney Co. and "Madagascar," also from DreamWorks.
The Annie Awards are presented by The International Animated Film Society. The awards often predict the winner of the Academy Award's best animated film category.
"Wallace & Gromit" also captured best directing honors for Nick Park and Steve Box, and won for best music and writing.
Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry celebrate backstage after wining best Adapted Screenplay for 'Brokeback Mountain' at the Writers Guild Awards at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Saturday Feb. 4, 2006.
Photo by Branimir Kvartuc
Despite a two-day delay to fine-tune the production and some first-night mistakes, theatregoers say the new Lord of the Rings musical has been worth the wait.
The Toronto show had its first preview performance on Saturday night and the diehard Lord of the Rings fans in attendance gave it rave reviews.
Liam Kearns, 36, from Vancouver, travelled to Toronto specifically to see the show and said he felt lucky his show wasn't cancelled.
"It's not really a musical in the tradition sense, it's really a stage extravaganza. There's music but it's a dramatic play," he said.
They may not have flashed any body parts - except for Mick Jagger's well-toned stomach - but the Rolling Stones made ABC glad it imposed a five-second tape delay on the Super Bowl halftime show.
Two sexually explicit lyrics were excised from the rock legends' performance Sunday. The only song to avoid the editor was "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," a 41-year-old song about sexual frustration.
In "Start Me Up," ABC's editors silenced one word, a reference to a woman's sexual sway over a dead man. The lyrics for "Rough Justice" included a synonym for rooster that the network also deemed worth cutting out.
Former President Jimmy Carter along with John and Becky Moores pose at an auction Saturday, Feb. 4, 2006, in Crested Butte, Colo., with a photograph of Carter and an armoire that he built. The Moores paid $1 million for the armoire at Saturday's auction to benefit the Carter Center in Crested Butte, Colo.
Photo by Paul Gallaher
An oil painting of newly retired Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan by 25-year-old artist Erin Crowe was auctioned on the online market eBay on Friday for $150,400 (85,000 pounds).
If nothing else, Crowe's work is unique. It was created in one day under the glare of the public eye at business cable channel CNBC. And it wasn't just any day -- it was Greenspan's 6,749th and final day in office.
CGOP put the 24-by-30 inch painting, which captures a typically pensive expression on the central banker's face, up for auction to raise money for Autism Speaks, an organisation dedicated to research on the developmental disorder.
Writer Stephen J. Cannell (L) recipient of the Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award, poses with actor James Garner, who presented him the award, at the 2006 Writers Guild Awards in Hollywood, California February 4, 2006. Garner starred in the 1970's television series 'The Rockford Files' which Cannell wrote.
Photo by Fred Prouser
The Dutch city of Groningen looks set to open the Netherlands' first pharmacy totally dedicated to providing high quality cannabis for pain relief at affordable prices, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
Although cannabis is readily available in Dutch coffee shops, the foundation for Medicinal Cannabis Netherlands, a support group for patients, intends launching a pharmacy in the northern Dutch city so people can have access to high-grade cannabis for medical use, the daily NRC Handelsblad said.
The Office of Medicinal Cannabis, a Dutch government agency, and the community of Groningen as well as the local police back the idea and a site has been chosen. It was not immediately clear just when the pharmacy would open for business.
Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force photographers take photos of an illuminated snow sculpture of the Golden Pavilion of Horyuji temple at Odori Park, the venue of the 57th Sapporo Snow Festival, on the eve of the opening of the winter festival in Sapporo, northern Japan February 5, 2006. More than 300 snow and ice sculptures are displayed to attract visitors to the festival held February 6-12. The Ground Self-Defence force soldiers are the main man power to create the snow and ice sculptures for the festival.
Photo by Kimimasa Mayama
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