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a day at the beach
A much needed week away from the grind has led me to a number of days spent at the beach. As I sat in a chair soaking up some summer sun, as just one among the masses, I found myself forced to take a more commonplace perspective on human interaction with the ocean. Rather than be…
Read Moreburn baby, burn…
Three and a half hours later, I surfaced from what was my third dive of the day. As I surfaced, I thought to myself, “seven hours spent in a dark, muddy hole was how I spent this fine Wednesday…just another day at the office”. Today’s project was to remove a 30 foot length of steel…
Read Morewhite collar wages for a blue collar world
‘Busy’ does not even begin to describe my dive schedule this summer. Most fortunately, many of my work projects have been in support of public works programs – repairs to infrastructure including dams, bridges, and barriers. Now, with these public works projects comes a Department of Labor mandate that the labor force earns the ‘prevailing…
Read Morewhere will we humans play next – Mars?
A recent CNN piece discussed the future of NASA, with a particular focus on the ‘spark’ that has been long since lost in the program. As it is argued, the early excitement in NASA came from human venturing to a new frontier for the first time – we were leaving this planet and looking to…
Read Morewhen the population goes boom, I’m going splash
Time.com offered an interesting read recently about what the world will look like in 2050. Sounds like a ways off, but its not when we consider what needs to happen to accommodate the boom that we’re talking about. Today, Planet Earth is home to just shy of 7 billion of us. That’s 7 billion mouths…
Read Moreswimming in sharky waters
The recent news that ultra swimmer Penny Palfrey’s team went so far as killing three sharks to enable her recent record is nothing short of appalling. Palfrey’s record to conduct a 67 mile ocean swim in the Caymans was nearly cut short as she was approached by several oceanic white tip sharks, so when it…
Read Moreinto a blue state of mind
The coffee shop – from the early morning kick in the ass, to enabling all-day virtual meeting rooms around the world – for better or worse, coffee shops are our new social drugstore. Strange topic to chat about here on ‘A New Life’ you might ask? Well, I can honestly say that I’ve gotten my best…
Read Morea tribute to summers at the Newport Shipyard
I just wrapped up a week long project in Newport, Rhode Island – just one of several locations that defines ‘Ocean State‘ exceedingly well. This week’s project was a continuation of demolition work I’ve been involved with there at the Newport Shipyard for several years, where we have been removing an old underwater railway system…
Read Moreif you can Google it…cut it
Erase party lines on this one folks, and take this one close to heart – that is Republican Tim Pawlenty’s proposed financial plan to eliminate federal programs and services that are readily available out there in the real world. Sound drastic? I call it some good old common sense, and it’s about time! I’ve seen…
Read Morethe homogenization of humanity
I’ve been reluctant to blog on this subject given the great sensitivities that arise from several perspectives, but I just can’t shake a long slew of thoughts from my mind. A couple of weeks ago, a story broke about a Canadian couple who refused to disclose the sex of their child, suggesting that the child…
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