Posted in Denver, Grapevine, Photos on Jun 19th, 2009 No Comments »
Here’s a poster someone at McMurdo made this winter. The only information you need to know is that 1) Mid-Winter’s Day is the most important local holiday on the ice, during which many greetings and photos are exchanged between bases, and 2) a few weeks ago a vial of cocaine was found in the Raytheon [...]
Posted in Grapevine on Mar 9th, 2009 No Comments »
This year NSF has decided that, being a government installation and all, there will be no more smoking anywhere indoors. For the last several years, there were three (legitimate) places to smoke: Southern Exposure, and the smoking lounges in 155 and in 209. Now those have been closed to smoking, and a couple of small [...]
Posted in Grapevine, Politics on Feb 22nd, 2009 3 Comments »
[G] at Icewishes blog [Raytheon Polar has taken disciplinary action against the blog's owner for this egg story, and the blog has been removed.] writes: Every year, for lord knows how many years, South Pole station, just before it closes for winter receives 8 months worth of fresh eggs. This year we received 44 cartons [...]
Posted in Grapevine, Historical, News on Jan 11th, 2009 No Comments »
From Big Blue Globe: Effective immediately, B-063 housing the Bowling Alley – Weight Gym -Ceramics Room – Boulder Room and Craft Room is closed to all personnel. Do not enter the building for any reason. A cross member structural beam has suffered a failure that has resulted in the floor sagging approximately six inches. All [...]
Posted in Grapevine on Dec 22nd, 2008 4 Comments »
Even at Antarctic stations bustling with grand achievements, scientists (and support staff) still find time for the occasional theft. The most common theft is of clothing, which is probably because Antarcticans daily wear more clothing than anyone in the world, apart from soldiers or clowns. With everyone donning and shedding layers like a bunch of [...]
Posted in Denver, Grapevine, Politics on Jul 16th, 2008 8 Comments »
Here’s a list of reasons from folks in ’06 [Word .doc] about why people don’t want to return to The Program (even if they do return to The Program). At that time The Program was concerned with high turnover, which is now not so important, as RPSC is at the end of their decade-long contract [...]
Posted in Grapevine, Historical, News, Politics on Jun 17th, 2008 No Comments »
[from Anonymous wintering at Pole:] The design was made up and drawn by two of our guys. We have 60 winterovers this year, and they were joking about how we should greet the first plane with one person holding an axe and 59 little crosses wedged in the snow. That grew into the pole marker [...]
Posted in Denver, Grapevine, News, Politics on Jun 13th, 2008 No Comments »
mid winter dinner – time off Date Submitted 06/10/2008 Suggestion “I heard the winter-overs are being told to go to work on the day of their Midwinter’s Dinner, and don’t get the day off. Why?” Assignment [RPSC Program Director] Response The Austral Winter Season mid-Winter dinner for this year is scheduled for 21 [...]
Posted in Denver, Grapevine, News, Politics on Jun 7th, 2008 No Comments »
not so quiet office space Date Submitted 05/29/2008 Suggestion How can we remind people to not yell over the dividers to talk to someone? Or to not scream a conversation across several cubicals? Or to turn down phone ringers from maximum? And not hold an impromptu meeting just outside someone else’s cubical? In general, I [...]
Posted in Denver, Grapevine, Media, Photos on Jun 3rd, 2008 4 Comments »
So, by the end of winter, there should still be around 16,487 for the summer crew. Update: This post, particularly, was enjoyed by international media: The Christchurch Press “RUBBERS TO THE RESCUE: McMurdo Station has taken delivery of 16,488 condoms. The shipment last month constitutes a year’s supply, ensuring the frisky can stay safe in [...]
