BTW, one other interesting experience I had with regard to ships and fiber optics.
At one point in my career, I had a “top secret” clearance from the government, as I was involved in the installation of special communication links. One of those links was a secret cable between Israel and the island of Cyprus.
For this trip I was involved in splicing the fibers from the land cable on Cyprus to the undersea cable. The way you do this is to “float” the undersea cable onto a beach landing, and then splice it in an open vault. The optical fibers are the size of human hair, and splicing them is akin to surgery – it requires alot of concentration and steady hands.
Well, the project leaders didn’t tell me that the beach landing was smack in the middle of a NUDE beach resort, full of GORGEOUS North European women. So there I was, coming ashore in my khakis in the middle of this beach resort. I started to splice the fibers, and a group of young, nubile, nude women gather round me to see what I’m doing. Man, was it tough to splice those fibers – my eyes were drifting to other “fibers”, if you know what I mean.
I later learned that they decided to route this secret cable through this beach resort because they figured that nobody would care about it. They were right.
“biff and dibs singing and dancing and saying to someone, omig-d- these men are in finance. then 6years got out there and someone said to me, omig-d- that man teaches children.”
Why the economy collapsed and why the public education system sucks…
“CH, did I tell BH his name was Chad?”
Si, at some point quite late in the evening, after we had returned from seeing Hall & Oates, you decided that his name was Chad!!
I think this is racial profiling, and we object!! ; )
Benson, that is probably one and only time I would ask you to switch jobs with me :o). Awesome story.
Make that “Hopefully OUR finance and teaching abilities…”
The fuzziness from the drinks is throwing off the grammar. Yeah, that’s it.
Make that “Hopefully OUR finance and teaching abilities…”
The fuzziness from the drinks is throwing off the grammar. Yeah, that’s it.
benson: hilarious
DIBS, never saw Bishonon, but of course the classic gay Chinese erotic films are Happy Together and Stanley Tong’s Lan Yu.
And anything with (sigh) Leslie Cheung Kwok Wing.
BTW, one other interesting experience I had with regard to ships and fiber optics.
At one point in my career, I had a “top secret” clearance from the government, as I was involved in the installation of special communication links. One of those links was a secret cable between Israel and the island of Cyprus.
For this trip I was involved in splicing the fibers from the land cable on Cyprus to the undersea cable. The way you do this is to “float” the undersea cable onto a beach landing, and then splice it in an open vault. The optical fibers are the size of human hair, and splicing them is akin to surgery – it requires alot of concentration and steady hands.
Well, the project leaders didn’t tell me that the beach landing was smack in the middle of a NUDE beach resort, full of GORGEOUS North European women. So there I was, coming ashore in my khakis in the middle of this beach resort. I started to splice the fibers, and a group of young, nubile, nude women gather round me to see what I’m doing. Man, was it tough to splice those fibers – my eyes were drifting to other “fibers”, if you know what I mean.
I later learned that they decided to route this secret cable through this beach resort because they figured that nobody would care about it. They were right.
“Why the economy collapsed and why the public education system sucks…”
Hopefully are finance and teaching abilities are much better than our singing skills.
“biff and dibs singing and dancing and saying to someone, omig-d- these men are in finance. then 6years got out there and someone said to me, omig-d- that man teaches children.”
Why the economy collapsed and why the public education system sucks…