A few random thoughts...
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Outfitting two small broadcast studios at the top of the forward funnel (which has, without a doubt, the best view on the entire ship) as well as a few racks of gear in the primary media control room located deep within the bowels of the ship. Here's the location of the studios:
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Yes, the windows look directly down onto the pool deck. And no, you wouldn't want to. Right now it's still swarming with German shipyard workers. (The ship is still under construction- only the hull, the exterior, and a few of the more critical spaces like the bridge and engine room are actually 100% finished.)
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Interesting day.
Most of the ship's crew showed up today for embarkation, cabin assignment, and orientation. I'm talking about all of the "hotel staff" and "entertainment" positions- the cooks, the cleaners, the porters, the folks who will be wearing mickey mouse costumes, etc. Several hundred in all, from all across the globe, each with one large suitcase and a dazed and confused expression.
We're still at the shipyard, mind you, and the ship is still very much under construction. So the place is abuzz with forklifts, cranes, trucks, huge machinery, steelworkers, torches, cargo containers flying around overhead... it's probably one of the more dangerous work environments on earth, right after coal mining, crab fishing, and forward infantry.
So here are all of these people, mostly in their teens and twenties, who speak neither German nor English, standing around the dock in the freezing rain looking very uncomfortable in their reflective jackets and hard-hats, looking utterly bewildered and probably thinking "what the hell have I gotten myself into?
I think I have a pretty good idea what it must have been like to be at Ellis Island in 1910.
Most of the ship's crew showed up today for embarkation, cabin assignment, and orientation. I'm talking about all of the "hotel staff" and "entertainment" positions- the cooks, the cleaners, the porters, the folks who will be wearing mickey mouse costumes, etc. Several hundred in all, from all across the globe, each with one large suitcase and a dazed and confused expression.
We're still at the shipyard, mind you, and the ship is still very much under construction. So the place is abuzz with forklifts, cranes, trucks, huge machinery, steelworkers, torches, cargo containers flying around overhead... it's probably one of the more dangerous work environments on earth, right after coal mining, crab fishing, and forward infantry.
So here are all of these people, mostly in their teens and twenties, who speak neither German nor English, standing around the dock in the freezing rain looking very uncomfortable in their reflective jackets and hard-hats, looking utterly bewildered and probably thinking "what the hell have I gotten myself into?
I think I have a pretty good idea what it must have been like to be at Ellis Island in 1910.
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Today's funny sighting at the shipyard:
Honestly, I have absolutely no clue what these ladies were here for. They weren't part of a tour group, they were in the working section of the yard.
Honestly, I have absolutely no clue what these ladies were here for. They weren't part of a tour group, they were in the working section of the yard.
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