Salty Souls
on sailors, cooks, and more
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Online Social Networking and the Reverse Warp Drive Through Spacetime
Posted on November 15th, 2009 CommentsSomeone once said that life is like a box of chocolate. I think that analogy was as sweet as it is flat. Of course you don’t know what you’re going to get, but life must be larger than that. I picture it more like how the big bang created the universe – a forever expanding spacetime trip. Forever? Maybe not entirely. I’m noticing that another fast-expanding phenomenon is starting to have a profound impact on my spacetime travels. I’m talking about online social networking, which is pulling me in reverse warp drive, forcing my spacetime continuum to collapse again.
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Pirates, of the Caribbean and elsewhere
Posted on April 12th, 2009 CommentsI think we have a pretty promising new guy running the show right now, but if Walt Disney would ever return from his death to be President, this small world would be so full of peace that even pirates would be cool. Like Johnny Depp. That’s clearly not the case though. Pirates, of the Caribbean and elsewhere, are not like Jack Sparrow. They are nasty evil-doers, to use another Presidential analogy.
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Sir Ouwersloot was an old school salty soul
Posted on March 27th, 2009 CommentsI vividly recall the Summers I spent as a kid at Sailing Institute Holland in Andel, a small village at the borders of a closed off stretch of the Maas river, in the middle of the Netherlands. Right there my passion for sailing got ignited, not to be extinguished ever since.
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Time is very relative on the open waters
Posted on March 13th, 2009 CommentsWith the return of Daylight Saving Time last Sunday, my mind went wandering off to the meaning of time on the open waters. Time is very relative out there.
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Victualing is grocery shopping of a different kind
Posted on March 8th, 2009 CommentsWhen it comes to groceries, I’m not really a planner. Or volume buyer. I never had a Costco or Sam’s Club membership, and I intend to keep it that way. I don’t need 48 rolls of kitchen towel, nor do I have the space to store them. I’m not interested in saving a couple of bucks on a dozen steak value pack, even if I had the appetite or the freezer to handle them. I’d rather walk down to the local store and get my supplies for the day (or two). There’s one big exception though. And that is victualing for a prolonged stay at sea. Victualing? Who uses that term? Sailors do.
Michiel de Boer
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