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Emily Prather's InsaneJournal:
| Monday, June 15th, 2009 | |
| 12:52 am | Public Announcement: Emily's Contest - And the Winner Is... Molly Green! Molly submitted several possible designs for a water clock, including one that incorporates an organ-like device that will sound notes to alert people to the passage of a time interval. We're in the process of gathering the tools and materials to construct it now. Assuming everything goes well, we will soon have a way of keeping track of the passage of time. Congratulations, Molly! To Molly: As soon as I find out what the security patrol schedule looks like, I'll get with you and set the schedule for my day as your personal servant. |
| Sunday, May 31st, 2009 | |
| 2:44 am | Public Announcement: Emily's Contest (It's about time!) Hey everybody! Emily here. If you’re like me, you’re getting pretty tired of never knowing what time it is. I know we’ve got some skilled and clever people on board, and we should be able to correct this. Therefore, I’m going to personally hold a contest to solve this problem. What you must do to enter: Find a way for us to keep track of time, at least between sunrise and sunset. Your contest entry will be valid if it meets the following two criteria: 1. It must employ some method to determine when a certain amount of time has passed. I don’t really care how long the amount of time is, as long as your solution can detect that that amount of time has passed with a reasonable amount of accuracy and consistency (an ideal time interval would probably be somewhere between a half hour and two hours). We know a sundial won’t work, but if you can rig up some kind of hourglass, water clock, or a some other contraption, more power to you! 2. It must notify everyone each time one of the time intervals passes. Maybe your solution can make the ship’s foghorn blow at the end of each interval, or maybe your solution can send out a message on the ship’s journal system. Bonus points if your solution’s notifications include an indication of how many time intervals have passed since sunrise (for example, if the foghorn blows four times after the fourth interval, like a cuckoo clock). Minus points if the notifications get annoying (i.e. if you make the foghorn blow once every two minutes, you will not win this contest). How will the winner be determined: By me. Demonstrate your solutions to me, and I will pick the one I think is best. I’m the sole judge and arbiter. What’s the prize? I don’t really have much in the way of money or nice items to give away, and that kind of stuff isn’t much use on the ship anyway. Therefore, I’m offering myself as the prize. For one day, from sunrise to sunset, I will be your personal servant. I will be yours to command (with certain reasonable restrictions; see below). What are the restrictions? 1. I won’t do anything that is illegal or unethical. 2. I won’t do anything that endangers the ship, myself, or anyone else. 3. No sexual acts. Sorry. 4. No nudity. If you want to order me to wear a certain outfit, fine, but it must at least cover what a bikini would cover. 5. Obviously I won’t do anything of which I am not capable. If you ask me to fly you back to the mainland, you will be disappointed. 6. I’ve volunteered for security duties, and that takes priority over this. You will have to schedule my service for some time when I’m not on duty, and my service will not give you access to any weapons or equipment I might carry as part of my security duties. Any such items will be secured during my service. 7. I am the final judge and arbiter as to what activities violate these restrictions and what activities do not. (OOC: see my separate post to oblivionooc for more information about entering this contest) |
| Saturday, May 30th, 2009 | |
| 12:42 am | Private Message to Chef Kevin Could you save me some of the seeds from the various fruits and vegetables you and your staff prepare? I'm going to try to raise some crops in the greenhouse. Thanks! Emily |
| Friday, May 29th, 2009 | |
| 6:20 pm | Public Announcement: Self Defense Class Hello everyone, Most of you probably know by now that some of us passengers and staff will be giving self-defense classes. I'm planning on holding one tomorrow morning. Approximately an hour or so after sunrise, I'll be heading up to the fitness center on the Arete Deck. They have an area there set aside for aerobics. Anyone who's interested feel free to join me there, and if it turns out there are more participants than the room will hold, we'll find someplace else. I'm going to start out with some simple tips for keeping yourself safe, many of which are just common sense, but then we'll progress into some tricks and moves you can use if attacked. The main emphasis will be on escaping your attacker and getting to safety. If you're wanting to learn how to beat people up, this is not the class for you. Have a good, safe night, everyone! Emily Prather |
| Monday, May 11th, 2009 | |
| 10:50 am | Private Message to Father Peter, Alex, Cath, Leto, Kevin, and Sean (said in person to Father Peter) Hello everybody, So my father was telling me I was kind of rudely taking over the meeting this morning, and not giving everyone a chance to make their views known. Looking back on it, I guess he's right; he usual is. Anyway, I just want to apologize. I wasn't being fair to the rest of you. I'm sorry about that, and I'll try to do better in the future. |
| Friday, April 24th, 2009 | |
| 12:19 am | Private message to Sean Have you checked with the security folks on the status of their guns? Do you think they are secure enough? |
| Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 | |
| 9:49 pm | all thumbs... excuse capitalization, typing with one thumb, can't use shift key and cap lock too much trouble. considering lawsuit, but no real negligence as far as i can tell; any waves big enough to rock a ship this size like that, there's not much anyone could do. maybe more furniture should have been bolted down. i'll check on industry safety standards later. btw, a couple of passengers helped me when i was knocked out, sorry i don't know your names, but you have my thanks. to the man who covered me with his jacket; i've had it cleaned, and you can contact me anytime to get it back. i really appreciate your help. |