The classic first program on any platform is to output the string “Hello World”. Hang on, string? Yes, it’s a string of characters: H-e-l-l-o-space-W-o-r-l-d. Technically, it’s an array but you don’t need to know about that now.
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Cruzin’ Day IV: Poison & Magic
This post is part of a series. You can go back to the first one at Cruzin’ then Cruzin’: Day 2. There’s our sojourn in Mexico and this is part four.
As I write there are four liners in port and we are getting ready to leave. It’s just passed five in the afternoon and the captains are playing silly-buggers with the ships’ horns. We toot twice. The other ship toots back three times. We toot back five. Eventually it gets to Shave-and-a-Haircut. Captain Kate is a playful beast.
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What’s surprising about this trip is that, even though it’s open-bar, I’m not hungover and am waking for the sunrise each day. I never do this at home.
That over there, that’s the mainland, Met-hi-co. But we’re not going there, we are heading for a little place called Cozmel, an island apparently constructed and operated by cruise-lines.
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Day two and we are at sea, off the cost of Mexico. Sachie and I wake before dawn, watch a Caribbean sunrise before the worst of the heat and humidity sets in.
I’m still foggy, vulnerable, when there’s a knock on the door. Could it be? Was this it? We lock eyes and I see my own hopes and fears written on Sachie’s face. Even far from sight of land, they know we are here, they know our cabin. They have come.
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Dan and Sachie have been Cruising. No, it’s not like in the Al Pacino film from 1980, quite the opposite. While Al descended into a sleazy world of leather and gay sex, Sachie and I ascended to the heights of luxury and first-class travel. That is, Sachie scored a fam trip on a boat.
Not just any boat, it’s classy Celebrity Cruises Celebrity Beyond and apparently it’s quite a score. Not your usual family-friendly booze-and-buffet cruise that has you packed into tiny airless staterooms but something closer to the golden age of sea travel, 1977’s The Love Boat.
But first! A long and arduous flight across the Pacific.
