by sumac | Dec 11, 2015 | Personal Apologies
Sumac’s still in Antarctica, where people are awfully damned nice. They say sorry a lot, but not because they’ve done anything worth mentioning. Then when they secretly zip-tie a person’s leg to a chair leg, they just laugh. Sumac used the satellite...
by sumac | Dec 4, 2015 | Corporate Apologies
November 28th, 1979, an Air New Zealand sightseeing flight to Antarctica smashed into Mount Erebus, instantly killing everyone aboard. It was the first air disaster in New Zealand’s history and is still the worst. The sightseeing flights began in 1977. They were...
by sumac | Nov 17, 2015 | Historical Apologies
SorryWatch hopes it will not give reason to apologize because one of its members (Sumac) is off to Antarctica for several months, under the auspices of the NSF and the US Antarctic Program. But SorryWatch is not worried yet. At Palmer Station, Sumac will have email...
by sumac | Oct 14, 2015 | Personal Apologies
Middle of the night, there you are in an Antarctic gale, thirty feet above the deck of your sailboat, mast swinging wildly, trying to attach a new halyard because the previous one snapped off. Probably because the only other person on the sailboat, who came on as crew...