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Hi guys,

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As for the World of Today:  I’m going to relaunch this as a strictly video website once I finish moving to NEW YORK CITY and start making videos again.  So, don’t delete this from your bookmarks yet!

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Thank you,

Adrian Chen

White-nose Syndrome: The cause of no caving

Hello, World of Today Speleological Club.  I regret to inform you that our 8th annual Cave-a-Thon is going to have to be postponed AGAIN due to YET ANOTHER OUTBREAK of white-nose syndrome in thousands of bats.  I know, I know–I shouldn’t have promised at our last chapter meeting that, “Never again will our expedition be stymied by a deadly outbreak of white-nose syndrome, named for the distinctive pattern of sugary fungus that develops around the nose of bats.”  Exactly the opposite of this has happened:  We have been stymied.  Completely stymied!  According to they NYT:

Some estimates of deaths are as high as 500,000 bats. Researchers worry about a mass die-off of bats, which help control the populations of insects that can damage wheat, apples and dozens of other crops.

Authorities have closed off the caves to protect the bats.  So, put away your pickaxes, headlamps, dynamite, troll repellent, cave food, knee pads and all your other caving gear.  We will have our usual meeting at the pub this week, where we all get black-out drunk, curse white-nose syndrome, and say a prayer for our brothers-in-caves: the bats.

So the Oregon Public Broadcasting show Livewire just posted a podcast of their show featuring an essay I wrote about a weird roadtrip I took a couple years ago.  Please click here to listen ( My essay is at 16:45):

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Good luck hearing me above the audience’s delighted chortling!

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Wow, so, NANA Services is hiring in for jobs in Antarctica starting in October and ending in February 2010.  (Antarctica’s “summer”.)  Positions include:

• Chef/Sous Chef
• Food & Beverage Staff
• Housekeeping/Janitorial
• Recreation Staff
• Retail

SHOULD I APPLY???

I THINK I’M GOING TO?!?!?

Made a message to my future self last night in my bedroom.  I feel like I wasn’t able to fit everything I wanted:

Message to My Future Self: Sustenance from Adrian Chen on Vimeo.

Our week-long contract has run out.  Here, for your viewing pleasure, is the new iReport video:

iReportz: Cutting back from Adrian Chen on Vimeo.

Alright!  And it only took two months:

The rest of the video is very funny too…