-Saturday- TINO (5:37pm) Hey David. Im Tino, Lee's friend. Where are you? DAVID (5:52pm) In philadelphia. TINO (5:52pm) Sounds like a blast. Im making a treehouse for my nephew. Whats the biggest thing youve ever built? DAVID (6:55pm) Hmm. i made this windmill out of knex TINO (6:55pm) Ya gotta know how to make stuff. I like working with my hands generally. Steel. The ladies. Ha! Mostly steel. Im a rigger. DAVID (6:57pm) Whats that? TINO (6:57pm) Anyway... nice to meet you David. Enough txting for now, Ill touch base tomorrow. -Sunday- TINO (12:35pm) Hey I got this trick I can do. Just five questions and I can guess what your job is. Seriously, its this weird skill. Want to play? DAVID (12:46pm) Yeah sure TINO (12:46pm) Ok, first some background. Do you spend your day in a room where you can see any pictures of animals? DAVID (12:47pm) No. TINO (12:47pm) Of course you dont. How long do you have for lunch? DAVID (9:45pm) I dont take lunch i eat in front of the computer. TINO (9:45pm) Ok. Let me just get a few details straight. Do you deal with road traffic? DAVID (9:58pm) No TINO (9:58pm) You steer clear of traffic. Great. Are you proficient with Excel? DAVID (9:59pm) Not really but i get by TINO (9:59pm) Coulda guessed this first thing. Youre obviously a Energy Negotiator. Am I right? DAVID (10:13pm) I dont even know what that is. TINO (10:13pm) Really? Im never wrong. Maybe you should consider a career change. DAVID (10:14pm) Maybe... -Monday- TINO (12:16pm) Theres nothing prettier than the sun setting over a plastics factory. The right mix of chemicals can turn the sky the most bizarre shade of impossible. Ya know? (12:18pm) God damn. I love nature and all its wonderments. I can tell you where to find your perfect dream sunset. Whats your favorite color? DAVID (12:19pm) Green! TINO (12:19pm) green comes from polyphenol-formaldehyde. Aint it pretty shimmering over the water? So, we have a nice green sky stripe. Next. Red highlights or blue? DAVID (12:59pm) Red! TINO (12:59pm) AH! Terephthaloyl-chloride in the sky is like uh, a little rouge on the cheek of Gods sleeping girlfriend. One more tone. The final color in your dream sunset? DAVID (1:21pm) Pink TINO (1:21pm) pink is what we call a tertiary color. A mix. Polymethyl methacrylate will provide the perfect hue. checkin my notes and Ill point you towards your spot. (1:23pm) K. Some wine, lil' cheese and vulcanized nylon vapor and you got a dream picnic. Head to Landis Plastics of Solvay, NY in the summer. Pretty. DAVID (3:59pm) How far it that from brooklyn? -Tuesday- TINO (2:21pm) Guess where i am? DAVID (2:21pm) Where? TINO (2:21pm) I wish. Wish I was naked in an Arctic snowstorm at this point. You got anything that really freaks you out? DAVID (2:45pm) Being alone TINO (2:45pm) Read something somewhere about the place in the brain where fear comes from. Amygdala. Dont know why I remember that. (2:47pm) One more guess - where am I? DAVID (2:48pm) Cuba TINO (2:48pm) Im insulating a roof cavity. Only thing in the world makes my knees weak is a closed space, and here I am. All day. Hey you know the symptoms of a panic attack? DAVID (5:13pm) i just know when im having one TINO (5:13pm) Palpitations, pounding heart or accelerated heart rate, Sweating, trembling or shaking, Sensations of shortness of breath or smothering, feeling of choking, (5:14pm) nausea or abdominal distress, Feeling dizzy, light headed or faint, derealization(feelings of unreality) or depersonalization (being detached from oneself) (5:15pm) chest pain or discomfort, Fear of losing control or going crazy, Fear of dying, Paresthesias (numbness or tingling sensations), Chills or hot flushes. (5:16pm) You gotta help me out with something, k? Say yes, k? DAVID (5:17pm) Yes TINO (5:17pm) Do you have any rituals - stupid little things you do to keep yourself calm? DAVID (10:23pm) I drink TINO (10:23pm) If I gotta be in a tight space, I like to call Yellowstone National Park. Find out about road conditions. Its weird, ok, but it helps. (10:25pm) This girl there knows I do it now, tho. Knows my number. So how about you call and tell me what they say? Number is 307-344-2117. -Wednesday- TINO (1:06pm) Sorry for bugging. I need a favor. Something just occurred to me. Ok? Im 65 floors up. You got a second? DAVID (2:22pm) Sure TINO (2:22pm) Construction was delayed for the better part of a year. Beams covered in a fine metallic dust. Kinda mysterious but i have a hunch. (2:24pm) Eugene doesnt believe me. He says its old paint. You at a computer? Google 'meteor dust' for me and let me know what it says. Is it possible? DAVID (2:26pm) Maybe but says here that the dust is electromagnetic radiation TINO (2:26pm) Ive got an amazing job. Do me one more favor? DAVID (2:27pm) K TINO (2:27pm) Take a photo of something at work from outer space. Post it on flickr and put 'tino faussone' in the tags. Its all around us, David. Gotta run. -Thursday- TINO (1:42pm) hy Davi, I just lost my tmpr. I got frustrat and brok my phon. DAVID (1:54pm) Uh oh! TINO (1:54pm) Is this annoying or what? Sorry. I tll you what. Why ont you brak something too. Right now. Want to o it? DAVID (2:22pm) K TINO (2:22pm) Goo. Work is important, but so is unoing work. Ask any mchanic, vrything dis alon. Fin somthing long an chap like a pncil. Lt m know whn you hav on. -Friday- DAVID (1:52pm) Got it TINO (1:52pm) What are you up to David? DAVID (1:52pm) Working TINO (1:52pm) U wanna trade? The inspectors here. Puts numbers on things that dont need em. Like how you had 7 characters in that message. You txt normal, QWERTY or T9? DAVID (1:53pm) Qwerty TINO (1:53pm) So 7 max key presses, times 6 muscles of the thumb(s) involved, like the flexor pollicis brevis, and four nerves. Do you use a light pressure or heavy? DAVID (1:54pm) Heavy got to TINO (1:54pm) You just took 73 seconds to respond, so we're talking 1.37 neural signals/sec per second on your part. (1:56pm) If you were a factory youd get an efficiency rating of 0.03/averg. Notice how you do other basic tasks. Fast or slow? Dont text me now. Itll take too long :-) (4:56pm) Hey David. Think. If you slipped and a friend caught your safety rope, the only thing between you and a 70 story fall, who would you want it to be? -Saturday- TINO (4:56am) Ok, nevermind. Ill see ya, David. Off to a job in chongqing, china! ALWAYS keep moving. Most peoples problem is getting stuck.