-Thursday- DUNCAN (10:39am) HELLO TINO (10:39am) Who is this. ? DUNCAN (11:43am) This is Duncan. I want to hear about your work. TINO (11:43am) Hey Duncan. Im Tino. Where are you? DUNCAN (11:46am) Hi Tino, Im in Georgetown, TX. TINO (11:46am) Sounds like a blast. Im making a treehouse for my nephew. Whats the biggest thing youve ever built? DUNCAN (11:49am) I once designed and built a set for "the miracle worker. TINO (11:49am) Ya gotta know how to make stuff. I like working with my hands generally. Steel. The ladies. Ha! Mostly steel. Im a rigger. (11:54am) Anyway... nice to meet you Duncan. Enough txting for now, Ill touch base tomorrow. -Friday- TINO (2:21pm) On a scale of one to ten, ten being very and one being not at all, how firm is your handshake? DUNCAN (3:33pm) About 7. You? TINO (3:33pm) Mmm hmm. Ill put down a 6. See, my contract is almost up. May have to find something else. Gotta think of interview questions they might ask. (3:34pm) Such as... are you what they call a 'team player'? DUNCAN (3:35pm) Or 'what is your best quality?' TINO (3:35pm) Well save feedback until the end. Would you put honesty before appearance, appearance after enthusiasm, or enthusiasm next to sense of humor? DUNCAN (3:41pm) Yes, no, and yes respectively. TINO (3:41pm) Ok. On a scale of one to one hundred, whats the value of your personal brand? DUNCAN (3:45pm) What do you mean? TINO (3:45pm) Buck up. Youre just undervalued. Last question. What do you put in the toaster? DUNCAN (3:49pm) Bread! TINO (3:49pm) Looks like youre a first-rate hire. You got the job! First task is to google 'oil rig jobs.' Let me know when youre there. DUNCAN (3:54pm) Im there. TINO (3:54pm) This is the kind of job description I like: Works independently under general supervision, requiring normal guidance and review. (3:55pm) Typically does not have budgetary responsibility. Provides some technical guidance and work direction to field staff. Handles special projects, as assigned. (3:56pm) Great. Now go get me something like that. Bye for now! -Saturday- TINO (1:06pm) Sorry for bugging. I need a favor. Something just occurred to me. Ok? Im 65 floors up. You got a second? DUNCAN (1:08pm) Not right now, sorry, TINO (1:08pm) Construction was delayed for the better part of a year. Beams covered in a fine metallic dust. Kinda mysterious but i have a hunch. (1:10pm) 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? (1:25pm) Find anything? DUNCAN (1:27pm) Meteor dust may affect the weather. TINO (1:27pm) Ive got an amazing job. Do me one more favor? DUNCAN (1:27pm) Sure! TINO (1:27pm) 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, Duncan. Gotta run. -Sunday- TINO (12:16pm) Hey Duncan whats up. I cant get out of bed this morning; PAIN. That rigging job in india is catching up to me with a vengeance. (12:18pm) Built a massive building for tiny parts. Semi-conductor facility. Theres a certain satisfaction in that. What do you do for work anyway? -Monday- 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? -Thursday- TINO (2:54pm) What are you up to Duncan? -Friday- 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? DUNCAN (1:27pm) Sure, go ahead. TINO (1:27pm) Ok, first some background. Do you deal with road traffic? DUNCAN (1:27pm) No TINO (1:27pm) You steer clear of traffic. Great. Do you have to wear a uniform? DUNCAN (1:28pm) No TINO (1:28pm) Ok, no uniform. A picture is definitely starting to form here. Do you work in a group with two or more people you went to high school with? DUNCAN (1:29pm) No TINO (1:29pm) No, why would you? Are you proficient with Excel? DUNCAN (1:30pm) Somewhat. TINO (1:30pm) Coulda guessed this first thing. Youre obviously a Knowledge Transfer Projects Development Manager. Am I right? DUNCAN (1:34pm) I dont even know what that is! TINO (1:34pm) Really? Im never wrong. Maybe you should consider a career change. -Saturday- TINO (1:42pm) Do you ever think about all the shit you use everday that has moving parts? DUNCAN (1:44pm) Yes, actually. Youd think wed be past that by now. TINO (1:44pm) Just took apart a drill. This one was edged with rotating electric grinders and planers. Like a stainless steel pinata when I popped it. Where are you? DUNCAN (1:45pm) Georgetown, like i said. Why? TINO (1:45pm) Perfect. Be still and open your ears. Listen to the sounds of georgetown said. Everything not human. Thats all parts moving. Ssshhhhhh... (1:48pm) Im hearing a computer, kind of like the air from a balloon with the nascar sound of the dvd player. What have you got? DUNCAN (1:50pm) A computer, Trucks going by, my stomach rumbling... TINO (1:50pm) That is the sound of thousands of explosions propelling someone to the dentist. We humans will go to great lengths for dental hygiene right? What else? DUNCAN (2:52pm) I hear someone taking a shower. TINO (2:52pm) Nice, but that's nature-made. Theres got to be some mechanical stuff happening there. What else? DUNCAN (2:53pm) Air conditioning... TINO (2:53pm) Could you mistake the sound for a wild animal? DUNCAN (2:54pm) Not really. TINO (2:54pm) Ok, one more. What do you hear? DUNCAN (2:57pm) The hum of speakers. TINO (2:57pm) ...an orchestra w instruments that play themselves. Yeah my ma would apologize to plants when she cut them for the table. I do that to overcrowded subway cars. DUNCAN (2:58pm) Lol! -Sunday- TINO (2:54pm) 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? (2:56pm) God damn. I love nature and all its wonderments. I can tell you where to find your perfect dream sunset. Whats your favorite color? DUNCAN (4:45pm) What a bad question to ask an artist. Xray. TINO (4:45pm) bad question ask artist xray comes from polyphenol-formaldehyde. Aint it pretty shimmering over the water? So, we have a nice bad question ask artist xray sky s DUNCAN (4:46pm) Gross! TINO (4:46pm) Alright picasso, I said red highlights or blue, we're working with dangerous chemicals here. DUNCAN (4:47pm) Blue. TINO (4:47pm) Your use of sodium polyaspartate evokes Lorrain, fancypants. As the sun peeks o'er the cooling pools we need one more tone. The final color in yer dream sunset? DUNCAN (4:48pm) Green? TINO (4:48pm) green 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. (4:50pm) K. Some wine, lil' cheese and vulcanized nylon vapor and you got a dream picnic. Head to Wheatons Plastics, Hamilton Township, NJ, in the spring. Pretty. (7:50pm) Hey Duncan. 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? -Monday- TINO (7:50am) Ok, nevermind. Ill see ya, Duncan. Off to a job in chongqing, china! ALWAYS keep moving. Most peoples problem is getting stuck.