House of Kipple

I never was too keen on this blog format and it has been retired in favor of Wordpress.  All updates going forward can be found at the House of Kipple 2.0 here: https://kipplehouse.wordpress.com Here is a photo of us on Ivan the Terrabus, fresh off the plane and headed In. See you on the other site.  Thanks for following.

I, Keith Kipple, and my good friend Campari and Soda, send you greetings from the United Airlines Club Lounge though the veil of ganja haze or is-it-smog? Los Angeles. Today is October 5th, 2019. The time is approximately I'm tired. I've just made the run from Columbia through Chicago O'Hare and into the vast Godless wasteland of librul California here at LAX. The trip thus far has been peachy. I ran into an old friend in Columbia on the way to Chicago, or "Big Windy McWind-o" as the locals call it, and he turned me on to a very serviceable Cuban sandwich at some restaurant I forgot the name of. Soon, in about 2 more of these Amaro drinks, I'll shuffle onto a Boeing 777-300ER and take my seat in row 56 for the next 13 hours on the flight to Auckland. 56k will also probably be the approximate speed of my internet connection once I arrive on the Ice. Thanks for reminding me, universe. When I arrive in Auckland I have to collect my wit...

[ 100 word summary: I’m leaving on October 5th to work a contract IT technician job in Antarctica at McMurdo Station. The job has some peculiar challenges and I've been trying to get it for a long time. I am pleased. The contract will complete at the end of February and I should be back Stateside in April. I won’t have social media or calling capability, but I will have a blog; you should look at it. You will miss me but will get over it quickly. My contact information is at the end of this post. Thanks for everything and bye for now! ] Recently I was disassembling a rickety bookshelf (not pictured) in my shabby living room. On a bottom shelf, next to a stack of decade-old Wired magazines (‘News Corp. & the Future of MYSPACE’) and Beer Advocate monthlies (‘Wheatwine: Meet Barleywine’s Seductive Cousin’) I found a misplaced 3 ring binder. On the outside sleeve was a full color printout of Antarctica and on the inside was a multipage Raytheon job posting for the IT Technician p...

Ahh, McMurdo Station.  I did not take this picture.  The building I'll be working in, the Albert P. Crary Science and Engineering Center, is the weird 3-in-1 grey building center left.  This is a short test post of fooling about with pictures.  At present, I am still sitting at my desk at home.  It is 93 degrees outside.  I cannot wait to leave.

From UrbanDictionary : Kipple is a word coined by the remarkable science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. It refers to the sinister type of rubbish which simply builds up without any human intervention. Eventually, one day, the entire world will have moved to a state of kipplization. From Phil Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" JR - Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers of yesterday's homeopape. When nobody's around, kipple reproduces itself. For instance, if you go to bed leaving any kipple around your apartment, when you wake up the next morning there's twice as much of it. It always gets more and more. Pris- I see. JR - There's the First Law of Kipple, "Kipple drives out nonkipple." Like Gresham's law about bad money. And in these apartments there's been nobody there to fight the kipple. Pris - So it has taken over completely. Now I understand. ...