Chris Lee's blog

Daybreak, another one announced by your alarm. Thinking, God I hate that sound, staying in bed. It goes off a second time; you doze off again, dreading its sound to come, inevitable, after the final ten-minute snooze expires. You drift back into a deep slumber. Again, it goes off. After the third and final chirping melody, you stumble out from under, leaving the warmth of your sheets.

The Ideal Machine has an efficiency of 100%, which in the mechanical world doesn’t exist.  It doesn’t exist in the psychological world of the human mind either, nor does it exist in relationships.  Efficiency is measured as a ratio of the measured performance to the performance of an Ideal Machine:

“The Worlds Finest Dive School”  Those were the first words I read walking through the main entrance.  

A life sized manikin stood on the quarterdeck, looking like an amphibious Darth Vader commanding the bridge of an imperial ship; that sign proudly hung around its neck.  

I was young and wild when I embarked on the journey of a lifetime.  My fellow warriors and I were destined for a legendary place.  

Just off the coast of French Guiana sits Devil’s Island and the remains of one of the worst prison colonies in history.  Prisoners who called this place home were trapped, surrounded by water and the menacing South American jungle that lay beyond.