SSN 680 Plan of the Day
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Some of you are on the dink list, and you know what that means. No libs tonight!
If you fall dink in maintaining your email address current, I find out when I run a periodic newsletter, and guess what, it's that time again.
I'm reminding you, in the sweetest tone of voice possible, to keep your user profile up-to-date, you jack-wagons!. It is especially important to update your email when you change service providers or jobs. Your email address lets us keep you informed with the Familygram newsletter, and without a current email, you can't access the site if you forget your password, so it has to be accurate. But you are the only one that can keep it current.
When you change your email, log in and update your profile. You can also add a biography, military history, and a photo of you then and now, so you can make it worth your time...
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How many time have you seen an image on the site that you really like and want to add to your own collection? Have you ever thought that you'd like to keep some certain images, just in case, for example, I was to give up my passion for ssn-680.org, and the site would be lost forever. (Like that would ever happen!)
Well, fret no more! We have added a feature to make it easy for you to download your favorite images found around the site outside the Crew Gallery. (The Crew Gallery has its own download links for images posted by your shipmates.)
While there are some exceptions as we move toward the new format for the site, almost every page with images has a gallery accessed by clicking on the thumbnails on the page so you can see large or full-sized high resolution versions of the photos on the page...
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The site continues to grow. Your photographs, your sea stories, and anything else you send my way makes it into this museum of living history we call ssn-680.org! We have almost 1000 articles, probably twice that many photographs or more, not counting everything else, and each item of interest that gets added makes it just that much harder to find what you are looking for. To that end, I've been working on indexing the site and though I've barely scratched the surface, there is enough to warrant taking the site index active so you can see how it works and what it does.
The index is located in the right hand column and is called, surprisingly enough, the SSN-680 Site Index. Thought that one up all by myself, I did! Click on the "Select a tag" button and you get a pop-up menu that gives you hundreds of key word choices...
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One of the more popular features from the old Bates site, the new 1MC has been successfully installed and tested! Sporting a new look and new functionality, this site-wide communication system offers a means to connect in real-time with other shipmates visiting the site. If you are familiar with Facebook's real-time messaging service, you'll feel right at home on the 1MC. If not then you may need a little hands-on training, since it is somewhat more advanced than the old version.
Two components replace the single small pane that used to exist in the right-hand column. Now, you'll find a COMMS tab in the upper left corner, and a user-to-user tab in the lower right corner. These tabs will float with changes in screen size, so if they are obscuring the page you are trying to read, merely resize your browser window larger...
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My younger brother, eagle-eyed denizen of northwest air traffic control, Kawasaki Concours ninja, and dapper master of the Onassis, True Love, and Eldredge knots for neckties, alerted me to this image on Google Earth this morning. While he described it as an 'itty-bitty' submarine, a quick check of the 'net suggested that it was in fact the NR-1, which, having briefly reflected on the situation actually does qualify as 'itty-bitty'.
Decommissioned back in 2008, defueled in Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, ME, and sent to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (PSNS) to be scrapped, this Google Earth photo taken in March of 2013 is probably the NR-1 in black-face, presumably having exhausted her supply of day-glo orange as a wardrobe fashion statement, for those of you that knew her in her active years.
The Wikipedia article suggests that as of this date the legendary NR-1 is pieces parts...
