Cynematik

My brother is currently serving in Kuwait. During this tour of duty, we actually get a lot of email from him. It’s been nice to be able to know what he’s doing and how things are going. When he served in Desert Storm, they told us the soldiers would be able to get email. I had a COMPUSERVE account at that time. I was one of the early adopters of internet technology. I sent daily emails to my brother but never heard a thing from him. They told us to keep writing because they were getting the emails. It was several months before I found out that my emails were going nowhere. Nowhere. That huge pile of words—words of reassurance, of connection, of humor—pouring into some dead end digital dumping ground in the great military industrial complex.

That’s almost as funny as these two signs. That’s my brother, Kevin, on the right. (As you can see, none of us Greenings are very tall. Kevin’s twin sister, Kim, is only about 4′10″. I actually feel tall around my youngest sister!) Anyway, according to his email, the TCNs that create their signs for them do not know how to read English. So, they need to be especially careful about proofreading the signage when it is returned. Obviously, the folks working on these signs got a little confused. So, be careful about smoking that cell phone when you’re at Camp Virginia in Kuwait.