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The bloggers who embarked on the West Coast carrier are back with their photos and descriptions. Lex has a squid’s viewpoint; Guy Kawasaki has the link roundup and points for longest post.

Not one photo, not one word, did I see of the thousand or so people who live way below the flight deck and make the ship go. Nukes don’t get the love. This is a good lesson that what you see reported ain’t what things are in their entirety–the geekier bloggers on this embark would have loved hanging out with the nukes, even though their work spaces are restricted from the clutches of the public affairs bubbas. If you’re a blogger on that embark, and you feel a twinge over missing a fifth or more of the people on that ship in your reports, spare a thought for a reporter in a less free country with a tour of the ‘baby milk factories’.

Quote of the embark, if you don’t count Neptunus Lex looking in a photo like he saw Titanic too many times:

Got back from my Navy trip yesterday and I’m still exhausted and trying to sober up

Heh. Kiddo, you should try a couple decades of this stuff. Although I like the card but it might be problematic when your social environment for six months is pretty much just the people on the boat.