Futurama - Courier Work in the Galaxy
Futurama depicts the story of Fry, a former pizza delivery boy, who is cryogenically frozen at the start of the year 2000 and thawed out in 2999. Being a pizza delivery boy, Fry already has some experience in carrying out courier work and this equips him for his next job as a cargo delivery boy for Planet Express, a company owned by his only living relative, Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth.
Futurama - Courier Work in the Galaxy
Minecraft: Planet Express Ship Tour
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Minecraft: Planet Express Ship Tour
This is the third of four buildings we shall be touring throughout this mini-series. The videos will be based around us touring the main homes of four well known animated shows. Planet Express ship blueprints: web.archive.org Download link: www.minecraftforum.net Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com -------------------------- The intro music is made by a band called Oversky, go check them out: www.facebook.com
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The Perils of Forecasting for Yourself
We students and practitioners of the art of astrology are never worse at making predictions than when we are predicting for ourselves and those we love. We may be spot-on for others, especially those in whom we have little investment, but when it comes to guessing what lies ahead in our own lives, all too often we can be off the mark - from a little to a lot. We can pump ourselves up from viewing upcoming transits through rose-colored glasses - or we can seriously freak ourselves out by anticipating the worst possible expressions of the planets in question.
The Perils of Forecasting for Yourself
Minecraft: Planet Express Ship Tour
Video Clips. Duration : 14.85 Mins.
Minecraft: Planet Express Ship Tour
This is the third of four buildings we shall be touring throughout this mini-series. The videos will be based around us touring the main homes of four well known animated shows. Planet Express ship blueprints: web.archive.org Download link: www.minecraftforum.net Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com -------------------------- The intro music is made by a band called Oversky, go check them out: www.facebook.com
Minecraft: Planet Express Ship Tour
Minecraft: Planet Express Ship Tour
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This is the third of four buildings we shall be touring throughout this mini-series. The videos will be based around us touring the main homes of four well known animated shows. Planet Express ship blueprints: web.archive.org Download link: www.minecraftforum.net Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com -------------------------- The intro music is made by a band called Oversky, go check them out: www.facebook.com
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Let me give you a few examples of predictions that misfired when people made forecasts based on their own charts. In each case, the transiting planet did express itself according to astrological principles, and the ultimate outcome wasn't always so far from what was predicted. However, rather than speeding down the express lane on the highway, these auto-forecasters wound up on a detour down a country lane, getting snagged on bramble bushes on either side of the path. Astrology does work; it just doesn't always work quite the way we think it will.
PLANET EXPRESS
The Perils of Forecasting for Yourself
One fan of astrology who was a professional writer for various mainstream publications was excited when he read that Jupiter was entering Gemini. He had a stellium in that sign, and he was sure that this would be his lucky year. He was going to write prolifically and land a fabulous new shark of an agent and some big-bucks writing contracts. He was so certain that his book - in production and soon to be released - was going to be a bestseller that he took out a second mortgage on his house and added on a posh new home office.
The Perils of Forecasting for Yourself
What actually happened? He hardly wrote at all in the year that followed. He was stricken with a prolonged and terrible bout of his dreaded enemy- boredom - so profound that none of the writing projects he had lined up appealed to him in the least. He read trashy novels all year and deluged his friends with e-mails whining about his writer's block. As the monotony dragged onandonandon, he decided to research one of his personal interests, just to pass the time. In the end, he started a newspaper column on that subject. It was fairly successful and broadened his income base.
So, yes, there was growth and expansion, but not nearly of the caliber that pop astrology had led him to expect from transiting Jupiter. Since then, as he's followed the daily positions of the planets in his astrological calendar, he has come to anticipate that any transit through Gemini - even the monthly Moon and certainly Mercury's yearly path through that sign - will begin, for him, with an acute attack of boredom. It may not produce new writing inspiration in the end, but the tedium that he hates so much is the spur to seeking out new information.
A woman who hadn't been a professional astrologer very long was still working weekends to make ends meet. Pluto was strong in her birth chart, and she became worried when she noticed that transiting Pluto was squaring her Sun at the same time that transiting Uranus, the ruler of her 8th house, was squaring natal Pluto. She concluded that she was going to die. Though she didn't have any health problems that she knew of, she did live in a dangerous city and came home late at night from her weekend job.
So convinced was she that the end was near, she made out a will, which she placed in a prominent position on top of her desk every time she left the house. She was also ultra-careful coming home from work, taking a taxi if she felt at all unsafe. Was she right to worry? Who can say? Maybe she did stave off an assault by being extra cautious. How did the Pluto/8th-house transit manifest, then? She got involved with a Scorpio man who was almost the death of her - but that's a whole other story, and not mine to tell.
Okay, it's not fair to pick on the fans and the neophyte professionals, so now I'll tell one on myself. My Moon is in the 9th house, the house of publishing, and transiting Pluto was going to make a trine first to my Moon, then to my Midheaven ruler, and then to my Midheaven itself. Was I ever psyched! Finally, I said, I'm going to be able to write something for the mainstream that will sell big. Hey, it was Pluto, so maybe my astrological mysteries would finally catch the eye of a publisher. Watch out, Mystery Book Club, here I come!
The first thing that happened was that, within the space of six months, both of my New Age publishers died; each had published several of my books. One publisher died a particularly Plutonian death - no one knows to this day whether he committed suicide or was murdered. The other publisher, my dear friend and colleague Betty Lundsted, I mourned deeply. Not only did I miss her personally, but I also missed her expert editing and her capacity to advocate for her writers in the foreign translation process. I felt quite lost without her, so it was a couple of years before I could finish my next book.
As the Pluto transits continued, one after another of my books went out of print. My royalties dried up - and some of those books had provided a nice financial cushion for 20 years. I was puzzled. These were trines, folks - a Grand Trine, to be exact! Determinedly, even doggedly positive, I reasoned that maybe those long-standing publishing relationships had to end so I could break into the mainstream markets and transform my income base. Something better would come along. But in fact, publishing itself has been transformed (and not for the better) during Pluto's transit through Sagittarius.
Fast-forward a couple of years. I decided to publish my own books, as e-books, because (inveterate tree-hugger that I am) I'm tired of killing trees in order to have books in print. E-books - based on .pdf files - are slow to catch on, although today's college and graduate students routinely use .pdf files for their assigned reading. When those students decide to take up astrology, I'll be ready for them. Pluto, as you know, is a very slow-moving planet, and a Pluto transit - especially to a series of points - can go on for yearrrrrrrrrrs. It's still going on, and I am not nearly at the end of the road with this evolution of my publishing endeavors.
What's the point of these cautionary tales? One possible conclusion is that we can't really know in advance precisely how a transiting planet will express itself this time around - even when we've had a series of transits by that same planet. Doubtlessly, the dynamics associated with the planet in the astrological teachings will play out, but not always according to our expectations or desires. The other point is that we shouldn't take our own predictions too seriously. If we are anxious, it is a good idea to get a second opinion from an experienced professional astrologer who can bring some detachment to the mix. All the same, it is by living out and observing how the transits work in our lives and the lives of other people that we become more seasoned in these studies. Consider it an adventure in which the twists and turns of the road are hidden from view!
©2005by Donna Cunningham, MSW
The Perils of Forecasting for Yourself
This is the third of four buildings we shall be touring throughout this mini-series. The videos will be based around us touring the main homes of four well known animated shows. Planet Express ship blueprints: web.archive.org Download link: www.minecraftforum.net Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com -------------------------- The intro music is made by a band called Oversky, go check them out: www.facebook.com
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The self-proclaimed intergalactic courier company was started by the Professor in order to fund his research. Although the company scrapes by it is always in fierce competition with Moms Friendly Delivery Company, a cornerstone of MomCorp, which although appears to be owned by a sweet, frail old lady is in actual fact owned by a manipulative director, who will stop at no means to make her company succeed. So ruthless are her business strategies that it's a wonder that the friendly courier workers at Planet Express manage to survive at all, but this they do thanks to their complete disregard for health and safety laws and the minimum wage; the Professor has even be known to accept the occasional bribe. With a company slogan that reads 'Our crew is expendable, your package isn't' you can't help but feel that the crew of Planet Express would be better off working self-employed courier jobs.
PLANET EXPRESS
Futurama - Courier Work in the Galaxy
The Professor may be the bane of the courier worker's lives, yet despite many changes of owner throughout the series, the business always manages to fall back into his capable hands. Cubert and Dwight inherited the courier work business from the Professor during one fateful episode in which he was declared dead. During their management the company was renamed 'Awesome Express' and grew to be more even more profitable than Planet Express, until it emerged that the two boys were not carrying out any deliveries during their courier work, but rather depositing all the parcels on a crater on the moon.
Futurama - Courier Work in the Galaxy
Although Planet Express carries out courier work in every corner of the galaxy, the headquarters are based in New York City on the corner of West 57th Street and Henry Hudson Parkway. The building is one of Planet Express's only three assets, which also include the famous green delivery ship and a servant robot, known simply as 1-X.
The Planet Express headquarters are built upon a green limestone cavern and contain five separate floors, with rooms consisting of the Professor's laboratory, the main hangar, a kitchen, living room and even a room entitled 'The Accusing Parlour', which in used in one episode to solve a murder; not quite the typical courier office that you are most likely accustomed to then!
But whilst Futurama may provide viewers with an entertaining look at work in a courier company it also raises some questions about courier work in the future. After all how long can it be until we swap our trusted white vans for pea-green spaceships and start taking up self-employed courier jobs on the planet Zorg?
Futurama - Courier Work in the Galaxy
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