Teacher’s Assistant Captain Jack
Greetings fellow students,
I am Captain Jack. The new lead Teacher’s Assistant for HotForWords. As you may already know Marina spends full time in working on her HotForWords show. She does this all by herself. It’s a big undertaking running the classroom of a million plus students, making new video lessons, answering questions, updating the website, etc. That is what I am here to do; to take on some of the drudgery work for her. In this way she will have more time finish other projects she has been wanting to work on to make the whole HotForWords learning experience better. She has many great ideas to explore that I think you’re going to like.
A little about me. I am a US Coast Guard Licensed Captain and Instructor. Like Marina, I too am a teacher. I teach students on what they need to know to pass the USCG licensing exam, so they can get their license to become ship Captains like me. You can learn more about me at my website: captainjack.ws
I do not have a Philology degree as Marina does. I am not an expert in Philology. I leave all that up to our dear teacher. I do some etymology as a hobby. Mostly I study origins of Nautical words. Those intrigue me the most.
For all you that are applying for a TA position. There is still need for more TAs. So go ahead and let us know you are interested.
Well I have to go to work now. Marina is asking, “Where’s my coffee I asked for?!!”
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Jay was the pervious TA and did an AMAZING JOB! You can find his page here.
star magic on 
neuroway on 
muggins on 
echo on 
They have a Coast Guard station about a mile or two from my home. I once considered the Coast Guard at 17 when I was looking into going into the military to get away from home. they seemed to be the most nonviolent of the branches of the service. One girl I worked at the Pantheon with in 1977 suggested the Air Force since it was more techncal than the Army where I ended up. but the idea of working around those nukes made me squeamish! Seemed creepy to me then.
I joined the Army then I switch to the Navy for they had better computer program. Later found out that was false. If I had to do it all over again I would have joined the Coast Guard. I would have enjoyed saving lives instead of just maintaining a ship for war.
“Teacher’s Assistant Captain Jack”…….can you tell me how to get this information—–”MeLikaDoTheChaCha & PedanticKarl made the ‘Wall of Gravatars’. See if you can find yourself. Sorry we could not display all 41,623 thousand HotForWords friends.” thank you , the help will help us all—leonard…at least share?
Where are you Jack I haven’t seen any comments!
Marina the best girl in the world))))))))))))))))
Give me please marina’s telephone number, mr. Captain Jack.
EWERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!!! LISTEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WWWEEEERRRRRYYYYY NNNIIIICCCCEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=mwJePkSMJz4
DO YOU WANT HIS CONCERT AT HOME??????????????
I am a Russian girl, and I run a translation web site. I am no etymology pro but would love to help out!
Lyuda
Can I delete my account? If I do so, will my posts disappear? If not, can they be deleted?
Hey, Cap, did Marina get my early birthday present – the pink Aptera? Just curious. Thanks.
Nice to meat you Captain Jack!
It’s unfair.
The quiz is biased against dull, uninteresting people such as myself.
{pout}
I will crack this code
So sayth the TAZMAN!!!
you must be pretty clever to answer most of them questions they blew me away wish i understood more of the words used in the questions
I actually answered a question? Wow.
In time you will understand the words and come up with clever answers. It just takes diligence and time. You might end up a Rock Scientists like me.. … oops
Rocket Scientists.
Congrats Captain Jack! I’m sure that you’ll do a great job.
Perhaps I’ll be next! I make a great cup of coffee.
Thanks Jnaples,
Well dude, you wouldn’t believe the number of pots of coffee I have to make. Our dear teacher almost never sleeps.
I might have to buy a Starbucks and attach it to her condo. Then it would become a Starbucks Penthouse (see: video lesson ).
Speaking of boats and coffee
, Isn’t that a mermaid on the Starbucks’ logo? Be sure to put one on Marina’s condo door so I know where to go to join you guys for an espresso! I promise I won’t step on Kobe.
Good luck again on the gig! I’m sure she’ll keep you busy…especially with this sister thingie going on.
well done
Question: If I filled out an application in April and haven’t been called on yet, then should I assume that I’m no longer in the running
Is there anything I can do to increase my likelihood of being called on
I think Marina still has all the applications. There might be a million of them by now. So you are still in the running. Marin has many projects in the works as well as keeping up with the daily video lessons.
Yes, just keep visiting here and contributing as you have.
Indeed, happy birthday CaptainJack!!
It’s nice to have you aboard!
Congrat’s on appointment to TA, Captain Jack.
Hey KB! I see your sporting a new gravatar. Going for the cute teddy bear look?
Nice work Jack. You could be great mortar to Marina’s bricks.<–Land lover’s metaphor. Mums the word etc.
Bricks? Mortar? What are those? I only know of Tall Ships and Stars.
Happy Birthday, Captain Jack…belated, but sincere…
hope it was a good one…
Tom
Fabulous!
Thanks for annudder video card Tom!
Happy Birthday Capt. Jack!! My best friend in Russia’s birthday is today as well.
Awe that is so special. Well tell your friend this, that I wish she (or he) had a wonderful and happy birthday. July 25th is a great day to be proud of because she and I where born as a gift to the world.
A bit of history she and I have in common on this day, In July 25th 1963, the United States, the Soviet Union and Britain initialed a treaty in Moscow prohibiting the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, in space or underwater.
Thanks Marina! All your loyal students here have really made my B-Day so very special, and promoting me to TA was a fantastic gift. I will remember this day forever.
Which David Lee Roth saying is better? A or B?
A: Wonder what the teacher’s gonna look like this year?
B. I like the way the line of you stocking runs down the
back of your leg — no no no no don’t take ‘em off!
Please read the comment I sent you and reconsider.
LOL!
That was my first post in a week,
didn’t want to be all mushy about it,
but I missed working with you all.
Now I’m back – still wearing shades….
B. Isn’t that from the women and children first album? I had that one on 8 track!
Had to look it up. Could this be magic?
Wow! This is bringing back some good memories! Where have all the good times gone?
Could this be the reason why Captain Jack has a women’s dress and high heels in his closet?
Could this be magic?
happy birthday captain jack
Thank you Daniel. I was very happy that day.
Aaaah I’m so happy the Cap. got promoted!
Salutations Commodore Jack!
It’s still CJ to friends, see how well that works out?!
My nick name in the Navy was Admiral Byrd. I later changed it to Captain Jack. I used the nickname for online gaming and for when I was in sea scouts. This was all before I got my captain’s license.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAPTAIN JACK
Tnks for the B-day vid!
Captain Jack,
Congrats! May I suggest one thing? Do you need an assistant?
Actually……my suggestion is that you request your comments show up in blue or something other than pink!!! I’m so used to pink=Marina comment!
Keep up the good work
BoArgMir, Thanks. Yes we are still searching for more assistants. I’m still working how I can best assist marina in her projects. Once I get that figured out. I would like to get other TAs in doing some work. I would like to see a network built up of different talents that if the need ever arise one could be called on.
Yes I too am used to seeing pink for Marina’s comments. Make it really easy to find. Marina and I are working on the pink thing. Its set up that who the author of a post is colored pink. We are looking into seeing if there can be different colors for authors. My comments are normal on post that she has authored so this is the only page you will see me colored pink on.
Congratulations, Captain Jack!
It’s great that you have the time to devote to helping run the show here. I trust you won’t call the truant officer on me if I have to miss a couple lessons now and then. You know I’m here in spirit anyway, even if I’m late for class (by a couple days) now and then.
Time??!! Who has time? heheheh. Im doing 4 hour classes now so it give me more time for other projects. My last class was canceled so I have even more time to help out.
Im taking role call every day and if your late I’m going to let Marina know and let her deal with you. Im sure she will give you detention. Oh wait… that’s not a penalty. Hum…Might have to rethink this.
Soon, you will be seeing how much
there is to do and you will ask yourself
WHAT WAS I THIMKING!
But when you have that all schussed out
we’ll think of MORE for you to do!
and you can always delegate
Hello Captain Jack, and congratulations for beeing TA.
Sure you are the right man for the job.
May the force be with you!
Thanks. Your the MAN!
CJ and Marina. Don’t they make a nice couple
“Teacher’s assistant”, is that like brown noseing?
good luck with the coffee 
Looks to me like TA got growed up.
It’s not merely an honorary anymore.
Capt. J. broke the glass ceiling.
ummm… coffee?
Chase and Sanbourne,
the Mad Dog 20 20
of all coffees…
The glass ceiling is only an allusion. Its all skills, confidence, effort, and blind luck that has us arise above the perceived ceiling.
Brown nosing? Could be. Depends for what reason. Some people enjoy brown noses.
Oh Jack— you are so bright “Some people enjoy brown noses” Some people suck up to the BOSS and no shit they enjoy that. But the word nose knows. } NOSY or NOSEY { the stem of the boat, is 5th of the first definition of nose [noun] anyway, anyhow you are the man—later and be cool!
I hoped you understood what I was referring to.
I meant the other kind. 
Sorry 
I did go there…
Forgive me Im not that bright. I still have trouble finding the bathroom in the dark. Maybe I can install some light bulbs in my ears to light the way?
test
good going captain-jack your the best the ship is in the best man s hand s congratulation’s
Don’t bother clicking on my website link. First I have to get it fixed. Second my website is in maintenance mode. I’m building a new website.
Jack.
Did Marina give you the ” Bat Phone ” number.
Your just a little far to have breakfast meetings at the Blu-Jam Inn.
You could always move to LA?
Good luck , Good for you.
I like the special color for your post.
RRR, No I don’t have her Bat Phone number. Actually I might be moving to LA. I don’t know when or which marina I’ll park my sailing yacht. I have a lady there, checking up on some places for me.
You like the pink hu? Funny!
The Teacher fixed my link. But I still haven’t finished my site yet. I need more time. I wonder if I could just not sleep anymore? I’ll have plenty of time when Im dead.
btw, the thumbnail on the sandwich vid on the home page is broke…u need to make annudder sandwich…
oh, you are in the pink now…congrats, you’ve worked hard for it…
i’d apply, but i’d just be annudderTA…
annudder
Congratulations, Jack.
Now you won’t have any problem filling your classes.
What? By stealing some of her students? I wish. If I just had a 1,000 out of 400,000 of her students I would be a millionaire. Well, I can only dream…
Hey Captain, congratulations on the TA position …
Happy Birthday, Jack.
I guess you’ve already got your present with the TA post.
Enjoy.
Thanks Pedantickarl.
Thanks Bob, Yea it is a fantastic present. I bet Marina didn’t even know it was my favorite B-Day present. One thing about it, that the position comes with a lot of work. Its all food for the brain.
WTG
Captain Jack 
Cargo Rats on your new position you certainly deserve the recognition. Maybe you can use your new influence to put in a good word for Marina to do that Avatar Word Request 
Perhaps light a fire under her? 
Since they are growing in popularity not just in VR but also on forums like this one and you seemed to think it was a good idea when I suggested it
You know there is a SL programmer called “Workingonit Linden”? Just pretend Marina’s name is “Workingonit Marina”. She might make an inworld video lesson. Its going to take some time so we’ll have to be patient and see. A big part of my position is to help her with some things to free up some of her time.
I hope to see you inworld someday Argon. Im CaptainJack Delcon.
Or how about the little “round to’it” I have one made out of leather.
Well as I mentioned it doesn’t necessarily have to be machinima since the resolution and the animation is limited for the memory and the graphic engine.using those programs.
It might be better to use a more custom modeling setup to be able to get exactly the right look and animations for the lesson. For the parts of in that video that weren’t captured in SL (which was only to relate it to the machinima video that it was a response to) I recorded the voice-over in Cool Edit, used Poser for the figures and Mimic for the lip-synching. It’s easier to get everything to match up better that way.
For more complex scenes I usually render the frames of animation separately that way I can combine them in different layers to add different effects and other elements in Photoshop then put them together at 30 FPS so that they played more smoothly. That way you can get exactly the footage you’ve set out to do instead of all the compromises you have to make with machinima.
Just some suggestions to consider to get the best lesson across that’s appropriate for the subject.
I was thinking something a bit quicker & easier, like Torley Linden’s videos. Using Marina’s avatar as more like a … Well like Vana White, just smiling and moving words around. I would like to talk more about this with you. Send me an email: jack (at) captainjack (dot) ws.
I’ll not put in for the teacher’s assistant as she could not have picked no one any better. Congrats Jack.
Mike
I just settle for assistant door greeter.
Hey did you see I filled in for you last night when you went to bed?
Hey, my comments are pink! What’s up with that? Boy I hope she doesn’t make me put on a pretty pink dress. LOL
There was a time many moons ago guys used to wear pink collared shirts.
@ Marina, Im cool with the pink window. It puts me in more contact with my feminine side.
Your next task, should you choose to accept it, is to get Marina into a Navy uniform, and do a video singing Candyman.
By the way, I don’t think your comments are pink – I think they’re the same as your new clothes, and it’s your pink skin we can see showing through.
Well all be damned
…look at you! Way to go CJ!!! …Your bringing back teachers pet!?!……Have I ever told you that you’re super cool and good lookin’?..,.HA! 
Thanks Pagedoll. I hear she is working on getting more Teacher Pets videos made up.
What!?! A pink box!!? Whats next Mr, heels and a skirt . ?
…see if you can squeeze into that one of Marina’s thats yellow and has different colored flowers on it. No, I take that back, it would clash with the beard! …I hope this doesn’t mean you’re not going to be able to shoot spitwads with us every once and awhile. 
…hope you know I’m just playin’
and yes, I am, 
with envey. 
envy NOT envey
PD, Oh Im still going to sneak a spitwad or two when teacher isn’t looking. I was a TA in high school I was able to get away with many things. Hell I knew more that the teacher and ended up teaching the class as she drank coffee all morning. Something that could never happen in this class. I still don’t know how to spell etymology without using spell check.
I know your just playing as I’m playing with you. It just your gravatar is so sexy. Hey I just realized something. I just got kicked out of S.O.U.P.! An I don’t think I can ever get a teachers pet video with her in that sexy yellow swimsuit. Oh well the price one has to pay to be a TA. Im not complaining.
Oh Marina is wanting another cup of coffee. I got to go. BRB.
Ive had two TA’s Both manufactured by General Motors Corporation.
Very nice, way to go Cap!! I’ve been working on my TA app but just haven’t pulled it together yet. Maybe this is just the kick in my complacency I need to get it done.
Congrats again…..
Well lazy doesn’t get your anywhere, other than taking a day off to sit under a palm tree sipping on a margarita.
Awe that sound nice.
Yea yea, I know….**why do I see a dunce cap in my future….sheesh**
I’d love to be TA.
Well you have to fill out the form.