Silverback monkey meetup toast on JoCo Cruise 2018
Channel: Angela Brett
Date: 16/06/2018

People who had been on more than half of the JoCo Cruises were invited to a Silverback monkey meetup. Here the Home Office talks to us a little bit. Jonathan Coulton is surprised to realise they’ve been in the cruise business for almost a decade now, which is hilarious given that their chosen job is musician. He likes to think that the number of returning cruisers means that the event is good. We are the real core of it, the real die hards, and that is why they offer us these glasses of cheap champagne. 

This cruise for a very long time spent almost nothing on advertising; it’s all about word of mouth and friends telling friends telling other friends, and probably a couple of thousand YouTube videos, who knows? They can have cheap champagne throughout the year, because I spend hundreds of hours processing videos and drinking cheap tea, and I LIKE it, dammit. (I'm available for weddings and bar mitzvahs. [Not really, but maybe I should leverage my dubious videography skills in some kind of side business in case the code monkey work dries up. Okay, I'm available to make mostly-fixed-camera probably-not-blurry recordings of concerts around Vienna, and if you pay me, I'll put them online before I'm done with the year's cruise videos. Also, I'm a freelance software developer and could do with more work right pretty soon, so if you could do with some software, especially if it's on macOS or iOS, get in touch. Or if you'd like to beta test the iOS app I'm writing. Also keep an eye on http://spondee.software because I'm going to release that app pretty soon. There, I just plugged my own stuff. Yikes. Look, the cruise is already sold out, so you may as well give me your money instead.])

While Storm is saying the cruise is more and more a force for good in the world, he notices that the Jurassic Park theme is playing, so they ad-lib a song about the JoCo cruise to that song. Scarface a.k.a. Drew was looking at the infinite sea of this beautiful, amazing planet, and he thinks we’re all really amazing and interesting people who have seen his transformation into a weird vagrant-looking guy.

We are instructed to mingle and drink, and stop looking at them, and, reader, we did. We really did. (To be read in the style of 'Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was.' from the Titanic movie.)