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Travel Bug Dog Tag Albert Einstein Pig

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Owner:
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Released:
Friday, April 26, 2002
Origin:
Oklahoma, United States
Recently Spotted:
In the hands of fitzaboo.

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Current Goal

To go to many locations and have my picture taken in front of interesting places, and e-mailed to: Mark_Johnson_McLoud@msn.com
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Albert Einstein Pig (Left Side)

"Albert Einstein Pig" History - Chapter 1

The saga of the "Albert Einstein Pig" (who thought he could fly...)

Once upon a time, there was this pink foam rubber pig, like many others. One day, he came under the ownership of Majicman and his life was forever changed. For many months, he sat on Majicman's desk at work.

One day, to illustrate a point, Majicman told a co-worker that there was more chance of this pig flying than there was of satisfying one of the users that had called in on our company's support phone line.

You see, this man was disabled and he used a unix system. He did not have a word processor but wanted to submit some documents electronically to a court.

My coworker, a here-unnamed programmer, decided that we should help this man to get his documents submitted.

I used another Oklahoma colloquialism and explained about "opening multiple cans of worms,” but, this fell on deaf ears also. (This programmer is just too nice...) So we decided to help the unix user some more.

About this time, things got kinda ugly and each time this user would call back, I would put him on hold and page the programmer, explaining that "Albert Einstein" (as I had then dubbed this gweeker cretin) was on the phone and needed to talk to him.

We discussed the support situation further, and I again warned about previous similar situations with Mac users that ended badly. At this time, I performed a little surgery on "Albert Einstein Pig" and gave him a duck-call enema. (Go ahead, shake him and he might still quack at you...)

Well, the support situation didn't end too badly, but by this time I had labeled Albert and decorated him with the saying, "I use unix because I am 'special'!"

I placed this monstrous conglomeration on the programmer's desk and explained my feelings about Albert and his support situation.

Oddly enough, it turned out that the unix man being helped was a physicist (go figure!)

Well, very long story shortened somewhat... it is all over now and poor Albert needs to get out and get his mind off of these former travails. He needs a vacation! He needs to see beautiful mountains, tall forests, green grassy meadows, and tall buildings, meet famous people, ANYTHING INTERESTING to help get his mind back straight.

Please, help Albert, take as many pictures with him at interesting places as you can, e-mail them to Mark, and then put Albert into another cache so that he can continue his vacation.

Thank you very much...
--majicman

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Tracking History (18543mi) View Map

Discovered It 1/8/2009 psyclawps discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered Virtually!

Retrieve It from a Cache 6/3/2006 fitzaboo retrieved it from Tombstone California   Visit Log

My 7 year old son and I decided to get Mr. Albert Einstein Pig because with such a name, the kid thought it would be one smart pig! Mr Pig is going to have his photo taken in the Sacramento area early next week with the local public transit property's buses and trains, and then he'll be off to another exciting location somewhere nearby. Unfortunately not heading that far this time, we have no plans for a long trip any time soon. Was nice meeting Mr. Einstein Pig.

Grab It (Not from a Cache) 5/17/2006 DiscGolfDiver grabbed it   Visit Log

My parents have had this tb forever, and I'm sorry. I have taken it down to California and I've already placed it.

Dropped Off 5/16/2006 DiscGolfDiver placed it in Tombstone California - 525.74 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 2/6/2006 Team Utah retrieved it from A Healthy Cache Utah   Visit Log

Sad to see what has happened to the poor little piggy. He is cracked and brittle, his chain is all rusty, and he's kind of taped together. I guess the Utah winter has been hard on him. Took him out of A Health Cache in Utah and will give him a new home in sunny southern California.

Dropped Off 1/22/2006 Mr Morty placed it in A Healthy Cache Utah - 7.56 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 1/20/2006 Mr Morty retrieved it from Travel Bug Office | Production & Exchange Utah   Visit Log

WOW has Albert seen better days. I hope I don't look this bad after 20,000+ miles. We will try to get him to another location soon.

Dropped Off 1/20/2006 Wild Will placed it in Travel Bug Office | Production & Exchange Utah - 9.08 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 12/22/2005 Wild Will retrieved it from "Farm" -a-Logo II Utah   Visit Log

Picked up --- will move along

Dropped Off 12/13/2005 Momma Owl placed it in "Farm" -a-Logo II Utah - 27.99 miles  Visit Log
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