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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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Retrieve It from a Cache 6/5/2005 DblD22 retrieved it from The Hogwarts Express North Carolina   Visit Log

Picked Albert E. Piggy up from Hogwarts Express and will place him this week in a frequently accessed cache near I-40. Maybe this will give him a boost on his way out of BBQ land. Someone has bagged him which will help as condition is poor. Necklace is rusted and cut halfway through neck. Not sure what the plug in his rear means or where it came from but is pretty abusive if you ask me. Put his number on tags with CD Marking pen so should be easier to track. Will take a post photo before he leaves town.

Dropped Off 3/13/2005 C & J Priddy placed it in The Hogwarts Express North Carolina - 14.36 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 2/21/2005 C & J Priddy retrieved it from US-52 Travel Bug Hotel North Carolina   Visit Log

Will take some photos and move to a new cache soon.

Dropped Off 2/6/2005 MissAngele placed it in US-52 Travel Bug Hotel North Carolina - 9.92 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 1/16/2005 MissAngele retrieved it from Sunny New Year Event North Carolina   Visit Log

HOLY COW!!!! This little porker has been through it. I will request from the owner a "tatooing" of sorts. I had to try a couple numbers before actually being able to log into this. He appears to have visited a slaughter house and narrowly escaped, leaving behind the slit on his neck and chains to boot! I will do some cosmetic surgery on him before passing him back out into the cold cruel world! OH BY THE WAY! I am a vegetarian, although he is still in the heart of BBQ pig land, he is currently in NO ementant danger!

Dropped Off 1/9/2005 david&diana placed it in Sunny New Year Event North Carolina - 1.22 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 12/24/2004 david&diana retrieved it from Old Teapot North Carolina   Visit Log

From the looks of Albert he's been through a lot. His metal travel bug tag is gone and has been replaced by a laminated plastic one. His travel bug chain has rusted and Albert has developed some large cracks which could eventually prove fatal. He's in the heart of barbeque country and may be in grave danger. We will protect Albert and keep him away from hickory wood coals until we can get him to a safe place.

Dropped Off 11/25/2004 norrisp placed it in Old Teapot North Carolina - 225.41 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 11/15/2004 norrisp retrieved it from Jeff’s Puppy Park Virginia   Visit Log

I picked Albert up from the park today. He has decided to disenroll from Old Doinion Universtiy here in Norfolk. I will give him a few days to dry out (makes a good sponge or was he drinking too much) and then during Thanksgiving he will move on to the oldest womens college in the US (circa 1772)down in North Carolina. He is getting a little rough around the edges, maybe they can refine him a bit.

norrisp

Dropped Off 10/24/2004 Ed_Rutherford placed it in Jeff’s Puppy Park Virginia - 454.9 miles  Visit Log
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