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Joy Beeson
Oct 28, 2019, 8:29:49 PM10/28/19
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I've gotten to page 35 in _Cyclecraft: North American Edition_, which
contains a quite-sensible discussion of the difference between being
noticed and being recognized.
This hits home with me: during my attempt to ride the double century
one September, I nearly ran down the riders who had left me behind
because I mistook the nearby cluster of small lights for a cluster of
pole lights a mile farther away.
Which would give me a topic for a column: When you stop GET OFF THE
ROAD. Never mind that it's three in the morning and this road has
almost no traffic during rush hour.
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joy beeson at comcast dot net
http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/
The above message is a Usenet post.
I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site.
Ted Nolan <tednolan>
Oct 28, 2019, 10:54:59 PM10/28/19
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In article <ss1frepcj35e27u46...@4ax.com>,
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columbiaclosings.com
What's not in Columbia anymore..
Joy Beeson <jbe...@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
>
>I've gotten to page 35 in _Cyclecraft: North American Edition_, which
>contains a quite-sensible discussion of the difference between being
>noticed and being recognized.
>
>This hits home with me: during my attempt to ride the double century
>one September, I nearly ran down the riders who had left me behind
>because I mistook the nearby cluster of small lights for a cluster of
>pole lights a mile farther away.
>
>Which would give me a topic for a column: When you stop GET OFF THE
>ROAD. Never mind that it's three in the morning and this road has
>almost no traffic during rush hour.
>
Well I'll Be Super-Amalgamated!
>
>I've gotten to page 35 in _Cyclecraft: North American Edition_, which
>contains a quite-sensible discussion of the difference between being
>noticed and being recognized.
>
>This hits home with me: during my attempt to ride the double century
>one September, I nearly ran down the riders who had left me behind
>because I mistook the nearby cluster of small lights for a cluster of
>pole lights a mile farther away.
>
>Which would give me a topic for a column: When you stop GET OFF THE
>ROAD. Never mind that it's three in the morning and this road has
>almost no traffic during rush hour.
>
--
columbiaclosings.com
What's not in Columbia anymore..
Joy Beeson
Oct 29, 2019, 10:54:58 AM10/29/19
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On 29 Oct 2019 02:54:58 GMT, t...@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
So that's why this post didn't appear in rec.bicycles.misc.!
I've no idea how this happened, so can't promise not to do it again.
--
Joy Beeson
I've no idea how this happened, so can't promise not to do it again.
--
Joy Beeson
Ted Nolan <tednolan>
Oct 29, 2019, 11:53:22 AM10/29/19
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In article <fjkgre119qqvpdnks...@4ax.com>,
Joy Beeson <jbe...@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
>On 29 Oct 2019 02:54:58 GMT, t...@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
><tednolan>) wrote:
>
>> In article <ss1frepcj35e27u46...@4ax.com>,
>> Joy Beeson <jbe...@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
>> >
>> >I've gotten to page 35 in _Cyclecraft: North American Edition_, which
>> >contains a quite-sensible discussion of the difference between being
>> >noticed and being recognized.
>> >
>> >This hits home with me: during my attempt to ride the double century
>> >one September, I nearly ran down the riders who had left me behind
>> >because I mistook the nearby cluster of small lights for a cluster of
>> >pole lights a mile farther away.
>> >
>> >Which would give me a topic for a column: When you stop GET OFF THE
>> >ROAD. Never mind that it's three in the morning and this road has
>> >almost no traffic during rush hour.
>> >
>>
>> Well I'll Be Super-Amalgamated!
>
>So that's why this post didn't appear in rec.bicycles.misc.!
>
>I've no idea how this happened, so can't promise not to do it again.
>
Hey, it got this group its first post in, I think, several years!
>On 29 Oct 2019 02:54:58 GMT, t...@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
><tednolan>) wrote:
>
>> In article <ss1frepcj35e27u46...@4ax.com>,
>> Joy Beeson <jbe...@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
>> >
>> >I've gotten to page 35 in _Cyclecraft: North American Edition_, which
>> >contains a quite-sensible discussion of the difference between being
>> >noticed and being recognized.
>> >
>> >This hits home with me: during my attempt to ride the double century
>> >one September, I nearly ran down the riders who had left me behind
>> >because I mistook the nearby cluster of small lights for a cluster of
>> >pole lights a mile farther away.
>> >
>> >Which would give me a topic for a column: When you stop GET OFF THE
>> >ROAD. Never mind that it's three in the morning and this road has
>> >almost no traffic during rush hour.
>> >
>>
>> Well I'll Be Super-Amalgamated!
>
>So that's why this post didn't appear in rec.bicycles.misc.!
>
>I've no idea how this happened, so can't promise not to do it again.
>
Joy Beeson
Oct 30, 2019, 11:20:40 PM10/30/19
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On 29 Oct 2019 15:53:21 GMT, t...@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
In the sixties, I wrote a piece of fanfic without ever having seen a
Doc Savage story. I still haven't seen one, but I gathered from
reading this group that my story didn't quite get everything
completely wrong, which I found gratifying.
I had Ryan assisted by a small number of specialists, and he was
vigorously educated by his Daddy. There was a lawyer in the crew, but
there were no sesqipedalian exclamations.
And I wrote from Ryan's point of view. Strictly a no-no in hero tales
-- every Sherlock must have a Watson.
Pity I never wrote the second story in the series; there's no way I
could get my head back into the sixties now. I don't even know
whether referring to the EMT on the crew as an MET was a typo on my
part or a reflection that the terminology hadn't settled down yet.
http://wlweather.net/joybackup/ZFICTION/OTHER/ARRANGE.TXT
In finding that URL, I read a bit to be sure it was the right file,
noticed a typo, and discovered that when my computer got crowded, I'd
moved everything but my Web sites onto a computer that can't run my
word processor. I added the missing letter with Notepad, then
realized that I don't know how to upload from that computer. I have
to have supervision every time I run Filezilla, so I wait so long
between uses that I forget how it works, so I have to ask for help
again. Using it every day isn't an option, because I must first make
sure all the files in the directory that I want to copy are the latest
version, and purge all the ultimate-unedit files.
So I copied the file to the main computer, edited it, uploaded it, and
haven't yet gotten around to copying it back and emptying the TEMP
folder.
<tednolan>) wrote:
> Hey, it got this group its first post in, I think, several years!
I should post something sorta-semi on topic.
> Hey, it got this group its first post in, I think, several years!
In the sixties, I wrote a piece of fanfic without ever having seen a
Doc Savage story. I still haven't seen one, but I gathered from
reading this group that my story didn't quite get everything
completely wrong, which I found gratifying.
I had Ryan assisted by a small number of specialists, and he was
vigorously educated by his Daddy. There was a lawyer in the crew, but
there were no sesqipedalian exclamations.
And I wrote from Ryan's point of view. Strictly a no-no in hero tales
-- every Sherlock must have a Watson.
Pity I never wrote the second story in the series; there's no way I
could get my head back into the sixties now. I don't even know
whether referring to the EMT on the crew as an MET was a typo on my
part or a reflection that the terminology hadn't settled down yet.
http://wlweather.net/joybackup/ZFICTION/OTHER/ARRANGE.TXT
In finding that URL, I read a bit to be sure it was the right file,
noticed a typo, and discovered that when my computer got crowded, I'd
moved everything but my Web sites onto a computer that can't run my
word processor. I added the missing letter with Notepad, then
realized that I don't know how to upload from that computer. I have
to have supervision every time I run Filezilla, so I wait so long
between uses that I forget how it works, so I have to ask for help
again. Using it every day isn't an option, because I must first make
sure all the files in the directory that I want to copy are the latest
version, and purge all the ultimate-unedit files.
So I copied the file to the main computer, edited it, uploaded it, and
haven't yet gotten around to copying it back and emptying the TEMP
folder.
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