Hey, just saw where they had a dust storm out at Burning Man, and
apparently the Man has already been Burned. You usually go each
year. This year?
Not this year. I would have been in email silence for the past week
if I was at Burning Man. Sorry to say, I'm still missing it as I type
this. The good news is that I'm almost done missing Burning Man. FWIW
--
Tian
http://tian.greens.org
Canada now has a Green Member of Parliament, according to this:
http://www.greenparty.ca/en/releases/30.08.2008
I kind of figured you would have been in email silence, but then I
thought that maybe they have some sort of connectivity out there,
IRIDIUM or maybe a cell tower or maybe some guy with a shortwave, but
then I got to thinking that you would have mentioned being out there,
so anyway, I just thought I'd directly ask.
To show what a connected world we have, I know a fellow who had car
trouble in the Nevada desert. No cell phone reception, but he did
have a shortwave with which he contacted a ham in Australia who then
used a land line to phone a wrecker service for him in Nevada.
And there are people who doubt that the Global Brain is forming after
stories like that.
Yup. So now you know...
>
> To show what a connected world we have, I know a fellow who had car
> trouble in the Nevada desert. No cell phone reception, but he did
> have a shortwave with which he contacted a ham in Australia who then
> used a land line to phone a wrecker service for him in Nevada.
Remarkable that you know such a person. One time I told a friend "we
need a revolution where the pun is mightier than the gun."
He said "my ham license is KC6PUN" or something like that with a PUN
at the end. That's the closest thing to a ham radio story I have.
>
> And there are people who doubt that the Global Brain is forming after
> stories like that.
If they are paid to do so some people will doubt the law of gravity works.
Hopefully they're suicidal too, for I could pay them to jump off the
top of the WTC.
I once saw a male prostitute interviewed on TV; he said "I'll do
anything for money."
That is, if you can pay someone to doubt that gravity works then you
could most likely also pay them to test that hypothesis by jumping
from now nonexistent building(s).
It's much easier to pay someone to say they doubt the law of gravity
then it is to get them to actually jump off the building to prove it.
You beat me to it. I was going to respond with exactly that! Great
minds think alike?????
On 09/01/2008 11:58:42 Don Stockbauer wrote:
> You beat me to it. I was going to respond with exactly that! Great minds
> think alike?????
I will say nothin - I will say nothing - aaaarrrrggggghhhhhhhhh !
--
The Canadian Curmudgeon (in Calgary)
Please save our endangered CO2 ~ plant many trees
Oh, come on. We want your input. We can take it! We are strong. We
are woman - no, wait, that's a Helen Reddy song.
Blarp.
On 09/04/2008 06:56:53 Don Stockbauer wrote:
> Post in the corral needs replacing.
And the barded wire on the south 40 needs tightening
Exactly! How did you know! (Fence built by Shakespeare in 1584).
"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil - prophet still, if bird or devil!"
On 09/04/2008 12:19:39 Don Stockbauer wrote:
> On Sep 4, 12:14 pm, Mudge wrote:
>> On 09/04/2008 06:56:53 Don Stockbauer wrote:
>>> Post in the corral needs replacing.
>> And the barded wire on the south 40 needs tightening
> Exactly! How did you know!
's where all them Mexicans are creeping in, innit ?
I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
vacuuming.
--
Tian
http://tian.greens.org
Latest change: Added pictures and notes on Republicans and hot sauce.
As my corral gently weeps.
Yeppers! The south 40 borders on the Guadalupe River. Thousands of
'em swimming across! Like those shows depicting the gnus migrations
in Africa. Un-bee-leaf-uh-gobble! Destroying the economy.
"I was sad when I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had sold both
his kidneys for food."
Dug hole for post. Cut post to correctly length, rolled it over to
hole.. But post full of huge woodpecker holes. Must spend time now
filling WPH's with cement. Stay tuned for the next episode of
"Fixing Corrals on the Ranch"
or,
"The Effect of Hydrogen Bombs on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds."
Woke up. In a fairly good mood. Need to see how the cement test has
come out. After Quick-crete gets old it wont even harden. If one of
the two bags of QC is ok (as judged by the small amount tested from
each bag yesterday), will begin the WPH subtask.
Turns out that one of the bags of Quickcrete I had here is bad, won't
harden at all. The good one isn't enough, so l will have to go in and
buy a new one. Did get two of the WPH's filled; however, they're
randomly distributed so it's tedious process of filling one facing
upwards, letting it set, then rotating the post and filling the next,
usw.
Hey, people can have these blogs of their personal lives which are way
less interesting than watching cement dry; why can't I have mine here?
On 09/05/2008 10:59:32 Don Stockbauer wrote:
> Hey, people can have these blogs of their personal lives which are way
> less interesting than watching cement dry; why can't I have mine here?
Has anyone objected ???
Oh, Tian might get his "I drop a 1909 S VDB penny in the pink piggy-
bank" comment, but in general, nobody cares, I just bop along with my
stream of corn-shuck-ness, when anyone posts a legitimate Hofstadter
comment I do my best to make some sort of semi-cogent response, but
other than that it's just kind of wild and wacky and a free-for-all
here at alt.fan.hofstadter.
On 09/05/2008 12:23:01 Don Stockbauer wrote:
> Oh, Tian might get his "I drop a 1909 S VDB penny in the pink piggy- bank"
> comment, but in general, nobody cares, I just bop along with my stream of
> corn-shuck-ness, when anyone posts a legitimate Hofstadter comment I do my
> best to make some sort of semi-cogent response, but other than that it's
> just kind of wild and wacky and a free-for-all here at alt.fan.hofstadter.
Besides, there are less than a dozen, living beings who seem to lurk
hereabouts, innit ?
A dozen? I don't know. (Lurkers please identify yourselves).
Since I made my first post here ( which went something like "I am
Hofstadter's canonical fan") people have come and go. I think that at
one time I was very forceful and non-diplomatic and ran people off,
but at some point I changed and am now a pussycat. But in any case
not many people post here. I don't know what to do about it. I
suppose the successful candidate for a-f-h submissions will be one who
will post despite hell or high water. We welcome him/her.
Got the sack of cement bought. Today will be spent filling in the
remainder WPHs in the post. When it's set nice and well it goes in
the hole and will be tromped in.
Excitment beyond containment.
All the WPH's are filled and curing. Did some more vine clearing from
the fences. Tomorrow I'll set the post and then test others to see if
they need replacement. I know one does, anyway. Tune in tomorrow for
another exciting episode.
On 09/06/2008 20:27:09 Don Stockbauer wrote:
> All the WPH's are filled and curing. Did some more vine clearing from the
> fences. Tomorrow I'll set the post and then test others to see if they
> need replacement. I know one does, anyway. Tune in tomorrow for another
> exciting episode.
Me breath comes in short pants
You know, what I've written the past few days is boring beyond
comprehension. I'll quit at this point and wait for the normal boffo
contributions come in.
Still waiting.
Me to.
--
Tian
http://tian.greens.org
Latest: Added free POWER TO THE PEOPLE - McKinney 2008 sticker offer.
Ditto.
On 09/08/2008 06:58:39 Don Stockbauer wibbled
> Ditto.
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