BS: The Mother of all BS threads

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 12:36 PM

The key of accomplishment in the midst of the maelstrom is "focus"--naming the product right and persisting in the creation of it through all obstacles until realization is.

The key to failure is to create something which one then proceeds to resist.

The Dosteyvskian insight is to illustrate creating a thought, for example, and then resisting it (avoiding, ignoring, suppressing, alla same me) and notice how the dichotomistic stance creates a sort of microneurosis.


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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 01:01 PM

MOM!!!

Amos's talkin' dirty again!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 01:04 PM

How quaint--that which is not understood becomes somehow scatological in your mind? Charming, if primitive, approach to cognitive dynamics.


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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 02:06 PM

Mom:

Can I have one of these for Xmas??? Huh??? Can I???


Mom, my friend reclaimed the little yellow kayak I had been borrowing from him. I went out and helped the economy after I gave it back to him. I bought one of my own, a lovely muted orangy thing, 13' long, tandem seating, dual paddles, just the thing to go boating with my honey on the shores of the great Pacific at sunrise.



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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 02:25 PM

I like the machine guns on the roof.

Why don't you buy something that's REAL American, like a jet ski?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 03:10 PM

Gee, Mom, in just 22 posts I get the magic 28882 number!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 03:17 PM

Rapaire, why does it always have to be about (a)guns or (b) you or (c) you and guns?

Anyway, I can't wait to try it out but we are scrambling to take off for Belize Friday. I aim to go diving with whale-sharks if any can be found, otherwise I will have to settle for manta rays, manatees, nurse sharks, and endless vertical wall dives in deep blue water with 120 foot viz. Trials and tribulations never cease. If I get too exhausted or discover I am not as young and agile as I like to think I am, I will go sailing instead, or lounge on the beach with some colorful tropical drink with a little parasol and a lot of rum in it.

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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 03:44 PM

Amos, I believe the last person to mention guns herein was someone who went target shooting with his wife in San Diego.....

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: gnu
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 03:45 PM

As long as you don't poke any rays, you'll be alright mate. Crikey, they can be nasty.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: GUEST,Rapaire
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 04:20 PM

He'll take his ray gun along.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Janie
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 04:26 PM

MOM!!!! Rapaire got my number! Make him give it back!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 04:41 PM

Rapaire, the last person to mention guns here was someone who interjected the notion that the PAL-V autogyro had machine guns on the roof. Some gun nut, I dunno who...

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Acme
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 04:57 PM

Janie, he just asked for it, we're not there yet. Hover a little and you may yet land on it.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 07:29 PM

Mom, Mom!! The solar guys have been here all afternoon and they just now threw the Big Switch that took us 98% off-grid. We have just converted sunlight into 1.2 KwH of electricity and saved 1.5 pounds of carbon (don't ask me what formula they use). There's a little moderne looking meter inside the house that tell you alla time what the system has produced for you. I am absol-effin'-lutel stoked; to start spinning my SDG&E meter backward is a moment of GREAT satisfaction, lemme tell ya!!!!

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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Janie
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 07:45 PM

Whew....thanks Sis. I was doing a quick check in between clients and I....well....I guess I just sort of lost it....it would have been just like that egomaniac to steal my number then brag about it.

Mom, smack him once as a preventative measure.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 08:28 PM

Now they're putting up a little display in my office that tells me what the system is doing allla time. It is SO kewl!!!


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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 08:32 PM

You're welcome.

And I apologize for thinking those things on the PAL-V were machine guns when more reflection would have brought the conclusion that they were, in fact, ray guns.

Eleven more, I think....

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 08:37 PM

Ten.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 08:38 PM

Nine.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 08:38 PM

Eight.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 08:38 PM

Seven.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 08:39 PM

Ah, six, I think....

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 08:39 PM

Five???

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 09:03 PM

Oh, you loom as a potential cad, sirrah; loom largely.



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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Janie
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 09:06 PM

Don't

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Janie
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 09:06 PM

You

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Janie
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 09:06 PM

Dare!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Janie
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 09:07 PM

Minz

All minz:>)

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Janie
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 09:08 PM

Simple pleasures.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Acme
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 09:53 PM

Hovering will usually take care of it. And multiple screens. :)

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 11:12 PM

HA!!! I wasn't gonna and never had any intention to do so!! I just wanted it to get closer so Janie could grab it more easily.

I have just finished reading about 150MB of formerly-classified documents from the Pueblo Crisis of 1968. So if Amos thinks I was going go grab Janie's number, he's nuts.

Of course, reading a hundred of more pages of PDF may say something about my own sanity, I guess.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Acme
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 11:41 PM

The ship, not the culture. Correct? They both had crises, but the 1968 one was more likely the ship.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 29 Apr 09 - 12:13 AM

Ah the endless dark tunnel of Interesting PDF!! I've spent many a happy mindless hour there, myself.



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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 29 Apr 09 - 01:07 AM

Janie--

Here's a beautiful round, exciting, mystic, powerful number just for you!!!!



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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Apr 09 - 01:29 AM

It amazes me who much idle bandwidth you people can consume during my absence... ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Janie
Date: 29 Apr 09 - 06:39 AM

Ah yes, the amazing who much. I can't remember, were they a family of trapeze artists or an obscure but extremely ancient culture discovered to have lived on Antartica?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Apr 09 - 08:26 AM

They were a group of Antarctican trapeze artistes, Janie. If they hadn't performed in the nude they might still be among us. Actually, they are still among us (well, if you're in Antarctica) but frozen solid (one in mid-mid-air catch). They're quite a sight, frozen behind the wall of ice.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: MMario
Date: 29 Apr 09 - 09:08 AM

Unless you are referring to the whomuch, a proto-celtic society that used papyrus rafts to escape the sinking of Atlantis and eventually migrated to the Orkneys where all knowledge of them has been lost, forever.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 29 Apr 09 - 09:46 AM

The head of the Who Much clan is old Who, who hangs eternally by his knees from a gelid trapeze reaching out for all eternity to his son, Notso, onthe opposite frozen bar. On the platform waiting forever to join the act is his dear wife whom he called Tu, although her parents inisted her proper name was Toopha Kinn. Her friends all inclined to the former name and she was just plain Tu Much to most of us. Onthe other platform awaiting a turn, frozen in time, is their young daughter Muchova.



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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Acme
Date: 29 Apr 09 - 10:01 AM

And the Old Kangaroo said "Me, Too!"

None of this is new. Geisel carefully documented this clan decades ago. He disguised his scholarship as a "Children's Book" (Horton Hears A Who) so the information could be deseminated as widely as possible.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Apr 09 - 10:10 AM

Amos you are not using 1.5 lbs of carbon with Solar Panels ? Per day? Per week?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 29 Apr 09 - 10:35 AM

I dunno--the system has only been operating for half a day; one of the display lines reads "Carbon saved: x.x lbs" and presumably the figure is a function of the kwHs produced by sdolar instead of grid power.


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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Apr 09 - 12:45 PM

Green

with envy

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 29 Apr 09 - 01:43 PM

I worked late last night in the garage and after a couple of false starts finally manufactured a viable dolly with soft plastic wheels and vertical shafts which slip nicely into the drainholes on the front end of the kayak. This enables one to pick up one end and roll the puppy around conveniently. I used a couple of long 3/4" bolts left over from building the patio cover, a hose-rack frame made of bent pipe from Home Depot, , and some left-over wheels from a prototype someone had made at work for a carriage for a heavy tool. The bushings were rapid-prototype plastic leftovers, but they worked fine. American ingenuity is not dead, just slightly stunned.


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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: MMario
Date: 29 Apr 09 - 02:32 PM

I went out on the web searching for lbs carbon per kwh and found figures ranging from .24 to 1.6 lbs per kwh. Be interesting to know how people figure it and why so large a difference in various figures.

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: gnu
Date: 29 Apr 09 - 02:38 PM

Amos... kayaking? Do you have a whale of a time?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Apr 09 - 02:43 PM

Now THAT'S my kinda orca!

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 29 Apr 09 - 02:55 PM

My adventures, being from further south, are more like this one, which is in fact just off our La Jolla shores. In fact I think I know that particular guy...the amphibious one, not the kayaker.



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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Apr 09 - 03:01 PM

Isn't that the Seal of Approval?

Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
From: Amos
Date: 29 Apr 09 - 03:02 PM

No, it's the Maritime Equator (an imaginary sea-line).



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