R.White wrote:
> Jim Roberts <
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>>R.White wrote:
>>
>>[...]
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>>>
>>>Hey, that's pretty good coming from a person who wrote
>>>"Eimstein" and posted this gibberish:
>>>
>>>"Yes, my omly cousin lives in Big Sur, amd when she
>>>deigns to see me it's sn educstion."
>>
>>I'm a terrible typist, though I used to be good 30 years
>>ago when I had an office Olympia, which my wife made me
>>get rid of when we moved East. I typed two theses, several
>>papers, and many political letters on that marvellous
>>machine, as well as a dozen proposals to NOVA, all but one
>>accepted, as they already had something like it in the
>>works. But it was the Reagan depression, and I couldn't
>>get any money for them, especially as I was a mere PhD
>>astrophysicist and not a filmmaker. Well I made one on
>>black holes, before most astrophysicists, including
>>beyond all recognition.
>
>
> Jim, I'll be serious for a minute and offer you this bit
> of advice. You do what you want with it.
>
> When someone flames you, you really need not go into some
> real, sincere explanation of why you did this and that.
>
I know, but I have such an urge to explaim things
sccurstely, that it is hsrd to resist. I have received
many letters telling me to ignore this and that SOB, some
including you. I follow some advice in the most egregious
and incorrigible cases, but you are hslf on snd hslf off,
so I think you have a desire to learn, and I can
certainly tesch.
> Yes, I know you know how to spell, I was being sarcastic.
> I noticed in some other replies to sarcasm, you felt as
> thought the poster was serious and did the same thing.
> It's a flame fest Jim. You're in the middle of the fire.
> Get with it. Leave the geek aside and done your fire
> retardent Underoos and fire back.
I hsve no Hobbit toes. Check the previous paragraph.
>
>
>>So I moved on to mountaineering and marriage.
>
>
> OMG, mountaineering? Now there's a sport that hasn't
> damaged the environment. (See, that's sarcasm) There's
> something like 40 tons of trash on Mt. Everest alone. In
> 1987, an American team left almost a ton of trash strewn
> about, including baseball bats, Frisbees, dozens of empty
> beer cans, and liquor and champagne bottles. Base Camp IV
There's only one Base Camp; there is a Camp IV, which means
that garbage collectors will need to be accomplished,
selfless mountaineers. Nepal and China should pay for it.
> is littered with thousands of empty oxygen bottles, spent
> fuel canisters, batteries, shredded tents, and other
> discarded mountaineering equipment.
No trip I was on in the Sierra left a damned thing behind,
besides ****. There are trips to the various 8000 meter base
camps to collect the garbsge "irresponsibly" or
irretrievably left behind - oxygen cannisters, tents and
such, whatever the sherpas and Balts do not collect for
themselves. I asked Ridegway about this near the North
Palisade, since both he and Chouinard are very
environmentally involved. For K2 he said that anyone who had
attempted the peak had barely the energy to get themselves
out, so he was organizing garbage-collection trips, as he
was not going back there again himself.
Too many trips have been allowed, since Nepal and China need
the money, or think they do. For some time I've advocated
that every trip's fee include the cost of hauling their
garbsge out. But I have no voice, never having attempted an
8000 meter peak, and with no intention of doing so. If I
ever got the hare-brained idea (unfair to hares) of doing
so, my wife would require me to dispose of my thousands of
books and notebooks, and to make "final arrangements".
Unlike Messner, I find marriage to be much more fulfilling
than that.
>
>
>>Much better. The producer of NOVA at that time Michael
>>Something, asked me if we should get into bed together. I
>>had no response to that, though I have gathered later it's
>>typical movie talk.
>
>
> Are you sure? Sounds kind of gay to me. (sarcasm)
>
>
>>Sometimes I'm in a hurry and forget to proofread. You know
>>perfectly well that I know how to spell all those words. I
>>suppose you would like to insult Hawking, too, for the
>>difficulties he has in writing?
>
>
> Nah, "Son Of The Beach" made enough fun of him.
>
>
Hawking is one of the funniest men I have ever met. He made
a regrettable decision to divorce his devoted wife Jane and
marry his nurse, who now seems to be abusing him. Jane, now
remarried (I'd have married her in an instant - such a
woman!), is suing to get him better care.
>>I won spelling bees all through school, and I could still
>>compete on a national level. But they don't take 62-yr-old
>>geezers.
>
>
> You do know there's an age limit in some of these
> newsgroups?
jimbat
