Journal benhocking's Journal: Idaho "Skeptics" 17
Someone introduced me to this gem a while back, and I'm in a sharing mood, so, I give you The True Story of Idaho. I'd also like to point out that, per the text on the bottom, this was initially posted to rec.humor.d on December 14th, 1992. (Of course, global warming skeptics were already out in full force at this point - although most of them were still denying the very existence of global warming and not just whether it was natural or anthropogenic.)
Interesting, but I ran in Idaho marathons (Score:2)
True about them (and Albertans) being in a bizarre denial about global warming, even though you can see mountaintops that used to have glaciers that existed for many hundreds of thousands of years that are no longer there.
But some of them actually believe the world is only a few thousand years old.
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Jealousy rearing its ugly head (Score:2)
Wow, really? My PR is 3:52 (last year's Marine Corps Marathon), and I'm damn proud of it! One day I hope to qualify for the Boston (3:15 is currently the qualifying time for my age group), but that's probably still several years off. Of course, in another 3 years, 3:20 will be my qualifying time, and that 5 minutes makes it <sarcasm>so</sarcasm> much easier.
Perhaps the real reason you ran so "poorly" is that it was only a nightmare.
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Of course, at the time I would get up each morning and run 10 miles, come back, then run the 5 miles to school, run back 5 miles each way for lunch, and then had four paper routes to deliver.
In a town where most of my customers were up long flights of stairs, since it's basically a valley between two mountain ranges.
This may have affected my results, plus the fact that my track c
An interesting idea (Score:2)
I'd argue there's a difference (Score:2)
I'm not aware of any "marketing-based bad science" that global warming scientists were responding to. Rather, there are some extreme environmentalists who are taking the global warming science and exaggerating/misrepresenting it. While this approach might get some temporary converts, this approach is obviously not helpful in the long run, as you can only maintain a lie for so long.
On the other hand, those who are denying the science behind global warming fall into two camps: (1) Those (and here I'm thinki
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I don't know that we can (Score:2)
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Not me. I'm the type who'd look for the deepest part of the water- and start paddling for all I'm worth- that's what Al Faucett [statesmanjournal.com] did.
In the context of global warming, that means accepting that it's going to get hotter. It also means doing what we can to use plant life to sequester carbon, move to alternative fu
Excentrifugul Forz (Score:1)
Tangential, but then what would my life be without eccentricity?
({Reflections from a very quick datastream-dip}OR{Google can be so much fun})
Google groups shows 337 posts for author:bobk AT gibdo.engr.washington.edu [tinyurl.com] (without the about qualifier); occurring between March 25 1992 - July 19 1993 = 481 days (dirty-n-head calc, may be off a day or two). You probably know this but engr.washington.edu is the Engineering School at the Univ. of Washington [washington.edu].
Some one word filters of this search returns:
Amusing, if confusing (Score:2)
adds (Score:1)
I've been meaning to get back here with a bit of odd USENET history you'll probably find interesting, and may even have a use for. First consideration, I know for fact, Googlegroups does not possess it all in their DB, and at least for the part I am sure they do not possess, this is of no real concern, but has anecdotal utility.
I had gotten a taste of the NGs I'd guess around early '83, from an CS grad student I'd made an acquaintance with at a Univ. neighborhood coffee house (no specifics). She had a par
Unique information (Score:2)
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thanks, for a long time in my life, I used to fret and brood over my inability to express myself properly. I no longer fret so much about it, as i slowly came to realise it is a part of me, which is interrelated with an ability to condense several steps into one big leap intuitively. It has generally served me well, but at times, still causes me great consternation, when I find myself out on a limb on a dead-end. This is currently a bit of a personal embarrassment at the other namespace we crossed paths.
oh yeah (Score:1)
Again, very low and asymmetric, but I've been meaning to point this out to you anyway.
Have you this clown's TouTube offerings [youtube.com]? More specifically this excerpt [youtube.com]. 'Moo-ham-med' and 'Sodom'? It is this practise of sending the village idiots to D.C. which is a primary cause that the usage of the derogatory term 'cracker' persists.
I doubt that this is any of your doing, but it wouldn't hurt to spread the word...
Yeah, I'm aware (Score:2)