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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Jun 19, 2009 - 05:07pm PT
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No John. You can use exclamation marks too; its okay; anyway one does not win simply by being covert. Has your keyboard run out of them or did you opt out of them when you set up your system? You didn’t save money, you know...some cultures even have upside-down ones they are so free and easy with emphasis¡¡¡¡¡
THIS JUST IN: Modesty is the ability to call attention to whatever it is that you are being humble about.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Jun 19, 2009 - 05:09pm PT
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"Modesty is the ability to call attention to whatever it is that you are being humble about."
...Without anyone noticing that you're doing so.
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jstan
climber
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Jun 19, 2009 - 05:18pm PT
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Peter:
Except for a prior experience I would accuse you of changing the rules in the middle of the game.
Sometime in the 70's I was at Steve and Marcia's in Boulder waiting for Steve to get back with the ice cream. We began playing a game with Marcia's two daughters trying to throw a rubber ball into a coffee cup. In the middle of the game Portia pulled the cup up close and claimed victory. I grimaced and muttered, "Women. Always changing the rules in the middle of the game." Portia, then about three, immediately climbed into my lap, made a fist under my nose and growled, "Watch it Buster!"
Frankly I can't say which would make me the more uncomfortable. You making a fist. Or you climbing into my lap.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jun 19, 2009 - 05:23pm PT
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Jstan, nobody in Big wide, wears those things. Except poseurs in Jackson. Though Todd S was known to carry off that look with aplomb. Of course if you grow up shoeing horse it comes easier...
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Jun 19, 2009 - 05:23pm PT
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"You didn’t save money, you know"
You saying Scots count characters?
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jstan
climber
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Jun 19, 2009 - 05:26pm PT
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Takes ink and electrons to make them, don't it?
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Jun 19, 2009 - 05:29pm PT
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"Takes ink and electrons to make them, don't it?"
Excellent example. You saved "It," "es," and "no," although I suppose the extra "'" for the contraction takes a half-point off the total, hehe.
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jstan
climber
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Jun 19, 2009 - 05:33pm PT
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You caught that one. Very good.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Jun 19, 2009 - 06:18pm PT
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Duly noted DMT thnx. Obviously I am in here without adult supervision. I have been unsuccessful in coaxing the Wild Tarbaby out of his lair; I had been hoping he was somewhere around.
Johno, that was v. funny thanks! Yes, anything, ANYTHING that makes me continue with the illusion that I am still a three-year old girl is good news to me.
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jstan
climber
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Jun 19, 2009 - 06:22pm PT
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Call it a draw................(!)
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 19, 2009 - 07:53pm PT
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I never met a Scot that I didn't count a character! LOL
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dec 18, 2010 - 02:17pm PT
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Walter Haeussermann, perhaps the last of the German rocket scientists who were brought to the US as part of Operation Paper Clip in 1945, along with Wernher Braun, Arthur Rudolph and many others, has died. He was 96. His specialty was guidance and control systems, from the V2 to the Saturn 5.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/18/us/18haeussermann.html?hpw
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Dec 18, 2010 - 02:25pm PT
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You know, Oppenheimer's "style" was sufficient to lead President Harry S. Truman to instruct his aides he never wanted to see him again. FWIW.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 18, 2010 - 02:49pm PT
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HFCS- Read Ed's link early in this thread and you may take a wider view of his style. It certainly sheds some light on aspects of Oppenheimer's mannerism that would have completely set Truman off.
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dogtown
Trad climber
JackAssVille, Wyoming
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Dec 18, 2010 - 06:23pm PT
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Bump for Grossman.
Style is everything. climbing , surfing , life , you name it?
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Dec 18, 2010 - 07:15pm PT
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Anybody have an updated link to the Oppenheimer piece posted by Ed early on? and mentioned by Steve?
Regarding Teller: Carl Sagan had some opinions about his work and life in Demon Haunted World that I thought were interesting.
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jstan
climber
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Dec 18, 2010 - 08:00pm PT
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Something new about Paper Clip.
Every saturday we go to the farmer's market with a neighbor who was brought over to White Sands
at the end of the War. He was already flying in Germany at the age of fifteen when he was drafted
eventually winding up in rockettry. But along the way he flew as a fighter pilot for the Luftwaffe in
Europe.
A few weeks ago PT was talking with another neighbor who referred to our German friend as "The
Enemy". The two are good friends and both flew in combat in Europe. One for Germany, the other for the US.
They have not gone to their unit records to see if they had actually ever shot at each other.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 18, 2010 - 08:14pm PT
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That's the one...
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 10, 2016 - 10:28pm PT
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Enduring Style Bump...
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