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November 13, 2011 at 4:42 pm #2208098
santeewelding?
Lockedby boxfiddler · about 12 years, 5 months ago
You’re a fount. And a rock. Acerbic, cryptic, wordsmith. Master of Necessity. Phuque anyone who says other.
RIP, dear man.
[i]santeewelding left us sometime this morning/last night, due to complications of esophageal cancer.[/i]
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November 13, 2011 at 5:14 pm #2897279
RIP
by jamesrl · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
I’m so sorry to hear, Jen. Please convery my deepest sympathies and condolences to the family. He will be missed around here.
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November 13, 2011 at 5:17 pm #2897278
Oh, Jeez
by nicknielsen · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
DAMN!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBabMxnFQsQ seems appropriate…
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November 13, 2011 at 5:36 pm #2897276
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November 13, 2011 at 5:45 pm #2897274
Raising an 18yo malt
by nicknielsen · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Thassa good choice.
in honor and memory.
Trying not to water it down too much…
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November 13, 2011 at 5:50 pm #2897272
If I don’t have an 18….
by jamesrl · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Raising an 18yo malt
Maybe two 12 yo will do.
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November 13, 2011 at 6:03 pm #2897270
If I run out of 18
by nicknielsen · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to If I don’t have an 18….
I have a Talisker 10 behind it…
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November 13, 2011 at 7:12 pm #2897263
I still have some Dalwhinnie
by jamesrl · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to If I run out of 18
That I bought in Louisville when I was at the first TR gathering, seems appropriate to have some of that.
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November 16, 2011 at 1:53 pm #2446813
Right there with ya
by captbilly1eye · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to If I run out of 18
I’ll have a toast to him tonight, as well. One of my favorite contributors. He will be greatly missed.
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November 16, 2011 at 6:10 pm #2446787
Cap’t!
by charliespencer · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Right there with ya
I’m sorry this is what it took to bring you back out of the woodwork. Always good to hear from you.
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November 13, 2011 at 6:15 pm #2897267
Raising a tumbler
by boxfiddler · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Raising an 18yo malt
of cream sherry. He turned me on to that stuff. Daggone it. 😉
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November 13, 2011 at 7:03 pm #2897264
Harvey’s Bristol Cream I hope
by jamesrl · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Raising a tumbler
I’m drinking Glenlivet.
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November 13, 2011 at 5:21 pm #2897277
rest well
by purpleskys · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
we will miss you dearly
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November 13, 2011 at 5:38 pm #2897275
Say it aint so
by michael jay · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
Oh My, that hurts.
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November 13, 2011 at 5:56 pm #2897271
Sad to hear
by justin james · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
That’s sad to hear, I’m glad I got to meet him in person a few years ago.
J.Ja
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November 13, 2011 at 6:07 pm #2897269
Remember him well
by michael jay · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
just to put it out there, you might want to revisit this:
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/tr-out-loud/tr-member-spotlight-with-santeewelding/336-
November 13, 2011 at 6:10 pm #2897268
Thank you for that.
by boxfiddler · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Remember him well
I’ve a copy of it somewhere, but in the mess this place is right now, somewhere could be at the bottom of the deep blue sea.
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November 14, 2011 at 1:34 am #2897249
I can hear him laughing, now
by ansugisalas · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Remember him well
That is a good way to remember him, thanks!
By the way: there are new features in my stuff : http://www.techrepublic.com/members/discussions/4600554?tag=discussion-thread
10225 posts by Santeewelding
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November 14, 2011 at 6:59 am #2897230
Ansu
by charliespencer · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to I can hear him laughing, now
Sonja hasn’t interrogated you, has she?
We need to request a revival of the ‘Member Spotlight’ podcast. We have several newer members worthy of being interviewed since this feature was discontinued, including yourself.
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November 14, 2011 at 7:58 am #2897224
No, I havent…
by Sonja Thompson · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Ansu
And yes, there are…. (to be continued)
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November 20, 2011 at 3:50 pm #2446123
Indeed a legasy
by michael jay · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to I can hear him laughing, now
however due to a bug I would submit that his number is somewhat larger, when you start a discussion your first post is not recorded and Santee started quite a number of discussions, for example Soni’s TR Community scoreboard for November 18, 2011, when you go to her list of posts it does not appear;
http://www.techrepublic.com/members/discussions/598322?tag=mantle_skin;contentHer post to that thread, “early to bed, early to rise” does show in her list of posts, I should think that all of your posts, including starting a discussion should be listed.
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November 20, 2011 at 3:58 pm #2446121
So that’s how it is…
by ansugisalas · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Indeed a legasy
I had noticed it with Q&A stuff, but I didn’t consider if it extends to normal discussions. What a boob I am 😀
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November 20, 2011 at 4:21 pm #2446119
Golampo, got your ears on? this is a bug that needs fixing
by michael jay · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to So that’s how it is…
Guess I am asking with this, he seems to be the fix it man.
http://www.techrepublic.com/members/profile/4233042?tag=content;siu-container
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November 20, 2011 at 4:58 pm #2446116
Pushed out to the front
by michael jay · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Golampo, got your ears on? this is a bug that needs fixing
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November 21, 2011 at 12:33 pm #2446055
Oh geez.
by boxfiddler · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to So that’s how it is…
I was of the understanding that boobs came in pairs. 😐
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November 21, 2011 at 4:32 pm #2446036
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November 21, 2011 at 5:03 pm #2446030
I was kinda thinkin’
by boxfiddler · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to That’s where you went wrong Boxxy
about a mother/son pair I know. :^0
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November 21, 2011 at 7:36 pm #2446023
I knew that…
by ansugisalas · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Oh geez.
really… but when I tried writing “what a pair of boobies I am”… it didn’t sound right. Not right at all…
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November 13, 2011 at 6:29 pm #2897266
RIP Santeewelding
by papa_bill · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
I will dearly miss your verbal artwork. I would search TR for your comments. You made me practice my thinking.
I hope those who new you better are consoled.
Cut a hole and pull me through!
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November 13, 2011 at 6:53 pm #2897265
You’ll be missed
by ganyssa · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
This is a poor way to get me back on TR.
My condolences to everyone who’ll miss him – that includes me.
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November 13, 2011 at 7:17 pm #2897262
Circumstances aside
by nicknielsen · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to You’ll be missed
It’s good to see you here…
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November 13, 2011 at 8:19 pm #2897260
Crap
by hal 9000 · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
Crap & Dam another one bites the dust.
Col
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November 14, 2011 at 6:28 am #2897232
You know Col
by cmiller5400 · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Crap
I feel guilty even saying this but I d@mn near choked to death on my breakfast sandwich while laughing at your post.
I guess that if we don’t have laughter we gotta cry so, I’d rather be laughing enjoying the good memories :_|
Here’s one for Santee [_]3
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November 17, 2011 at 3:18 am #2446761
No I’m not accepting the blame for another
by hal 9000 · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to You know Col
It wasn’t my fault Honest. 😉
Col
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November 17, 2011 at 6:31 am #2446749
Send me coffee
by tigger_two · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to No I’m not accepting the blame for another
And all will be forgiven… 😀
(((hugs)))
Need to remember to hug the folks I love while I’m still bouncing…
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November 18, 2011 at 12:21 pm #2446250
OH Goody I can reply now
by hal 9000 · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Send me coffee
Something that hasn’t happened for a couple of days Tig.
Sorry no Coffee I have to follow my beliefs and help break your addictions. Now Tigs just step into this Room and I’ll help with your Addiction to Oxygen. 😀
I need to test it out to make sure that the Vacuum Chamber works properly before I send one Professor into it. She’s completely Insane. 😉
Apparently any Substance that you take regularly means that your Addicted to it. May work with Opiates but I chose to use the Oxygen Analogy it bugs the hell out of her. :^0
(((Hugs Tig)))
Col
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November 14, 2011 at 6:36 pm #2898820
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November 13, 2011 at 8:21 pm #2897259
The front rank becomes ever thinner.
by deepsand · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
Glimpses of the cleft are seen; sounds of the depths grow less faint.
You were memorably unique, Teasel; I shall miss sparring with you.
Wish Absolutely were here to see you off.
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November 13, 2011 at 8:32 pm #2897258
I was thinking that
by boxfiddler · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to The front rank becomes ever thinner.
about Abs. Lordy, did they ever duke it out! :^0
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November 14, 2011 at 12:24 am #2897253
Be with you, man!
by ansugisalas · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
How you are goes for all things.
May you be with you, as you kick ass and take names in all eternity.
Thanks.And, if you find yourself on that branch; get your ass back here, young man!
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November 14, 2011 at 2:25 am #2897245
Another good one gone. Dammit.
by gadgetgirl · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
So glad I got to meet him.
Memories of the Fox and Hounds, discussing the history of Newcastle Brown Ale, combined with a lesson on the Geordie pronounciation……
“NeeyouCASSul”
and he got it right on the third go.
Richard my dear, you are sorely and sadly missed.
No-one ever leaves the Gatherings again while I’m there without leaving me a double hug. New rule. Ok?
GG
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November 16, 2011 at 5:20 pm #2446796
He spelt it
by boxfiddler · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Another good one gone. Dammit.
rather like that, from then on. 😐
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November 14, 2011 at 3:55 am #2897243
Santeewelding, A true polymath
by michael kassner · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
“Vita, non memoria abitus”
Rest well, my friend
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November 14, 2011 at 6:17 am #2897236
You know he’d kick your butt
by boxfiddler · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Santeewelding, A true polymath
for ‘true’, right? 😉
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November 14, 2011 at 6:42 am #2897231
That would be fine with me
by michael kassner · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to You know he’d kick your butt
After which we could discuss it further.
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November 14, 2011 at 4:48 am #2897239
Now we’ve lost our curmudgeon.
by charliespencer · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
Dammit, web communities aren’t supposed to last long enough for us to become this close to people, especially those we rarely or never meet. Now who will linguistically abuse the new fish?
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November 14, 2011 at 6:23 am #2897234
I’ll second that.
by cmiller5400 · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Now we’ve lost our curmudgeon.
RIP.
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November 14, 2011 at 5:46 am #2897238
Damn, man.
by seanferd · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
I don’t suppose this will be true any longer:
http://santeewelding.com/suddenly.jpgI’m going to miss him.
http://santeewelding.com/p7070004.jpgDon’t anyone forget his advice:
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November 14, 2011 at 6:15 am #2897237
Don’t miss him, innate him.
by boxfiddler · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Damn, man.
“Don’t miss me, innate me.”
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November 14, 2011 at 6:27 am #2897233
3 responses.
by seanferd · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Don’t miss him, innate him.
[ol]
1. Already done.
2. Verbing weirds language. 😀
3. I’ll still miss him. Like a tornado. 😉
[/ol]
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November 14, 2011 at 1:19 pm #2898841
Will return suddenly…
by ansugisalas · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Damn, man.
Well… if anyone can do it, eh?
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November 14, 2011 at 5:11 pm #2898828
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November 15, 2011 at 12:18 am #2898792
#2
by hal 9000 · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Damn, man.
A man after my own heart, if you can’t fix it right the first time get a bigger hammer. :p
If the biggest hammer that you can swing doesn’t work grab the Gas Axe and it’s certain to be fixed one way or the other. 😉
Col
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November 14, 2011 at 6:22 am #2897235
D@mmit
by cmiller5400 · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
Your banter will be sorely missed around here Santee…
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November 14, 2011 at 7:18 am #2897228
We are all just passing through
by jdclyde · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
some just leave more of an impression on others during our stay.
Santee, you will be missed. Say hi to Mycroft and Scummy for me.
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November 14, 2011 at 7:46 am #2897225
Hope he’s partying with
by gsg · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
Old Mycroft and The Scummy One right now.
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November 16, 2011 at 1:58 pm #2446812
Hear, Hear!
by captbilly1eye · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Hope he’s partying with
Good to know such a good crowd awaits.
The three are probably flaming each other. 🙂
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November 18, 2011 at 12:23 pm #2446249
Well actually
by hal 9000 · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Hope he’s partying with
The 3 of them have got together and are making plans.
Now who should be concerned?
I know I’m not one of those people who need to be concerned. 😀
Col
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November 14, 2011 at 8:03 am #2897223
What am I going to do
by Sonja Thompson · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
with this dictionary now that I no longer need to translate his words? I think he enjoyed confusing me…. no, I KNOW he did! 😀
Did I mention how CUTE he is? And I say “is” because the memory I have of him will forever remain.
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November 14, 2011 at 8:16 am #2897221
If it were as simple as a dictionary
by jamesrl · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to What am I going to do
Then it would have been way too easy.
I won’t claim to have been one of the better people at translating him. Far from it.
But I do know that it involved context, the ability to look beyond the obvious, a sometimes warped perspective and wordplay.
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November 14, 2011 at 9:10 pm #2898801
Save it for your next life, or …
by deepsand · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to What am I going to do
… one after that. You never know who you might run into on the other side.
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November 16, 2011 at 11:05 pm #2446777
You need to do a collection of his best work.
by papa_bill · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to What am I going to do
It won’t need context, it’s more challenging without it!
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November 14, 2011 at 8:16 am #2897222
Santeewelding
by dcolbertmatrixmso · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
Santeewelding was one of the most interesting, deep thinking and challenging members of the Tech Republic community – and without a doubt one of the most responsible for defining the culture and tone of our message forums.
Santee was frequently misinterpreted and misunderstood, generally by those who found his complex writing unfathomable. There is no doubt that Santee’s writing style was frequently riddle-like and difficult to decipher. Many dismissed this as a sign that he was hiding a lack of valid content in unnecessary complex prose, or that he was simply incoherent or pretentiously difficult just for the sake of difficulty.
While on the surface it was easy to read Santee’s responses and assume these things, a careful analysis over time made it readily apparent that Santee was almost always saying very important things. I’d say that it was more frequent that I did not understand Santee than that I did, but in each case where I did puzzle out his meaning, not only was he absolutely correct, but the way he had expressed it was as complex and elegant as a complex mathematical formula. Santee brought the science of math to the written word. His writing was rule based, well defined, and consistently repeatable. On the other side of this realization, I had the strong sense that when I didn’t understand a post Santee made, it was not his fault, but mine. It took genuine thought and effort to get Santee’s point. You couldn’t just read it like it was background noise. I saw many people go up against Santee and walk away thinking they had won the encounter when in fact they had taken the most severe of thrashings without even realizing it. I admired and respected that ability in Santee, and always handled his responses with due caution when he engaged me directly.
I will miss his presence here greatly. He is one of the first names that became recognizable to me in the Tech Republic forums, and along with Palmetto, his posts were always my favorite to read.
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November 14, 2011 at 9:51 am #2897212
You honor me beyond my meager value.
by charliespencer · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Santeewelding
“It took genuine thought and effort to get Santee’s point.”
I always thought his style was a bit of a test. If you couldn’t get his point, you probably weren’t able to hold up your end of the debate. Gods know there were plenty of times he sailed far over my head, leaving me both admiring and frustrated.
I shall treasure being mentioned in the same sentence.
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November 14, 2011 at 11:10 am #2897206
Well said…
by dcolbertmatrixmso · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to You honor me beyond my meager value.
“I always thought his style was a bit of a test. If you couldn’t get his point, you probably weren’t able to hold up your end of the debate.”
And those of us who are intellectual warriors at debate here on TR were frequently left scratching our heads and trying to figure out what he was driving at.
My favorite Santee tactic – where he would attack the logic or reason of a point or claim I had made, but my actual opponent would misunderstand and take it as a personal attack on themselves, effectively *defending* me and arguing against themselves in the process.
The fear one would leave with after seeing that happen was,
“What it Santee has done that to ME and I just didn’t realize it!”
🙂
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November 14, 2011 at 11:41 am #2898846
Nothing meager about you, Palmie.
by boxfiddler · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to You honor me beyond my meager value.
🙂
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November 14, 2011 at 9:52 am #2897211
Goodbye, Santee…
by Wizard57M-TR · about 12 years, 5 months ago
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I’ll miss his corrections of my deplorable butchery of the English language,
along with his insights into technology.
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November 14, 2011 at 10:45 am #2897207
lmao!
by boxfiddler · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
He sent me his dictionaries. 😡
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November 14, 2011 at 6:43 pm #2898817
Why would I not be surprised to learn
by nicknielsen · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to lmao!
One of them is the complete OED. :-bd
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November 14, 2011 at 6:44 pm #2898816
Two volume set.
by boxfiddler · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Why would I not be surprised to learn
😡
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November 14, 2011 at 9:43 pm #2898798
Ah, the Short edition
by nicknielsen · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Two volume set.
The Complete is 20 volumes! :0
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November 16, 2011 at 11:15 pm #2446774
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November 14, 2011 at 11:38 am #2898847
I never understood a word he said
by slayer_ · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
But I shall still miss trying to figure him out.
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November 14, 2011 at 12:26 pm #2898844
Sh*t
by tigger_two · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
I realize that there is an age at which you lose people at alarming rates. I always thought that I would be so much older when that began…
I’m so tired of losing people…
Requiescat in pace, my friend.
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November 14, 2011 at 9:04 pm #2898803
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November 14, 2011 at 9:17 pm #2898800
I can see it now
by nicknielsen · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to That’s what’s been haunting me …
You, me, Tig, Palmetto, Max, Colin, James, jd, and others, still [verbally] duking it out on TR. From our wheelchairs. B-)
[Old guy voice] Assuming, of course, there’s still a TR… 😀
Edit: WTF? Forgot Oz.
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November 14, 2011 at 11:07 pm #2898795
Easy way to cover all the bases is to just say …
by deepsand · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to I can see it now
the Whole Sick Crew.
(Okay; so I stole that from Pynchon’s [i]V[/i]. Sue me.)
Seems oddly appropriate, in light of Time’s review of the time.
[quote]In this sort of book, there is no total to arrive at. Nothing makes any waking sense. But it makes a powerful, deeply disturbing dream sense. Nothing in the book seems to have been thrown in arbitrarily, merely to confuse, as is the case when inept authors work at illusion. Pynchon appears to be indulging in the fine, pre-Freudian luxury of dreams dreamt for the dreaming. The book sails with majesty through caverns measureless to man. What does it mean? Who, finally, is V.? Few books haunt the waking or the sleeping mind, but this is one. Who, indeed?[/quote]
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November 15, 2011 at 5:00 am #2898777
Wheelchairs
by charliespencer · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to I can see it now
I want the one with each half of a split keyboard mounted on the arms; ASDF on the left, JKL; on the right.
Sandy, the masthead for Mad Magazine includes the phrase, “Contributing artists and writers – the usual gang of idiots”
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November 15, 2011 at 7:52 am #2898758
My goal for my golden years
by gsg · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to I can see it now
is to be in the nursing home with my geeky peeps. We’ll set up a raid, where some of us will distract the nurses, some will hack the medication dispensing machine, and the ones who can walk will remove the “good stuff” and share it out with the team.
Sort of a geriatric mission impossible.
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November 15, 2011 at 12:02 pm #2898722
The Geriatric Mission Impossible
by tigger_two · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to My goal for my golden years
Given the rate at which senility is taking over the lion’s share of my cognitive functioning, I will need more than a self destructing audio tape to successfully complete my part of the mission.
Cue cards at a minimum, I think. Really BIG cue cards.
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November 16, 2011 at 11:23 pm #2446773
Between the senility and the Alzhiemer’s…
by papa_bill · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to The Geriatric Mission Impossible
…nobody would ever suspect we’re high.
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November 17, 2011 at 6:34 am #2446748
I was just hoping
by tigger_two · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Between the senility and the Alzhiemer’s…
For marginally functional. High seems like too much to hope for…
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November 15, 2011 at 1:37 pm #2898705
Somehow…
by ansugisalas · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to My goal for my golden years
I figure you’ll be aiming to replace the “calmies” with placebos.
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November 16, 2011 at 11:24 pm #2446772
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November 17, 2011 at 9:44 am #2446726
I’d be up for that…
by nicknielsen · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Nope;
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(Sorry. It [b]had[/b] to be said.)
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November 17, 2011 at 1:00 pm #2446701
NO! Don’t vote him up!
by charliespencer · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Nope;
You only encourage him!
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November 17, 2011 at 1:41 pm #2446692
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November 15, 2011 at 8:23 am #2898756
Oz will seagull in and out
by jamesrl · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to I can see it now
Of course if TR dissapears, most of us are on Facebook….except Palmy, not sure about Max. And some of the dissapeared are there as well.
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November 17, 2011 at 4:21 am #2446758
Sorry.
by charliespencer · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Oz will seagull in and out
I don’t know if it’s because I can’t work up the courage, or because I can’t work up the interest. Maybe my security concerns aren’t valid. My in-laws visited back in May and set my wife up, something she had no interest in. She’s looked at it less than five times. When she did, she learned more about the nieces’ and nephews’ activities than she really wanted to know, and didn’t care at all about what her relatives’ other friends said or did.
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November 17, 2011 at 6:37 am #2446747
Got it
by tigger_two · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Sorry.
Ignore it, mostly.
I keep in touch with some folks on FB. Don’t log in much, tho. It’s a tool. I use it when I need that particular tool to do something. Or when I need to play with my imaginary farm.
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November 17, 2011 at 9:46 am #2446725
valid
by apotheon · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Sorry.
Your security concerns are almost certainly valid. Without asking you what they are in specific detail, of course, I don’t know for sure — but there are craptons of valid security concerns related to Facebook, so don’t feel like you’re alone in that regard.
I have a Facebook account, but I don’t really play Facebook anyway. I’ve probably used it more as a way to research Facebook issues for articles than for my own purposes.
Of course, Justin James keeps mentioning me in posts of his in that utterly awful discussion interface on Facebook, which means I occasionally get emails telling me he’s talking about it. If he has to do that on a social networking site, I wish he’d use Google+ instead; at least that has a tolerable discussion interface. Actually, the Google+ discussion interface is better than that of TR’s default, but not as good as TR as modified by tr-rectify.
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November 18, 2011 at 3:22 pm #2446217
+1 for your excellent turn of phrase!
by hippiekarl · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to valid
Shake?
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November 18, 2011 at 11:02 pm #2446202
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November 17, 2011 at 1:20 pm #2446696
You don’t have to share anything really
by jamesrl · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Sorry.
You can set up a FB ID without disclosing tons of personal information, and you can restrict that little bit to friends. You can even use an alias.
I don’t allow strangers to see my pics or my wall. I don’t share my university, my employers, my mailing address, email address or phone number. I don’t add friends that I don’t know.
I do share concerns about people who share too much. My daughters ended up unfriending their 20 something cousin because of her sharing of more than any of us wanted to know about her personal life.
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November 17, 2011 at 3:13 pm #2446681
right
by apotheon · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to You don’t have to share anything really
You don’t have to actually use it at all — which is almost what you do if you don’t share anything on Facebook.
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November 18, 2011 at 12:58 pm #2446240
Heh… let me recap that
by ansugisalas · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to You don’t have to share anything really
Zuckerberg made a tool for sharing too much information, and it’s really good – for sharing too much information.
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November 18, 2011 at 1:12 pm #2446234
There’s still my second issue.
by charliespencer · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to You don’t have to share anything really
Even if Facebook was the NSA, I probably would still not be on it. As I noted, my brief experience taught me much I DIDN’T want to know about family, and I don’t care at all about what their friends think or do.
Q&A and Discussions here tend to remain on technological topics. While WC conversations do tend to wander, you don’t find many of us publicly airing our dirty knickers as e-therapy. The level of social interaction here is at just about right for me.
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November 18, 2011 at 6:20 pm #2446213
"Even if" . . . ?
by apotheon · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to You don’t have to share anything really
> “ESPECIALLY if Facebook was the NSA, I probably would still not be on it.”
FTFY
edit: Holy crap. At one time, I used blockquotes to set off text quoted from other people in my comments, but then TR broke that — then fixed it, then broke it again. I eventually switched to using a greater-than symbol at the beginning of each line of quotes, but now TR eats the greater-than symbol. I bet there are hundreds — if not thousands — of comments from me that are now almost unreadable hash because you can’t differentiate at a glance which parts were my statements and which were someone else’s.
This is getting outta hand.
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November 19, 2011 at 12:00 am #2446200
They had to immunize the code to angle brackets…
by ansugisalas · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to You don’t have to share anything really
since there were ways to break an entire thread downstream from a mangled set of brackets… which could be exploited to immunize spam to tagging.
It probably had to do with tags left open carrying over to the thread downstream… I guess html doesn’t have a catch-all capper, to cap any and all formatting tag left open upstream?
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November 19, 2011 at 7:47 am #2446194
That’s why I use italics
by nicknielsen · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to You don’t have to share anything really
TR allows certain BB code tags.
[b][ i ][/b] does [i]italic[/i]
[b][ b ][/b] does [b]bold[/b]
etc.
(delete the spaces, of course)As Ansu said, sometimes the code key is there, sometimes it isn’t. tr-rectify appears to strip it out.
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November 19, 2011 at 12:20 pm #2446181
I’ll have to look into that for tr-rectify.
by apotheon · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to You don’t have to share anything really
For a while, bbcode didn’t work, and only HTML did. It seems like they’ve gradually swung the other way, again.
1. It’s not all that difficult to sanitize HTML without breaking links and the like. Really.
2. I wish they’d just pick a way to do it and stop screwing around with it.
Because of the change in how they handled italics for a while, I stopped using italics. I’m not terribly inclined to start again, because they might change their minds again.
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November 15, 2011 at 12:03 pm #2898721
The challenge will be
by tigger_two · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to I can see it now
… recalling what the h*ll we’re discussing at any given time.
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November 15, 2011 at 3:37 pm #2898695
Yep
by nicknielsen · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to The challenge will be
Even now, I have to browse some of the longer threads to figure out what’s going on.
Then I forget what I was going to post… 🙁
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November 15, 2011 at 11:35 pm #2898875
I’ll have you know that I’m actively looking for a wheel chair now
by hal 9000 · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to I can see it now
Of course it’s got to be electric as fitting a Big Petrol Motor just isn’t feasible but it’s going to be highly modified to suit my needs it looks like this
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj121/HAL9000_photo/davrosfinished7thmay007.jpg
It’s not so much the Wheelchair as the problem it’s the escort of 2 fully functional Darleks that I’ll require that is causing the problem. 😉
Col
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November 16, 2011 at 5:15 pm #2446798
I have a spare.
by seanferd · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to I’ll have you know that I’m actively looking for a wheel chair now
Shipping it all the way to Constantly Confused Mere Male would cost quite a bit, although not as much as the original cost of the chair. :0
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November 16, 2011 at 6:02 pm #2446789
Don’t tempt me
by hal 9000 · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to I have a spare.
I may just take you up on it even with the 110V issue. 😀
Col
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November 16, 2011 at 10:43 pm #2446779
Pfft. You’d just rebuild the charger to spec.
by seanferd · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Don’t tempt me
You aren’t fooling anybody. :^0
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November 17, 2011 at 1:22 am #2446765
OK back in the days when I fixed Sewing Machines
by oh smeg · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Don’t tempt me
I did a lot of 110 to 240 V Conversions.
Some even said that I was the Resident Expert on things like that, though I would disagree I just had a lot of practice and could do them in my sleep. 😉
Col :^0
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November 21, 2011 at 9:47 pm #2446012
When people start saying things like that,
by seanferd · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Don’t tempt me
it’s time to [b]run[/b]. :^0
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November 16, 2011 at 11:29 pm #2446771
With that address
by papa_bill · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to I have a spare.
you need to ship thousands.
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November 17, 2011 at 3:28 am #2446759
BOO Boo Boo
by hal 9000 · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to I have a spare.
That’s another thing that’s gone missing with the site downgrade.
I love the Constantly Confussed Mere Male and it’s not there any longer. :_|
It’s something that [b]SWMBO[/b] relates to as she’s Always right and I know it must be so as she told me so herself. Though now she is starting to find ways to still make herself right and beginning to find ways to nag me yet again.
If she continues I’ll have to start calling her Five Horses [i]Nag, Nag, Nag, Nag & Nag.[/i]. 😉
Col 0:-)
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November 15, 2011 at 12:12 pm #2898720
(((hugs))) Sandy
by tigger_two · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to That’s what’s been haunting me …
I’m so glad to see you- even in crap circumstances.
It occurred to me recently that the lion’s share of the people I interact with are people I have either never met or only seen once or twice. It also occurred to me that it hurts just as much to lose an online friend as someone I’ve seen daily. Sometimes more.
In the past three years, I’ve lost both parents, my husband, my aunt, and nearly a dozen friends. I’ve had enough. NO ONE here is allowed to die, dammit! Not one of you. Period.
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November 15, 2011 at 1:30 pm #2898708
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November 15, 2011 at 5:05 pm #2898881
Yes’m.
by apotheon · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to (((hugs))) Sandy
/me salutes.
Tell that to the doctors. It looks like I need a(nother) hernia surgery.
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November 16, 2011 at 11:24 am #2898852
Swearing
by tigger_two · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Yes’m.
Because sometimes “gosh darn it” isn’t enough…
(((hugs)))
Tell the docs that they REALLY don’t want to deal with a PO’d Tigger. They have to return you in better shape than they got you.
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November 16, 2011 at 5:41 pm #2446792
Thank you.
by seanferd · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to (((hugs))) Sandy
I’ll endeavour to not do so.
You, neither. Not allowed. Orders, ma’am.
I’m sorry you have lost so many people. I only recall your mention of a few of them, including the SO. Between one’s health, and the health of one’s others, it can become very trying at times. So, more power to you, dear.
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November 14, 2011 at 4:06 pm #2898831
Thats so sad
by av . · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
I had no idea he was so sick. RIP, Santee.
AV
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November 14, 2011 at 5:03 pm #2898829
Esophageal cancer
by boxfiddler · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Thats so sad
rarely presents symptoms until it’s ‘too late’. 🙁
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November 14, 2011 at 5:29 pm #2898827
Wow! Santee got me to post again!
by maxwell edison · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
It’s been well over a month, maybe closer to two, when I last logged into TR. The reasons for my absence are many, one of which (albeit a small one) is Santee. No explanation is necessary for those who understand; no explanation is possible for those who don’t. I’m sure Santee would see both the humor and the irony in this – that it’s because of him that I now log in.
I’ve often posted links to some song as a response to something or other, and I once posted one to which Santee replied in a most rare, plain-spoken manner. He really liked the song, he simply told me as much, and thanked me for posting it; I think he called it a gem.
It’s one of my favorite songs; it has a great – and, perhaps, a most appropriate – message; and Santee really liked it.
So, I raise a glass of scotch, and I play it again for Santee – and for you.
(I hope I got all that punctuation right!)
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November 14, 2011 at 6:33 pm #2898822
Thassa good choice, too.
by boxfiddler · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Wow! Santee got me to post again!
Looping… 🙂
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November 14, 2011 at 7:54 pm #2898806
I’ll joing you
by jamesrl · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Wow! Santee got me to post again!
In that scotch…second night in a row, I’m sure he would approve.
I will post something I’ve posted before….I sang this for Rememberence day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJS9h09yGEY
Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sun on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning???s hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the soft starlight at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
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November 14, 2011 at 8:17 pm #2898805
Definitely
by nicknielsen · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Wow! Santee got me to post again!
Scotch here as well…
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November 14, 2011 at 9:06 pm #2898802
Oh, and punctuation acceptable
by nicknielsen · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Wow! Santee got me to post again!
By American rules.
Santee rules, I’m not so sure about; he liked commas more than I do.
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November 15, 2011 at 12:17 pm #2898719
Excellent choice of music, Max
by tigger_two · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Wow! Santee got me to post again!
Last night’s beverage selection was Canadian whiskey, but yeah. Me too.
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November 15, 2011 at 2:41 pm #2898697
Not the only one…
by ansugisalas · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Wow! Santee got me to post again!
I recall he was quite touched by your selection of Poetry in motion, too.
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November 15, 2011 at 2:43 pm #2898696
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November 14, 2011 at 6:38 pm #2898819
RIP
by steffi28 · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
Cant believe he’s gone, he always managed to make me smile, and on occasions bloody well confuse the hell outta me haha
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November 14, 2011 at 6:41 pm #2898818
Pretty sure
by boxfiddler · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to RIP
he nailed us all rather regularly. :^0
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November 14, 2011 at 6:45 pm #2898815
yup
by steffi28 · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Pretty sure
he probably did, he had the ability to make me feel dumb but not in a bad way in a way that kinda makes you feel in awe of his knowledge, he was a fun guy 🙂
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November 14, 2011 at 7:37 pm #2898807
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November 15, 2011 at 12:29 pm #2898717
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November 15, 2011 at 12:37 pm #2898716
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November 15, 2011 at 1:17 pm #2898710
(((hugs))) honey
by tigger_two · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to *sigh*
I knew you would get it.
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November 14, 2011 at 11:01 pm #2898796
RIP, sir; and thanks for the company
by hippiekarl · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
Thanks for telling me what I was trying to say, as well; I’m going to miss your ascerbic wit around here….
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November 15, 2011 at 12:47 am #2898791
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
by deepsand · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
PS: Hope you remembered to take along your towel.
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November 15, 2011 at 8:24 am #2898755
condolences
by pgit · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
to family and friends. A wordsmith and philosopher has departed our midst.
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November 15, 2011 at 8:39 am #2898752
I don’t know what to say
by ed woychowsky · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
Santee will be missed.
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November 15, 2011 at 9:48 am #2898744
I just read this.
by jfuller05 · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
I’m a rookie here at TR. Santee was one of the first members I noticed in the discussion boards. I lurked for a long time, trying to learn the tone and “rules” of the DBs. Santee was definitely one of my favorite TR people and he probably didn’t even know it. We talked a few times here on TR. Direct and indirect conversations with him had me checking the meaning of words, learning new ones and then using those words in written and oral conversation with others.
He will be missed by many.
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November 15, 2011 at 10:18 am #2898741
another tough day
by apotheon · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
I’ll remember him at the billiards table in Louisville.
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November 15, 2011 at 10:24 am #2898740
Did he go just the first year?
by jamesrl · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to another tough day
Thats where I met him. And you of course…
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November 15, 2011 at 1:44 pm #2898704
I’m not sure.
by apotheon · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Did he go just the first year?
I wasn’t there this year.
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November 15, 2011 at 1:51 pm #2898703
Nick was the only one there this year
by ansugisalas · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to I’m not sure.
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November 15, 2011 at 5:04 pm #2898882
It would have been two of us . . .
by apotheon · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Nick was the only one there this year
I would have been there, if CBSi had not decided through the agency of a contractor that I was no longer eligible to write for TR.
Somehow, I never know about those discussions until someone else points out that I was mentioned.
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November 16, 2011 at 5:19 pm #2446797
I suspected as much.
by seanferd · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to It would have been two of us . . .
Didn’t really want to ask.
I miss your articles.
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November 16, 2011 at 11:08 pm #2446776
Thanks.
by apotheon · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to I suspected as much.
I appreciate the kind regard.
Note that it wasn’t that I didn’t want to show up because I wasn’t writing. Rather, it was that with expenses this year I found it much more difficult to justify spending the time and money on the trip if there wasn’t a business relationship involved, even nominally.
Exhibit A: I just spent $3500 (give or take) on auto repair, and it’s not done yet. Yeah, a trip to Louisville to talk about a small-revenue contract I used to have seemed like a bit of a frivolous expense.
I missed it.
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November 18, 2011 at 12:28 pm #2446246
You are quite welcome.
by seanferd · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to I suspected as much.
I’ve never made it to TRCon myself. But I do miss your writing, and I found some of your other spots on the intarwebs to be somewhat “down” or not updated when I’ve gone looking.
If you are taking a break, more power to you.
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November 18, 2011 at 6:31 pm #2446212
Eh . . .
by apotheon · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to I suspected as much.
I’m feeling a bit unmotivated to write for my personal spaces on the Interwebs. I’m phasing out SOB [0] kinda by default, because I find managing WordPress to be a tremendous pain in my fourth point of contact, and I’m slacking off on blogstrapping [1] (because I suck, evidently). I haven’t gotten around to getting UnivAcc [2] set up (a new thing I want to do). I haven’t added a proper “news” interface to the Copyfree Initiative [3] site yet — there’s just the @CopyfreeNews Twitter feed so far.
I should probably set up a (low-traffic) mailing list just so people who keep asking about whether I’m writing anything these days will have a way to get news from me if/when I start writing with some regularity again.
(Technically, I am writing right now, but it’s fiction and not fit for human consumption until I give it an edit to produce a second draft.)
edit: I guess it’s not so much “I’m taking a break!” as “I’ve lost momentum, and I’ve been too lazy to push-start this roller coaster again.”
1: sob dot apotheon dot org (was temporarily broken, but I fixed it when I realized it was down)
2: blogstrapping dot come (my devlog, on a minimalist content management system I wrote myself)
3: univacc dot net (Universal Accelerant, to be about innovation, advancement — technological and otherwise, economics of advancement, politics of advancement, et cetera)
4: copyfree dot org (advocacy and definition for copyfree licensing, plus resources; I’m currently working slowly on some tools for the site, including improvements for stuff that’s already there as well as new things)
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November 18, 2011 at 6:41 pm #2446211
Just in case my links won’t get eaten . . .
by apotheon · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to I suspected as much.
1. http://sob.apotheon.org (SOB): general braindump site, getting phased out because I loathe WordPress and want to specialize a bit more in several venues rather than stir everything together as mental gumbo
2. http://blogstrapping.com (blogstrapping): devlog, where I mutter about programming stuff
3. http://univacc.net (UnivAcc): futurism and speculation
4. http://copyfree.org (Copyfree Initiative): working toward a better world by freeing the product of the intellect for everyone
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November 19, 2011 at 12:10 am #2446199
If you’re still following infosec news intently…
by ansugisalas · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to I suspected as much.
I think a lot of people would be interested in following a link-dump stream, maybe in a dedicated “persona” on Google+? If it wouldn’t be too much trouble, I think that’d be a popular initiative, and via the reasonably useful commenting system there, it could maybe help you regain focus in that area, since there’d be feedback and stuff.
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November 21, 2011 at 10:04 pm #2446011
Thanks, apotheon.
by seanferd · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to I suspected as much.
I certainly expect people to take breaks from their blogs or abandon them. My, er, curiosity was heightened because I wasn’t seeing you anywhere. But you did turn up in the comments here – I certainly knew you were around by the time of the “guns at work” thread – so I just figured you were on a break. Yet I was still very curious why there were no further articles at TR, the answer to which was made clear to me in an earlier post.
But it looks like you can post links again. You’re right, though. Someone should pick a method, or what is allowed and what isn’t, and stick to it.
BTW, blockquotes are now
[pre] [q] [/q] or [quote] [/quote] [/pre]
for “quote” and “blockquote”, respectively.edit: And look on in wonder as the pre tag fails yet again…
Just imagine the brackets and all, “q” and “quote” are the relevant tags. Or you can look at the mess in View Source and imagine the angle brackets are square brackets.
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November 28, 2011 at 12:43 pm #2445138
Try code tags.
by apotheon · about 12 years, 4 months ago
In reply to I suspected as much.
Maybe TR won’t parse out code within code tags (as opposed to pre tags).
It doesn’t really matter, I guess. In the end, I’m likely to just use plain text with reference to anything that requires (for instance) formatted code on some other site, or to have discussions about such things on other sites in the first place. When I can’t count on what I write being legible from one month to the next, my enthusiasm for writing it quickly withers and dies.
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November 17, 2011 at 4:24 am #2446757
Is that what happened?
by charliespencer · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to It would have been two of us . . .
I just assumed you had other demands on your time. Bummer.
My wife had to fly to Louisville the weekend before (or after, I don’t remember now) for family reasons, and an extended stay for two wasn’t in the budget this year.
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November 17, 2011 at 9:31 am #2446730
time
by apotheon · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Is that what happened?
Demands on my time would have prompted me to scale back the rate of my contribution, or take a short break (maybe a month) — not stop writing altogether (for four months so far). I quite liked writing for TR, and felt like I was doing something worthwhile.
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November 16, 2011 at 10:26 pm #2446781
Wasn’t able to make it either
by bfilmfan · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to I’m not sure.
I couldn’t travel up there either,as the cardiologist has restricted me on travel. I hope to make it next year if they have a Gathering.
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November 17, 2011 at 11:40 am #2446712
Same here
by tigger_two · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Wasn’t able to make it either
Can’t fly and nowhere near the stamina required to drive for 10 hours. Crossing my fingers for next year, myself.
This aging thing BITES!
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November 19, 2011 at 5:16 pm #2446164
Well, it may bite,
by charliespencer · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Same here
but so far it appears to beat the alternative. Although, I must admin, no one has yet posted to the contrary…
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November 18, 2011 at 12:24 pm #2446248
I wish you both better prospects in the future.
by seanferd · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Wasn’t able to make it either
BFilmFan and Tigger_Two. I’m sorry you weren’t able to do something good because you just couldn’t hack it (or your doctor said you couldn’t).
I know my wishes get neither me nor you anywhere, I just wanted to express the sentiment.
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November 15, 2011 at 3:42 pm #2898693
Just the once
by nicknielsen · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Did he go just the first year?
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November 15, 2011 at 6:19 pm #2898879
Yes the once, the first Gathering
by michael jay · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Just the once
Very much not the cryptic, but a very real and vibrant personality, I will remember him in that light, so very glad I got to meet him.
Hoped to meet him again, guess that will have to wait for a later time.
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November 15, 2011 at 10:30 am #2898738
I never met him in person
by sterling “chip” camden · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
But his cryptic apothegms provided a closer contact than most physical presences. I’ll miss him.
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November 15, 2011 at 10:42 am #2898733
He wasn’t an easy read in person
by jamesrl · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to I never met him in person
Slightly less cryptic perhaps but not a talkative type. It takes all kinds of course.
Some of us bonded right away, others gradually. Some stayed on the periphery.
Shelley and I had met before. JD, Ganyssa and I drove down together. Toni and Soni and I had corresponded on articles. Santee wasn’t part of the late night drinking crowd. You had to get to know him over time. A few people actually emailled me a few times to explain what he had posted about me before I began to understand his comments on my posts.
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November 15, 2011 at 12:56 pm #2898712
i didnt know him personally, but he had great posts
by markp24 · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
too bad i never got to discuss anythign with him 🙁 he obviously was a great person.
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November 15, 2011 at 2:18 pm #2898700
A message from my adversary, sparring partner, and friend, OzMedia
by maxwell edison · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
Former TR peers:
I’m ever so sorry to hear that yet another TR member has passed, especially when considering the circumstances.
Santee and I butted heads like a pair of mountain goats on “the brown acid” [i](watch Woodstock for reference)[/i], whether due to misunderstanding or simply due to a difference of opinion, the former being most common. A linguist he certainly was, even if 1000 or more years past his time.
Being English myself, I always have issues with those who can’t speak English…to my personal liking at least, however, Santee was always an exception to that rule. Instead of irritating me with his poor use of grammar, I often found myself frustrated by his superior abilities as a true wordsmith.
For the longest time, I thought he wasn’t making any sense at all, seemingly speaking in tongues. The few times I actually understood the meaning of his jumbled, cryptic fashion[i] (at least I thought I got the general gist of it)[/i], I began to appreciate his comments, having finally understood them, and would ever so enjoy his banter.
While I have been away from “the trenches”, so to speak, due to actions of TR staff, I have grown to respect many of those who often riled me to the point of being blinded to their true meaning, Santee being one of them; perhaps a better way to be, absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Rest in peace, Santee, I know you will be sorely missed by so many and remembered so fondly by the same.
I wish everyone on the TR Forums all the best in their futures in these, ever so gradually recovering, economic times. It’s been a long, tough road for so many and I’m sure it will continue to be so for some time yet. It’s nice to hear that you have all stuck together and helped keep each other’s spirits up as so very few digital communities do.
OzMedia
“…banging my head on some mad buggers wall”
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I can’t comment on the reasons Oz had for asking me to post this for him.
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November 15, 2011 at 2:37 pm #2898698
Thanks
by ansugisalas · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to A message from my adversary, sparring partner, and friend, OzMedia
Oz, too, is missed. It was good to read what he had to say.
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November 15, 2011 at 7:17 pm #2898877
Someone care to fill me in re. Oz’s absence?
by deepsand · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Thanks
Having all the good stuff crammed into half a screen and vertically stretched beyond reasonableness, along with My Stuff being blank, has made keeping up here most difficult. We really need a decent platform here, such as vBulletin.
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November 15, 2011 at 10:43 pm #2898876
If you’re on Firefox . . .
by apotheon · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Someone care to fill me in re. Oz’s absence?
. . . try using the tr-rectify Greasemonkey script.
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November 17, 2011 at 4:28 am #2446756
Silly question:
by charliespencer · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to If you’re on Firefox . . .
What does this script fix? I’m on FF, and the only problem I’ve had lately is the missing ‘My Stuff’. I recall golampo has acknowledged that as a site problem.
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November 17, 2011 at 9:36 am #2446729
It mostly changes the interface.
by apotheon · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Silly question:
It eliminates the problem of clicking on random parts of the page background registering as a click on an ad you may not even see; it uses the whole width of the screen so that you won’t have cramped narrow spaces with text jammed into them in the middle of the screen; it places hide/expand buttons all over the place with some stuff of dubious utility hidden by default; it changes the colors for input elements to help reduce the incidence of accidentally replying in the wrong place; it makes nesting of comments just slightly more obvious; it changes font sizes to make things look less like the box of a Playskool toy; it unbreaks the way TR’s recent designs have broken code tags in old comments and articles; it prevents certain page elements from breaking up the formatting of articles too badly; there’s probably a bunch more I don’t recall right now. . . .
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November 17, 2011 at 9:53 am #2446724
Is there a link to the particular script?
by nicknielsen · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to It mostly changes the interface.
I don’t have too many issues running Ad-Block Plus, but it would be nice to see the discussions back in full-width.
Edit: disregard last transmission. I just read sean’s post… B-)
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November 16, 2011 at 5:33 pm #2446794
Hrm.
by seanferd · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Someone care to fill me in re. Oz’s absence?
Hi, deepsand. Always good to see you.
Yes, the improvements haven’t been improvements for everyone. Apotheon’s measure of using tr-rectify does help.
bitbucket [dot] org [whack] sterlingcamden [whack] tr-rectifyAs to Oz. IIRC, one point was that he was quite displeased with the changes at TR. Another was that he was fed up with some commenters with which he was adversarial (including one of the blog authors ↑). Further, at one point he indicated that the Oz Media profile had been handed around and in use by like six people for an unspecified period of time just to troll the forums for kicks.
I have no idea what other issues he may have now, be they personal or with TR. I hope he’s doing well.
I hope you are doing well, too, deepsand.
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November 16, 2011 at 10:30 pm #2446780
tr-rectify is now available through the Greasemonkey archives
by apotheon · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Hrm.
If you go to the Greasemonkey tab in the Firefox addons dialog, you can click the “Get user scripts” link to get to the userscripts [dot] org site, which can be used to search for and install tr-rectify. You could also, of course, just go to userscripts [dot] org directly and do a search for tr-rectify or TechRepublic. As of this writing, tr-rectify is one of only two results that comes up in a search for TechRepublic at userscripts [dot] org.
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November 16, 2011 at 10:50 pm #2446778
Oh, why would I do it the convenient way?
by seanferd · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to tr-rectify is now available through the Greasemonkey archives
😉 No, I hadn’t noticed it was at userscriptsorg. I don’t play around with greasemonkey a whole bunch. I think tr-rectify is the only script besides killfile that I have installed.
Thanks for the heads-up. Good to know the script is available from the GM interface. I’ll be sure to mention this more convenient method of getting the script when suggesting tr-rectify in the future.
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November 16, 2011 at 11:10 pm #2446775
It’s a relatively new thing.
by apotheon · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Oh, why would I do it the convenient way?
It was . . . what, a couple months ago? . . . that I added it to userscripts. I just decided one day to look into what it takes to get the script on there, and discovered it was easy. Making a Ruby gem turned out to be more work, but I found a nice step-by-step guide to the basics in a book I bought for other reasons, and coupled with online documentation for Ruby gem management I put a gem together. (Now, Sterling and I are trying to fix it up so it’s worth committing to the Rubygems archives for the whole world to use.)
Anyway . . . the reason I started writing this comment was to mention that it hasn’t been on userscripts all that long, so it would be easy for you to not know it was there.
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November 17, 2011 at 5:37 pm #2446668
I’ve installed it
by nicknielsen · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Oh, why would I do it the convenient way?
And like the changes, with one exception. My old eyes have trouble with the smaller fonts. I’d like to remove the font changes (I think I remember enough javascript from 13 years ago to make the changes), but what repository is the script in?
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November 17, 2011 at 10:21 pm #2446662
"repository"
by apotheon · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Oh, why would I do it the convenient way?
What do you mean by “repository” in this context? Are you asking about where it is on your computer when you install it, or where on the Internet the source is stored?
If on your local system, I’m not sure. I don’t use MS Windows enough to know where extensions install. On Unix-like systems, it should be in something like ~/.mozilla/extensions/blah/blah. If on the Internet, it’s stored in Sterling’s Bitbucket account (and seanferd described its location on the Web up this thread a little).
Of course, Firefox allows you to do something like clicking into View > Zoom and selecting the option you want, or using Ctrl and either + or – on the numpad to do it using keyboard shortcuts (or Ctrl and the number 0 to reset the zoom).
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November 18, 2011 at 12:54 pm #2446243
@ NickNielsen
by seanferd · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Oh, why would I do it the convenient way?
If you do mean “where on the HDD is the script stored”, for Win it is
%userprofile%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[i]rnd_string[/i].default\gm_scriptsI played around editing the script in a much earlier iteration. Firebug helps.
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November 18, 2011 at 1:01 pm #2446238
@ Apotheon
by seanferd · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Oh, why would I do it the convenient way?
See, now I need to find out more about Ruby gems. :^0 I’ve heard mention before, but I don’t really know anything else about Ruby (or writing code in general), although I do enjoy reading about it.
So, I guess I’ll
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November 19, 2011 at 12:17 pm #2446182
Interesting thing about Ruby coding . . .
by apotheon · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Oh, why would I do it the convenient way?
I’m actually considering offering my services (professionally) for personal beginner programming instruction. I’ll probably focus a fair bit on Ruby as a pedagogical tool.
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November 15, 2011 at 4:53 pm #2898884
Sad To See
by dogknees · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
… he’s gone. Will miss his “interjections”.
An era is over.
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November 16, 2011 at 11:40 am #2898850
Something not everyone may have noticed …
by jasonhiner · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
Santee was actually one of the staunchest defenders of TR staffers in the forums when trolls came here and tried to grandstand. While he may have hit TR staffers pretty hard himself, he would never stand for it if someone from the outside came around and started talking unintelligent smack. For that reason alone, he was quite well-liked by the staff.
Santee was kind of like that crazy charismatic uncle who always winked at you and slipped you a $20 bill when you were a kid.
I’ll tell you my favorite Santee story. It was from the first TR Live event in 2009 when we celebrated the 10th anniversary of TechRepublic. On Saturday morning after the event had ended a lot of us met at Lynn’s Paradise Cafe for breakfast (it’s a nationally famous breakfast spot in Louisville). For most of it I was sitting next to Santee and he noticed me quietly making sure all the tables got their orders, seeing that everyone was settled, checking on the people who brought their families, and eventually collecting the check. When I finally sat down for a few moments and quit coordinating, Santee leaned over and whispered, “I forgot that unlike most of us, you’re still on the clock.” I smiled.
RIP, Santee.
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November 16, 2011 at 2:06 pm #2446811
You know, Jason…..
by gadgetgirl · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Something not everyone may have noticed …
I remember that.
Bless you, too.
GG
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November 16, 2011 at 5:10 pm #2446800
I noticed that you are right Jason
by michael jay · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Something not everyone may have noticed …
He was willing to slap the TR staff with a stick from time to time, but let someone else dis TR and he was on it.
Santee,
Welder
Curmudgeon
Funny Guy
Very Serious Guy
Linguist
Crazy Man
All this and more, thanks Richard, for nearly 5 years you gave TR a good ride.http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp321/michaeljay2009/santee.jpg
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November 16, 2011 at 5:14 pm #2446799
The artwork
by boxfiddler · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to I noticed that you are right Jason
is that of his daughter. 🙂
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November 16, 2011 at 5:24 pm #2446795
I have not yet recieved permission to say that
by michael jay · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to The artwork
or even post it, but, yes it is.
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November 17, 2011 at 2:35 am #2446763
It’s pretty amazing-looking, even in a photo
by ansugisalas · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to I have not yet recieved permission to say that
I notice it’s off the wall, so to speak. Very complex shadows.
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November 17, 2011 at 5:58 am #2446752
Art of the natural world
by michael kassner · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to It’s pretty amazing-looking, even in a photo
I have been amazed by it, watching it progress over the years. I like how she works with natural themes, adding what she calls “nature that springs from the psyche.”
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November 17, 2011 at 12:04 pm #2446710
Thought as a fungal infection…
by ansugisalas · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Art of the natural world
That is as unexpected as it is apt.
And that combination (unexpected/apt) is what art is when it is best.
I love that in art, that it can send us reeling, spinning through spaces that defy prediction, and yet are full of the deja vu feeling of “I always knew this, and never knew it”. -
November 17, 2011 at 12:41 pm #2446706
I agree, Ansu
by michael kassner · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to It’s pretty amazing-looking, even in a photo
That is what drew me to Lea’s work originally. I am art-challenged, yet I got it.
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November 17, 2011 at 5:52 am #2446754
Art work
by michael kassner · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to I have not yet recieved permission to say that
Lea is a professor at UNM in the art department:
http://www.leaandersonart.com/
Rich helped her with some of the metal pieces.
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November 17, 2011 at 11:49 am #2446711
It was clear how proud he was of his daughter…
by ansugisalas · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Art work
If you talk to her, could you tell her that even people who never met him could tell he thought his daughter was amazing, veritably beaming when he wrote of her achievements.
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November 17, 2011 at 12:15 pm #2446709
Absolutely, Ansu
by michael kassner · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to It was clear how proud he was of his daughter…
I have been and she is appreciative of all the comments.
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November 17, 2011 at 12:55 pm #2446702
Something from Lea about her art
by michael kassner · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to It was clear how proud he was of his daughter…
“I am into the idea that thought can behave as a fungus or a virus- I recently read an article about “Memes” which I shared with my Dad. I’m sure he already knew of this concept, but I wanted to relate it to my artwork- that an idea or a bit of information can certainly mimic a virus or a living organism. I am very interested in the similarity between systems that seemingly, have nothing to do with one another. I sense that there is a pattern or a system in all things, whether they be physical, emotional, ideological, or otherwise.
This is where it would get tricky with Dad, because he would want me to define all of those terms and then re-think my concept, but, man, my brain would just get tired so fast! I think I just processed things differently.”
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/What-Defines-a-Meme.html
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November 17, 2011 at 3:53 pm #2446674
Ha!
by ansugisalas · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to It was clear how proud he was of his daughter…
I did think of memes when I looked at her artwork.
I have a thing for Emergence… something that happens in cognition where a mess of observations, perceptions, assumptions, deductions and inductions suddenly achieve a critical mass, then coalesce into something that transcends them and encompasses them.
It is related to abductive reason, but it happens subconsciously.
I think Richard had a thing for something similar, he referred to it with a word from sanskrit or hindi or urdu, it escapes me at the moment, but it refers to an insight which, once achieved, changes one’s perspective on everything. I always mix it up with Utnapishtim, which is an entirely different kettle of fish 😉 That, again, is due to another word from sanskrit Richard would occasionally use; Upanishads, an ancient scripture about the oneness of all (which ties in with Speaking of God 😉 )
I think that often when Richard would instruct people to run some thought through again, he was referring to such a realization being “close”. In that respect he showed incredible tact, the realization would not be achieved if he had pointed the way any more directly. Of course, I think that often “close” could mean that it’s a few years out 😉 -
November 17, 2011 at 4:19 pm #2446673
I asked Lea Anderson if
by michael jay · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to It was clear how proud he was of his daughter…
it was ok to lift the picture that I posted above and this was her reply:
Hi Mike: I would love you to have it!! Thank you SO much for all the TR dialogue- it is a treasure to me to read it. I miss him so much and thank you for honoring him with your writings. You all meant so much to him and he loved all the action and challenge he found in the TR community.
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November 17, 2011 at 4:29 pm #2446672
Emergence…
by boxfiddler · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to It was clear how proud he was of his daughter…
ignore the idiot typo in the song title.
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November 17, 2011 at 4:30 pm #2446671
santeewelding, JR
by boxfiddler · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to It was clear how proud he was of his daughter…
:^0
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November 18, 2011 at 1:06 pm #2446236
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November 19, 2011 at 12:13 am #2446198
He took care of his "employees"…
by ansugisalas · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Something not everyone may have noticed …
Seeing as we all worked for Santee, as hard a taskmaster as he could be, always expecting our very best, he’d not stand for people off the street harassing his staff.
😀 😀 🙁
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November 16, 2011 at 2:11 pm #2446809
Please pass on my condolences to his family
by bfilmfan · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
It was my great pleasure to have shared a breakfast conversation with Santee several years back at the TR Gathering. I found him to be a witty man with a great observation of humanity’s foibles. I called him friend and am sad to hear of his passing.
A friend recently remarked that we spend the first half of our lives building relationships and spend the last half learning to say goodbye.
Santee will be missed.
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November 16, 2011 at 6:16 pm #2446785
Gods of us all.
by charliespencer · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Please pass on my condolences to his family
If nothing else, his departure is attracting some old hands to honor him.
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November 16, 2011 at 10:20 pm #2446782
Old TR Hands
by bfilmfan · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Gods of us all.
I would explain that it’s been my health issues, father’s passing and new role at the office that has been keeping me not as frequent as the old days in my commentary; but, those are just excuses. I’ve learned over this last year that I have far too frequently focused on my career and technology and ignored my relationships, with family and friends.
I would like to think I am getting wiser as I age; but, I believe that I am really not lying to myself about my own nature and the world a lot less.
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November 17, 2011 at 3:26 pm #2446679
RIP Santee…
by smartacew0lf · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
while you may be absent, you will never be forgotten. Would have been a great pleasure to have met you in person. The world was a brighter place with you present within it.
On a further note within this post. Has anyone thought of archiving all of his posts? Or, do I need to do that manually? Will be interesting to re-read many of them to see what I missed. And I know there are many things there.
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November 17, 2011 at 3:41 pm #2446676
That would be fun
by ansugisalas · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to RIP Santee…
You can click on his profile, then click on view all next to the list of recent posts… then you get to a full listing, there are over ten thousand of them 😉
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November 18, 2011 at 1:16 pm #2446232
Oh my, yes.
by seanferd · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to That would be fun
Hook up wget with a randomizer and a UI.
Because no matter what you were thinking about originally, any random post by santee would somehow apply and maybe take you in a new direction, wouldn’t it?
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November 18, 2011 at 12:48 am #2446660
santee welding
by hlb2441 · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
condolances to the family and friends. he had a way with the language
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November 18, 2011 at 9:44 am #2446268
A masterpiece of understatement
by nicknielsen · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santee welding
To say Santee had a way with the language is to say Michael Jordan has a way with a basketball…
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November 18, 2011 at 1:12 pm #2446235
Maybe more,
by seanferd · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to A masterpiece of understatement
He had his way with language. 😉 As with metals.
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November 18, 2011 at 1:16 pm #2446231
Ha! No text.
by charliespencer · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to A masterpiece of understatement
😀 🙁 😀
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November 19, 2011 at 9:33 pm #2446155
Thank you all
by 821 · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
My brother, Dick (the name I knew him as from childhood before it migrated from a formal noun all the way to a verb) lived for this forum. I’ve seen him compose his submissions. Sometimes it would take hours. Even He would have to refer to His ever-present New Oxford American Dictionary every now and then and use a definition if He agreed with it. When he was ready to launch that economy of words containing so much thought I almost felt the urge to move my chair back a little before he hit the “send” button.
Yeah, I’ll miss him too. – Santee’s brother, Doug
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November 19, 2011 at 9:40 pm #2446153
That makes a lot of sense
by hal 9000 · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Thank you all
If he used the American Version of the Dictionary.
I got most of his comments easily but a few did kind of confuse me as I’m assuming that the meanings that I know are slightly different with me being in AU. 😉
However saying that Santee will be missed very much here and TR is never going to be the same again.
Cheers and my Deepest Sympathetics for your loss
Col
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November 19, 2011 at 11:54 pm #2446152
He was a many-skilled man with the mind of a genius.
by papa_bill · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Thank you all
A modern Plato combined with the pen of Shakespeare brought to the arc of a master of metallurgy. Would the cuts and seams know their lineage? Yes, I think Dick could have explained it to them..
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November 20, 2011 at 12:54 am #2446150
He sure was deliberate.
by ansugisalas · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Thank you all
Your use of capitalization is fitting, considering how it all began 😉
http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-209121-2155996
I have decided to learn deliberation, now that I have no source of deliberate to go to anymore.
Dick (I tried to fit him with a nickname, “the Dean” – but it didn’t really stick :p ) was one of the first people I encountered when I started posting on the TR boards. Inside a day I had become embroiled in a “discussion” with what I perceived as Santee and Apotheon both on the other side… as you can imagine, that wasn’t an easy experience 😉
It might be on account of years spent on humanities, but I could always tell he was saying something. I know when people are BS’ing, saying words without meaning… but Santee never came across as that, not even when I had no idea of even the ballpark of what it was he was saying. I could never shield my ego behind an assumption that there was nothing to get 😉
Your brother’s deliberation always impressed me. And behind that, shining through it, there was always genuine human warmth. It was never cold calculation.
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November 20, 2011 at 7:30 am #2446143
I looked forward to reading those posts
by nicknielsen · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Thank you all
Over the years, his choice of words made me smile, frown, laugh, curse, reflect, research, and even ask ‘wtf?’, sometimes all in the same post. Trying to understand his posts made me think. I’ll probably miss that most of all.
If wealth could be measured by the number of lives touched, Richard was a very wealthy man.
My sincerest condolences to you and the family.
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November 20, 2011 at 8:12 am #2446142
Thank you Doug
by michael jay · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Thank you all
May your memories of your brother be a blessing to you.
The very best to you and yours.
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November 21, 2011 at 10:19 pm #2446009
Thank you, Doug.
by seanferd · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Thank you all
Thanks for sharing this image with us.
I’d like to offer my condolences to you as well. Take care.
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November 22, 2011 at 2:14 am #2446003
Thank you
by tigger_two · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Thank you all
VERY early in your brother’s time here, i caught his astoundingly transparent within the range of what he expressly wished to convey and that which he gifted to us all… enigma intact.
I remember him as a “Star Belly Sneech”, recalling that he could love those “who had none upon thars”.
More importantly, I recall him as my friend.
I will never forget that he told me- years ago- that I was easy to love. I hold that dear to me.
I hold you and your family in prayer. So little for so great. Still, all that I have.
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November 21, 2011 at 8:38 pm #2446020
I, don’t know what to say.
by .martin. · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
I just dropped in to see what was happening… I never expected this. 🙁
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November 21, 2011 at 8:54 pm #2446016
See what happens
by hal 9000 · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to I, don’t know what to say.
Because you go away Martin?
Now repent your ways and never do this again. I don’t want to be the next one to go because of you. :p
Col
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November 21, 2011 at 9:19 pm #2446014
I’ll try not to
by .martin. · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to See what happens
do it again 😀
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November 22, 2011 at 2:17 am #2446002
Col, you be nice!
by tigger_two · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to See what happens
Don’t make me be stern with you. I can be, you know.
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November 22, 2011 at 2:20 am #2446000
No Comment
by hal 9000 · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Col, you be nice!
On the grounds that it will Incriminate me. :p
Col
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November 22, 2011 at 2:36 am #2445999
That which does not incriminate
by tigger_two · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to No Comment
Tends to incinerate.
Just sayin…
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November 22, 2011 at 2:58 am #2445994
Well what can I say Tig’s?
by hal 9000 · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to That which does not incriminate
Many years ago I was accused by members of the Medical Profession of having Excessively Flowery Speech. Apparently that is some sort of sign of Mental Problems [i]According to those 3 people at least all of whom have since been locked away and undergone intense therapy.[/I]
But since that time I’ve tried very hard to [b]Talk Normal[/b] Richard on the other hand took things to the extreme which I always got a good laugh out of. 😉
But I do take a lot of pleasure in using the wrong words in a lot of my written responses. So instead of Education Purposes, I’ll write Educating Porpoises which Richard got a great laugh out of. 😀
Col
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November 22, 2011 at 7:23 pm #2445928
I’m particularly fond
by boxfiddler · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Well what can I say Tig’s?
of your use of [b]defiantly[/b].
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November 23, 2011 at 9:40 am #2446626
I get a good chuckle…
by nicknielsen · about 12 years, 4 months ago
In reply to Well what can I say Tig’s?
…every time I see it. 🙂
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November 22, 2011 at 2:19 am #2446001
(((hugs)))
by tigger_two · about 12 years, 5 months ago
In reply to I, don’t know what to say.
Life just whips around behind the corner and floors you.
I get it.
Sucks.
(((hugs)))
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November 29, 2011 at 5:08 pm #2445034
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November 30, 2011 at 12:17 pm #2444953
I keep wondering when he knew.
by ansugisalas · about 12 years, 4 months ago
In reply to santeewelding?
In hindsight, I realize there were many signs.
He set his affairs in order.
Making things easier for his next of kin, I imagine, reducing the amount of stuff they’d have to handle, afterwards.
He even dropped a hint or two, here.
He would occasionally call me prescient, but I didn’t see it… or I saw, but I didn’t understand.Do you remember when he posted this?
http://clarrissegill.com/videoclips/amazing_grace.phpFor Santeewelding, who wrote with amazing grace.
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November 30, 2011 at 1:06 pm #2444951
I couldn’t knoww about that, but
by seanferd · about 12 years, 4 months ago
In reply to I keep wondering when he knew.
he seemed to me to be a fellow who always had his affairs in order.
I’m suddenly reminded of his foot injury and the bathroom escapades discussion, for some reason.
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November 30, 2011 at 1:16 pm #2444949
For good reason.
by ansugisalas · about 12 years, 4 months ago
In reply to I couldn’t knoww about that, but
Cupboard wasn’t there, remember?
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November 30, 2011 at 4:55 pm #2444920
LOL
by seanferd · about 12 years, 4 months ago
In reply to For good reason.
I see what you did there.
It works from a distance, but up close I had to squint [i]really[/i] hard. :^0
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November 30, 2011 at 10:45 pm #2444876
He lives on
by ansugisalas · about 12 years, 4 months ago
In reply to LOL
truly, in how we all talk, at times 🙂
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November 30, 2011 at 4:44 pm #2444924
Hints, you wake a memory..
by michael jay · about 12 years, 4 months ago
In reply to I keep wondering when he knew.
I remember suddenly a post he made in September and how it puzzled me, but I let it fade in my memory, you bring it back to the front, I found it again.
It is less puzzling now if I am to assume that he knew his condition then;
http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-348500-3501578-
December 1, 2011 at 12:35 am #2444870
I think so
by ansugisalas · about 12 years, 4 months ago
In reply to Hints, you wake a memory..
I hadn’t made that connection, you’re right – and more perceptive than I.
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December 1, 2011 at 5:58 am #2444844
I think he found out
by boxfiddler · about 12 years, 4 months ago
In reply to Hints, you wake a memory..
about the end of September, beginning of October.
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December 2, 2011 at 5:41 am #2444764
Earlier than that
by michael kassner · about 12 years, 4 months ago
In reply to I think he found out
He knew something was amiss in July, but dismissed formal diagnosis at the time.
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