Funny, but as a side-effect of all this conversation about dying in a sealed environment, I ended up seeing/reading a whole bunch of material on scuba diving and gear. I have this strange feeling that the knowledge I'll put that knowledge to some use before I die.
Knowledge is a funny thing to go around collecting since, unlike nearly everything else you could collect, the more you have, the easier it seems to be to store it all.. (and if collecting things without requiring a whole bunch of space to store the collection isn't relevant to a liveaboard list...) Cheers, Kris On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:10:10AM -0400, SteveW wrote: > Soooooooooo well put, Ben! > > I've never understood those on the list who, somewhere along the line, > forgot where their 'delete' key was if they had no interest in a subject. > Kinda like my reference to the bar at the yacht club, where in that case, as > you wandered around with your drink in hand, if you didn't like the > conversation at one end of the bar you just moved to the other end of the > bar. You certainly wouldn't tell the first group that "this is a yacht > club - you're not allowed to ponder philosophical questions". Just the > concept of that has me on the floor laughing my ass off. > > Oh well, it's a free society so I guess our only recourse is to allow the > Philistines on the list <grins>! > > > > Steve Weinstein > S/V CAPTIVA > 1997 Hunter 376, Hull #376 > Sailing out of Oyster Bay, NY > > > > All outgoing mail protected by VIPRE A/V > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Okopnik > Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 10:17 AM > To: liveaboard@liveaboardonline.com > Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] Question > > Hey, Steve - > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 09:10:36AM -0400, SteveW wrote: > > Well put, Ben! I've often thought one of the fun and stimulating aspects > > of > > the list is the fact that not absolutely every thread is boating related. > > It's kinda like the bar at the yacht club. The common denominator of > > everyone there is love of boating but the range of lively conversations > > can > > encompass a wide range of intellectual topics (except politics!!!) some of > > On USENET, the canonical four topics to avoid were politics, guns, rape, > and religion. No matter how they started, they always ended up in > flames... I can't claim to have always followed that successfully, but > then, I never did claim to be perfect. :) > > > which have nothing to do with boating but are the result of a group of > > intellectually curious people. And then there are the Neanderthals with > > absolutely nothing going on between their ears except their teeny little > > preoccupation with what directly interests them and don't have the > > intellectual curiosity to expand their world. > > > > If the world were left to those intellectually challenged I guess we'd > > still > > all be afraid of falling off the edge of the flat earth. > > Agreed, in full. The only problem is that these tail-end Charlies insist > on hitching a ride on the trains that *we* build... oh well. It's a cost > of civilization, I suppose. > > Worth noting: "intellectual", as in "intellectual curiosity", means > "associated with or requiring the use of the mind". In other words, > having a mind is a requirement. All else proceeds from there. > > > Ben > -- > OKOPNIK CONSULTING > Custom Computing Solutions For Your Business > Expert-led Training | Dynamic, vital websites | Custom programming > 443-250-7895 http://okopnik.com http://twitter.com/okopnik > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > Liveaboard@liveaboardonline.com > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to liveaboard-j...@liveaboardonline.com > > To unsubscribe send an email to liveaboard-le...@liveaboardonline.com > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/liveaboard@liveaboardnow.org > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html > > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > Liveaboard@liveaboardonline.com > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to liveaboard-j...@liveaboardonline.com > > To unsubscribe send an email to liveaboard-le...@liveaboardonline.com > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/liveaboard@liveaboardnow.org > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html -- Kris Coward http://unripe.melon.org/ GPG Fingerprint: 2BF3 957D 310A FEEC 4733 830E 21A4 05C7 1FEB 12B3 _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list Liveaboard@liveaboardonline.com To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to liveaboard-j...@liveaboardonline.com To unsubscribe send an email to liveaboard-le...@liveaboardonline.com The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/liveaboard@liveaboardnow.org The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
