Re: Weird e-bay auction
On Jun 26, 2005, at 9:02 AM, Julia Thompson wrote: oh, and if you're ever building a portable geodesic dome with a PVC frame, stake the tarps directly to the ground if there's bad weather predicted -- you don't want a 70-mph gust of wind grabbing a tarp and taking the rest of the dome with it as well Would it be unpolitic of me to offer a "well duh" here? ;) (Used to camp out in tents win NW AZ -- subject to occasional ferocious gusts of 50+ MPH -- you always anchor the tent in the ground.) -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Weird e-bay auction
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: > At 02:44 PM Thursday 4/14/2005, Julia Thompson wrote: > >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5573572030 > > > >Apparently random ones go for a lot cheaper than this is going for > > > > Julia > > > > Perhaps her "top secret project" involves rationalizing the denominator? Actually, the "top secret project" was a train. A small tractor for the engine and I think something like 4 cars that would each hold 2 people, and it saved some people some walking around at a festival. Not that anyone was begging to find out, but just in case anyone had been wondering and that bit of unresolved whatever was nibbling at them, I figured I'd share. :) Julia oh, and if you're ever building a portable geodesic dome with a PVC frame, stake the tarps directly to the ground if there's bad weather predicted -- you don't want a 70-mph gust of wind grabbing a tarp and taking the rest of the dome with it as well (not that that happened, but some slower gusts caused great concern, so that dome had its tarps re-secured for the predicted storm the next night, which ended up hitting to the north). ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Weird e-bay auction
At 02:44 PM Thursday 4/14/2005, Julia Thompson wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5573572030 Apparently random ones go for a lot cheaper than this is going for Julia Perhaps her "top secret project" involves rationalizing the denominator? -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Weird e-bay auction
I was just reflecting the categorization. :) If you look carefully, it's under Everything Else > Weird Stuff > Totally Bizarre. If you have a problem with the categorization, you may certainly take it up with the seller. Or should I have typed "Totally Bizarre e-bay auction" as my Subject line, so as to more accurately reflect the categorization? If so, feel free to change it in your response! Julia Warren Ockrassa wrote: Now Julia, you should have been more careful in titling your message. You seem to be very certain that this auction is, as you say, "weird", but I know of at least one degree'd individual who knows a lot more about weird than you probably do, and if that person doesn't agree it's weird, then obviously you're guilty of tremendous hubris. What you should have titled your post was "I could be wrong, but in my opinion there's what appears to be an auction going on on what is allegedly eBay, and I think you could consider the possibility of defining it as rather outre or, perhaps, even slightly weird." There now. Isn't that ever so much more clear, non-confrontational and anti-inflammatory? On Apr 14, 2005, at 12:44 PM, Julia Thompson wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5573572030 Apparently random ones go for a lot cheaper than this is going for Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Weird e-bay auction
Now Julia, you should have been more careful in titling your message. You seem to be very certain that this auction is, as you say, "weird", but I know of at least one degree'd individual who knows a lot more about weird than you probably do, and if that person doesn't agree it's weird, then obviously you're guilty of tremendous hubris. What you should have titled your post was "I could be wrong, but in my opinion there's what appears to be an auction going on on what is allegedly eBay, and I think you could consider the possibility of defining it as rather outre or, perhaps, even slightly weird." There now. Isn't that ever so much more clear, non-confrontational and anti-inflammatory? On Apr 14, 2005, at 12:44 PM, Julia Thompson wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5573572030 Apparently random ones go for a lot cheaper than this is going for Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Weird e-bay auction
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5573572030 Apparently random ones go for a lot cheaper than this is going for Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
