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Two quick things.

After service above and beyond, Project Willow's turned in her badge as moderator. Deep thanks to PW for everything. RI owes her lots, and I owe her even more.

Second, I need to get active here again. And that's not just the guilt talking. I miss it, and all of you. So I'll be hanging around more. Expect me. (I don't mean that to sound ominous.)

Er, that's all for now.

Yahoo!!

I came across something recently at the unlikely intersection of Charles Fort, Christian Fundies, NASA, deep politics, meme spread - all sorts - that I thought "Would *love* to have Jeff's take on this..."

Exposing the NASA conspiracy of the Globe Earth


Disclosure: I do not think the Earth is flat

Great news, Jeff. Remember to bring jumper cables.

Jeff » Mon Aug 24, 2015 6:33 pm wrote:
After service above and beyond, Project Willow's turned in her badge as moderator.

Well, thankfully we still have DrVolin's steady hand.




Welcome back (to your own board),

ie

My phone government tracker has ruined me, everytime I go to post something i want to speak my text instead of write it. Anyway, welcome back Jeff! I hope that this includes your pithy and spectacular writing and blog posts. As far as having technological remorse, I thought you guys might be interested in, 'Catching Up With the Unabomber. When Does the End Justify the Means?'

http://disinfo.com/2015/08/catching-una ... ify-means/

Bonus: (not sure how to embed this or if you even can...)
http://imgur.com/AckNsBP



Note: I did not laugh as it was not and is not funny...

Thank you to Project Willow.

Thank you Jeff for RI.

Grizzly » Mon Aug 24, 2015 8:09 pm wrote:My phone government tracker has ruined me, everytime I go to post something i want to speak my text instead of write it. Anyway, welcome back Jeff! I hope that this includes your pithy and spectacular writing and blog posts. As far as having technological remorse, I thought you guys might be interested in, 'Catching Up With the Unabomber. When Does the End Justify the Means?'

http://disinfo.com/2015/08/catching-una ... ify-means/

Bonus: (not sure how to embed this or if you even can...)
http://imgur.com/AckNsBP



Note: I did not laugh as it was not and is not funny...

I knew Gil Murray for 20 years when he died. We met when he was the TA for the first forestry class I took at Cal in 1975. We were both Cal Foresters and California Registered Professional Foresters. He was a good, kind, and fun man with a wife and family. He had just started a new job in replacing the retired Bill Dennison. He opened a package addressed to Bill Dennison.


Forestry Friday … Remembering Gilbert Murray

Posted on April 24, 2015

Gil Murray’s life ended twenty years ago today. He was the final victim of the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski. Gil was a Registered Professional Forester and leader in the California forestry profession. When I first met him, he was head forester for one of our local competitors. He was later hired to lead the California Forestry Association, a promotion that led to his death. Gil was deeply respected in the forestry community as a man of the highest character. I tip my hat to Gil Murray.


http://theforesterartist.com/tag/gil-murray/

Great to hear, Jeff!



And thanks to Willow for the great job she did as moderater.

@ pufpuf93 et, al

I tip my hat to Gil Murray.

And I too. He sounded like a gentle soul. Such a loss.

I certainly empathise with the loss. My post was certainly not intended to cause any negitive feelings. And I do apoligise if it has. I was more interested in the in/outs of the message and quite intrigued by there NOT being a modern 'philosophy of technology', etc...

Hi Jeff. You've even got me using Facebook... your page is great for Canadian election stuff. Thanks, Willow.

Jeff » Mon Aug 24, 2015 5:33 pm wrote:So I'll be hanging around more. Expect me. (I don't mean that to sound ominous.)

That would be awesome. Even if you do it in an ominous way, it'll still be awesome!

You heard us calling, me especially. Welcome back.

Well, come on then. Sweaty-palmed hand-wringing at the back of the auditorium is no use. Dive in. Reactivate.

Project Willow was a magnificent moderator. Many thanks for her perseverance, propriety and poise.

Jeff: Welcome back Absentee Landlord!

As a coincidence theorist, I see nothing suspicious about the timing.

Hey there Jeff! Good news, looking forward to your inputs here.

And thanks, Willow, for moderating.