Re: Story

[Bob La Londe <none@none.com99>]

On 11/5/2022 3:18 PM, ABLE1 wrote:
> On 11/5/2022 3:47 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>> On 11/5/2022 12:13 PM, ABLE1 wrote:
>>> On 11/5/2022 2:17 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>>> On 11/5/2022 10:46 AM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>>>> On 11/4/2022 7:53 PM, ABLE1 wrote:
>>>>>> On 11/4/2022 8:44 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>>>>>> On 11/4/2022 4:38 PM, ABLE1 wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 11/4/2022 6:19 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 10/31/2022 5:57 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 10/31/2022 4:34 PM, ABLE1 wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On 10/24/2022 2:40 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 10/22/2022 10:18 AM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 10/21/2022 7:47 PM, Jim Davis wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Friday, October 21, 2022 at 4:37:12 PM UTC-4, Bob La
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Londe wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 10/18/2022 8:20 AM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Get creative.  Stop rehashing old themes or...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It was either that or ransoming the planet with a giant
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> space laser.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Bob La Londe
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> CNC Molds N Stuff
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> WELL ! ....... YOU'RE the one who said to be creative    ;-)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I guess my idea of creative is different than other folks.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Maybe I should have said creative and ORIGINAL.  LOL.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Now you have a whole new premise to try and do something
>>>>>>>>>>>>> with/to.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Flash Point was stolen from _________, where as ransoming
>>>>>>>>>>>> the earth with a space laser was stolen from ____________.
>>>>>>>>>>>> A totally different universe or franchise depending on your
>>>>>>>>>>>> level of suspension of disbelief.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> My other premise was NOT stolen from ___ _____ ______
>>>>>>>>>>>> _________, but I can see where you might think that.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> LOL It would seem that the Story is getting deeper by many many
>>>>>>>>>>> fathoms!!   I hope nobody drowns!!!
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I'm not sure which way I want to go next.  I guess that
>>>>>>>>>> depends on what I find next time I log on.  Whether I want to
>>>>>>>>>> do damage control or just go with the flow in whatever new
>>>>>>>>>> direction its gone.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I've already over used the Achilles Segue.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> (I think I just coined that phrase.)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Remember our new demi-hero Agent Bean may not yet have seen
>>>>>>>>>> John's video clip at the end of the recording.  Certainly
>>>>>>>>>> Bennie Bean hasn't seen it. Â Â I suspect if Agent Bean had seen
>>>>>>>>>> John defame the Secret Service his suspicion level about the
>>>>>>>>>> whole thing might be a bit higher, well, and he wouldn't have
>>>>>>>>>> needed his ten year old son to tell him what he was listening to.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> When I started down this path I was originally thinking very
>>>>>>>>> fast paced hacker-centric action adventure.  Motor cycle
>>>>>>>>> chases. Brutal police tactics.  Fleeing for you life in the
>>>>>>>>> face of overwhelming odds, and seeking a way to turn the tables
>>>>>>>>> in a grand unstoppable manner.  It has slowed down.  Become
>>>>>>>>> more procedural. With one of our protagonists now being a ten
>>>>>>>>> year old I'm not sure the brutality of a modern high impact
>>>>>>>>> action thriller tells well. Its not like I can retell Treasure
>>>>>>>>> Island after all.  Maybe Bennie Bean needs to become
>>>>>>>>> superfluous soon. Identify some key points, and leave it to his
>>>>>>>>> dad and the hackers. Obviously Agent Bean needs to learn more
>>>>>>>>> before kicking it upstairs since his own agency has now been
>>>>>>>>> implicated in who knows what.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi Bob,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It is my humble opinion that you should consider writing a book,
>>>>>>>> get it published, and sell a boat load.  Like Donald Hamilton's
>>>>>>>> Matt Helm
>>>>>>>> books, or Ian Fleming's James Bond.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> They did it, why not Bob La Londe's Agent Bean??
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> You will never know if it will work, until you try.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Honestly with all typing you do in the newsgroups your typing skill
>>>>>>>> could are certainly good enough.  You can't be a "Hunt n' Pecker"!!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What is the worst that could happen??
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> You got my VOTE!!!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Les
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am published for article length work in motorcycling and
>>>>>>> fishing in newspaper and magazines.  (Maybe half a dozen pieces
>>>>>>> or so.) Years ago I had a web page dedicated to motorcycle games,
>>>>>>> and White Horse Press contacted me to say, "Let us know when you
>>>>>>> are ready to publish your book."Â  I also chat with George Burliss
>>>>>>> from time to time (publisher editor?) with Home Shop Machinist
>>>>>>> Magazine.  My latest bigger project is a video series on manual
>>>>>>> machining with a piece of shit desktop manual mini mill.  I was
>>>>>>> hoping to sell George on a pairing it with a monthly article, but
>>>>>>> he seemed to want to dumb it down to much for my taste. That
>>>>>>> might just be my perception.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I actually am a hunt and peck typist.  I took typing in high
>>>>>>> school (somehow I passed), and lots of computer programming in
>>>>>>> college, but I never felt comfortable with classical home row
>>>>>>> typing.  I developed my own system that uses some classic typing,
>>>>>>> and about seven fingers most of the rest of the time.  In high
>>>>>>> school at one point we were told we could type anything we wanted
>>>>>>> as long as we were typing. When I realized the instructor wasn't
>>>>>>> even collecting it I started writing porn.  I left a few copies
>>>>>>> on the bus, and pretty soon I had guys bidding to be the first to
>>>>>>> get my next fantasy adventure.  I burned out on that quick.
>>>>>>> There are only so many ways to say Joe got the girl, and I was
>>>>>>> never into the weird stuff.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In college I wrote a story about show of force vs outbreak of
>>>>>>> violence. It was a western short fiction piece.  The college
>>>>>>> magazine editor loved it as did several of the other magazine
>>>>>>> staff, but their academic advisor refused to let them publish it.
>>>>>>> He was the classic left wing liberal academic before we called
>>>>>>> them left wing liberal academics. Considering some the really
>>>>>>> creepy stuff they did publish I was still surprised.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I always wanted to write science fiction, but everything I wrote
>>>>>>> in that genre was basically juvenile wish fulfillment.  Joe space
>>>>>>> hero gets the girl, and the whole universe gives him ultimate
>>>>>>> power over everything. I never understood the social commentary
>>>>>>> of science fiction well enough to write truly good work like
>>>>>>> Heinlein (he also wrote some juvenile wish fulfillment) or
>>>>>>> Asimov.  I could read and understand it.  I just didn't
>>>>>>> understand that often that is more important than the science
>>>>>>> fiction adventure.  Of course there is the fantasy science meets
>>>>>>> real science like Larry Niven with Ring World or Neutron star,
>>>>>>> but I never had a good enough grasp of the science for that.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Several years back I wrote an article for an outdoor magazine
>>>>>>> (that has since gone bankrupt), and it was a fiasco of brutal
>>>>>>> rewrites even after I cut out half the real content to meet their
>>>>>>> maximum word count.  Then they stiffed me.  They didn't even want
>>>>>>> to give me a copy of the issue with my article.  They said I
>>>>>>> could buy a subscription. That took all the wind out of my sails
>>>>>>> for a while.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Writing is like a lot of things.  Its a lot of fun when you don't
>>>>>>> have to meet a deadline and pay the bills with it, or butcher it
>>>>>>> to fit somebody else's preconceived format.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ... and I have to remind myself.  Just because I have published a
>>>>>>> few small things that doesn't make me a writer.  What skills I do
>>>>>>> have I have to credit to Sarah Sneed.  I had to take two
>>>>>>> semesters of English Composition in college.  I had dropped my
>>>>>>> second semester twice because I got instructors that hit you with
>>>>>>> a ton of writing assignments, but didn't teach anything.  I had
>>>>>>> steeled myself to slogging through it when I signed up for Ms
>>>>>>> Sneed's class.  She taught.  She taught about research, style,
>>>>>>> and readability.  I don't always use what she taught, but I when
>>>>>>> I don't its a conscious choice.  She taught about that too. When
>>>>>>> to break the rules. (anecdote below)Â  She is probably the primary
>>>>>>> reason I have any writing skills at all.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For the final assignment of the semester I had to write a
>>>>>>> research paper on a classic novel.  (not a survey piece)  I took
>>>>>>> it seriously and did it right.  We were told if we turned it in
>>>>>>> before the end of class during final exams it was on time.  I was
>>>>>>> working on it until the last minute doing rewrites, editing, and
>>>>>>> proof reading.  When I printed the final copy I knew I could make
>>>>>>> it to class before the end of the exam period if I hurried.  When
>>>>>>> I arrived I didn't even bother to park.  I just rode my
>>>>>>> motorcycle right up to the door of the classroom, grabbed my
>>>>>>> saddlebags and headed in to be stopped up short when the door
>>>>>>> wouldn't open.  I turned and saw her walking down the sidewalk
>>>>>>> next to the parking lot.  Afraid she might get away I chased her
>>>>>>> down the sidewalk on my motorcycle, and pulled up short in front
>>>>>>> of her. Probably a little stress leaked out in my tone when I
>>>>>>> complained she had said we had until the END of the period to
>>>>>>> turn in our paper.  I got an A.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> V-E-R-Y IMPRESSIVE Bob!!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Good read and Thanks for the history!!!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Les
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I hesitate to write things like this that could be interpreted as a
>>>>> brag.  To often in recent years I've shared anecdotes from my life
>>>>> and been told I was a full of shit bullshit piece of shit lying
>>>>> sack of shit.  **
>>>>>
>>>>> Honestly though I don't consider this to be all that impressive.  I
>>>>> can't ten finger type.  I never published a book, and I never
>>>>> really got paid to be a writer.  Its just a hap hazard group of
>>>>> secondary fumblings throughout my life over the course of 40ish
>>>>> years that paired with a little imagination allow me to
>>>>> occasionally crank out three consecutive sentences that are readable.
>>>>>
>>>>> However, thank you.  I appreciate the recognition for them.
>>>>>
>>>>> Example: **
>>>>> One of my favorite actual brags used to be that I have been in
>>>>> business literally my entire life since I was four years old.  My
>>>>> mom explained to me the concept of profit.  She told me that if I
>>>>> bought candy bars and put them on the shelf in the family store it
>>>>> wouldn't be to long before I could buy more boxes to replace them,
>>>>> and have money left over. Â Â I used the money my grandmother sent me
>>>>> for Christmas to put merchandise on the shelves of our store.  I
>>>>> was in business at age four. Â Â That was a bit of a brag, but it
>>>>> really wasn't intended to indicate I was a business mogul at such a
>>>>> young age.  Just that I have spent my entire life learning small
>>>>> business concepts.  I shared this in a machining group not to long
>>>>> ago.  I was accused of being a liar, taking credit for my mom's
>>>>> hard work, and that there was no chance at age four I was anything
>>>>> more than a pants shitting drooling blob.  That I was totally full
>>>>> of shit that had to totally be lying through my teeth. (Unless you
>>>>> were toothless how else would one lie?)Â  I tried to explain, but
>>>>> soon there were dozens of people piling on.  The shear mass of
>>>>> derision made it impossible for me to take the time to refute it
>>>>> all.  I just left the group. The reality is its true.  I did
>>>>> understand, but how can I prove that.  I can't.  Just that I have
>>>>> always done better as an entrepreneur than as an employee.  I never
>>>>> thought of it as exceptional until I was attacked for it.  I just
>>>>> thought it was a choice based on opportunity and education from a
>>>>> caring mother.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have other anecdotal memories, no doubt colored by time, that
>>>>> might be met with similar disbelief.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> However, I have never flown an airplane of any kind inverted, nor
>>>> was I ever a passenger in an inverted airplane of any size.
>>>
>>> Well Bob, now you went and did it...................
>>>
>>> I have flown inverted, jumped out of a perfectly good plane at 3000
>>> feet, flown a glider, flown a helicopter, flown a Cessna 152 backwards
>>> on a runway, flown a Cessna 152 in freezing rain until at full throttle
>>> just above stall speed then landed, flown a (part owner) Ultra Lite,
>>> and many other experiences that would take a long time to read.
>>>
>>> Les
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> My father in law was a WW2 bomber pilot.  He claims he was taught to
>> land those big bombers by stalling them at just above ground level.
>> He claims getting his civilian pilots license he scared every one of
>> his civilian instructors because he did the same thing by "feel" with
>> small commuter planes.  Given the fact that he truly did remarkable
>> things including bringing back airplanes with gaping holes I tend to
>> believe him.  He also was the chief engineer in charge of building the
>> M16 production line at General Motors Hydramatic, and claims a higher
>> acceptance rate than any other manufacturer at the time including
>> Colt. There is always the chance you might have carried one.
>>
>> P.S.  Mattel NEVER made M16s or parts for M16s.  That's just a myth
>> perpetuated by soldiers and marines who had an aversion to the plastic
>> furniture on M16s.
>
>
> Those guys and gals did some rather amazing things in WW2.
> Makes sense for a plane that size to land them by stalling just
> above the ground.  First it won't fly below stall speed and second
> braking at a higher speed will take longer to stop.  I can see doing
> that with a smaller plane to be a different story.  Especially for an
> instructor that never flew a bomber!!!
>
> I haven't flow for a number of years at this point.  My license is still
> valid but it is my physical that is needed along with a check ride.
> Did that some time ago after not flying for maybe 15 years and the
> flight instructor said after being up for 15 minutes and having me do
> this or that.  "Put me on the ground, you don't need me up here. Go have
> some fun!!"
>
> It was great until I ran short on money and stopped.  Present day I
> would not pass the physical due to my hearing loss.  I just go to an
> occasional air show and drool!!!
>
> Les
>
>


I never felt like spending the money to be a real flyer.  I have looked
at experimental, but its still a bit much for essentially joy riding. A
buddy of mine (now deceased) bought an ultralight and kept it at a
private field owned buy a farmer we know.  He would take that bird out
of the hanger, and do "hot taxis" all day long, but as far as I knew he
never flew it before he sold it. Seemed so weird to me at the time.  It
was an interesting place where a handful of guys worked on various
projects.  Hanging from the ceiling of the hanger/barn was a delta wing
one of the guys started to build, but never finished.  Another guy I
knew looked it over with thought to finishing it, but in the end he
passed saying the frame material was to heavy.  Looked like rusted steel
tube to me.

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Bob La Londe
CNC Molds N Stuff


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