Re: Story

[ABLE1 <somebody@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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