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Date: 22 Oct 2006 08:08:06
From: Edward Dolan
Subject: RCN and the Internet - Whither Goest Thou?
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I recently did not renew my subscription to RCN, a print publication about
recumbents that I have subscribed to from the very beginning. I did not
renew my subscription because the newsletter (it is not really a magazine)
was overpriced and I could not see paying $5. for an issue based on the 2
year subscription price.
RCN was always nothing but a newsletter. I was hoping it would morph into a
proper magazine but it never did. I supported it all these years because I
wanted to support the recumbent community. But the manufacturers and most
bike shops never supported RCN like they should have because of the slightly
critical reviews appearing in it from time to time. I always respected
Robert Bryant (the editor and chief writer) enormously for being slightly
critical of some recumbents and I had nothing but contempt for the
manufacturers who would not support the newsletter.
But what has really changed recently is all the information you can now get
off the Internet. I think RCN will have to consider becoming an online
publication in the not too distant future. Most folks will not pay $5. an
issue for a newsletter when you can get a tremendous amount of information
off the Internet. I do not like BROL much because it is not critical enough,
but still I can see that is where the future lies.
I have nothing but the best wishes for the future success of RCN, but I
simply will not pay $5. an issue for the newsletter. It is only worth about
$1. or $2. at most.
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
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Date: 05 Nov 2006 07:25:12
From: NYC XYZ
Subject: Re: RCN and the Internet - Whither Goest Thou?
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Edward Dolan wrote:
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>
> Every idiot in the world knows what is meant by religion.
LOL! That's very true!!
> Well, it is true that I am the most intelligent person that I know - also
> the best and nicest person that I know.
How would you know?
> Nope, pubescence begins about age 13 for both sexes. Children are not sexy,
> but teenagers are for that reason. The older you get the less attractive you
> are sexually. By the way, you are already over the hill. Try to act your age
> why don't you.
Age is simply mind over matter; if you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
> Yes, it is OK for humor, but contains no philosophical wisdom like mine
> does.
Au contraire: the wisest statement on life and death is silence.
> Regards,
>
> Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
> aka
> Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
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Date: 06 Nov 2006 04:29:53
From: Edward Dolan
Subject: Re: RCN and the Internet - Whither Goest Thou?
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"NYC XYZ" <jack_foreigner@yahoo.com > wrote in message
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> Edward Dolan wrote:
[...]
>> Nope, pubescence begins about age 13 for both sexes. Children are not
>> sexy,
>> but teenagers are for that reason. The older you get the less attractive
>> you
>> are sexually. By the way, you are already over the hill. Try to act your
>> age
>> why don't you.
>
> Age is simply mind over matter; if you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Age matters enormously. There is no fool like an old fool. If you are in
your mid-thirties, you are now old and over the hill. Of course, you are not
yet ancient like I am, but once you are out of your teens, you are always
old enough to know better.
The main thing you have got to stop doing is riding your bike about New York
City ogling 10 year old Latino children with their freaking asses and tits.
Time for you to grow up and act your age - which is old! I urge you to think
more on death and cemeteries and headstones and epitaphs like I do.
There are some really grand cemeteries in Queens and Brooklyn. Visit them
often and spend many pleasant hours there contemplating your future.
However, I advise you to stay away from any big trees in those cemeteries as
the urge will grow on you to hang yourself. This is most unbecoming. After
all, there is no sense in fightening the 10 year old Latino children with
their freaking asses and tits - and any horses too that might be lurking
about. Nay, it is best to go down to your dirt floor cellar where you can
throw a rope over the rafter and hang yourself in utmost privacy.
>> Yes, it is OK for humor, but contains no philosophical wisdom like mine
>> does.
>
> Au contraire: the wisest statement on life and death is silence.
All the other animals under the sun are indeed silent on the Great Question.
It is only we humans who are not silent - nor should we be. Is not that what
our brains and our speech is for - to ask ultimate questions?
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
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Date: 04 Nov 2006 06:29:55
From: NYC XYZ
Subject: Re: RCN and the Internet - Whither Goest Thou?
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Edward Dolan wrote:
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>
> Nope, you have taken the word out of its strict meaning, thereby rendering
> it meaningless. You are sophist!
Try looking up the etymology, then.
> Nope, two different things entirely. You are a sophist!
You're just a functional solipsist, that's all.
> Pubescence begins about age 13. Stop trying to be so cute.
Heck no, you should come to New York and take a look at the ten year
old latinas in tights. Holy shit, they have more tits and ass at ten
than many white girls do at twenty!
> Yeah, but we both know there ain't - right?
>
> "Once I wasn't, Then I was, Now I ain't again."
>
> - Epitaph found on tombstone in Ohio graveyard
Rab McBeth
Who died for the want
of another breath.
1791-1823
http://www.webpanda.com/ponder/epitaphs.htm
> Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
> aka
> Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
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Date: 04 Nov 2006 10:27:09
From: Edward Dolan
Subject: Re: RCN and the Internet - Whither Goest Thou?
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"NYC XYZ" <jack_foreigner@yahoo.com > wrote in message
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> Edward Dolan wrote:
>>
>>
>> Nope, you have taken the word [religion] out of its strict meaning,
>> thereby rendering
>> it meaningless. You are a sophist!
>
> Try looking up the etymology, then.
Every idiot in the world knows what is meant by religion.
>> Nope, two different things entirely. You are a sophist!
>
> You're just a functional solipsist, that's all.
Well, it is true that I am the most intelligent person that I know - also
the best and nicest person that I know.
>> Pubescence begins about age 13. Stop trying to be so cute.
>
> Heck no, you should come to New York and take a look at the ten year
> old latinas in tights. Holy shit, they have more tits and ass at ten
> than many white girls do at twenty!
Nope, pubescence begins about age 13 for both sexes. Children are not sexy,
but teenagers are for that reason. The older you get the less attractive you
are sexually. By the way, you are already over the hill. Try to act your age
why don't you.
>> "Once I wasn't, Then I was, Now I ain't again."
>>
>> - Epitaph found on tombstone in Ohio graveyard
>
> Rab McBeth
>
> Who died for the want
>
> of another breath.
>
> 1791-1823
Yes, it is OK for humor, but contains no philosophical wisdom like mine
does.
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
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Date: 03 Nov 2006 07:43:06
From: NYC XYZ
Subject: Re: RCN and the Internet - Whither Goest Thou?
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Edward Dolan wrote:
>
>
> The main purpose of religion is to help us get through our lives on this
> earth with the least amount of psychic difficulty. But that said, the higher
> religions (and very many primitive regions) are also concerned with issues
> of immortality (what comes after death). It is OK in my view to be not
> religious, but we should respect it in others nonetheless. It is part of our
> human heritage as well as our human nature.
Again, semantics: "religion" meant to the ancient Romans what we today
would say is more strictly "ritual supplication" ("bargaining with
God"). Most people seem to approach their religion that way still.
More unfortunate is that we're still stuck with our kindergarten
mentality when it comes to "being religious" -- some of the most truly
religious people are atheist scientists exploring the macro and
microcosmos, while some of the biggest leaders of religions are just
clever little lawyers splitting hairs about things that are just
projections of their own very charged psycho-emotional states.
It is our human nature to be curious. Most so-called religious people
have stopped being curious. That's the alpha and the omega of
"religion."
> Sex is only important to the young. When you are old, you laugh at it.
Sex is not important to young children, and they laugh at it all the
time.
> You
> finally realize it is only about one thing - procreation. But I was wise
> when I was young and knew that by the time I was 17.
I was a 10 year-old skeptic when I refused to believe anything so
preposterous as popping some cherry in a girl's pussy in order to make
a baby inside it.
Ah...maybe there is a God, after all!
> Regards,
>
> Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
> aka
> Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
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Date: 04 Nov 2006 02:43:09
From: Edward Dolan
Subject: Re: RCN and the Internet - Whither Goest Thou?
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"NYC XYZ" <jack_foreigner@yahoo.com > wrote in message
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> Edward Dolan wrote:
>>
>>
>> The main purpose of religion is to help us get through our lives on this
>> earth with the least amount of psychic difficulty. But that said, the
>> higher
>> religions (and very many primitive regions) are also concerned with
>> issues
>> of immortality (what comes after death). It is OK in my view to be not
>> religious, but we should respect it in others nonetheless. It is part of
>> our
>> human heritage as well as our human nature.
>
> Again, semantics: "religion" meant to the ancient Romans what we today
> would say is more strictly "ritual supplication" ("bargaining with
> God"). Most people seem to approach their religion that way still.
> More unfortunate is that we're still stuck with our kindergarten
> mentality when it comes to "being religious" -- some of the most truly
> religious people are atheist scientists exploring the macro and
> microcosmos, while some of the biggest leaders of religions are just
> clever little lawyers splitting hairs about things that are just
> projections of their own very charged psycho-emotional states.
Nope, you have taken the word out of its strict meaning, thereby rendering
it meaningless. You are sophist!
> It is our human nature to be curious. Most so-called religious people
> have stopped being curious. That's the alpha and the omega of
> "religion."
Nope, two different things entirely. You are a sophist!
>> Sex is only important to the young. When you are old, you laugh at it.
>
> Sex is not important to young children, and they laugh at it all the
> time.
>
>> You
>> finally realize it is only about one thing - procreation. But I was wise
>> when I was young and knew that by the time I was 17.
>
> I was a 10 year-old skeptic when I refused to believe anything so
> preposterous as popping some cherry in a girl's pussy in order to make
> a baby inside it.
Pubescence begins about age 13. Stop trying to be so cute.
> Ah...maybe there is a God, after all!
Yeah, but we both know there ain't - right?
"Once I wasn't, Then I was, Now I ain't again."
- Epitaph found on tombstone in Ohio graveyard
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
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Date: 30 Oct 2006 07:20:53
From: NYC XYZ
Subject: Re: RCN and the Internet - Whither Goest Thou?
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Edward Dolan wrote:
>
>
> But it is not impossible in the mind of most folks. They want to believe in
> immortality despite the kind of culture we are presently living in. Religion
> is part and parcel of mankind even if you and I reject it. The fact is, we
> are going against our own human natures to reject it. Men are profoundly
> religious creatures.
"Religion" was something else to the ancient Romans, still something
else to Medeval Europe, something still different to many of us in the
modern world. That we feel insecure and crave the refuge of permanance
isn't what I was talking about. I simply wanted to say what I'd do
with eternity, given the conditions outlined. But, it may somehow be,
as von Herder wrote, that "we measure our heavy steps in time and
space, and are, unawares, in eternity."
> The fear of God is rooted in the knowledge of death. Or to put it another
> way, the beginning of all wisdom is rooted in the fear of death. This is why
> children cannot ever be wise. Only adults can be wise and, usually, the
> older you are, the wiser you are.
Words are misleading. The "wise" are the most untrustworthy. Great
sex makes a mockery of all philosophy.
> Nonetheless, does not the above quotation, only nine words, sum up an awful
> lot of wisdom.
So how would you pen RCN's?
> Regards,
>
> Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
> aka
> Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
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Date: 02 Nov 2006 20:18:04
From: Edward Dolan
Subject: Re: RCN and the Internet - Whither Goest Thou?
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"NYC XYZ" <jack_foreigner@yahoo.com > wrote in message
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> Edward Dolan wrote:
>>
>>
>> But it is not impossible in the mind of most folks. They want to believe
>> in
>> immortality despite the kind of culture we are presently living in.
>> Religion
>> is part and parcel of mankind even if you and I reject it. The fact is,
>> we
>> are going against our own human natures to reject it. Men are profoundly
>> religious creatures.
>
> "Religion" was something else to the ancient Romans, still something
> else to Medeval Europe, something still different to many of us in the
> modern world. That we feel insecure and crave the refuge of permanance
> isn't what I was talking about. I simply wanted to say what I'd do
> with eternity, given the conditions outlined. But, it may somehow be,
> as von Herder wrote, that "we measure our heavy steps in time and
> space, and are, unawares, in eternity."
The main purpose of religion is to help us get through our lives on this
earth with the least amount of psychic difficulty. But that said, the higher
religions (and very many primitive regions) are also concerned with issues
of immortality (what comes after death). It is OK in my view to be not
religious, but we should respect it in others nonetheless. It is part of our
human heritage as well as our human nature.
>> The fear of God is rooted in the knowledge of death. Or to put it another
>> way, the beginning of all wisdom is rooted in the fear of death. This is
>> why
>> children cannot ever be wise. Only adults can be wise and, usually, the
>> older you are, the wiser you are.
>
> Words are misleading. The "wise" are the most untrustworthy. Great
> sex makes a mockery of all philosophy.
Sex is only important to the young. When you are old, you laugh at it. You
finally realize it is only about one thing - procreation. But I was wise
when I was young and knew that by the time I was 17.
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
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Date: 29 Oct 2006 20:25:54
From: Johnny Sunset aka Tom Sherman
Subject: Re: RCN and the Internet - Whither Goest Thou?
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NYC XYZ wrote:
>
> Whatever is the point of a tombstone...I like what the Tibetans do, a
> "sky burial" where they feed the corpse to vultures.
How about: <http://www.nationalby-products.com/ >?
--
Tom Sherman - Here, not there.
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Date: 29 Oct 2006 19:20:16
From: NYC XYZ
Subject: Re: RCN and the Internet - Whither Goest Thou?
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Edward Dolan wrote:
>
>
> Trust me on this, you are as doomed as any creature who has ever lived on
> this earth. Your 35 year old hope will soon appear absurd to you and you
> will despair of life as all wise beings eventually do. Thus spake
> Zarathustra.
Whatever are you talking about? The whole point is moot since
immortality is impossible right now, particularly the "non-corrupting"
sort I stipulate.
> Yup ... me too. The fact is that almost everyone who lives in an advanced
> industrial society is an atheist whether they admit it to themselves or not.
> Stardust to stardust - it does not ever get any better than that.
Oh, people have long been atheists...if "God" was so self-evident, as
all the theists proclaim, then why does faith take so much convincing?
But it is because we are ster than we often credit ourselves: our
actions speak louder than our own words. No one who truly believes in
God could be tempted. Temptation is nothing more than the realization
that no one is really watching, and no one really gives a damn anyway!
> Once I wasn't, Then I was, Now I ain't again.
>
> - Epitaph found on tombstone in Ohio graveyard
Whatever is the point of a tombstone...I like what the Tibetans do, a
"sky burial" where they feed the corpse to vultures.
> Regards,
>
> Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
> aka
> Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
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Date: 30 Oct 2006 00:13:17
From: Edward Dolan
Subject: Re: RCN and the Internet - Whither Goest Thou?
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"NYC XYZ" <jack_foreigner@yahoo.com > wrote in message
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> Edward Dolan wrote:
>>
>>
>> Trust me on this, you are as doomed as any creature who has ever lived on
>> this earth. Your 35 year old hope will soon appear absurd to you and you
>> will despair of life as all wise beings eventually do. Thus spake
>> Zarathustra.
>
> Whatever are you talking about? The whole point is moot since
> immortality is impossible right now, particularly the "non-corrupting"
> sort I stipulate.
But it is not impossible in the mind of most folks. They want to believe in
immortality despite the kind of culture we are presently living in. Religion
is part and parcel of mankind even if you and I reject it. The fact is, we
are going against our own human natures to reject it. Men are profoundly
religious creatures.
>> Yup ... me too. The fact is that almost everyone who lives in an advanced
>> industrial society is an atheist whether they admit it to themselves or
>> not.
>> Stardust to stardust - it does not ever get any better than that.
>
> Oh, people have long been atheists...if "God" was so self-evident, as
> all the theists proclaim, then why does faith take so much convincing?
> But it is because we are ster than we often credit ourselves: our
> actions speak louder than our own words. No one who truly believes in
> God could be tempted. Temptation is nothing more than the realization
> that no one is really watching, and no one really gives a damn anyway!
The fear of God is rooted in the knowledge of death. Or to put it another
way, the beginning of all wisdom is rooted in the fear of death. This is why
children cannot ever be wise. Only adults can be wise and, usually, the
older you are, the wiser you are.
>> Once I wasn't, Then I was, Now I ain't again.
>>
>> - Epitaph found on tombstone in Ohio graveyard
>
> Whatever is the point of a tombstone...I like what the Tibetans do, a
> "sky burial" where they feed the corpse to vultures.
Nonetheless, does not the above quotation, only nine words, sum up an awful
lot of wisdom.
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
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Date: 27 Oct 2006 06:40:13
From: NYC XYZ
Subject: Re: RCN and the Internet - Whither Goest Thou?
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Edward Dolan wrote:
>
>
> I only like to sit at the computer reading for very limited periods of time.
> I will take reading a magazine laid back in my easy chair any old day
> compared to reading text off the computer.
You need a laptop, then. The LCD screen never tires out my eyes, and a
good laptop is very portable. Thanks to the neighbors' WiFi (another
benefit of New York living), I love lounging on my sofa reading this
that and the other. I can even read it all while on the toilet!
> It is also a matter of motivation and attitude too of course. Do you think
> you are still going to have as much enthusiasm for life and learning new
> things at age 70 as you do at age 35?
I expect to be happy, and I don't think you can quantify something like
that, so your question proceeds from false assumptions. Frankly,
immortality without physical or mental deterioration would be great.
Can't wait for them great minds to discover new things in the universe.
Heck, with all that time on my hands, I'll learn so many things and
then maybe come up with something astonishing myself!
But I also do so look forward to returning to stardust, though. It
will have been fun and interesting, but I shall be glad to get life
over with. Like playing a video game for hours on end, and you don't
regret having done so, but enough is enough. So it's all or nothing
for me. I don't simply want reincarnation or even wind up in some
monotheistic heaven (singing eternal praises to God? What a joke!!).
I'm absolutely convinced, though, that we all die and that's just that.
And that makes me happy!
> Regards,
>
> Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
> aka
> Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
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Date: 28 Oct 2006 21:58:30
From: Edward Dolan
Subject: Re: RCN and the Internet - Whither Goest Thou?
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"NYC XYZ" <jack_foreigner@yahoo.com > wrote in message
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>
> Edward Dolan wrote:
[...]
>> It is also a matter of motivation and attitude too of course. Do you
>> think
>> you are still going to have as much enthusiasm for life and learning new
>> things at age 70 as you do at age 35?
>
> I expect to be happy, and I don't think you can quantify something like
> that, so your question proceeds from false assumptions. Frankly,
> immortality without physical or mental deterioration would be great.
> Can't wait for them great minds to discover new things in the universe.
> Heck, with all that time on my hands, I'll learn so many things and
> then maybe come up with something astonishing myself!
Trust me on this, you are as doomed as any creature who has ever lived on
this earth. Your 35 year old hope will soon appear absurd to you and you
will despair of life as all wise beings eventually do. Thus spake
Zarathustra.
> But I also do so look forward to returning to stardust, though. It
> will have been fun and interesting, but I shall be glad to get life
> over with. Like playing a video game for hours on end, and you don't
> regret having done so, but enough is enough. So it's all or nothing
> for me. I don't simply want reincarnation or even wind up in some
> monotheistic heaven (singing eternal praises to God? What a joke!!).
> I'm absolutely convinced, though, that we all die and that's just that.
> And that makes me happy!
Yup ... me too. The fact is that almost everyone who lives in an advanced
industrial society is an atheist whether they admit it to themselves or not.
Stardust to stardust - it does not ever get any better than that.
Once I wasn't, Then I was, Now I ain't again.
- Epitaph found on tombstone in Ohio graveyard
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
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Date: 25 Oct 2006 07:55:55
From: NYC XYZ
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Edward Dolan wrote:
>
>
> RCN was a very worthwhile publication in its early days when information
> about recumbents was hard to come by. But now the Internet has changed all
> of that.
Well, to a great degree, yes, but I think RCN still has something of a
unique voice (for all the internet-like typos galore on every page)....
> I belong to an older generation which loved magazines. I subscribed to
> dozens over the course of the years. Most you could get for around $15. a
> year and they were real magazines (not newsletters) just chock full of
> information paid for mostly by the advertisers. I now subscribe to only "The
> Weekly Standard" and a computer magazine (PC World) which I don't understand
> very well.
What? Isn't "PC World" online for free?? I never saw the point of
paying for advertising.
> When you get to be my age (70), it is very hard to learn anything
> new.
Oh, I don't know about that. They just discovered that the brain is
capable of making new brain cells -- and, presumably, connections
between them. And, mercury aside, a diet full of fish is supposed to
help with mental acuity.
> Regards,
>
> Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
> aka
> Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
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Date: 25 Oct 2006 17:02:24
From: Edward Dolan
Subject: Re: RCN and the Internet - Whither Goest Thou?
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"NYC XYZ" <jack_foreigner@yahoo.com > wrote in message
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>
> Edward Dolan wrote:
>>
>>
>> RCN was a very worthwhile publication in its early days when information
>> about recumbents was hard to come by. But now the Internet has changed
>> all
>> of that.
>
> Well, to a great degree, yes, but I think RCN still has something of a
> unique voice (for all the internet-like typos galore on every page)....
>
>> I belong to an older generation which loved magazines. I subscribed to
>> dozens over the course of the years. Most you could get for around $15. a
>> year and they were real magazines (not newsletters) just chock full of
>> information paid for mostly by the advertisers. I now subscribe to only
>> "The
>> Weekly Standard" and a computer magazine (PC World) which I don't
>> understand
>> very well.
>
> What? Isn't "PC World" online for free?? I never saw the point of
> paying for advertising.
I only like to sit at the computer reading for very limited periods of time.
I will take reading a magazine laid back in my easy chair any old day
compared to reading text off the computer.
>> When you get to be my age (70), it is very hard to learn anything
>> new.
>
> Oh, I don't know about that. They just discovered that the brain is
> capable of making new brain cells -- and, presumably, connections
> between them. And, mercury aside, a diet full of fish is supposed to
> help with mental acuity.
It is also a matter of motivation and attitude too of course. Do you think
you are still going to have as much enthusiasm for life and learning new
things at age 70 as you do at age 35?
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
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Date: 09 Nov 2006 13:52:58
From: NYC XYZ
Subject: Re: RCN and the Internet - Whither Goest Thou?
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You sound like you're trying to convince yourself of something.
Edward Dolan wrote:
>
>
> Jeez, I have already explained to you what tits and asses are for -
> procreation. You are already to late for that. What kids want to have an
> old man for a father. You have missed the boat with all your fucking around.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
> aka
> Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
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Date: 24 Oct 2006 13:07:20
From: NYC XYZ
Subject: Re: RCN and the Internet - Whither Goest Thou?
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Indeed, I have also decided not to renew, but it's not even the price,
really. I just don't subscribe to magazines -- taking on RCN and
VeloVision (which was even more expensive at $12 an issue!) was an
extraordinary thing for me, someone who doesn't even follow or tune in
regularly for his favorite shows on TV like "Nova" and "Frontline" and
"POV" and "Wideangle" and "Globe Trekker" and "American Experience" and
"Now" and "BBC World Service" and "Antenne Deux" and "Deutsche
Welle"...heck, if you've noticed, I'm even trolling usenet a lot less
now!
Well, best of luck to Bob and the 'bent-heads who, from one of his
recent editorials, are overwhelmingly in favor of hardcopy...they're
part of what helped get me 'bent, but I ride my bike whether there is a
community or not (and there really isn't one, even in New York, the
Capital of the World -- we see each other on the streets and are
surprised but that's about it...I've got to be the youngest 'bent-rider
at 34 in this town!).
Edward Dolan wrote:
> I recently did not renew my subscription to RCN, a print publication about
> recumbents that I have subscribed to from the very beginning. I did not
> renew my subscription because the newsletter (it is not really a magazine)
> was overpriced and I could not see paying $5. for an issue based on the 2
> year subscription price.
>
> RCN was always nothing but a newsletter. I was hoping it would morph into a
> proper magazine but it never did. I supported it all these years because I
> wanted to support the recumbent community. But the manufacturers and most
> bike shops never supported RCN like they should have because of the slightly
> critical reviews appearing in it from time to time. I always respected
> Robert Bryant (the editor and chief writer) enormously for being slightly
> critical of some recumbents and I had nothing but contempt for the
> manufacturers who would not support the newsletter.
>
> But what has really changed recently is all the information you can now get
> off the Internet. I think RCN will have to consider becoming an online
> publication in the not too distant future. Most folks will not pay $5. an
> issue for a newsletter when you can get a tremendous amount of information
> off the Internet. I do not like BROL much because it is not critical enough,
> but still I can see that is where the future lies.
>
> I have nothing but the best wishes for the future success of RCN, but I
> simply will not pay $5. an issue for the newsletter. It is only worth about
> $1. or $2. at most.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
> aka
> Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
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Date: 24 Oct 2006 23:56:39
From: Edward Dolan
Subject: Re: RCN and the Internet - Whither Goest Thou?
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"NYC XYZ" <jack_foreigner@yahoo.com > wrote in message
news:1161720440.190542.311410@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...
>
> Indeed, I have also decided not to renew, but it's not even the price,
> really. I just don't subscribe to magazines -- taking on RCN and
> VeloVision (which was even more expensive at $12 an issue!) was an
> extraordinary thing for me, someone who doesn't even follow or tune in
> regularly for his favorite shows on TV like "Nova" and "Frontline" and
> "POV" and "Wideangle" and "Globe Trekker" and "American Experience" and
> "Now" and "BBC World Service" and "Antenne Deux" and "Deutsche
> Welle"...heck, if you've noticed, I'm even trolling usenet a lot less
> now!
>
> Well, best of luck to Bob and the 'bent-heads who, from one of his
> recent editorials, are overwhelmingly in favor of hardcopy...they're
> part of what helped get me 'bent, but I ride my bike whether there is a
> community or not (and there really isn't one, even in New York, the
> Capital of the World -- we see each other on the streets and are
> surprised but that's about it...I've got to be the youngest 'bent-rider
> at 34 in this town!).
RCN was a very worthwhile publication in its early days when information
about recumbents was hard to come by. But now the Internet has changed all
of that.
I belong to an older generation which loved magazines. I subscribed to
dozens over the course of the years. Most you could get for around $15. a
year and they were real magazines (not newsletters) just chock full of
information paid for mostly by the advertisers. I now subscribe to only "The
Weekly Standard" and a computer magazine (PC World) which I don't understand
very well. When you get to be my age (70), it is very hard to learn anything
new.
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
> Edward Dolan wrote:
>> I recently did not renew my subscription to RCN, a print publication
>> about
>> recumbents that I have subscribed to from the very beginning. I did not
>> renew my subscription because the newsletter (it is not really a
>> magazine)
>> was overpriced and I could not see paying $5. for an issue based on the 2
>> year subscription price.
>>
>> RCN was always nothing but a newsletter. I was hoping it would morph into
>> a
>> proper magazine but it never did. I supported it all these years because
>> I
>> wanted to support the recumbent community. But the manufacturers and most
>> bike shops never supported RCN like they should have because of the
>> slightly
>> critical reviews appearing in it from time to time. I always respected
>> Robert Bryant (the editor and chief writer) enormously for being slightly
>> critical of some recumbents and I had nothing but contempt for the
>> manufacturers who would not support the newsletter.
>>
>> But what has really changed recently is all the information you can now
>> get
>> off the Internet. I think RCN will have to consider becoming an online
>> publication in the not too distant future. Most folks will not pay $5. an
>> issue for a newsletter when you can get a tremendous amount of
>> information
>> off the Internet. I do not like BROL much because it is not critical
>> enough,
>> but still I can see that is where the future lies.
>>
>> I have nothing but the best wishes for the future success of RCN, but I
>> simply will not pay $5. an issue for the newsletter. It is only worth
>> about
>> $1. or $2. at most.
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Date: 06 Nov 2006 08:16:39
From: NYC XYZ
Subject: Re: RCN and the Internet - Whither Goest Thou?
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Edward Dolan wrote:
>
>
> Age matters enormously. There is no fool like an old fool. If you are in
> your mid-thirties, you are now old and over the hill. Of course, you are not
> yet ancient like I am, but once you are out of your teens, you are always
> old enough to know better.
Know what better? It's all in the luck of the draw, man. That's why I
say forget the helmets. The perception of safety hasn't anything to do
with whether your number is up.
> The main thing you have got to stop doing is riding your bike about New York
> City ogling 10 year old Latino children with their freaking asses and tits.
> Time for you to grow up and act your age - which is old! I urge you to think
> more on death and cemeteries and headstones and epitaphs like I do.
Epitaphs are anticlimactic, like all commentary. My name is my epitaph
-- epitaph enough.
Time enough to ponder the verties in the grave! To each thing its
season, man. While lust and blood course through me yet, every year is
but the ch of spring, more green, more lush, fuller by the
heartbeat.
> There are some really grand cemeteries in Queens and Brooklyn. Visit them
> often and spend many pleasant hours there contemplating your future.
Oh, that I do! I'd thought I was the only one who's into biking around
cemetaries, but no, apparently it's a whole sub-culture of our
hobby/lifestyle, such that some cemetaries, apparently (for I've never
been kicked out myself yet) ban cyclists from their grounds.
> However, I advise you to stay away from any big trees in those cemeteries as
> the urge will grow on you to hang yourself. This is most unbecoming. After
> all, there is no sense in fightening the 10 year old Latino children with
> their freaking asses and tits - and any horses too that might be lurking
> about. Nay, it is best to go down to your dirt floor cellar where you can
> throw a rope over the rafter and hang yourself in utmost privacy.
Sounds like you need some tits and ass in your life. If the round
brown bubble-buttocks of young latinas don't rejuvenate you, maybe
those of the girl's grandmother might.
> All the other animals under the sun are indeed silent on the Great Question.
> It is only we humans who are not silent - nor should we be. Is not that what
> our brains and our speech is for - to ask ultimate questions?
There are no questions. There are only illusions.
> Regards,
>
> Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
> aka
> Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
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Date: 08 Nov 2006 22:14:50
From: Edward Dolan
Subject: Re: RCN and the Internet - Whither Goest Thou?
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"NYC XYZ" <jack_foreigner@yahoo.com > wrote in message
news:1162829799.216591.71180@h54g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>
> Edward Dolan wrote:
[...]
>> However, I advise you to stay away from any big trees in those cemeteries
>> as
>> the urge will grow on you to hang yourself. This is most unbecoming.
>> After
>> all, there is no sense in fightening the 10 year old Latino children with
>> their freaking asses and tits - and any horses too that might be lurking
>> about. Nay, it is best to go down to your dirt floor cellar where you can
>> throw a rope over the rafter and hang yourself in utmost privacy.
>
> Sounds like you need some tits and ass in your life. If the round
> brown bubble-buttocks of young latinas don't rejuvenate you, maybe
> those of the girl's grandmother might.
Jeez, I have already explained to you what tits and asses are for -
procreation. You are already to late for that. What kids want to have an
old man for a father. You have missed the boat with all your fucking around.
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
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