Being Seen

[Joy Beeson]

I've gotten to page 35 in _Cyclecraft: North American Edition_, which
contains a quite-sensible discussion of the difference between being
noticed and being recognized.

This hits home with me: during my attempt to ride the double century
one September, I nearly ran down the riders who had left me behind
because I mistook the nearby cluster of small lights for a cluster of
pole lights a mile farther away.

Which would give me a topic for a column: When you stop GET OFF THE
ROAD. Never mind that it's three in the morning and this road has
almost no traffic during rush hour.

[Ted Nolan <tednolan>]

Post by Joy Beeson
I've gotten to page 35 in _Cyclecraft: North American Edition_, which
contains a quite-sensible discussion of the difference between being
noticed and being recognized.
This hits home with me: during my attempt to ride the double century
one September, I nearly ran down the riders who had left me behind
because I mistook the nearby cluster of small lights for a cluster of
pole lights a mile farther away.
Which would give me a topic for a column: When you stop GET OFF THE
ROAD. Never mind that it's three in the morning and this road has
almost no traffic during rush hour.

Well I'll Be Super-Amalgamated!

[Joy Beeson]

Post by Ted Nolan <tednolan>

Post by Joy Beeson
I've gotten to page 35 in _Cyclecraft: North American Edition_, which
contains a quite-sensible discussion of the difference between being
noticed and being recognized.
This hits home with me: during my attempt to ride the double century
one September, I nearly ran down the riders who had left me behind
because I mistook the nearby cluster of small lights for a cluster of
pole lights a mile farther away.
Which would give me a topic for a column: When you stop GET OFF THE
ROAD. Never mind that it's three in the morning and this road has
almost no traffic during rush hour.

Well I'll Be Super-Amalgamated!

So that's why this post didn't appear in rec.bicycles.misc.!

I've no idea how this happened, so can't promise not to do it again.

[Ted Nolan <tednolan>]

Post by Joy Beeson

Post by Ted Nolan <tednolan>

Post by Joy Beeson
I've gotten to page 35 in _Cyclecraft: North American Edition_, which
contains a quite-sensible discussion of the difference between being
noticed and being recognized.
This hits home with me: during my attempt to ride the double century
one September, I nearly ran down the riders who had left me behind
because I mistook the nearby cluster of small lights for a cluster of
pole lights a mile farther away.
Which would give me a topic for a column: When you stop GET OFF THE
ROAD. Never mind that it's three in the morning and this road has
almost no traffic during rush hour.

Well I'll Be Super-Amalgamated!

So that's why this post didn't appear in rec.bicycles.misc.!
I've no idea how this happened, so can't promise not to do it again.

Hey, it got this group its first post in, I think, several years!

[Joy Beeson]

Post by Ted Nolan <tednolan>
Hey, it got this group its first post in, I think, several years!

I should post something sorta-semi on topic.

In the sixties, I wrote a piece of fanfic without ever having seen a
Doc Savage story. I still haven't seen one, but I gathered from
reading this group that my story didn't quite get everything
completely wrong, which I found gratifying.

I had Ryan assisted by a small number of specialists, and he was
vigorously educated by his Daddy. There was a lawyer in the crew, but
there were no sesqipedalian exclamations.

And I wrote from Ryan's point of view. Strictly a no-no in hero tales
-- every Sherlock must have a Watson.

Pity I never wrote the second story in the series; there's no way I
could get my head back into the sixties now. I don't even know
whether referring to the EMT on the crew as an MET was a typo on my
part or a reflection that the terminology hadn't settled down yet.

http://wlweather.net/joybackup/ZFICTION/OTHER/ARRANGE.TXT

In finding that URL, I read a bit to be sure it was the right file,
noticed a typo, and discovered that when my computer got crowded, I'd
moved everything but my Web sites onto a computer that can't run my
word processor. I added the missing letter with Notepad, then
realized that I don't know how to upload from that computer. I have
to have supervision every time I run Filezilla, so I wait so long
between uses that I forget how it works, so I have to ask for help
again. Using it every day isn't an option, because I must first make
sure all the files in the directory that I want to copy are the latest
version, and purge all the ultimate-unedit files.

So I copied the file to the main computer, edited it, uploaded it, and
haven't yet gotten around to copying it back and emptying the TEMP
folder.