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Bob, wherefore art thou?, Missing the untamed Shaw... |
 Aug 15 2006, 04:01 PM
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Solar System Cartographer  Group: Members Posts: 10253 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227  |
I've been emailing Bob from time to time. He's still around.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Aug 15 2006, 04:06 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 15 2006, 04:52 PM)  Nothing from this end. No bad words, no contact at all. People just sometimes drift away..it happens sadly. Nothing wrong with drifting away (electronically) but sometimes worse things happen to people. It's only natural to wonder if the 'disappeared' are actually OK. Obviously no cause for personal concern in Bob's case though, and thanks for all your efforts. |
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Aug 15 2006, 04:17 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1636 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Lima, Peru Member No.: 385 |
QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 15 2006, 09:29 AM) I'm not sure what you actually mean - but I've double checked and tripple checked that Bob is NOT on the IP ban list. You aced it! What I am saying is that every ISP or any connection provider might have set up a firewall and some might made a mistake in definition of ban IP list that might block the traffic message. If you didn't get the IP response by the ping command, it might be one of the indications that it is already filtered or the message has already arrived at some point and that point is not allowed to reply (silent). You mentioned that he is not in the IP ban list in your site? If that is case, so you have already cleared it. Rodolfo |
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Aug 15 2006, 05:21 PM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 578 Joined: 5-November 04 From: Denmark Member No.: 107 |
Could he try connect to the site going through a proxy server perhaps?
Maybe that could be a way to get past a possible firewall 
-------------------- "I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like"
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Aug 15 2006, 07:01 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2547 Joined: 13-September 05 Member No.: 497 |
I feel compelled to be that pedantic ass who points out that "wherefore art thou" means "why are you", not "where are you". See, e.g., http://www.cjr.org/issues/2003/3/lc.asp
-------------------- Disclaimer: This post is based on public information only. Any opinions are my own.
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Aug 15 2006, 09:18 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Aug 15 2006, 03:01 PM) I feel compelled to be that pedantic ass who points out that "wherefore art thou" means "why are you", not "where are you". See, e.g., http://www.cjr.org/issues/2003/3/lc.asp 63% of Americans don't know that Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, so how can it be expected that they know some minor aspect of 500 year-old English? 
-------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Aug 15 2006, 09:26 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Aug 15 2006, 02:01 PM) I feel compelled to be that pedantic ass who points out that "wherefore art thou" means "why are you", not "where are you". See, e.g., http://www.cjr.org/issues/2003/3/lc.asp Yes, I knew that, Mike -- but I felt that the Shakespearian reference was appropriate, and besides, everyone knew what I meant. Which means that, whether or not I abused the original Olde English meaning of the word, I did effectively communicate what I wanted to get across...  -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Aug 15 2006, 10:46 PM
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QUOTE (dot.dk @ Aug 15 2006, 06:21 PM) Could he try connect to the site going through a proxy server perhaps? Maybe that could be a way to get past a possible firewall I'm talking with Bob about this very thing. We shall see.... Chris |
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Aug 16 2006, 12:45 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10253 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
A Shaw by any other name would smell like feet?
Phil (Come on Bob, I can't keep this up much longer) -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Aug 16 2006, 02:13 AM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 510 Joined: 17-March 05 From: Southeast Michigan Member No.: 209 |
Be not afraid of bad ISPs; some are born with bad ISPs, some achieve bad ISPs, and others have bad ISPs thrust upon them...
[I know it's from a different play, but I'm just back from the Stratford (Ontario) Festival and that line was in my head ]
-------------------- --O'Dave
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Aug 16 2006, 04:42 PM
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 Director of Galilean Photography Group: Members Posts: 896 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93 |
Wherefore art thou an ass, Mike?
Why do you ride the Internet Donkey of Pedantism?
-------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks
-- "The engineers, as usual, made a tremendous fuss. Again as usual, they did the job in half the time they had dismissed as being absolutely impossible." --Rescue Party, Arthur C Clarke Mother Nature is the final inspector of all quality. |
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Aug 16 2006, 07:15 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14445 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
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Aug 16 2006, 08:40 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10253 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
We could leave the wherefore business behind with a judicious application of "inflationary language".
Bob, Bob, wherefive art thou Bob? Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Aug 17 2006, 02:45 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 477 Joined: 2-March 05 Member No.: 180 |
QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Aug 15 2006, 08:45 PM) A Shaw by any other name would smell like feet? Phil (Come on Bob, I can't keep this up much longer) Alas, poor Bob Shaw, I knew him well! |
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Aug 17 2006, 03:09 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 63 Joined: 4-May 05 Member No.: 378 |
QUOTE (Jeff7 @ Aug 16 2006, 09:45 PM) Alas, poor Bob Shaw, I knew him well! I know it was probably deliberate, but as a charter member of pedants R us I am legally and morally obligated to point out that the correct quote is: "I knew him, Horatio. A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy" etc. Steve -------------------- Popper: A party entertainment, filled with confetti and a small explosive charge.
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