Quote from: K-Dog on Sep 06, 2024, 05:09 PMMy understanding is you traveled 1500 miles to lurk, and you then did not introduce yourself.

I was there. You weren't. Personal experience matters, a point you've made before. My memory is quite good, and 30 minutes talking with RE, watching him demo a electric scooter for a young man who asked about it, and yack away, isn't "lurking". I did lurk for 5 minutes after I spotted him and his squad telling myself, "okay...do you REALLY want to do this"...before forging ahead. Wife thought I was silly, after having been around for the last episode of bumping into internet folks. It was reasonable to be cautious. I was once revealed online, my fault, and the nutter showed up at the gate and tried to get past the armed guards. That was old peak oil days though, prior to the Diner, and prior to RE showing up at peakoil.com

I've been more careful since, and stopping by to see the squad seemed like I might be asking for it. John is a big guy.

Quote from: K-DogAnd you still have not learned that a mystery man can't get traction.  But that assumes you want some.

A mystery to you perhaps, if you've never asked RE for my name. RE has stated quite clearly the process he used to find me out, how he substantiated and independently confirmed what Haniel had found out using IP tracking on my posts, conferences I went to, IP verified, etc etc.

But if you want to pretend, as RE does, that he didn't do exactly what I just said, that is up to you.