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.

Talking for half an hour isn't lurking in my book. Got his entire spiel for the EV scooters as well. Spoke to Wendy as well, she was passing out literature which was useful as it had phone numbers and whatnot for the SUN thing, etc etc. RE was busy demoing  the scooter for a youngster who asked about them, stopped back to say goodbye afterwards.

And of course I didn't introduce myself. Neither did he.

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

I've already said my piece about RE's investigation of who I am (as did he, in this very forum...did the MIB get that?) and how he and Haniel sorted it out. Did RE mention that Dave was busily posting pictures from those investigations and everything at the Diner, or was that before your time? How many named, photographed and pictures posted like a wanted poster can take place before someone isn't a mystery men?

Quote from: TDoS on Sep 06, 2024, 03:51 PMInteresting. I once traveled 1500 miles to chat with you.

No, according to YOU that trip wasn't made to chat with me, you just "happened to be nearby" on some other mission and "took a little side trip" to skulk around at the Festival and chat with me incognito without revealing who you were or even bringing up your favorite topics of Peak Oil or Geochemistry which might have rung a bell with me so I would recognize you.  This is hardly "showinhg respect".  It's more like "STALKING".      The IRL version of what you do here online with me.

RE

Quote from: RE on Sep 07, 2024, 06:34 AM

Quote from: TDoS on Sep 06, 2024, 03:51 PMInteresting. I once traveled 1500 miles to chat with you.

No, according to YOU that trip wasn't made to chat with me, you just "happened to be nearby" on some other mission and "took a little side trip" to skulk around at the Festival and chat with me incognito without revealing who you were or even bringing up your favorite topics of Peak Oil or Geochemistry which might have rung a bell with me so I would recognize you.  This is hardly "showinhg respect".  It's more like "STALKING".    The IRL version of what you do here online with me.
RE

Holy run on sentence batman.

Yes...there was other travel involved. And it was nowhere near South Carolina, so while perhaps the total deviation wasn't 1500 miles, it was substantially more than a normal person's "nearby", not even being in the same part of the country, and an entire nother days drive away. Of course, "nearby" is relative. To K-Dog who doesn't seem to get out much, 50 miles might be nearby. To you, "nearby" might only be where the facilities van will haul you, what is that, maybe 20 miles? To me "nearby" is the L48, My drives to Alaska are about the only place I've driven that doesn't qualify as "nearby". My concept of a "drive" isn't like normal peoples. You've got your million miles doing it professionally, my total now stands at 1.4 million cage miles ( motorcycles are another quarter million). So, maybe nearby for me, not anywhere in a nearby universe to you or K-Dog.

Walking up to you and beginning a conversation is hardly skulking. Or stalking. I wasn't there to discuss my areas of interest, but to see how IRL you presented yours. And how seriously you took this SUN thing. The after pictures and stories of drunken revelry and poor scooter riding at the lake house would seem to negate the seriousness of the venture at the end of the day.

And while I am hell on wheels when it comes to peak oil, geochemistry doesn't even make my top 10 favorite topics...maybe you've confused me with someone else? 

Quote from: TDoS on Sep 07, 2024, 09:07 AMAnd while I am hell on wheels when it comes to peak oil, geochemistry doesn't even make my top 10 favorite topics...maybe you've confused me with someone else? 

Oh good grief.  Going into Mr. Peabody's WATBAC machine, you claimed to be an expert in this branch of scientic research with numerous papers published blah blah blah.  An engineering degree I recall from Notre Dame ot some other 3rd tier school.  I'm pretty sure it wasn't from one of the top ranked schools for Petrogeology related field, since you have a huge chip on your shoulder regarding education.

Geochemistry is the branch of Earth Science that applies chemical principles to deepen an understanding of the Earth system and systems of other planets. Geochemists consider Earth composed of discrete spheres — rocks, fluids, gases and biology — that exchange matter and energy over a range of time scales.

The Top 3 schools for the subjects are:

Australia National University
Cambridge University
China University of Geosciences Beijing

Down further come MIT & Stanford and University of Texas at Austin just makes the Top 10.  I recall you mentioning them at some point.

Regardless of any of that, your cloak and dagger adventure to ole Dixie to have a chat with me about EVs was so amazing until you reminded me of the chat I had no memory of meeting you whatsoever.  You were just another faceless person I talked to that day about the SUN project & EV Scooters.

RE

Quote from: RE on Sep 07, 2024, 05:07 PMRegardless of any of that, your cloak and dagger adventure to ole Dixie to have a chat with me about EVs was so amazing until you reminded me of the chat I had no memory of meeting you whatsoever.

Ain't no one here but us geriatrics at this point, and undoubtedly none of our memories are as good as they once were.

Quote from: REYou were just another faceless person I talked to that day about the SUN project & EV Scooters.
RE

You were wearing all black, which was kind of weird in the days heat. And that hat. Dave and Monsta were mostly over by their own sunshade, they had a cooler, seems like someone was using it for a seat, Eddy wasn't around. The boy that asked about the scooter was black. From where we were standing, the SUN sunshade was to my right, Wendy was manning it, John was out in the sun at a table doing something bambooey with a few lookers on. Only that one boy interrupted us.

None of our memories are as good as they once were. Some are better than others perhaps. 

I had a white beard. Perhaps that helps?

My memory is fine.  The meeting was unremarkable and non memorable for me.  It holds importance only in your mind that somehow we met IRL and this validates your participation here as "real".  It doesn't and the encounter was a waste of your driving time and gas.  Any further mention of it will earn you another trip to the cooler.

RE