From xod@thestonecutters.net Thu Jul 25 14:01:08 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_7_4); 25 Jul 2002 21:01:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 11386 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2002 21:01:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m7.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 25 Jul 2002 21:01:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Jul 2002 21:01:08 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 17XpjP-0004iz-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:01:08 -0700 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17XpjK-0004ii-00; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:01:03 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:01:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [66.111.194.10] (helo=granite.thestonecutters.net) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17XpjG-0004iZ-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:00:58 -0700 Received: from localhost (xod@localhost) by granite.thestonecutters.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6PL0vS54980 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 17:00:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from xod@thestonecutters.net) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 17:00:57 -0400 (EDT) To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: New Members, Board of Directors, other LogFest results In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020725161931.033c2a70@pop.east.cox.net> Message-ID: <20020725170015.E54627-100000@granite.thestonecutters.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-archive-position: 304 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: xod@thestonecutters.net Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list From: Invent Yourself Reply-To: xod@thestonecutters.net X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=110189215 X-Yahoo-Profile: throwing_back_the_apple On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Bob LeChevalier wrote: > At 11:29 AM 7/25/02 -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > >On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 05:21:17AM -0400, Robert LeChevalier wrote: > > > > > Meanwhile I have to admit that being responsible ONLY for business > > > > > matters, while keeping the organization running, quite thoroughly > > > > > saps my motivation to do other stuff that needs to be done and > > > > > that I want to do. > > > > > > > >I am honestly deeply sorry to hear that. > > > > > > It's been said at many LogFests. But the bottom line is that the > > > grunge work has to be done by someone. > > > >Would you even accept a volunteer to take that over at this point? > >Would it even be *possible* for someone else to do it? > > Nora has been skeptical that SHE could do it, and she lives here. I think > that someone local could transition to doing it, having access to me to > answer the inevitable questions. Out of area, I have been skeptical > because too much of my record keeping BACKUP is on paper, and the backup is > what is needed when the inevitable questions arise. There is a hump that > would have to be overcome in automating/modernizing my "system", and after > that, it would not necessarily need to be local anymore. Non-local, I > think it would take someone with even your intensity quite a while to > overcome the hump unless it was done by massively throwing things out (as > in everything from before CLL) and not worrying about them (which I > considered and rejected, after Cowan suggested it). What sort of issues linger on from so long ago? -- Nisha, 26, clutching an ice cream and her toddler son, read impassively through a leaflet calling for immediate dialogue with Pakistan to avert the horror of a nuclear war. "Why should we worry about this?" she said with a shrug. "India has more nuclear weapons than Pakistan. We will wipe them off the map and win the war."