The OFFICIAL Countdown To Lockn 2017 Thread

[estprofinhumboldt]

Feb 24, 2017 6:46:13 GMT -5 smosey wales said:

Nice! A ton eighty. 

[mccjeff]

I was going to use this...


180 Degrees South: Conquerors of the Useless, or simply 180° South, is a 2010 documentary directed by Chris Malloy that covers the journey of Jeff Johnson as he travels from Ventura, California to Patagonia, Chile retracing the 1968 trip that Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins took in their Ford E-Series Econoline Van. After finding footage of the 1968 expedition, Johnson decided to make climbing the Corcovado Volcano in Patagonia as his life goal and, after speaking to Chouinard and Tompkins, planned his own journey.



Yvon Chouinard is probably most qualified to be called the patron saint of dirtbags, having been one of the originals himself in Yosemite during the 1960s, at one point eating cat food to get through a season on very little money. Then he started Chouinard Equipment, and then Patagonia, and found himself becoming a CEO, author (Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman, 2005), and movie star (180 South, 2010). Some might even think of him as a philosopher because of his eminent ability to produce pithy quotes on a very regular basis, in his books, in movies, or during interviews.

“Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.”
“…the worst thing said about him is that he was "uncurious.”
"...when everything goes wrong – that’s when adventure starts."

[TOO $]

This thread has taken a real U-turn...

[worf rat]

Feb 24, 2017 6:47:04 GMT -5 smosey wales said:

Leaving it to Jeff to represent CHANGE OF DIRECTION!

More like CHANGE OF IMAGE SIZE

[mccjeff]

Those are the biggest darts I've ever seen!

[smosey wales]

Lawn darts

[docbrown]

Feb 24, 2017 14:39:24 GMT -5 smosey wales said:

Lawn darts

Water balloons,lots of them!,!!!🌈

[smosey wales]

Tempus est Iocundum "Codex Buranus, 179"

[estprofinhumboldt]

Feb 25, 2017 8:33:06 GMT -5 smosey wales said:

I'm not getting it 

[mccjeff]

[smosey wales]

Feb 25, 2017 8:48:43 GMT -5 estprofinhumboldt said:

Feb 25, 2017 8:33:06 GMT -5 smosey wales said:

I'm not getting it 

explanation edited in first post

[mccjeff]

[TOO $]

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[smosey wales]

my first electric guitar was a "lawsuit" copy of that one. Still have it. Great memories!

[smosey wales]

[smosey wales]

This picture says it all about driving the major highways through the Australian outback

[Bird700level]

I think i may have asked this before. Is there a way to have the latest post come up first rather than the latest post be last where you have to click on the last page and then scroll all the way down? I know you can go to Recent Posts but that doesnt give the context of posts in that particular thread.

[TOO $]

Mar 2, 2017 7:37:08 GMT -5 Bird700level said:

I think i may have asked this before. Is there a way to have the latest post come up first rather than the latest post be last where you have to click on the last page and then scroll all the way down? I know you can go to Recent Posts but that doesnt give the context of posts in that particular thread.

No. That would be like putting the last page of the book in the front. Think of each thread as a book and each post as a page. It doesn't make any sense if they are out of order. How confusing would it be for someone who is reading a thread for the first time to have the last posts at the top?

I wondered how different people read through the board. Because I am here often enough I always go to Recent Posts. Others probably start at the home page and find a topic that interests them or starts one of their own.

[estprofinhumboldt]

Mar 2, 2017 7:54:21 GMT -5 TOO $ said:

Mar 2, 2017 7:37:08 GMT -5 Bird700level said:

I think i may have asked this before. Is there a way to have the latest post come up first rather than the latest post be last where you have to click on the last page and then scroll all the way down? I know you can go to Recent Posts but that doesnt give the context of posts in that particular thread.

No. That would be like putting the last page of the book in the front. Think of each thread as a book and each post as a page. It doesn't make any sense if they are out of order. How confusing would it be for someone who is reading a thread for the first time to have the last posts at the top?

I wondered how different people read through the board. Because I am here often enough I always go to Recent Posts. Others probably start at the home page and find a topic that interests them or stars one of their own.

I'm a recent post guy too. I have my app set up to open this forum in recent posts. If I see a comment I'm not following or understanding I tap that thread and go to the last page. 

[Bird700level]

Mar 2, 2017 7:54:21 GMT -5 TOO $ said:

Mar 2, 2017 7:37:08 GMT -5 Bird700level said:

I think i may have asked this before. Is there a way to have the latest post come up first rather than the latest post be last where you have to click on the last page and then scroll all the way down? I know you can go to Recent Posts but that doesnt give the context of posts in that particular thread.

No. That would be like putting the last page of the book in the front. Think of each thread as a book and each post as a page. It doesn't make any sense if they are out of order. How confusing would it be for someone who is reading a thread for the first time to have the last posts at the top?

I wondered how different people read through the board. Because I am here often enough I always go to Recent Posts. Others probably start at the home page and find a topic that interests them or stars one of their own.

I get your point. However, if you have a Kindle, it puts you where you left off, not at chapter 1 and then you have to click onto chapter 19 and then scroll down to your current page. I do think most people that are on this forum have kept up to date and are not starting from the beginning. Let the newbies scroll. They are scum anyways. (JK)

[smosey wales]

So no Rabbinic option? Isn't there an app for that already?

But the question brings up the point of the transition from computer screens to hand-held screens that is affected much of our electronic communications, especially in the business world, where it matters. People now are not reading emails much and seldom reply to them, because it's inconvenient on a hand-held. They often do not read the whole email--at their peril--and too often "reply all" which can create huge problems. So I have to send mine differently to accommodate the assumption, or risk, of failure. I recently learned of a company that has an automatic block on any "reply all" because of the issues and risks.

[mccjeff]

[smosey wales]