Fantastic skiing

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,
twobuddha wrote:

On Nov 20, 4:08*pm, Alan Baker wrote:
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,



*twobuddha wrote:
On Nov 20, 3:45*pm, Alan Baker wrote:
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,

*twobuddha wrote:
You are insane. *Get help.

snip

Which is what you always revert to when you have nothing to answer the
points raised!

No, Baker, it is what I say when you are insane. *Pretty much every
post that has to do with me.
I have answered those questions ad nauseum. *You ignore reality and
continue to cling to your delusions. *Witness the following:

Tell me, Scotty: why won't you agree to meet at a police station, again?

Asked. *Answered. *Because it is an insane idea from an insane
stalking obsessive dickless coward.

So you won't me at a psychiatrist's office and discuss your claim of
insanity because you're afraid of the potential for violence, but you
won't meet me at a police station to swear out a complaint for the
"stalking" you claim I've done.

That is an insane statement about absolutely insane ideas. You are
insane. Get help.

Yet your reply is completely empty of how or why it could be considered
insane...


I do not play insane games with an insane dumb****. *Get help. *You
are insane.

I'd love to see you present your case to a psychiatrist, but you're too
afraid!

That is the craziest statement you have ever made. Holy ****, you're
****ing nuts.
Clue time, Alan. Meeting with a shrink will not change the fact that
you are delusional and mentally ill. You will still be delusional and
mentally ill. You are mentally ill and delusional now, as proven by
your insane "challenges". Get help.

What it might change is your ability to make the claim...

What is truly sad is how the psychopaths continue to manipulate
you......and you are too sick and stupid to realize how they play you.

LOL

--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
http://gallery.me.com/alangbaker/100008/DSCF0162/web.jpg

On Nov 20, 7:45*pm, twobuddha wrote:
On Nov 20, 3:45*pm, Alan Baker wrote:

In article
,

*twobuddha wrote:
You are insane. *Get help.

snip

Which is what you always revert to when you have nothing to answer the
points raised!

Tell me, Scotty: why won't you agree to meet at a police station, again?

Because it is one of the craziest ideas I have ever heard. *Insane.
Get help.

Dude - this is your BIG CHANCE!!! Why won't you go meet him? I mean,
he's willing to come right to Seattle - it should be like no problem
at all for you. It's almost as if you really *don't* want to see
him. Why? What safer place can you get than a police station?

JP

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,
Jay Pique wrote:

On Nov 20, 7:45*pm, twobuddha wrote:
On Nov 20, 3:45*pm, Alan Baker wrote:

In article
,

*twobuddha wrote:
You are insane. *Get help.

snip

Which is what you always revert to when you have nothing to answer the
points raised!

Tell me, Scotty: why won't you agree to meet at a police station, again?

Because it is one of the craziest ideas I have ever heard. *Insane.
Get help.

Dude - this is your BIG CHANCE!!! Why won't you go meet him? I mean,
he's willing to come right to Seattle - it should be like no problem
at all for you. It's almost as if you really *don't* want to see
him. Why? What safer place can you get than a police station?

JP

What's more, he's accused me of stalking over and over. It is nothing
less than his civic *duty* to swear out a complaint!

--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
http://gallery.me.com/alangbaker/100008/DSCF0162/web.jpg

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,
taichiskiing wrote:

On Nov 18, 6:21 pm, Richard Henry wrote:
On Nov 18, 7:19 am, taichiskiing
wrote:

Fantastic skiing

http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=sjMsvS...eature=related

Have fun,
IS

He was slipping when he should have been skidding.

Not really. He was knocked out of balance by the gate/flag and into
slipping; if he had tried to recover by skidding, he would have
tumbled. His recovery technique was actually flatboarding/line-skiing
technique; notice how he moves his butt/body downward to catch up with
the ski while making a "carving" (tail follows tip) right turn at
around 19 sec, and again in slow motion around 39~44 sec? That's a
standard butt/weight leads the turn line-skiing technique, great
balance, and great skiing.


IS

Nice of you to finally admit that "flatboarding technique" is synonymous
for "flailing about wildly in an attempt to regain the balance you lost
when you stopped using good skiing technique".

:-)

--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
http://gallery.me.com/alangbaker/100008/DSCF0162/web.jpg

In article ,
DaveM wrote:

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:35:36 GMT, Alan Baker
wrote:

In article
,
twobuddha wrote:

On Nov 18, 7:19*am, taichiskiing
wrote:
Fantastic skiing

http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=sjMsvS...eature=related

Have fun,
IS

At this point in the year, any skiing would be great skiing. Looks
like a late start for the PNW. Nothing on the ground at Whistler,
either, or Sun Valley, too warm most of the last couple weeks to make
snow.

Just another thing for you to be wrong about...

http://www.whistlerblackcomb.com/weather/gallery/index.htm

http://www.whistlerblackcomb.com/weather/snowreport/index.htm

...but you should be used to being wrong by now.

Yeah, OK there is *something* on the ground -- a solid 12" --
probably at Whistler Peak. Maybe not nothing in the strict sense but
in the "I want to go skiing" sense, it is as good as.

Nope. There's 12" at mid-mountain.

"Snow depths are measured at Pig Alley Weather Station - 1650m
(Mid-Mountain) on Whistler Mtn."

For reference. Whistler Village base is 675 metres and Whistler peak
elevation is 2205 metres. Summing and dividing by two, you get 1440
metres, so they're pretty reasonable on the "mid-mountain" designation.


Nit Picking.

Dave M.

--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
http://gallery.me.com/alangbaker/100008/DSCF0162/web.jpg

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:28:56 -0800, Alan Baker
wrote:

In article ,
DaveM wrote:

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:35:36 GMT, Alan Baker
wrote:

In article
,
twobuddha wrote:

On Nov 18, 7:19*am, taichiskiing
wrote:
Fantastic skiing

http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=sjMsvS...eature=related

Have fun,
IS

At this point in the year, any skiing would be great skiing. Looks
like a late start for the PNW. Nothing on the ground at Whistler,
either, or Sun Valley, too warm most of the last couple weeks to make
snow.

Just another thing for you to be wrong about...

http://www.whistlerblackcomb.com/weather/gallery/index.htm

http://www.whistlerblackcomb.com/weather/snowreport/index.htm

...but you should be used to being wrong by now.

Yeah, OK there is *something* on the ground -- a solid 12" --
probably at Whistler Peak. Maybe not nothing in the strict sense but
in the "I want to go skiing" sense, it is as good as.

Nope. There's 12" at mid-mountain.

"Snow depths are measured at Pig Alley Weather Station - 1650m
(Mid-Mountain) on Whistler Mtn."

For reference. Whistler Village base is 675 metres and Whistler peak
elevation is 2205 metres. Summing and dividing by two, you get 1440
metres, so they're pretty reasonable on the "mid-mountain" designation.




Yes, I see that now, sorry for missing it.

Had he phrased it as "Nothing on the ground at Whistler Village" would
you still have jumped all over it? If you had phrased your response as
"there is 12" on the ground" would you have been surprised if he
jumped all over that by suggesting that there was nothing on the
ground at the villageat that point (since it is 3C there right now, I
suspect that therestill isn't much if anything on the ground there
even with "snowline reaching the village earlier toda. But maybe it is
a sign of good things to come.) or that 12 " is only a point estimate
and there may be actually more or less as an average across the eitire
mountain? Would you have been annoyed if your lack of precision
precipitated a big hairy response about how wrong you were?

So, with all the other things to pick at or even rage abou tin this
NG, I still feel that this seems quite a small nit that you chose to
pick so ostentatiously. I suspect that were someone else to say the
same thing that you might engage them in some discussion about the
state of the snow pack, present, past or future at Whitsler/Blackcomb
or beyond. I would not expect that in this case for lots of reasons
but your response is simply tedious in my estimation since I managed
to suss out his meaning ndespite the ambiguities that are present in
both your post and his.

Saying "Whistler" has or does not have something is a bit ambiguous
anyway and you just wanted to jump on it. Cool, but pretending that
you are right and managed to catch someone out on something that is
arguably actually true is sort of silly and probably beneath decent
conversation (not that I actually expect much of that here anyway).

Dave M
(It rained here today)

(post script: Yeah, I have been reading this NG for a long time and
yes, I am aware of all of the crap of the past - what now? - hundred
years' war herein. So, please spare me anything patronizing about how
I need to google to understand, 'cuz I get it.)




Nit Picking.

Dave M.

In article ,
DaveM wrote:

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:28:56 -0800, Alan Baker
wrote:

In article ,
DaveM wrote:

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:35:36 GMT, Alan Baker
wrote:

In article
,
twobuddha wrote:

On Nov 18, 7:19*am, taichiskiing
wrote:
Fantastic skiing

http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=sjMsvS...eature=related

Have fun,
IS

At this point in the year, any skiing would be great skiing. Looks
like a late start for the PNW. Nothing on the ground at Whistler,
either, or Sun Valley, too warm most of the last couple weeks to make
snow.

Just another thing for you to be wrong about...

http://www.whistlerblackcomb.com/weather/gallery/index.htm

http://www.whistlerblackcomb.com/weather/snowreport/index.htm

...but you should be used to being wrong by now.

Yeah, OK there is *something* on the ground -- a solid 12" --
probably at Whistler Peak. Maybe not nothing in the strict sense but
in the "I want to go skiing" sense, it is as good as.

Nope. There's 12" at mid-mountain.

"Snow depths are measured at Pig Alley Weather Station - 1650m
(Mid-Mountain) on Whistler Mtn."

For reference. Whistler Village base is 675 metres and Whistler peak
elevation is 2205 metres. Summing and dividing by two, you get 1440
metres, so they're pretty reasonable on the "mid-mountain" designation.




Yes, I see that now, sorry for missing it.

Had he phrased it as "Nothing on the ground at Whistler Village" would
you still have jumped all over it? If you had phrased your response as

No, of course not.

"there is 12" on the ground" would you have been surprised if he
jumped all over that by suggesting that there was nothing on the
ground at the villageat that point (since it is 3C there right now, I
suspect that therestill isn't much if anything on the ground there
even with "snowline reaching the village earlier toda. But maybe it is
a sign of good things to come.) or that 12 " is only a point estimate
and there may be actually more or less as an average across the eitire
mountain? Would you have been annoyed if your lack of precision
precipitated a big hairy response about how wrong you were?

My reply wasn't imprecise. There is snow on the ground at Whistler. We
don't ski in the village and there are lots of times where we ski on the
mountain when there is no snow in the village.


So, with all the other things to pick at or even rage abou tin this
NG, I still feel that this seems quite a small nit that you chose to
pick so ostentatiously. I suspect that were someone else to say the
same thing that you might engage them in some discussion about the
state of the snow pack, present, past or future at Whitsler/Blackcomb
or beyond. I would not expect that in this case for lots of reasons
but your response is simply tedious in my estimation since I managed
to suss out his meaning ndespite the ambiguities that are present in
both your post and his.

I just don't care much for Scottie's blowhard style, so I showed him
up...

....again.


Saying "Whistler" has or does not have something is a bit ambiguous
anyway and you just wanted to jump on it. Cool, but pretending that
you are right and managed to catch someone out on something that is
arguably actually true is sort of silly and probably beneath decent
conversation (not that I actually expect much of that here anyway).

We don't ski in the village.

--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
http://gallery.me.com/alangbaker/100008/DSCF0162/web.jpg

In article
,
twobuddha wrote:

On Nov 20, 3:45*pm, Alan Baker wrote:
In article
,

*twobuddha wrote:
You are insane. *Get help.

snip

Which is what you always revert to when you have nothing to answer the
points raised!

Tell me, Scotty: why won't you agree to meet at a police station, again?

Because it is one of the craziest ideas I have ever heard. Insane.
Get help.

C'mon Scott. This is your big chance. You've got someone who you claim
is a dangerous stalking obsessed schizophrenic, offering to meet you in
a Seattle police station. Imagine, you delivering to your multitude of
cop buddies, an individual who say is obviously dangerously deranged.
You'd be a hero.

Just think of the headlines: Local Celebrity, War Hero Journalist,
Boxing Champion, Track Star, Bon Vivant Scott Abraham Leads Police to
Stalking, Psychopathic Ner'do'well and Notorious Canadian Alan Baker.

"...Said a breathless Abraham, "clue time, blow me, you're insane, get
help now...."

This is one of those times for you to disappear for a week or so and
hope everyone forgets your latest blantant cowardly blowhardedness.

HTH

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Alan Baker wrote:

He has stated on several occasions his name is George. Is it Joe, or

He has, has he. Quote him, then...

I'm pretty sure Bert came up with that one. I'd afford it the credence
you would anything else he has claimed.

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:08:37 -0800, Alan Baker
wrote:

In article ,
DaveM wrote:

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:28:56 -0800, Alan Baker
wrote:

In article ,
DaveM wrote:

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:35:36 GMT, Alan Baker
wrote:

In article
,
twobuddha wrote:

On Nov 18, 7:19*am, taichiskiing
wrote:
Fantastic skiing

http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=sjMsvS...eature=related

Have fun,
IS

At this point in the year, any skiing would be great skiing. Looks
like a late start for the PNW. Nothing on the ground at Whistler,
either, or Sun Valley, too warm most of the last couple weeks to make
snow.

Just another thing for you to be wrong about...

http://www.whistlerblackcomb.com/weather/gallery/index.htm

http://www.whistlerblackcomb.com/weather/snowreport/index.htm

...but you should be used to being wrong by now.

Yeah, OK there is *something* on the ground -- a solid 12" --
probably at Whistler Peak. Maybe not nothing in the strict sense but
in the "I want to go skiing" sense, it is as good as.

Nope. There's 12" at mid-mountain.

"Snow depths are measured at Pig Alley Weather Station - 1650m
(Mid-Mountain) on Whistler Mtn."

For reference. Whistler Village base is 675 metres and Whistler peak
elevation is 2205 metres. Summing and dividing by two, you get 1440
metres, so they're pretty reasonable on the "mid-mountain" designation.




Yes, I see that now, sorry for missing it.

Had he phrased it as "Nothing on the ground at Whistler Village" would
you still have jumped all over it? If you had phrased your response as

No, of course not.

"there is 12" on the ground" would you have been surprised if he
jumped all over that by suggesting that there was nothing on the
ground at the villageat that point (since it is 3C there right now, I
suspect that therestill isn't much if anything on the ground there
even with "snowline reaching the village earlier toda. But maybe it is
a sign of good things to come.) or that 12 " is only a point estimate
and there may be actually more or less as an average across the eitire
mountain? Would you have been annoyed if your lack of precision
precipitated a big hairy response about how wrong you were?

My reply wasn't imprecise. There is snow on the ground at Whistler. We
don't ski in the village and there are lots of times where we ski on the
mountain when there is no snow in the village.


So, with all the other things to pick at or even rage abou tin this
NG, I still feel that this seems quite a small nit that you chose to
pick so ostentatiously. I suspect that were someone else to say the
same thing that you might engage them in some discussion about the
state of the snow pack, present, past or future at Whitsler/Blackcomb
or beyond. I would not expect that in this case for lots of reasons
but your response is simply tedious in my estimation since I managed
to suss out his meaning ndespite the ambiguities that are present in
both your post and his.

I just don't care much for Scottie's blowhard style, so I showed him
up...

...again.


Saying "Whistler" has or does not have something is a bit ambiguous
anyway and you just wanted to jump on it. Cool, but pretending that
you are right and managed to catch someone out on something that is
arguably actually true is sort of silly and probably beneath decent
conversation (not that I actually expect much of that here anyway).

We don't ski in the village.

Yes, I got that from the first time you said it and also from having
skied there on lots of occasions - not so many now since the inlaws
sold their condo despite my pleadings and protestations.

(although to be fair, I have actually skied in the village so...
maybe a more precise statement would be in order? Maybe something
like, "most skiers normally prefer not to ski in the village" would
work better? Or maybe just a more precise definition of "we" since in
this context it appears that you might mean me which is not actually
accurate - though I did manage to (again) suss out the meaning. I know
that precision is one of your hallmarks.)

But, you might recall that he did not say that there was no snow at
mid mountain or that there was no snow "where we ski", he said that
there was no snow at Whistler, to paraphrase. Isn't "Whistler"
inclusive of the Village? your statement that there is snow on the
ground at Whistler is (was) true but so is (was?) his statement that
there was not snow on the ground - for some values of "Whistler" (and
leaving aside my previous assertion that can be easily understood in
the context of skiers and skiing that 12" on the ground anywhere might
as well be naught). Your statement, or at least your impication that
there is snow on the ground at Whistler is (was) also both correct and
incorrect for some values of "Whistler" unless Whistler Village is not
Whistler - but I think you can't make that assertion with a straight
face.

I don't care much for blowhard styles at all.

This conversation has already become tedious as your responses seem
wholely tendentious as have mine now. So, I'll just quit now and go
back to thinking about snow.

Please, back to your regularly scheduled NewsGrouping and please
pardon the interruption.

Dave M
(but the rain did stop)