tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post2160520545688646441..comments2024-03-19T07:48:54.021-06:00Comments on Gus Van Horn: Rational RedundancyGus Van Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-87669090934224306772013-03-01T05:02:10.740-06:002013-03-01T05:02:10.740-06:00[Snedcat, who is traveling abroad and can't le...[Snedcat, who is traveling abroad and can't leave comments from his mobile device, asked me via email to post the following.]<br /><br />"<i>Yo, Gus, yep. I started out as Mike, but quite liked Snedcat. For a while I also commented at other sites under the old monicker, so for comments likely to be more widely bruited about, I kept using that name here and reserved Snedcat for more specifically Gus-ian topics. This had the disadvantage though that Mike is about as distinctive as Nguyen is in Hanoi, but I figure my voice is so distinctive no one could have been confused. But in any case, since I now have a very busy life, this is the only blog I post at any more and one of only three I follow daily, so a few months ago Mike retired and Snedcat is here to stay.</i>"<br /><br />Thanks for the high compliment, Snedcat, as well as for including a visit with us in your vacation.Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-4341059494755313862013-02-27T05:52:02.057-06:002013-02-27T05:52:02.057-06:00Like me, but had you thought to apply the lesson a...Like me, but had you thought to apply the lesson as broadly as Might did? That's what impressed me here. In any case, you're miles ahead of what I have repeatedly observed when helping friends and relatives move: ending up with, say, six screwdrivers, all of which are buried in different places, wasting both money and time.<br /><br />Nice captcha. Another regular commenter here (and an old friend of mine) derived his nickname, "Snedcat", from one of his.Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-76658182610693746482013-02-26T23:34:54.622-06:002013-02-26T23:34:54.622-06:00I already figured out something analogous to his i...I already figured out something analogous to his idea. One day I thought I'd lost a screwdriver, so I bought another one. The first one then turned up, so I had two. As I'm bad for misplacing things, having the extra one around actually ended up nearly eliminating time lost to walking around wondering where the cussed thing was.<br /><br />Captcha: "hrequel". A second book in a series written by a Kzinti author.Jim Maynoreply@blogger.com