tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post5927051813979719311..comments2023-07-03T06:51:05.962-07:00Comments on O Dock: Of Shoes - And Ships - And Sailing WagsO Dockerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08674140306304705852noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-49850892676753407362012-02-10T21:47:44.077-08:002012-02-10T21:47:44.077-08:00Despite the trends toward shorter attention spans ...Despite the trends toward shorter attention spans and graphical interfaces displacing text, J K Rowling found a huge audience among the young. <br /><br />It helps to have something to say - and the ability to say it well.<br /><br />Blog on!Pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417115374524861438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-79912300005857868402012-01-14T06:55:06.572-08:002012-01-14T06:55:06.572-08:00"One hump or two" !!!!!!!
Bwaaaaaaaaaaa..."One hump or two" !!!!!!!<br /><br />Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.<br /><br />ROFLfucking old saltnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-6049910864078163602012-01-14T06:47:01.559-08:002012-01-14T06:47:01.559-08:00Yes Baydog, one ride on a Volvo 70 does not a sail...Yes Baydog, one ride on a Volvo 70 does not a sailor make, but maybe it lights a spark? Will some of them go home and find a way to try out sailing as a sport? It's possible.<br /><br />And it's even more likely that some of their readers will get the itch to try out sailing after seeing some of these pictures and reading articles like the one from Ned.<br /><br />Not of all of us grew up in a sailing family like you Baydog. I can't even remember what first triggered my interest in sailing but I think a big part of it was following the media coverage of Francis Chichester's circumnavigation in 1966/67 and the Golden Globe (first single-handed round the world race) in 1968/69.Tillermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00639738519386820997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-5196975623844454652012-01-14T05:11:46.666-08:002012-01-14T05:11:46.666-08:00Somehow I commented to JP rather than my2fish. Sor...Somehow I commented to JP rather than my2fish. Sorry. So now I erase the one and post anew. "an alternate past for an alternate future..." eh?<br /><br />Thanks my2fish. lower case is fine with me. The rest of my family in the usa uses fb too, but I don't feel a need to be that connected to what they are all doing all the time.Pandaboniumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08352197350806179930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-58819597012691791362012-01-14T01:21:56.430-08:002012-01-14T01:21:56.430-08:00Mojo, I think you're right.
This may be the b...Mojo, I think you're right.<br /><br />This may be the best serious discussion ever to grace the comments page on O Dock, thanks to a great group of thoughtful and articulate readers. I've been tied up at work all day and couldn't join in as I would have liked. Thanks to all of you, from Panda's opener right through to maybe the best comment I've ever seen Baydog write - and in verse, no less.<br /><br />My own take on the Puma Ten is probably closest to Tillerman's, though. No Baydog, these aren't sailors, and they'll probably never know the roar of the bottom paint and the smell of the crew, but that's OK in my book. I really haven't had a chance to look at much of their blogging, and some of them may be a bit superficial, but there does seem to be some good photo work being done and, judging from the Ned Hepburn piece that Tillerman linked to today, at least some of them can write very well.<br /><br />But what's best about this is that these are fresh voices experiencing sailing for the first time. It was exciting to see Ned Hepburn sweating through a thin veneer of cool as he got the crap scared out of him by one badassed Volvo 70.<br /><br />Any of us who write or photograph or even try to turn linguini into art can only benefit by seeing a fresh take on what we have often attempted ourselves.<br /><br />And while I may never compare anything that happens on a sailboat to a camel having sex, it's fun to imagine whether it was one hump or two.<br><br>O Dockerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08674140306304705852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-34794395462300588202012-01-13T22:09:10.025-08:002012-01-13T22:09:10.025-08:00I'm not buyin' the Puma Ten
They weren'...I'm not buyin' the Puma Ten<br />They weren't sailors now<br />and they're not even then<br /><br />Yeah it's cool to take photos<br />of camels and sails<br />Of dates and skyscrapers and <br />legs over rails<br />But do they really know what it is like<br />To hook under that strap, sit out and hike?<br />And grasp the mainsheet with all of their will<br />While their asses itch from salt water until<br />They make it back to the dock and then think<br />Let's rinse down the boat and get us a drink<br />And during the whole drive home their minds replaying<br />The day's sights and sounds and thoughts and just saying<br />An earlier start tomorrow would be nice<br />'Cause we gotta stop and get 3 bags of ice<br /><br />The hipsters in SoHo are not gathered 'round<br />The table debating whose crew is most sound<br />Or which boat points higher or whose course was best plotted<br />Who tore more spinnakers or had windshifts spotted<br /><br />It's not about sunglasses, shoes, or fashion<br />It's about the love of sailing, racing, the passion<br /><br />I'm not buyin' the Puma Ten<br />They weren't sailors now<br />And they're not even thenBaydoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00751866865203182109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-37501781890106773182012-01-13T19:41:56.154-08:002012-01-13T19:41:56.154-08:00No man ever steps in the same river twice.No man ever steps in the same river twice.Heraclitusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-42833361836214089492012-01-13T19:40:10.144-08:002012-01-13T19:40:10.144-08:00Couldn't agree more, Tillerman; exposure to al...Couldn't agree more, Tillerman; exposure to all kinds of other voices and perspectives is how we grow and learn. If not, we die/fade into irrelevance.<br /><br />Just please don't dumb it down. As Panda noted above, we need your "oxygen"!Mojohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06721376775731666766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-18468383586122132072012-01-13T18:48:35.545-08:002012-01-13T18:48:35.545-08:00My take on all this is a little different Mojo. I ...My take on all this is a little different Mojo. I think it is good to be exposed to all kinds of writing and blogging influences, and then to allow yourself to develop and change your own personal style in a way that reflects your own personality but also the influences of others.<br /><br />I'm not going to start writing like Mr. Hepburn tomorrow. But I think I have learned a lot about different styles of blogging from watching the Puma Ten over the last few days, and I think I will incorporate some of those learnings into my own style.<br /><br />I have written before about this at <a href="http://propercourse.blogspot.com/2010/03/are-you-mockingbird.html" rel="nofollow">Are You a Mockingbird</a> and <a href="http://propercourse.blogspot.com/2011/02/coarse-sailing.html" rel="nofollow">Coarse Sailing</a>. I don't want to write the same old stuff in the same old way until I drop dead of boredom. I want to learn and change and have fun with this blogging game.Tillermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00639738519386820997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-68722294942770544302012-01-13T18:13:46.518-08:002012-01-13T18:13:46.518-08:00Well, one thing we have learned is that O Docker&#...Well, one thing we have learned is that O Docker's question has elicited the longest average posts since I have been following!<br /><br />And they are all from the same circle (family) of like minded bloggers who read and and comment and socialize on each other's blogs.<br /><br />What's wrong with that?!<br /><br />The point is not to have the broadest, hippest audience with the biggest numbers... is it?<br /><br />It's a pure form self expression that is true to your soul and personality.<br /><br />Let whomever chooses to join the party, come, and so be it! Do you really want to shape your message for a broader audience?<br /><br />Rejoice in the enlightened family who are here, and don't chase the "twits".Mojohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06721376775731666766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-8836366798134260992012-01-13T17:56:49.657-08:002012-01-13T17:56:49.657-08:00We stand on the shoulders of oysters. And the hea...We stand on the shoulders of oysters. And the heads of beer.Francis Bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-34877833184327302482012-01-13T17:55:09.748-08:002012-01-13T17:55:09.748-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Pandaboniumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08352197350806179930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-73802099626673002332012-01-13T16:08:10.433-08:002012-01-13T16:08:10.433-08:00But answer came there none--
And this was scarcely...But answer came there none--<br />And this was scarcely odd, because<br />They'd eaten every one.Dodgsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-86266089180343318302012-01-13T16:06:15.894-08:002012-01-13T16:06:15.894-08:00O Oysters, you've had a pleasant run! Shall we...O Oysters, you've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?The Carpenternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-43080390179445783912012-01-13T16:04:14.898-08:002012-01-13T16:04:14.898-08:00Yes Joe. There was beer with the oysters and a fab...Yes Joe. There was beer with the oysters and a fabulous view of Newport Harbor with a 30-40 knot breeze whipping up some nice crunchy waves. Sailor's paradise.Tillermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00639738519386820997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-66901297553128706892012-01-13T15:56:07.343-08:002012-01-13T15:56:07.343-08:00well said, panda... although your travel back to a...well said, panda... although your travel back to an old-style typewriter seems odd to me, but maybe I'm too young. not twenty-something young, but still. and I hope my lack of capital letters doesn't bother you too much.<br /><br />JP, your a-b-c list is just about spot on. my Sunfish sailing season in Michigan is only about 3 months of the summer (partly due to weather, partly due to being busy with 3 young boys... school, sports, etc). <br /><br />I don't use Facebook, although pretty much EVERY single other family member does, so I feel like I miss out sometimes because of it and they way the communicate back and forth over on FB.<br /><br />I've joined up on the Twitter thing, but I started that mostly to follow sports, and promote some sports writing I was doing last year. I now use Twitter to follow some sailors, some bloggers, and some even sailing bloggers - but I really use it more for following the sports (largely the pointy football Baydog and I happen to enjoy).<br /><br />so, I guess to the aging bloggers out there that are wandering a bit, I say keep up the blogging. I'm sometimes slow to catch up on some of everyone's posts, but I follow you all (using Google Reader), so I will read them soon enough.<br /><br />as I said, my sailing season is short, so posting and reading other blogs about sailing helps me keep excited about it, and even more eager to fine-tune things on my Sunfish, and get an even earlier start to sailing the next year.<br /><br />cheers, my2fish<br /><br />ps. for all those calling out it's time to go eat, I have already eaten dinner, so maybe a beer is in order.my2fishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14457239434851029876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-19478373907702188142012-01-13T13:22:25.445-08:002012-01-13T13:22:25.445-08:00I was once on a plane filled with WAGS heading out...I was once on a plane filled with WAGS heading out for the Football World Cup but that's another story.<br /><br />Its difficult to find something new to post on hundreds of times a year, even for something fun like sailing or kayaking.<br /><br />It helps if your life is on the water (e.g. sailing around the world) but not many of us can do that.<br /><br />So the options are:<br />a) post less often <br />b) post on other things<br />c) make stuff up<br /><br />I do quite a bit of b) and c) - its my blog after all.<br /><br />I wondered if there was involvement from Tumblr and Instagram in the Puma 10 project which meant that blogger bloggers weren't that welcome anyhow.<br /><br />It was a bit sad that fashion seems more important than sailing to one of the Volvo teams, but the medium isn't the message as Google+ can do similar things.<br /><br />But (getting to the point) it doesn't matter what your platform or age is as long as your content is good. <br /><br />Cinemagraphs are lovely but its just one format and there are many other types and styles of content. <br /><br />It doesn't matter how you blog - just be interesting.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09475536270807856327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-90925842890487905882012-01-13T11:53:34.790-08:002012-01-13T11:53:34.790-08:00I rather loved what our respected musical ursine b...I rather loved what our respected musical ursine blog-colleague said. <br /><br />although technically pandas aren't bears. But maybe they are bearlike enough to be ursine?bonniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04794351142636136626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-85637271799604596742012-01-13T11:24:15.581-08:002012-01-13T11:24:15.581-08:00There's a $5 sharing charge, Joe.There's a $5 sharing charge, Joe.Baydoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00751866865203182109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-61675808466453654962012-01-13T11:15:26.791-08:002012-01-13T11:15:26.791-08:00If you're having oysters, will there be beer? ...If you're having oysters, will there be beer? I'm in, if there is beer...make that rum...on second thought, make that bourbon.<br /><br />Where's the share button? I need the share button!Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00087089319937016247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-83991327966955615032012-01-13T10:49:17.256-08:002012-01-13T10:49:17.256-08:00No, that's my 'blog'.No, that's my 'blog'.Sailing Wagshttp://829southdrive.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-6392626337293582222012-01-13T09:34:39.897-08:002012-01-13T09:34:39.897-08:00You don't have to read.
You can just look at ...You don't have to read.<br /><br />You can just look at the pictures.<br><br>O Dockerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08674140306304705852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-84345429078305480112012-01-13T09:24:07.261-08:002012-01-13T09:24:07.261-08:00I'm with you. All this reading has got me hun...I'm with you. All this reading has got me hungry.Sailing Wagshttp://829southdrive.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-86245788789585805732012-01-13T09:07:45.953-08:002012-01-13T09:07:45.953-08:00I think I'll go and have some oysters for lunc...I think I'll go and have some oysters for lunch now.Tillermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00639738519386820997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-5548025055212915172012-01-13T05:57:52.581-08:002012-01-13T05:57:52.581-08:00This will be one of my long-winded and rambling co...This will be one of my long-winded and rambling comments. I don't do Facebook.<br /><br />Puma? Yuck. Volvo - a Chinese company now - Yuck. Predatory multinational corporations are dinosaurs now - the walking dead. Energy and other resource constraints will turn globalisation and its inherent exploitation on its ugly head. B'bye.<br /><br />Tillerman is awesome and I would never want to compare my fellow bloggers to each other. What's the point? They are all head and shoulders above me. But I must say that I am very happy to read a new post by you, O Docker, as your little grey cells operate on plane that is stratospheric compared to my own, and though there is less oxygen up there, your posts are always like being slipped some oxygen.<br /><br />As for all this writing and reading of blogs, I am reminded of Bob Newhart's routine about if you had an infinite number of monkeys on an infinite number of typewriters they would eventually type all the great works of literary history. I may have already used this in a comment on this blog in fact. The punch line is "hey Harry, I think I've got something here - 'to be or not to be, that is the gazorninblat'."<br /><br />As for some of your questions: Is blogging dead? Has its golden age passed or is it about to begin? Is Twitbook better? I must answer that blogging is not dead because there are still readers for all the drivel out there. Perhaps due to a yearning for human contact which ironically can only occur if one steps away from the computer and goes outside to confront (embrace) the real world and one's next door neighbors.<br /><br />Did blogging have a golden age? I doubt it. More of a dark interlude. <br /><br />I don't own a cell phone (for seven years now) or tweet or do Facebook or a host of other activities that are probably out there of which I am not even aware. I have enough trouble staying real with simple email and blogging. And I have doubts about those.<br /><br />My "new" direction is toward the slow life. I know it will seem "backward" to most people who read blogs, but to me it is embracing that which works; is proven. Just as I rejected cell phones when my "job" no longer required that I have one and automobile ownership when I no long had to endure that mess. Less is often truly more. Really. So...<br /><br />I'm buying a typewriter - an Olympia SM9 like I had in college back when dinosaurs still roamed the earth. I wrote my college papers on an SM9 - one that got a "D", others which earned "B" or "A", and another which actually got me thrown out of a class about "European religion during the renaissance". (Dissing John Calvin was the last straw for my professor.)<br /><br />So we'll see how much time I spend blogging vs hammering away on the SM9, and what effect it has on my grey cells. Seems to me, the internet tubes are too easy with spell check, cut and paste etc. Yet people still manage to use "there" interchangeably with "their" or (my personal pet peeve) write words that don't exist such as "irregardless". <br /><br />With typing, one must try to get it right the first time which requires more thought or face the prospect of starting over or using an eraser or white-out. I think it will help save some of my grey cells. I hope. I'll see. I'll let you know by snail mail if you join my mailing list, and I get around to publishing something....Pandaboniumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08352197350806179930noreply@blogger.com