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Well said - and well deserved compliments Jerome.

Pity about that first photo - is it a unicorn ? :-) Another example of how selective perception is, we focus on the person and don't notice the background. Fortunately Jerome focuses a lot of his attention on the background which is crucial to our lives.

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.

by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Thu Jun 5th, 2008 at 05:48:40 PM EST
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is it a unicorn ? :-)

I was afraid it was a noose for a second.  Then I realized he is actually growing a windmill out of his head.  Seriously, just when you think he can do no more...  He's the world's first moble, self-generated, human windfarm.  Amazing!  An exemple for us all...

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Thu Jun 5th, 2008 at 05:54:00 PM EST
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with ropes and stuff to hold the sails, you know!

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Jun 5th, 2008 at 06:04:51 PM EST
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oh.

Unfortunately, that is much less impressive.

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Thu Jun 5th, 2008 at 06:13:16 PM EST
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Oh really?

It has been my experience that folks who understand sailing are usually MUCH more receptive to a discussion of windpower.  Understand sailing and you have a basic grasp of both the problems and potential of wind generation.

"Remember the I35W bridge--who needs terrorists when there are Republicans"

by techno (reply@elegant-technology.com) on Thu Jun 5th, 2008 at 09:28:36 PM EST
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Haha.  I just read the Kos comments.  I think there is a consensus that you've a windmill growing out of your head.

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
by poemless on Thu Jun 5th, 2008 at 06:28:34 PM EST
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growing a windmill out of his head

There is actually a profound if metaphorical truth there.  Jerome was growing windmills out of his head long before it became fashionable.

Now where are we going and what's with the handbasket?

by budr on Fri Jun 6th, 2008 at 07:37:20 AM EST
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Ted says:

Another example of how selective perception is, we focus on the person and don't notice the background.

The real background, especially in subsequent photos, shows AN ORANGE FOUNDATION above the water line.  Could it be that J has funded a project used to market Dutch chances in the upcoming EuroCup?
(CH, why do you promote controversy here?  You know that orange is the color of the best anti-corrosive paint used in the industry.)

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
by Crazy Horse on Thu Jun 5th, 2008 at 06:13:10 PM EST
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... on that cable? I thought that no good deed went unpunished?


I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Fri Jun 6th, 2008 at 10:22:22 AM EST
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