I meant to say I wasn't the one who brought up the subject, as per Daniel's accusation. Of course I talked about it in response to what Kim said. Why don't you find some other focus for your interest in astronomy, besides making comments about me, Daniel? I'm not that important. -- Joe ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 11:43 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] I H8 SPOC Sigh. Wrong again, as usual, Daniel. I am not the one who talked about funding comparisons. Please look over the thread. My comment was in response to Kim's saying, direct quote,
I feel that I can comment on the appropriateness of spending money for a bus charter (or similar) versus SPOC maintenance. I vote for spending the money on the latter."
Please get your facts straight when you want to attack me, which seems to be a frequent -- albeit puzzling -- urge that you have. -- Joe ________________________________ From: daniel turner <outwest112@yahoo.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 11:10 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] I H8 SPOC Yes, lots of thin skin here. The original thread was focused on roofing technology and how to fix a roof. Joe pulled it sideways when he mentioned funding and the bus trip to the eclipse which was shot down over funding. I just pointed out that SPOC is to SLAS like the manned space program is to scientific space exploration. It eats up the budget so you can't do anything else. I didn't say or imply that SLAS doesn't do public outreach. I just said that you don't need an observatory to do public outreach. You also don't need to drive to Bryce to do it. My preference is to spend the clubs budget in the Salt Lake Valley. In the comming year when we look for a time slot for star parties at the Natural History Museum, I would prefer taking the slots away from SPOC rather than from Wheeler Farm or the Harmon's events. I'm not alone in these opinions. DT ________________________________ From: Larry Holmes <larry@kijoda.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 6:24 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] I H8 SPOC Joe, I think you are perhaps too thinned skinned, as well as too hard on the rest of us. Some postings (including mine) tend to be blunt, but blunt rather than extending to wordiness. You are admired, not only for your growing success in astro-photography, but also your apparent ease in writing (an ease that belies the years of work devoted to learning your craft). Just as you cannot legislate against stupidity, you cannot legislate against jealously. Remember, I got hopped on pretty hard at a board meeting for proposing an idea I thought (and still do) had merit. Keep the faith. 73, lh On 3/6/2012 4:14 PM, Joe Bauman wrote:
Steve, I think someone has a strange grudge against me and doesn't want to give me any credit, and finds it easy to misstate my posts. Of course you're right that it's never been a "SPOC blasting thread." But that's how it goes. -- Joe
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