Comments on: How to Be Brave, Sturdy, and Have the Greatest Number of Good Thoughts

By: Diane Peel

Diane Peel — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 04:01:55 +0000

I read the title and had to read this!

Every time I get bored (and face it, convalesence and physical therapy and Dr visits ARE boring as a life style. No matter how much good they are doing you, no matter how lucky you KNOW you are, etc, etc, etc) I just wander through Keepa’s Topical guide. I always find something funny, thoughtful that I missed or have forgotten…

I hope you can do this forever Ardis!

By: E from Newcastle

E from Newcastle — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:12:51 +0000

Wow, Ive lived in Newcastle my whole life and i never knew any of that. I should brush up on my history.

By: queuno

queuno — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:19:29 +0000

Yeah, me too. He doesn’t even have to speak fondly of his IT career; I’d just like to see an ex-geek up there. ..bruce..

Although, I don’t hold out any hopes that it comes from a current Church IT executive.

As someone said elsewhere, the Church may be true, but its software isn’t…

you guys in the back, looking for signs of pocket protectors and white socks

Oooh. Low blow. Some of us are good dressers, when we have to be. I think there are more modern geeks going sockless with leather sandals, shorts, sunglasses, and a Che teeshirt with a woven South American bag, than those nerds in the white shirts and taped glasses… Even at your more buttoned-down IT consultancies, you find more people likely to at a concert with Joni Mitchell cover singers than looking like a character out of office space…

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:11:06 +0000

I can see it now … all those black suits against the dark red chairs … and you guys in the back, looking for signs of pocket protectors and white socks …

By: bfwebster

bfwebster — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:23:16 +0000

I have only good thoughts in my IT job.

(Still waiting for the first ex-IT guy to become a GA and speak fondly of his IT career in conference…)

Yeah, me too. He doesn’t even have to speak fondly of his IT career; I’d just like to see an ex-geek up there. ..bruce..

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:14:46 +0000

Aaarr, Matey, the deed be done!

Paul, isn’t it fun to have to edit your words to suit the wounded feelings of a sponsor? I’ve had to do that a few times with family history and varying memories, and usually manage to find terms like yours that are a second choice but still kinda sorta convey the idea. It isn’t always pretty.

By: Paul Reeve

Paul Reeve — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:16:48 +0000

Mark, very tactful. Correct away.

By: Paul Reeve

Paul Reeve — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:15:27 +0000

Ardis, doubt you’ll find it. The Enterprise reservoir was a local, home grown project that grew out of the abandonment of Hebron, Utah. Settlers said, “let’s build a reservoir to get water to new land so we and our children can have a place to live.” Newcastle was designed to make money. Newcastlers built a lavish hotel and wined and dined potential investors. The biggest coup for Enterprise was getting Ivins to buy $5,000 worth of stock in the project so the settlers could finish the dam.

By: Paul Reeve

Paul Reeve — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:14:39 +0000

Steve, I don’t know what impact the water struggle might have had on relations between McKay and Ivins. I’ve only looked at the Ivins correspondence with the Newcastle co., which in my memory does not name McKay, but some of which, as quoted, is strongly worded. I might add that I was hired by the city of Enterprise to write its centennial history. I wrote about this exchange and characterized the Newcastler’s as somewhat aggressive capitalists in their moves against Enterprise. Some people in Enterprise were not pleased with my choice of words because they reminded me that McKay was involved with the Newcastle project. We compromised on “zealous capitalists” as acceptable language.

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:39:03 +0000

As long as you’re correcting typos, how about “tack” for “tact”?

Or is it tactless of me to suggest that?

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