Comments for tharwood.blog http://tharwood.wordpress.com Familial and Concordian Happenings with Some Tech on the Side. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:34:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU Comment on Jim Gray missing at sea by JoeDuck http://tharwood.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/jim-gray-missing-at-sea/#comment-188 JoeDuck Sun, 04 Feb 2007 05:17:15 +0000 http://tharwood.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/jim-gray-missing-at-sea/#comment-188 Thanks for alterting me to Jim Gray. This was a good case to launch the DangerData.com blog that's been in the works since the Kim Family missing in Oregon created so much interest in people gathering at blogs to talk about the missing folks and offer help to find them. Hopefully the superb example set by Amazon and other tech companies now looking for Jim with innovative approaches will expand to more missing people cases. Thanks for alterting me to Jim Gray. This was a good case to launch the DangerData.com blog that’s been in the works since the Kim Family missing in Oregon created so much interest in people gathering at blogs to talk about the missing folks and offer help to find them. Hopefully the superb example set by Amazon and other tech companies now looking for Jim with innovative approaches will expand to more missing people cases.

]]> Comment on Blog Tag — W00T! by tharwood http://tharwood.wordpress.com/2006/12/19/blog-tag-w00t/#comment-70 tharwood Thu, 21 Dec 2006 01:54:23 +0000 http://tharwood.wordpress.com/2006/12/19/blog-tag-w00t/#comment-70 Yes, that was rescue #1. Just goes to show that even the simplest of rescues has a good deal of potential to go wrong. Getting that small boat next to that pitching ferry deck was an exercise that would give me considerably more pause these days. The second was more exciting. Got tossed right off the foredeck during a race; I tried to "improvise" a rescue and wound up with the boat a few hundred yards away, out of control, with spinnaker sheets trailing in the drink and the chute partially deployed. Fotunately, it was a race, so there were other boats around and I got picked up. Of course, I did have to make sure said boats did not run me over before they noticed I was in the water. Yes, that was rescue #1. Just goes to show that even the simplest of rescues has a good deal of potential to go wrong. Getting that small boat next to that pitching ferry deck was an exercise that would give me considerably more pause these days.

The second was more exciting. Got tossed right off the foredeck during a race; I tried to “improvise” a rescue and wound up with the boat a few hundred yards away, out of control, with spinnaker sheets trailing in the drink and the chute partially deployed. Fotunately, it was a race, so there were other boats around and I got picked up. Of course, I did have to make sure said boats did not run me over before they noticed I was in the water.

]]> Comment on Blog Tag — W00T! by Joseph Hunkins http://tharwood.wordpress.com/2006/12/19/blog-tag-w00t/#comment-67 Joseph Hunkins Wed, 20 Dec 2006 05:42:50 +0000 http://tharwood.wordpress.com/2006/12/19/blog-tag-w00t/#comment-67 Hey, are you counting the sailing mishap where we got picked up by that ferry? I had no idea you were a Dolly Parton fan. She's great and we were in Dollywood at Pidgeon Forge, TN about 2.5 years ago - had a fun time but didn't get to meet her. Hey, are you counting the sailing mishap where we got picked up by that ferry?

I had no idea you were a Dolly Parton fan. She’s great and we were in Dollywood at Pidgeon Forge, TN about 2.5 years ago - had a fun time but didn’t get to meet her.

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