User talk:Russeasby

A comment
Seeing your self description, I think I would like you if we met. May you prosper. Your words bring two poems to mind http://ithaca.rice.edu/kz/Misc/Ithaka.html http://www.web-books.com/Classics/Poetry/Anthology/Hardy/Afterwards.htm My mentor was Denys Rayner who designed the boat I sailed, with my - now - old friend, Sue Pulford, acroos the Atlantic. Now I sail unambitiously in the Ionian, a little closer to Ithaka, a husband and parent with shaky knees from much cycling. Memories are good - buoys (have I spelled that rite?), even anchors. S Simon Baddeley (talk) 02:24, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanksgiving
Posted a reply to you on Talk:Thanksgiving. I agree the articles need merging, if you're willing to do the work, all the better :P Lejman (talk) 22:37, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Circumnavigation
Sure, I clarified that James Cook died before his third circumnavigation could be completed. Happy editing. :) —Lowellian (reply) 22:30, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Well, it depends on how you look at it. Ferdinand Magellan is widely considered the first person to circumnavigate the world, but he actually died before his circumnavigation; his crew finished the circumnavigation for him. Similarly, James Cook died before his third circumnavigation, but his crew finished the circumnavigation for him. —Lowellian (reply) 01:21, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Okay, I changed the wording on the circumnavigation article again to try to further clarify the situation with Cook. —Lowellian (reply) 00:50, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

I note your return to "Cape of Good Hope" from my "Cape Aghulas". Given that I'm a newbie, I'm OK with it, although you might want to make it "... the Cape of Good Hope...". However, as a circumnavigator and amateur geographer, I offer the following:

1) It's the Aghulas Current you're fighting westbound and the rounding of Cape Aghulas is much more important -- it gets you out of the current and on a good tack. Eastbound, most sailors will be much farther south and not see either cape. If you're stopping at Capetown, you round Good Hope either just before or just after your stay there, so it's a non-event.

2) It's unverifiable, but I think you will agree that most readers think that Good Hope is the southernmost point on the African continent. Putting Cape Aghulas here may actually educate a few of them who will click on the link while thinking, "Where?". Jameslwoodward (talk) 18:45, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

It was not spam
please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Anchor#It_was_not_spam —Preceding unsigned comment added by GS3 (talk • contribs) 00:34, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Austin City Limits performers
Your rationale from the last AfD was "A potentially useful list, being long or potentially so is not a valid reason for deletion. The series is notable, the artists are notable and their appearances on the show are notable." That doesn't hold water, as 1.) "Useful" is not a valid argument, and 2.) notability is not inherited. Just performing on Austin City Limits is not inherently a notable performance, even if it's by a notable act. Furthermore, it's a trivial intersection. So many acts have performed on the show that I fail to see how it would be "notable" to perform on Austin City Limits. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP) 17:38, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * It is more useful to keep these discussions on the AFD page, kind of odd to reply to me here where the closing admin will not see your comments. Russeasby (talk) 19:59, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Smackbot error
Hi, your bot didnt make this edit properly, oddly it moved the wikilinks needing disambiguation out of the correctly location and to the top of the article. Russeasby (talk) 01:19, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
 * HI, this has happened on another article as well. I have not been able to duplicate this error yet. Rich Farmbrough, 17:51 11 February 2009 (UTC).

Sailing
Hi Russeasby: I see that you are also a sailor. This is really tough stuff for those of us following Abby. From what I know, Abby is in winds of 35kn or more. I'm trying to figure out with my own WP:OR how her EPIRB would be traveling at only 1kn. If the boat is capsized, not catching any wind, and she is with the boat, it makes pretty good sense. If the boat is upright, with or without sails, 35kn winds are going to move it a lot faster. If Abby is in a lifeboat, the winds would move that a lot faster than 1kn too. So the Sail-World claim made sense to me. You do have a point in that we don't know about the boat, just the EPIRB. Maybe she's floating without her boat or lifeboat? Let's hope not. (SEC (talk) 04:15, 11 June 2010 (UTC))
 * Hi Sec. There is actually many possabilities, if a seaanchor is deployed it is possible to drift at a very slow speed.  Also in a liferaft with a drogue out (a modern liferaft will automaticly deploy a drogue when inflated). If the boat was holed and one or more of its water tight compartments is flooded, it would sit low in the water and hardly move.  Even going hove-to in the right circumstance could slow the boat that much (and going "backwards" would happen as well in that situation).  35 knots, depending on point of sail, is not nessisarily "bare poles" weather yet. But to state any of these possabilities as fact would be WP:OR, removing one of many possible situations incorrectly stated as fact from an article is not OR.  I do agree that is is extreamly likely unforunately that the boat is actually capsized, my issue is that stating it as fact is very irresponsible journalism on the part of Sail-World.com.  Like I said before, I cannot make the argument of removing the speculation since Sail-World.com qualifies as a reliable source, but even reliable sources get it wrong sometimes, and Sail-World.com is the only ones reporting her has capsized, while all other sources suggest it as a possability only (including her own support team).  As I broke down in my first comment on talk page, there are many erroneous assumptions in that Sail-World.com statement, it is not origonal research, statements from several sources suggest she may be in a raft, may or may not be capsized, lost a mast, lost a keel, etc.. we simply do not know yet, and Sail-World.com certainly has no crystal ball either. Russeasby (talk) 04:25, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Perhaps since you insist on its inclusion, you would be willling to reword it in a way that makes it clear that this is Sail-World.com speculation or educated guess. Rather then "Sail-world.com reported" instead "Sail-world.com speculates" or some other such wording, that makes it clear the quote is not known fact but is the opinion of the author, that would certainly satisfy my issue with its inclusion in the article. Russeasby (talk) 04:28, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi Russeasby: Sail-World speculation was wrong and you were right.  Now that I've slept on it, I agree that I should have rewritten it as you suggested, even though Sail-World is usually a reliable source.  Thanks for your input and explanation on this.  (SEC (talk) 15:33, 11 June 2010 (UTC))

RFC on cross-namespace links from Jimmy Wales to user:Jimbo Wales
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Jimmy Wales. John Vandenberg (chat) 12:23, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

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Greetings and Salutations



 * To Russeasby:


 * Hello!


 * Congratulations!


 * You have been included in my first, and possibly only, Very Early Christmas List!


 * As an earnest fellow believer in Santa Claus, and possibly in Our Redeemer Liveth as well, you may wonder how you got on this list.


 * I have no idea!


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