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From: -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>
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Subject: Re: Translation: YA bored troll thread (was OT: Vancouver BC - who
 can afford to move THERE?)
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 16:52:32 -0500
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On 1/24/25 8:55 AM, Tom Elam wrote:
> On 1/16/2025 8:07 AM, -hh wrote:
>> On 1/15/25 5:33 PM, Tom Elam wrote:
>>> On 12/29/2024 9:23 PM, Alan wrote:
>>>> On 2024-12-29 14:09, -hh wrote:
>>>>>> As for Alan his racing gig has seemingly petered out. A revealed 
>>>>>> in SCCBC public records he is absent from leadership positions. 
>>>>>> His racing entries for the last three years have been few and far 
>>>>>> between. Maybe he is still going golfing and skiing?
>>>>>
>>>>> YA attempt to equate Absence of Evidence as Evidence of 
>>>>> Absence...right?
>>>>>
>>>>> FWIW, I've not mentioned PCA events for a long time (2011?), but 
>>>>> that isn't proof that I'm not still attending meetings or events.
>>>>
>>>> And it turns out that Tommie isn't much of a researcher...
>>>>
>>>> ...as I was chairman of the Race Drivers Committee in 2023.
>>>>
>>>> <https://web.archive.org/web/20230422005048/https://www.sccbc.net/ 
>>>> about- sccbc/race-drivers/>
>>>>
>>>> 'Membership on the Race Drivers Committee is by invitation only. The 
>>>> committee is comprised of some of the best racers in British 
>>>> Columbia. Most committee members have won championships in their 
>>>> class while others have done consistently well over the years and 
>>>> have proven themselves capable of excelling in all race conditions.'
>>>>
>>>> Not bad for a supposedly "terrible" driver.
>>>>
>>>> 😎
>>> Alan, how many season championships have you won?
>>
>> As many Nobel Prizes as you've won, Tommy:
>> Goalpost move much?
> 
> So a SCCBC season championship = Nobel Prize?

With how you disingenuously try to move goalposts, it sure is!


> FYI my office wall is covered with activity-based CAP awards. 

So?  I have a bunch of activity based participation "thank-you"s too. 
Not from CAP of course, but other organizations.

Plus (as Alan pointed out) scores of "training completed" awards.


> More are 
> in the desk, ran out of wall room. Those awards are at the Wing, Region 
> and National levels. One award is the Wing Senior Member of the Year. I 
> was selected to run the program that was responsible for half the Wing's 
> flying and did that for 4 years. It was a full time job. I was promoted 
> from that to running of the Wing's flying programs.
> 
> I don't think you can equate that activity level to running a single 
> committee. But not a Nobel Prize either.

I don't, but you clearly try to do for yourself.  That's why you've just 
posted yet another "brag" paragraph about your alleged exploits.


> Your claim that my CAP flying is free attaches a $0 opportunity cost to 
> all the administrative time I donate.

No, I was simply referring to it as ~zero dollars out of your pocket.

Regarding Opportunity Costs, your problem is that the 'alternative 
forgone' is lopsided and thinking only of money.  Sure, one can think of 
it as X hours in lieu of Y cash for paying for Z hours of flying time, 
but its the question of the actual value of the hours, not merely the 
fiscal:  not only are your hours aren't worth as much *to you* because 
you're retired, but motivations of volunteers are less likely to be so 
fiscally centric:  a common motivation is simply that they're lonely, 
and volunteering has a payoff of social interaction.


-hh