Stitches is from X-Men was Re: [at-l] Reducing paper weight (was yogi-ing hikers?)

--- Mara Factor <m_factor@hotmail.com> wrote:
> FWIW, with judicious use of the reducer on a photocopier, I got the 
> entire databook on three sheets of 8.5x11 (doublesided).  I also got 14
> pages of the Companion on a single sheet (doublesided) of 8.5x11.  Some
> found the print too small to read but it worked for me...

### November 22, 2000; 17:40 hours..... 6,600 feet high, on top of
Clingman's Dome. Temperature around 20*F or so, wind chill taking a bunch
off of that -- the wind was gusting to maybe 20mph. Sunset was a few
minutes ago, and the light is fading fast; four miles (maybe) to Mount
Collins.... the powdery snow was squeaky underfoot.
Back at the bottom of the tower, I was putting my pack on, and brushed an
insect from my shoulder. Stitches is twenty feet away.
"Brrr." says I int the wind, "Snow 'Skeeter trying to find a meal."
"Nahhh." says Stitches, "Just cold."
"Huh? Howdyew know?" askes I above the wind.
"Shape of abdomen -- I saw he was a male." she replies (*)......

I've come to the conclusion that Stitches' eyes are somewhat above
ordinary humans' level -- somewhat where the "X-Men" mutants are... Take
any vision-related posts from her with an appropriate grain of salt.



Sloetoe

(*) notes that this conversation could easily have taken place.


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T.Roosevelt 4/23/10

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