Generational Ripperologists

[mariab]

Some places have droughts (well, not really in Europe, more in SoCal). I love it that vert skating started like this (well, not vert, actually bowl), during the great California drought in the 1970s, when everyone emptied their pool and people started skating them. Stacy Peralta ruled.

[corey123]

No Dr.Pepper?

Gosh, and I wanted to go to Europe? Only kidding, water is a nice drink and if Europe has that(hopefully) I would love to go there.

[mariab]

Red Bull is too sugary for my taste. It doesn't give me wings, it gives me the willies. (I only need to strap on my board to get my “wings“, no beverage required.) And for real, apart from alcohol my favorite non-alcoholic drink is non-carbonated water. I could drink buckets of it, and I think it TASTES so good!
Corey, if you can believe it, we don't have Dr. Pepper or Monster Energy in Europe, so I've never tried them. (Not even when I was in the States.) But for some reason, Red Bull has sponsored every single freestyle snowboarding event I've ever attended in Germany. In Europe we've also never had Cool Aid. And if you can believe it, we don't have Hershey's and we've only started importing Oreos a couple years ago. (Now you'll probably start pitying us, but we have other nice things. I'm trying to figure out what. Mmmm, better coffee and complete lack of guns? And we buy alcohol without getting carded and are allowed to drink it on the street. But not when driving, naturally!)

[corey123]

Maria,

I already told you all that Dr.Pepper is the drink of the decade.

Come on now, Red Bull? I think Monster energy is more popular than that.

Of coarse Red Bull does give you wings.

[mariab]

Tom Wescott wrote:
I'm 36 now, so in 20 years will be 56, which will then be heralded as the 'new 35', so technically in 20 years time I'll be a year younger than I am now.
That's very pertinent math.
Something tells me that in 20 years I won't be of this world. Maybe this is better than reaching the big (Hawaii) 5-0. (Although I hope to have surfed Hawaii before reaching 50.)

I thought Red Bull was the drink of the new generation. (Red Bull makes me puke, but it sponsors many events, resulting in it being available in buckets, and I can't even smell it.) But the worse beverage I've ever tried to imbibe was root beer. No clue why the Yankees dig it.

To Errata:
You're probably not familiar with the TV series Buffy, the vampire slayer, but a librarian character in there says he detests computers because they don't smell like old books. (Although I find that new computers feature a very characteristic, pleasent smell. Which goes away with time, like many good things.)

[corey123]

Amen Robert.

[Robert]

So in 20 years time we'll be singing

It was twenty years ago today
Dr Pepper taught the band to play

[corey123]

Hello Errata,

Seeing as I have never heard that before, I dunno???

Although, it is my favorite soda

[Errata]

Forget Pepsi, Dr.Pepper is the "cool" soda of the decade

It's carbonated prune juice. What is young and hip about carbonated prune juice?

[corey123]

Forget Pepsi, Dr.Pepper is the "cool" soda of the decade

[Tom_Wescott]

Hi Garza. That depends, do you drink Pepsi?

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Garza]

I'm 26, so I guess Im part of the new generation

[Monty]

You figured wrong Tom.

So much negativity.

Monty

[Tom_Wescott]

Monty,

As usual, I don't know what you mean, but figure it must be snide. And I was just joking, Leahy and Spiro will of course not be running any field, and I personally have no problem with either of them. I intend to purchase Spiro's new book, advertised on amazon.com.

In twenty years' time it won't be crumbling sites that need to be photographed before they disappear. It will be crumbling Ripperologists.

I'm in a pretty good spot. I'm 36 now, so in 20 years will be 56, which will then be heralded as the 'new 35', so technically in 20 years time I'll be a year younger than I am now.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Errata]

[B]
Errata,
the Biblioteca Vaticana in Rome was closed for a couple years due to restauration, but it opened again at the end of the summer. It's visited by TONS of medieval specialists in history and music. There are hundreds of medieval specialists, both in Europe and America, both Professors and doctoral candidates. As a fact, the number of medieval specialists in the entire world is even higher than the one for specialists of the 19th century (such as myself). Someone I hope to work for in 2013 at the University of Frankfurt (named Ackermann) regularly conducts research at the Vatican Archives, as the General Editor of the Palestrina edition. Rest assured that none of these sources are forgotten or ignored.

I don't think the poor man thinks that the documents are being ignored, I think he believes that he is being ignored. Of course, he also thinks that finding things on the internet doesn't count. "If you don't work for it, it isn't knowledge, it's just trivia." He told me that the smell of ink was the best conduit for memorization and learning that mankind had ever encountered. I mean, I think he's a valuable resource. I just wish we did more to preserve the thoughts of guys like him than we currently do.