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Rowing the Pond Again
Gudlyf writes "Anne Quéméré, a French woman who had previously rowed across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain to the West Indian island of Guadeloupe, is currently on her way to doing it again, only this time in the opposite direction. This season's challenge will take Anne 2700 nautical miles, from Chatham, Cape Cod (USA) to Brittany (France), her native land. She hopes to make it in less than 90 days. Is it just me, or does the giant fish on her boat scream 'shark bait' to you?"
does she run linux?
Wouldn't it have just been easier to buy an airline ticket?
I'm all for exercise and all but geeze!
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She has to get back, doesn't she?
If she had the money to get a plane ticket, she wouldn't have made it the first time.
In my day we had to kayak through the Pacific just to buy some foie gras... upstream BOTH WAYS.
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
We have to do something about the oil companies, this poor women obviously can't afford gas either. Greedy bastards!
Happy Noodle Boy says "F###ing doughnut! Mock me? You fried cyclops!!"
Shark-Bait HOO-HAH-HAH
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A. i dont even have a boat you insensitive clod
:)
B. all your oars are belong to us
C. in soviet russia the boat rows you
D.
1. row row row your boat
2. do it again
3. ???
4. profit!!
E. D'OH!
There, I think that about covers it
Ya, people with bad eyesight are often irritable. I guess that's why sharks are mean too.
And as she does this, a computer aboard the boat will be running an OpenGL application in PHP. If she succeeds, she will break world impracticality records.
Would you have the balls to attack a woman with the arms to row across the Atlantic? I wouldn't...
High latency, low bandwidth, low reliability, single packet, connectionless protocol. RFC 1149 spawned another RFC (2549) and had two implementations to take it out of just a draft version, so why not this. :-)
Maybe she's hoping that the publicity will encourage another lunat^H^H^H rower to do likewise. (or else she's on the SYN-ACK leg of her first attempt).
I'm sure that there are more nerdly connections we can make when we have too much time on our hands
Similarly, the rest of the planet cannot understand the mind-numbing singlemindedness needed to slog through the hell that is a Gentoo installation.
Different strokes...
Exactly. This is, like, all athletic and--how you say?--"outsidish?" no, no. i mean, "out of the doors?" oh yes, "outdoorsy." i do not know of this out of the doors activities of which they write...what with the..the...the sweating. And the exerting.
(and before some pumped up jock wannabe tries to make me seriously believe a true nerd can also be mr. macho athlete guy, lemme say a) we're all very proud of you and b) please go crow on some less nerdly site. you are far too cool for us.)
The US Coast Gaurd announced today that they picked up a determined French refugee in a rowboat off the coast of Massachusetts. She has been taken to an undisclosed location for indefinite detention.
Unknown host pong.
Just imagine a Bay-o-watch cluster of these...
I'm here all week, folks.
Old people fall. Young people spring. Rich people summer and winter.
Um, wait until you hit your teens and realize she *does* have blood around - just not the way you think.
Go to summer camp.
Learn the song: "You can tell by the smell that she isn't feeling well when the time of the month comes along."
(you can google the remainder of the song)
I hear she used to be a practicing MCSE... maybe there's some explaination to be found in that.
~/ssh slashdot.org ssh: connect to host slashdot.org port 22: too many beers
Net effect is zero.
Which makes her even with all of us who didn't row at all.
"Nice boat. What kinda motor you got on that rig?"
it'd be like getting a handjob from popeye
think about it
Ok, and she is doing all this while reformatting her Windows box, and replacing it with the latest Linux distro ? or ... What is this doing on Slashdot ? :P
This is the perfect opportunity to compile Gentoo!
Karma: Bad (mostly due to all those "In Soviet Russia" jokes)
Besides, it is Hollywood myth that shark can be dangerous. You may think that shark could mistake swimmer for baby seal, or find your fagile torso to be a tasty meal for the shark. You may also think your weak chemoelectric field in your muscle and nerve could be detected, and shark would take big bite out of you before figures out you are not good for food for it.
This is all giant myth. Shark can make good friendship and companion for any man, woman, or youung child who swim in water's ocean.
I suggest you read Slashdot
They can if they have frickin' laser beams attached to their heads.
You could have saved yourself a lot of effort on that post by simply typing "I don't get it" and hitting [submit].
Shark can make good friendship and companion for any man, woman, or youung child who swim in water's ocean.
Yes, just last month I took my eight year old niece to the aquarium and dropped her into the great white shark tank. You should have seen the wonderful fun playing around they both did. You'd think my niece would have been tired swimming after the shark for half an hour, but you shouldn't underestimate the determination of a child who wants her right leg back.
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
You mean... we are two-dimensional literally?
Actually, those shark attacks were really attacks on Amercia!!
Better add shark to the list of terror suspects!
Coconuts
Stairs
Bees
Ladders
Pruning your hedges
Sunburn
Lightning
Being bitten by a squirrel In spite of this, I freak the hell out when I see a shark in the water.
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