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Hello Again - Genuine Realist - 01-24-2019

I think I'll hang out here for a while.

RE: Hello Again - BostonCard - 01-24-2019

Hey GR.  I feel vaguely responsible for this, so hope you have a good experience here.

Might I direct you to the introductions post; not all who posted there are still with us, and we have new people who haven't introduced themselves:

https://thecardboard.org/board/showthread.php?tid=2014

For those who don't know GR from TOS, he's a Pomona Sagehen if I recall, retired from practicing law in the DA's office, which I am guessing he could afford to do after being one of the early employees in an early 80's silicon valley startup that was big for a while (Borland?).

Also, I believe he has published some novels.

BC

RE: Hello Again - BobK - 01-24-2019

I have read GR’s first Novel. Enjoyed it.

RE: Hello Again - Genuine Realist - 01-24-2019

(01-24-2019, 07:56 PM)BobK Wrote:  I have read GR’s first Novel.   Enjoyed it.

I'll write the longer introduction post, but to correct a couple of small things in BC's kind post:

(1) I was not an employee of Borland. I was the lawyer who founded the company. I also did the financing vehicle that become E*Trade in the same year (1983). During the 70's I was a public defender, in the 80's an entrepreneurial lawyer, and then to the DA's office in 1990 as a high tech prosecution specialist.

(2) I have indeed published two novels and three novellas on Amazon, and thanks to BobK for reading one (I didn't know anyone here had). They are self-published, but the first was represented and accepted at Warner Communications back in 1991. There's a long story there. I write under a pseudonym ("Joseph Wurtenbaugh") which the curious can find on Amazon with a little search.

(3) I didn't adopt the handle 'Genuine Realist' out of any inflated belief in the value of my opinions, but back in 1998 in response to Long Winded on the old Bootboard who was incredibly obnoxious, incredibly opinionated, and wrong about just about everything.

Thanks for the welcome.

RE: Hello Again - fullmetal - 01-26-2019

Welcome to this corner of Stanford fandom :)  How many (which) recent bowls have you attended?

RE: Hello Again - Phogge - 01-26-2019

Hey GR, been over here for awhile under my HS nickname. Does this mean you are fleeing TOS because Rocky returned from Muddy Dove exile?

RE: Hello Again - Hulk01 - 01-26-2019

Jesus, Genuine, I thought you had died.


I ruled out the possibility you'd taken a pseudonym because your style becomes apparent by the first verb, or within a few words after it.

LongWinded has returned--did it less than a year ago--but to another board.
He''s more humble.
I assume it's an imposter.

Steve Durrett died a couple years ago and left a gaping hole no one has filled.
I made a bundle off of his stats--some friends scored over $7000 on the overtime win over Oregon--and his stills were indispensable to analyzing Stanford's game. 

Terry is one post a month short of having become a mute.

Hulk has become impatient beyond words, an event which most posters had deemed impossible.

We still have the most astute head coaches and offensive coordinators in the world,
all of them serving here part time.
They always have a better play. 
We don't learn what was wrong with the one we tried
and don't learn what the substituted play will be. 

A guide, however:
1. If we passed we should have run.
2. f we ran we should have passed.
3. And the formation was wrong.
Formations, basically, are always wrong; be sure to remember that.

This guide should, as your posts will do for us, dramatically improve your board participation experience.

RE: Hello Again - JohnR34231 - 01-26-2019

(01-24-2019, 09:09 PM)Genuine Realist Wrote:  
(01-24-2019, 07:56 PM)BobK Wrote:  I have read GR’s first Novel.   Enjoyed it.

I'll write the longer introduction post, but to correct a couple of small things in BC's kind post:

(1) I was not an employee of Borland. I was the lawyer who founded the company. I also did the financing vehicle that become E*Trade in the same year (1983). During the 70's I was a public defender, in the 80's an entrepreneurial lawyer, and then to the DA's office in 1990 as a high tech prosecution specialist.

(2) I have indeed published two novels and three novellas on Amazon, and thanks to BobK for reading one (I didn't know anyone here had). They are self-published, but the first was represented and accepted at Warner Communications back in 1991. There's a long story there. I write under a pseudonym ("Joseph Wurtenbaugh") which the curious can find on Amazon with a little search.

(3) I didn't adopt the handle 'Genuine Realist' out of any inflated belief in the value of my opinions, but back in 1998 in response to Long Winded on the old Bootboard who was incredibly obnoxious, incredibly opinionated, and wrong about just about everything.

Thanks for the welcome.

Yeah, I remember GR vs LW.
GR thought Tyrone Willingham was fantastic; LW thought TW was fantastically awful.
LW did have to eat his words a bit after the 1999 season.

RE: Hello Again - Redrum - 01-26-2019

At first, I told myself I wasn't old as long as (enter any name of successive Stanford football standouts here) was still playing.  Then...I told myself I wasn't old as long as as (enter any name of successive Stanford football standouts here) were simply still alive.  And today I read that -- like those wandering comets the sojourn in and back out of the solar system-- Genuine Realist has reappeared, visible low on the western horizon just after sunset...and to think I lived to see it.  We live in a time of wonders.  Welcome!  Glad to see you didn't perish while bringing the gospel to the heathen elsewhere.

RE: Hello Again - Mick - 01-27-2019

Good to have you back, GR.

RE: Hello Again - Genuine Realist - 01-27-2019

(01-26-2019, 06:56 AM)Hulk01 Wrote:  Jesus, Genuine, I thought you had died.


I ruled out the possibility you'd taken a pseudonym because your style becomes apparent by the first verb, or within a few words after it.

LongWinded has returned--did it less than a year ago--but to another board.
He''s more humble.
I assume it's an imposter.

Steve Durrett died a couple years ago and left a gaping hole no one has filled.
I made a bundle off of his stats--some friends scored over $7000 on the overtime win over Oregon--and his stills were indispensable to analyzing Stanford's game. 

Terry is one post a month short of having become a mute.

Hulk has become impatient beyond words, an event which most posters had deemed impossible.

We still have the most astute head coaches and offensive coordinators in the world,
all of them serving here part time.
They always have a better play. 
We don't learn what was wrong with the one we tried
and don't learn what the substituted play will be. 

A guide, however:
1. If we passed we should have run.
2. f we ran we should have passed.
3. And the formation was wrong.
Formations, basically, are always wrong; be sure to remember that.

This guide should, as your posts will do for us, dramatically improve your board participation experience.

Alas, my super fandom for Stanford football, which began in 1956 with Brodie and Wiggin, did not survive (a) the great Teevens wars, (b) the remodeling of the Stadium, and © my dad's aging out of being able to go (he'll be 100 net October). As to Teevens, what I learned is that, while the one-eyed man may be king in the land of the blind, the two-eyed man is in big trouble. As to the rest, once you've separated from the culture, it becomes apparent what an incredibly slow game football actually is. These days it's basketball (college) and tennis (Federer, now clearly over the hill.

That said, it amuses me that ANY long time fan could have issues with Shaw. I was there for Cactus Jack Curtice and 0-10; for Ron Ayala; for Christiansen's inexplicable man crush on Cordova; for Walsh's desertion; for those teams of Paul Wiggins that reacted to trick plays as if every member of the defense has been hit over the head with an axe handle; for the Play; for Stanford blowing a 42-14 lead in the late third quarter against WSU - and I have to stop because my eyes are flooding.

Given that history, how anyone could have serious issues with a coach who wins as often and consistently as Shaw is beyond me. But then, this is Stanford, which has developed the technique of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory into a fine art. To quote myself, when Stanford flirts with disaster, they usually get married. So it has always been.