Subject: Near Space Science - was They just don't get it!
From: Leo
Date: 11/25/2004 5:19 PM Central Standard Time
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On 24 Nov 2004 20:34:02 GMT, (Len Over 21) wrote:

There's a LOT of "need" of hearty congratulations on a job well
done BEFORE a project is even STARTED! :-)
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And of course, let's not overlook the seminal "Six Phases Of A
Project" (which one of the guys in Network Engineering has posted
prominently in his cubicle 8*p ).

Actaully, Leo, I think you hit upon the very summation of Lennie the
Loser's Amateur Radio career:

The Six Phases Of A Project

Subtitled: "Lennie's Career in 'Professional' and Amateur Radio"

1. Enthusiasm

Lennie dove into his "army career" as a radio mechanic. It was
simple...The Army taught him how to read the maintenance manual and he followed
the instructions. Considering the era in which he got involved, there was
still a "whole wide world" out there for him to investigate. No doubt a senior
NCO buttered Lennie in preparation for getting his "X" on re-enlistment papers,
so I am sure he (Lennie) was sure of his invincibility as a radio mechanic.

2. Disillusionment

Faced with the "real world" obligations (education, training, OJT, etc),
it must have appeared daunting to Lennie to even get past the Maytag repairman.
While Lennie was no doubt "smart enough" to do it, Lennie's been a short-cut
kinda person all his life. Unfortunately all those short cuts, laid end to
end, made the trip a lot longer than he envisoned.

3. Panic

Realizing that he'd never be able to stack-up next to REAL engineers,
Lennie latched himself onto the coattails of men and woman who DID have "The
Right Stuff" in engineering, and hoped-to-high-heavens thet no one caught on to
his game. Looking for yet another shortcut to vindication Lennie saddles up to
an Amateur Radio publisher in hopes of getting his name in print.

4. Search For The Guilty

There's always been "someone" who was responsible for Lennie's inability
to gain the respectability and recognition for his wonderfulness. "WAIT!
Those !@#$% ham radio operators! THEY did it! They kept me from the fame and
fortune I so richly deserve!" This due, no doubt, to the UNDERwhelming arrival
of fan mail from his several published bylines in the aforementioned Amateur
Radio journal...a journal that went belly-up while Lennie was an "Associate
Editor".

5. Punishment Of The Innocent

Lennie's on-going berating in RRAP says it all. "We" did it to him, and
now, By God, he's gonna make sure we "pay for it". Everyone except Lennie is
responsible for Lennie's failures in Amateur Radio. The "Mighty Morsemen",
"The ARRL", "the Elitists", the "jackbooted thugs", etc etc etc. Forget that
Lennie might actually be well received at the local Amateur Radio club with his
"professional background"...taking the same tests that "mere mortal" citizens
take might further wound his already overinflated ego.

6. Praise And Accolades For The Non-Participants

If there ever was a "non-participant" in Amateur Radio, it's The Loser of
Lanark. Of course, however, it's "professional engineers' such as himself that
knows "all about" the "real radio world", and no one save he and his
colleagues knows anything about radio other than Part 97.

Uh huh.

73

Steve, K4YZ