Dear Ron:

For WTDX..... what would you like to do?

Signed,
Can't wait for your response, in Cinti

 

• Catch Up With Friends
• Drive the Dragon
• Drink with Friends
• Drive Other Roads
• Relax on the Front Porch with Friends
• Drive Somewhere New with Friends
• Meet New Friends
• Drive Somewhere with New Friends
• Drink some Wine with Friends
• Get Some More Dragon Time
• Share Some Food and Drink with Friends
• Say 'Bye to Friends Old and New
• Have Unreasonably Large Meal at the Jarrott House on the Way Home
• Enjoy Stories and Lies on the Forum While Waiting for the Next Dragon Trip
  

Your's in Simple Lists,

 

Dear Ron:

What is the McDragon all about.... and why should I or someone attend?

Signed,
Wondering in Cincy

 

This is a rhetorical question, right? Oldtimer? Are you drawing me out for the edification of our newer members? Is there a limit to the number of questions that can be asked with no intervening expository sentence? Do you know?

McDragon started out when Sheila and I started telling people when we were going to the Dragon. We make at least two additional visits to the Dragon each year between official events. McDragon is aggressively a "non-event." There are no plans except the ones we hatch along the way. It's about driving these roads with a smaller group of friends so there's less traffic and we each have more time to talk to everyone.

So, it's an event that takes its own unique shape each time where, at the end of the day, we can all still fit on one cabin porch and solve the world's problems over a beverage.

You probably wouldn't like it.

Yours in origins,

 

Dear Ron:

Why do we have toenails?

Through evolution, will we get rid of them?

Signed,
Getting tired of clipping toenails in Cincy

Ps.. putting this post in the Dear Dave thread also to see what that nutcase says!

 

Maybe. Toenails are useful to apes because their feet have opposed, um, toes, and they use them interchangeably with their hands. I think you'll agree that fingernails are useful. If not try to scratch, peel an orange or pick up a dime without them. Go ahead, I'll wait.

We've gone from claws to nails on all four limbs and now, with little use for toenails, maybe they will go away. Your little toe and its associated nail is already headed for extinction. Try this, if you wake up one night, around 3:00am when it's so hard to get back to sleep, just stare at your little toe. You can see it getting smaller if you watch carefully. <evil laugh> Please report back.

We are losing all kinds of things in our march toward the singularity and our post-human post-carbon instantations as arbitrarily long-lived consciousnesses.

An incomplete list of things we're losing on the way to the homo ludens (you may be sapins, I've already evolved to ludens. Want to play a game?) dustbin:

Appendix. 'nuff said.
Coccyx. I haven't noticed you have a tail.
Wisdom teeth. Considering what it felt like to have mine pulled, good riddance.
Vomeronasal organ. Not needed since highly ritualized dating behavior replaced pheromones.
Ear muscles. Unless you can wiggle your ears, it's gone. And if you can, was it really ever good for anything?
Plica Semilunaris. You know, that little thing in the inside corner of your eye. It's all that's left of your nictitating membranes. Those would be great for the S.
Occipitalis Minor Muscle. The muscle in your neck that held up your head when you ran on all fours. Still useful for certain over-lubricated nights.
Vibrissal Capsular Muscles. Did you know the muscles that used to twitch our whiskers aren't quite gone? Cool, huh?
Smell. It probably won't go away entirely but it's much less important to our survival now and has diminished in these later days.
Goose Bumps. We've mostly lost the body hair but the muscles that fluffed it out are still there. Still good in horror movies.


And on and on. We're an evolving species in a changing environment. Given the 103 degree temps today I'd like to evolve an air conditioner.

Yours in adaptability,

 

Dear Ron:

Please do not stray from my question.

Did not ask about fingernails, so why should I go scratch myself (I do that enough already!), or go peel a defenseless orange, or try and pick up a dime?

I'll set my alarm for 3:30 tomorrow morning.... and see of I can notice it getting smaller.... since I will be out of town over the w/e... I'll have to report back at a later date.

Yours in being a smart a*s,
Smart A*s in Cincy

 

Dear Ron,
Got Boson?

 

Dear Ron:

Tried this, and could not see any difference.

Even measured the little toe at various times with my yardstick!

Signed,
Little toe not getting smaller, in Cincy

 

Feeling godlike, are we?