Around The World Row

[old] ulu · Post by **[old] ulu** » February 21st, 2006, 1:58 am

Welcome to Brigette from Munich in joining us in our around the world row. And welcome back to our speedy Brian Turner. I hope everything is well. For the more adventuresome of you, you may want to try: <a href="http://216.119.121.169/ehteam/default.aspx" target="_blank">EhTeam Website</a> YOU WILL PROBABLY GET AN ERROR MESSAGE WHEN YOU FIRST GO TO THE PAGE. Hit the back button on your browser and go to the page again. (I am still trying to figure out what is causing this bug) The site is more automated and accurate. As long as your meters are posted in your Concept2 logbook, they will show up here. You do not have to wait for me to update the site every day or two. I have been working trying to get google earth to interface with the C2 log book. It now does this. You will notice a bit of a delay when you log onto google earth now and then POW. The google earth file is now a "network link", eh!. (It has some present and future advantages). I will now be concentrating on making it easier for members of the Eh!Team to see their individual contributions. I managed to set a PB for my 30 minutes yesterday, so I am very happy with that. It felt easy and my last PB was way back in September before all of the back trouble. So hosers, keep on rowin' eh. Jim

[old] rr1kirk · Post by **[old] rr1kirk** » February 21st, 2006, 5:41 am

Congratulations on the 30 min PB Jim! 8) Also thanks for all the effort on record keeping, it makes it interesting for the rest of us who just have to row

. Cheers, Kirk

[old] BriK · Post by **[old] BriK** » February 21st, 2006, 3:31 pm

Hi Jim, and thank you for the warm welcome!

Great job on getting Google Earth to interface with the C2 logbook!!! I just love to look up the places on the map. It's just that everybody thinks I'm nuts when I tell them that I'm rowing across the Sahara with a couple of Canadians

. Thank you for the effort you put in all this! And congrats on your new PB!!!

Brigitte (... silently chanting "I've been through the desert on a boat with no name ...")

[old] danwho · Post by **[old] danwho** » February 21st, 2006, 9:04 pm

Jim, I want to add my thanks for all your efforts improving the interface to Google Earth. Welcome Brigitte. I just did a quick internet search on "hoser" in German and found this: <<As a Canadian of German origin, maybe I can help. Hose in German is "Schlauch." Hence a "hoser" would be known as a "Schlaucher," denoting a person who drinks to excess, filling up as from a "Schlauch.">> So that's one point of view. As a current resident of North Carolina (and also new to The Eh! Team), I guess I should think about the "North Carolina" translation for "hoser". Maybe we could translate for each country we row through - guess it might not translate so easily for people in the middle of a desert.

[old] Yukon John · Post by **[old] Yukon John** » February 21st, 2006, 11:13 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'>QUOTE</div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'>QUOTE(danwho @ Feb 21 2006, 05:04 PM) </div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'>Jim, I want to add my thanks for all your efforts improving the interface to Google Earth. Welcome Brigitte. I just did a quick internet search on "hoser" in German and found this: <<As a Canadian of German origin, maybe I can help. Hose in German is "Schlauch." Hence a "hoser" would be known as a "Schlaucher," denoting a person who drinks to excess, filling up as from a "Schlauch.">> So that's one point of view. As a current resident of North Carolina (and also new to The Eh! Team), I guess I should think about the "North Carolina" translation for "hoser". Maybe we could translate for each country we row through - guess it might not translate so easily for people in the middle of a desert. </td></tr></table> </td></tr></table> Great stuff Dan! I knew that hoser had to do with beer, but I wasn't sure of the exact conection

. Briggette, I'm not going to be able to get that song out of my head now (but I'll be smiling while I hum it)

. I'm thinking of trying the CTC again soon, we're tied with a team now. If someone can just go a tenth or so faster we'll pull ahead. Great work on your pb Jim, and as always on the work you do for us hosers 8) .

[old] danwho · Post by **[old] danwho** » February 22nd, 2006, 9:25 am

I'll take another shot at 300m this weekend - I row before work on weekdays and I know I'd pull my back if I tried a 300m race first thing in the morning. Also looks like we need some company for Scott, our Cajun contingent. Scott, just tell 'em free gumbo. You'll fill that boat in no time.

[old] BriK · Post by **[old] BriK** » February 22nd, 2006, 9:20 pm

Hi Dan- nice to meet you! ... great explanation for the word "hoser"

... I was already wondering if I need a dictionary "Canadian-English,Englich-Canadian", eh! <---- (probably I used this expression totally wrong?)

Yes, and it's definitely beer country where I live. My area has a great wheat beer!

. Actually the word "Schlaucher" is also used to describe someone who likes to get things for free, a leech. And we use the expression "geschlaucht" ("hosed") if we are exhausted or stressed out. Like when rowing through the desert

. You can also hose someone ("jemanden schlauchen") like a drill seargeant or the guy who beats the drums while the poor slaves keep on rowing

. So what kind of things are you doing with hoses in North Carolina, Dan?

John, I can't get that song out of my head either ... oh well ... I rowed another hour today. Maybe I'll have a day off tomorrow (how do you call that: off-row?) ... after all I don't want to end up "hosed"

.

[old] danwho · Post by **[old] danwho** » February 22nd, 2006, 10:36 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'>QUOTE(BriK @ Feb 22 2006, 08:20 PM) </div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'>. So what kind of things are you doing with hoses in North Carolina, Dan?

</td></tr></table> Now when you put it that way, I'm tempted to say "Just putting the fires out, ma'am" And I think I'll choose not to elaborate on that lest I get myself into trouble.

[old] ulu · Post by **[old] ulu** » February 22nd, 2006, 10:45 pm

Great rowin', hosers. We are now more than 10% of the way around the world. That big circular thing we rowed passed in Mauritania is <a href="http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2005/ ... richat.htm" target="_blank">the Richat crater</a>. It is apparently erosion from an old volcano. <img src="http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2005/ ... richat.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />. Keep on rowin, Jim

[old] danwho · Post by **[old] danwho** » February 22nd, 2006, 11:10 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'>QUOTE(ulu @ Feb 22 2006, 09:45 PM) </div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'>That big circular thing we rowed passed in Mauritania is <a href="http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2005/ ... richat.htm" target="_blank">the Richat crater</a>. It is apparently erosion from an old volcano. </td></tr></table> Thanks Jim for pointing that out. Was there a Google Earth layer you could click on to identify that or did you have to identify it some other way? I didn't see a layer that identified that one. Oh, I see, it identified it when I zoomed in on it.

[old] danwho · Post by **[old] danwho** » February 22nd, 2006, 11:52 pm

Okay Jim, you seem to be really good at this. We also rowed past something that looks like a big crater. At 22-38-50 N and 12-34-00 W, inside this crater is Guelb Seyala. I looked it up and it's a mountain, which at first confused me because I thought I was looking at a crater, not a mountain. But as I'm running my pointer over the area, sure enough, I see this high elevation. And then I find as I run the pointer from what seems to be the edges of this "crater" in towards the crater, my elevation is always going up. So I'm not looking at a crater - I'm looking at mountains in shadow. Why? Not quite as thrilling as electrical excavations, but it does seem to be a puzzle.

[old] ulu · Post by **[old] ulu** » February 23rd, 2006, 1:00 am

As far as I can tell it is a mountain. <a href="http://www.traveljournals.net/explore/m ... eyala.html" target="_blank">Galb Seyala</a> It is rather strange the way it shows up and why it is a different colour than everything else. <img src="http://216.119.121.169/ehteam/Images/galb%20seyala.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" /> Jim

[old] Yukon John · Post by **[old] Yukon John** » February 23rd, 2006, 11:24 pm

Great job on the 300 CTC Jim!!! You inspired me to give it a try, but like that old saying "you get what you paid for," I haven't been doing a lot of training on the erg lately and it showed. I was a few tenths slower then my best time. Oh well, hopefully that will inspire me to work harder. I'm glad I tried it though. I was contemplating trying a 2k tomorrow, but this showed me I'm not ready. If I had tried, it would have been ugly

. Watching some of the olympics has cut into training time for me. Just wondering, for those of you that have been into it, what event (s) have you enjoyed watching the most?

[old] rr1kirk · Post by **[old] rr1kirk** » February 24th, 2006, 1:58 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'>QUOTE(Yukon John @ Feb 23 2006, 10:24 PM) </div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'>Great job on the 300 CTC Jim!!! </td></tr></table> YES! well done Jim! <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'>QUOTE</div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'>Watching some of the olympics has cut into training time for me. Just wondering, for those of you that have been into it, what event (s) have you enjoyed watching the most? </td></tr></table> My sons, ages 12 & 9, have enjoyed skeleton and snowboarding. I'm always impressed by how quickly the biathletes calm down to take their shots from the effort of the ski. My wife and I were watching the freestyle aerials. Amazing to watch but I don't know why anyone would want to compete in a judged event. Cheers, Kirk

[old] ulu · Post by **[old] ulu** » February 25th, 2006, 2:12 pm

Thanx for the kudo's, hosers. I may try and shave off another .1 or .2 over the next few days, but I don't know how likely that will be. We have now rowed over 10% of the way around the world! It is less than 50 million meters before we end at the concept2 website. We can only do this one meter at a time, so keep posting those kilometers to your C2 logbook and recruit your friends to the Eh!Team. Let me now what you would like to see on the Eh!Team website and I will try and accomodate it. Jim

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