Tom Muir and other sbjt
Igor Loving
austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
Thu Dec 23 13:18:01 2004
New Years Eve at the Hotel Real in Real de Catorce is an opption.
>From: Connie Clark <connie_3c@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
>To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
>Subject: Tom Muir and other sbjt
>Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 07:10:47 -0800 (PST)
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>Mike,
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>Tom is not working for the Navy. He is teaching engineering at U of
Mississippi. His research is now focused on landmine detection. He and
Sharon are quite happy in the small college town they now find themselves.
>If Tom does get on the ghetto list or the doppelganger list, then I
would suggest that the 'dirty' part be dropped from his name when writing
about him or to him if you want to maintain good relations. I would want
that for myself you know.
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>Other subject. Who's going to put on a NY's party?
>Connie
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>Madelon Umlauf <madelon@austincc.edu> wrote:
>Some of you know Dirty Tom Muir.
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>I met a colleague of Dirty Tom last night at a cheese
>& wine thing. He is a civilian ex-submariner who
>like Tom is in USNavy submarine research. We
>mostly chatted about interesting subjects; he also
>said that Dirty Tom's recently wed wife (Sharon?)
>"had literally saved his life." On inquiry this meant that she
>had gotten Dirty Tom to cut down on his booze jones.
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>Dirty Tom like yours truly has a pee aitch dee.
>I couldnt help envy the Dirty Tom's various
>postings around the world whereas I had to stay
>at home and NOT live in Italy, Monterrey, CA
>and currently in inland Mississippi at some Navy.
>facility there.
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>Michael Pastorius with whom I was chatting had
>with his wife returned recently from a long posting
>in London. He is a tall man with a splendid red
>mustache, somewhere over 60 who currently runs
>Navy submarine research at UT at the Pickle research
>center.
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>As I had just met a Canadian submariner at a
>pre-Christmas party who told me about Canada's
>recentl purchase of 4 poorly maintained mothballed
>English submarines, Pastorius filled me in on other
>aspects of this weird submarine deal.
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>As for why Canada would need to replace 4
>submarines in its fleet, that neither the Canadian
>nor Pastorius had any explanation for since
>Canada has no known enemies.
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>As for why the US needs to do cutting edge
>submarine development, Pastorius reminded
>me that if we stop doing it, we lose the ability
>to do it. Use it or lose.
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>He said that there are 2 four star admirals in
>Hawaii who are autonomous of Washington.
>They assume a possible Chinese submarine
>threat in the future. This may be ridiculously
>unlikely from a historical point of view. But
>from the viewpoint of keep doing it or you'll
>lose it (cutting edge submarine research that
>is) it is a slam dunk.
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