Re: Translation: YA bored troll thread (was OT: Vancouver BC - who can afford to move THERE?)

On 1/26/25 8:36 AM, Tom Elam wrote:

On 1/24/2025 4:52 PM, -hh wrote:

On 1/24/25 8:55 AM, Tom Elam wrote:

On 1/16/2025 8:07 AM, -hh wrote:

On 1/15/25 5:33 PM, Tom Elam wrote:

On 12/29/2024 9:23 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2024-12-29 14:09, -hh wrote:

As for Alan his racing gig has seemingly petered out. A revealed in SCCBC public records he is absent from leadership positions. His racing entries for the last three years have been few and far between. Maybe he is still going golfing and skiing?

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YA attempt to equate Absence of Evidence as Evidence of Absence...right?
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FWIW, I've not mentioned PCA events for a long time (2011?), but that isn't proof that I'm not still attending meetings or events.

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And it turns out that Tommie isn't much of a researcher...
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...as I was chairman of the Race Drivers Committee in 2023.
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<https://web.archive.org/web/20230422005048/https://www.sccbc.net/ about- sccbc/race-drivers/>
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'Membership on the Race Drivers Committee is by invitation only. The committee is comprised of some of the best racers in British Columbia. Most committee members have won championships in their class while others have done consistently well over the years and have proven themselves capable of excelling in all race conditions.'
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Not bad for a supposedly "terrible" driver.
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😎

Alan, how many season championships have you won?

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As many Nobel Prizes as you've won, Tommy:
Goalpost move much?

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So a SCCBC season championship = Nobel Prize?

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With how you disingenuously try to move goalposts, it sure is!
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FYI my office wall is covered with activity-based CAP awards.

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So?  I have a bunch of activity based participation "thank-you"s too. Not from CAP of course, but other organizations.
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Plus (as Alan pointed out) scores of "training completed" awards.
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More are in the desk, ran out of wall room. Those awards are at the Wing, Region and National levels. One award is the Wing Senior Member of the Year. I was selected to run the program that was responsible for half the Wing's flying and did that for 4 years. It was a full time job. I was promoted from that to running of the Wing's flying programs.
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I don't think you can equate that activity level to running a single committee. But not a Nobel Prize either.

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I don't, but you clearly try to do for yourself.  That's why you've just posted yet another "brag" paragraph about your alleged exploits.
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Your claim that my CAP flying is free attaches a $0 opportunity cost to all the administrative time I donate.

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No, I was simply referring to it as ~zero dollars out of your pocket.
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Regarding Opportunity Costs, your problem is that the 'alternative forgone' is lopsided and thinking only of money.  Sure, one can think of it as X hours in lieu of Y cash for paying for Z hours of flying time, but its the question of the actual value of the hours, not merely the fiscal:  not only are your hours aren't worth as much *to you* because you're retired, but motivations of volunteers are less likely to be so fiscally centric:  a common motivation is simply that they're lonely, and volunteering has a payoff of social interaction.
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The vast majority of he awards are for activity, not training.

So?

Commendation for service in 4 different staff positions, flying hours, COVID disaster relief, flight operations management, and more.

So?  Back when I was a volunteer running a professional organization, I signed off on certificates for every volunteer, annually...the same as my predecessors had done.  It costs nothing, yet because its a ritualized, formal recognition, it is valued by the volunteers.

My motivation is belief in the mission. The opportunity cost is other activities. There is truly no such thing as a free lunch.

Which of course makes _your_ volunteering vastly more noteworthy & worthy than all other volunteers' endeavors ever ... right?  /s
-hh