Towards a Pattern Language for CT? III
[ by Charles Cameron — all middle and no end ]
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And while I’m at it, I might as well post one of the very first DoubleQuotes I put together when I was first experimenting with the format, sometime between October 2003 and June 2004
I thought then, and I think now, that a walkway lined with dozens of little plaques presenting odd snippets of fact like either one of those would be a marvelous device for triggering associations in ambulatory analysts…
And it is a recurring pattern, isn’t it?
Ominously, there have been cases of terrorist pirates hijacking tankers in order to practice steering them through straits and crowded sea-lanes-the maritime equivalent of the September 11 hijackers’ training in Florida flight schools. These apparent kamikazes-in-training have questioned crews on how to operate ships but have shown little interest in how to dock them. In March 2003, an Indonesian chemical tanker, the Dewi Madrim, was hijacked off Indonesia. The ten armed men who seized the vessel steered it for an hour through the busy Strait of Malacca and then left the ship with equipment and technical documents.
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Gal Luft and Anne Korin, Terrorism Goes to Sea, Foreign Affairs, Nov/Dec 2004
It helps to be alert to rhyming between ideas…
May 17th, 2011 at 5:34 pm
This all sounds like a Louis Lamour novel, where backwoodsmen are reading signs of a trail to determine if Indians or bandits are trying to bushwack them.
May 17th, 2011 at 10:43 pm
For the back cover of my next book: "His writings have been compared with those of Louis Lamour…"
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Success — I can smell it!
May 18th, 2011 at 2:13 am
That’s good company, Charles! I’ve several good volumes of L’Amour and thank Mercutio for making the very relevant connection!
May 18th, 2011 at 2:39 am
I’m a Hillerman fan myself…
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But whether you credit Bush (Asheville Citizen-Times, May 2nd) or say Obama deserves the credit (Asheville Citizen-Times, May 13th), it’s tracking down bin Laden that’s been in the headlines recently…
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Tracking…