[Pan-users] Re: Serendipity : You may all laugh - O.T.

[Duncan]

Alan Meyer <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Sat, 07
Mar 2009 14:12:36 -0800:

> On Sat, 3/7/09, Beartooth <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> 
>> Background : my chief offline activity is squirreling ...
> 
> I have to say that this one sent me to Google, Wikipedia, and tracing
> various leads to find out just what "squirreling" is, and why a GPS is
> involved:

Well, in context, that is, offline, requiring the use of a GPS, I took it 
to mean "squirrel watching" or "squirrel hunting", much as my dad is a 
bird watcher and "birding" can refer to that or bird hunting.

In either case, as with pursuing birds either for the purpose of shooting 
them or for the less violent, simply watching, likely photographing them 
or putting them on a list (how many different species of birds have I 
seen this year, in my life?), it's an activity that could take him all 
over an area, to the point that old-style maps and compass, and  new-
style satellite location pinpointed mapping-software, would be very 
useful.

The interpretation seemed natural enough to me, tho it likely helps 
(assuming it's the correct interpretation) that my dad /is/ a bird 
watcher, and I've spent many hours riding and hiking with him all over 
the countryside and and all over the globe over the years, so I can 
easily envision someone using GPS devices in the process (tho my dad 
doesn't).

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