We did it! Took all of Eldorado in One Magic Shot!!!
Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 6:56 pm
Team uber-Brain took EVERYTHING in ElDorado with just one magic shot! I am dead serious, folks. It is OVER. All of it. Done!
We Won it ALL!! It has been over since the very moment that my and Ken's magic appeals arrived at the Appeal Deciding Officer on May 13, 2008! I sent mine FedEx to have delivery confirmation of this momentous event in OHV history. I shall frame it. The signature of the person who signed for my ABSOLUTE VICTORY bomb!!!
No more lawsuit threats! No more emotion/worry/anger! We even destroyed the "Greenie A-bomb" before it could ever be used (the assertion that a Forest Supervisor can designate de-facto wilderness areas, thereby "nuking" large swaths of routes).
This is real, guys. We now have a confirmed kill from Empress Nora, who taught us everything we needed to know, for Ken and I to outsmart and outmaneuver the Forest Service. All credit for this victory goes to Empress Nora, the best teacher of anything, ever, anywhere on this planet earth, since mankind figured out how to walk upright! Three cheers for Empress Nora!!!
Another indication that the Forest Service understood it was over when our appeals arrived is that we have been dealing with Laura and Mr. Villavazo (indirectly). There was no point for the Appeal Deciding Officer to come up here and negotiate. Why? He knew Ken and I wouldn't negotiate a win like this in which they had NO MOVE anyway. We took it all and we aren't giving any back! LOL!
This too has been confirmed by Empress Nora!
I now understand the "signals" that Laura was sending, and why it felt like she suddenly worked for me instead of the Forest Service. She was signalling we had won. Geek that I was sticking to my scientific method, I had to first rule out the alternate hypothesis that her signal of putting us at the top of their "lawsuit threat list" was not a coincidence. So I waited until she sent me all the actual appeals so I could confirm our status as Strategic Masters of the Universe.
It will be fun to tally up how many people and organizations we just defeated with one shot from team uber-Brain. Besides Ken and I on the team, we had uber-Brain Randy Burleson cranking alternate strategies and preparing to execute some of our more interesting alternate ones if the need had arisen.
Watch for this to become a Hollywood Movie. It has to. It is such an unbelievable but true story. I'm still sitting here in shock of what we pulled off. My brain has been running in a mode I call "Fabric Forward" for way too many days. Loss of sleep makes that mode work better, so I've been staying up all night.
Get this: Ken and I were going to ride Rubicon Trail on Friday, to take a break from all this and talk about anything else but this campaign, but I had been up all night the previous night running strategies. With no sleep, and Fabric Forward mode engaged in brain, I knew I couldn't ride. I would have driven off of a cliff when the 30-second delay in motor control from Fabric Forward brain processing.
Somebody pinch me?
To show how deep we were going on strategy, so as to make sure we had multiple contingency plans in case we uncovered a Greenie strategic force operating before our kill was confirmed, here is one of Randy's: it was a 3-person variant of the old good cop/bad cop routine. The twist was that uber-Brain Randy has a pony tail and looks like a Greenie.
The deployment plan was for me (bad cop), Ken (good cop) and Randy to go negotiate with Mr. Villavazo. We planned to OWN him via classical mind play domination. I'd stand up and start yelling at him for being so stupid that he can't even hire people who understand science, making such a mess of a simple thing, about to spend millions of taxpayer dollars on lawsuit after lawsuit, etc.
I planned to tirade like that for about 4.5 minutes. I'd take deep breath, and Ken/Randy would have this "oh no, he's actually going to punch Villavazo" look on their faces. Good cop uber-Brain Ken would take over, sympathize, and allow him to go off with his only friend in the world, our Greenie-under-cover uber-Brain Randy, where he would console Villavazo and learn all the secrets we needed to beat him in this negotiation. Back he goes for more good cop, bad cop, fake Greenie friend... until we'd fleeced him of all routes.
Ken and Randy had a high confidence of success in this one. I wasn't so sure. It was the moment that I'd take the deep breath and see the concerned gonna-punch-Villavazo looks on their faces that I was worried about. My expected result with 65% probability: I bust out laughing, fall down onto the floor laughing, now I'm on my back with my feet up in the air, still laughing, at which point I pee my pants from laughing. I was pretty sure Villavazo wouldn't be too scared of me at that point. Might not even buy into this elaborate subterfuge any more, either.Fearing legitimate Greenies in the area, we'd have probably bolted for the door about then. LOL!
How many deployable alternate strategies did we come up with, anyway? 10 or so? No one will believe the steal-his-meeting strategy with Greenie Leader and OHV Leader making peace the night before, thereby taking away Villavazo's clever divide-and-conquer strategy of sweet-talking himself into all the appeals. Or at least we estimated that as his best strategy at 80% confidence, and figured that was the real purpose of his meeting. So with Greenie Leader and OHV Leader arm-in-arm, they would start asking Villavazo the usual how-could-this-possibly-happen questions to scare him out of his own meeting.
We were DEAD SERIOUS, on that one folks. I almost called the Greenie Leader (whichever one of them had the best appeal on their side) last night and started the process. But then we determined that the Greenie had to be:
1) Strategic
2) A Leader
3) Smart enough to understand how this was good for them, and how we had gamed it all the way out to the point where he would still get his "do over" court shot no matter what happened.
4) Can think on his feet
5) Can be very assertive
At that point, we abandoned the strategy. We knew we'd NEVER find a Greenie that could meet all those criteria. Oh well, saved me the displeasure of having to be buddy-buddy with the Greenie leader. LOL!
I am now compiling the absolutely amazing story of our victory before I forget it. I've cranked out so many backup strategies waiting for confirmation of kill that my brain hurts right now. Those backup strategies were getting kind of wacky, huh? But believe me... every single one of them could have worked if enacted as I described.
I need to confirm my analysis, but it appears that we also sealed the Greenies out, thereby ending all the lawsuit possibilities. The Greenies can file suit all they want, but we actually have them blocked from getting anywhere. How's that for one magic shot! Get a Brain, Greenies, Get a Brain. A pretty big one if you want to beat team Ken/Eric I'd say. LOL!
Wait until you hear what my Doomsday Option really did. All I showed the Forest Service was the easy opening win in Federal Court, which I always viewed as a trivial task. No lawyer needed, and although I'm not one, who needs one for easy logic like that. Go in and run the table with the judge cheering us on. It was what came after that in the rest of the Doomsday Option... that will blow your mind.
Thank you Empress Nora!
We Won it ALL!! It has been over since the very moment that my and Ken's magic appeals arrived at the Appeal Deciding Officer on May 13, 2008! I sent mine FedEx to have delivery confirmation of this momentous event in OHV history. I shall frame it. The signature of the person who signed for my ABSOLUTE VICTORY bomb!!!
No more lawsuit threats! No more emotion/worry/anger! We even destroyed the "Greenie A-bomb" before it could ever be used (the assertion that a Forest Supervisor can designate de-facto wilderness areas, thereby "nuking" large swaths of routes).
This is real, guys. We now have a confirmed kill from Empress Nora, who taught us everything we needed to know, for Ken and I to outsmart and outmaneuver the Forest Service. All credit for this victory goes to Empress Nora, the best teacher of anything, ever, anywhere on this planet earth, since mankind figured out how to walk upright! Three cheers for Empress Nora!!!
Another indication that the Forest Service understood it was over when our appeals arrived is that we have been dealing with Laura and Mr. Villavazo (indirectly). There was no point for the Appeal Deciding Officer to come up here and negotiate. Why? He knew Ken and I wouldn't negotiate a win like this in which they had NO MOVE anyway. We took it all and we aren't giving any back! LOL!
This too has been confirmed by Empress Nora!
I now understand the "signals" that Laura was sending, and why it felt like she suddenly worked for me instead of the Forest Service. She was signalling we had won. Geek that I was sticking to my scientific method, I had to first rule out the alternate hypothesis that her signal of putting us at the top of their "lawsuit threat list" was not a coincidence. So I waited until she sent me all the actual appeals so I could confirm our status as Strategic Masters of the Universe.
It will be fun to tally up how many people and organizations we just defeated with one shot from team uber-Brain. Besides Ken and I on the team, we had uber-Brain Randy Burleson cranking alternate strategies and preparing to execute some of our more interesting alternate ones if the need had arisen.
Watch for this to become a Hollywood Movie. It has to. It is such an unbelievable but true story. I'm still sitting here in shock of what we pulled off. My brain has been running in a mode I call "Fabric Forward" for way too many days. Loss of sleep makes that mode work better, so I've been staying up all night.
Get this: Ken and I were going to ride Rubicon Trail on Friday, to take a break from all this and talk about anything else but this campaign, but I had been up all night the previous night running strategies. With no sleep, and Fabric Forward mode engaged in brain, I knew I couldn't ride. I would have driven off of a cliff when the 30-second delay in motor control from Fabric Forward brain processing.
Somebody pinch me?
To show how deep we were going on strategy, so as to make sure we had multiple contingency plans in case we uncovered a Greenie strategic force operating before our kill was confirmed, here is one of Randy's: it was a 3-person variant of the old good cop/bad cop routine. The twist was that uber-Brain Randy has a pony tail and looks like a Greenie.
The deployment plan was for me (bad cop), Ken (good cop) and Randy to go negotiate with Mr. Villavazo. We planned to OWN him via classical mind play domination. I'd stand up and start yelling at him for being so stupid that he can't even hire people who understand science, making such a mess of a simple thing, about to spend millions of taxpayer dollars on lawsuit after lawsuit, etc.
I planned to tirade like that for about 4.5 minutes. I'd take deep breath, and Ken/Randy would have this "oh no, he's actually going to punch Villavazo" look on their faces. Good cop uber-Brain Ken would take over, sympathize, and allow him to go off with his only friend in the world, our Greenie-under-cover uber-Brain Randy, where he would console Villavazo and learn all the secrets we needed to beat him in this negotiation. Back he goes for more good cop, bad cop, fake Greenie friend... until we'd fleeced him of all routes.
Ken and Randy had a high confidence of success in this one. I wasn't so sure. It was the moment that I'd take the deep breath and see the concerned gonna-punch-Villavazo looks on their faces that I was worried about. My expected result with 65% probability: I bust out laughing, fall down onto the floor laughing, now I'm on my back with my feet up in the air, still laughing, at which point I pee my pants from laughing. I was pretty sure Villavazo wouldn't be too scared of me at that point. Might not even buy into this elaborate subterfuge any more, either.Fearing legitimate Greenies in the area, we'd have probably bolted for the door about then. LOL!
How many deployable alternate strategies did we come up with, anyway? 10 or so? No one will believe the steal-his-meeting strategy with Greenie Leader and OHV Leader making peace the night before, thereby taking away Villavazo's clever divide-and-conquer strategy of sweet-talking himself into all the appeals. Or at least we estimated that as his best strategy at 80% confidence, and figured that was the real purpose of his meeting. So with Greenie Leader and OHV Leader arm-in-arm, they would start asking Villavazo the usual how-could-this-possibly-happen questions to scare him out of his own meeting.
We were DEAD SERIOUS, on that one folks. I almost called the Greenie Leader (whichever one of them had the best appeal on their side) last night and started the process. But then we determined that the Greenie had to be:
1) Strategic
2) A Leader
3) Smart enough to understand how this was good for them, and how we had gamed it all the way out to the point where he would still get his "do over" court shot no matter what happened.
4) Can think on his feet
5) Can be very assertive
At that point, we abandoned the strategy. We knew we'd NEVER find a Greenie that could meet all those criteria. Oh well, saved me the displeasure of having to be buddy-buddy with the Greenie leader. LOL!
I am now compiling the absolutely amazing story of our victory before I forget it. I've cranked out so many backup strategies waiting for confirmation of kill that my brain hurts right now. Those backup strategies were getting kind of wacky, huh? But believe me... every single one of them could have worked if enacted as I described.
I need to confirm my analysis, but it appears that we also sealed the Greenies out, thereby ending all the lawsuit possibilities. The Greenies can file suit all they want, but we actually have them blocked from getting anywhere. How's that for one magic shot! Get a Brain, Greenies, Get a Brain. A pretty big one if you want to beat team Ken/Eric I'd say. LOL!
Wait until you hear what my Doomsday Option really did. All I showed the Forest Service was the easy opening win in Federal Court, which I always viewed as a trivial task. No lawyer needed, and although I'm not one, who needs one for easy logic like that. Go in and run the table with the judge cheering us on. It was what came after that in the rest of the Doomsday Option... that will blow your mind.
Thank you Empress Nora!