[pct-l] "nearo" or "nero"

[Charles Doersch]

Imagine folks referencing Star Trek for Nero ~~ when I was thinking about
the diminutive emperor whose life Suetonius maligned.

Definition of a Nero: A day involving only a little Roman.

Or, thinking about Nero's penchant for bad poetry:

Hiking the PCT is being immersed in the poetry of the nature. A Nero would,
of course, be the caesura.

Okay, so puns are bad.
But poems are verse.

~Charles & the gang.



On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:45 AM, <abiegen at cox.net> wrote:

> Yogi writes:
>
> >What is your opinion for the spelling of a day in town which is nearly a
> zero?
>
> As a computer geek guy I prefer "Near0" or "Ner0" with the zero serving as
> the "o."
>
> But since the allusion to Star Trek has been made, I would say that Spock
> would feel that the whole concept of nero is illogical. There is a
> significant and compelling difference between a zero day and say a hiking
> day of 20 miles or ten miles. Between the various lengths of hiking days,
> the difference is less meaningful.
>
> So when I did my severely truncated 2010 hike, I started with the full
> distance from the border to Morena Lake; some 21 or so miles. Others started
> out slowly and did 10 miles on their first day. For me, ten miles would have
> been a ner0 but I'm sure those hikers wouldn't have called it that. For
> Smiles who averaged some 40 miles a day, my 21 miles would have been a ner0
> .
>
> So where is the cut off? It varies greatly, cannot be precisely defined and
> therefor is illogical.
>
> TrailHacker
> --
> "When my feet hurt, I take a ner0"
> Abraham Lincoln
>
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