These guys sure spent a lot of time just yakking about things!
(I have the feeling I will never get to the end of these transcripts even though they are incomplete.)
Observation about the Balducci crew
February 16th, 2008 @ 4:54 pm - by NMC · 8 Comments
Tags: Tim Balducci
Filed Under: Herald & Examiner
I feel like Achilles and the tortoise.
Yeesh, both at once? What’s their poundage, would you reckon, NMC? Courage!
Incredibly interesting theory – totally new to me so this is a “test” to see if I got the point in my quick read.
1) you (NMC) are trying to help us “catch up” on all of the information in the transcripts.
2) so much of the information contained in the transcripts is “yak” you have to read to get from one “significant” portion of a conversation to the next.
3) you are feeling you may never get to the end – and remind us that these are only partial conversations.
4) you refer us to a theory that says even with better thinking than that you’re reading, there’s so much “yak” it’s impossible to filter through all of that and identify and organize the “significant” points.
5) the solution to the “theory” is that the only way you can bring us up to speed is this series of short posts – but the “yak” makes that seem impossible.
Grade my test – please and thank you. : )
you get an A, noudoucit
doesn’t that deserve a post of it’s own – “nowdy not wrong”. Teasing of course – : )
Your application of the “Achilles and the tortoise” theory here opens the door to my intended reply to your earlier comment in the Narrative…Pt.3.
If you “run the race” thinking the end is “bribery” and measure the short steps from one significant point to that end to another significant point – you may win that race when another measure might lead you to a different end.
Thanks to your effort, the rest of us are not distracted by the “yak” and can consider what else those conversations could suggest.
btw, if I could remember the name you used to identify a plot character that leads readers to make assumptions, I’d use it to describe P.L. Blake.
I wish I could have got you guys on a couple of wiretap cases I worked on. The worst part of doing one is sifting through all of the conversations and trying to pick out the ones that mean something, and then going back and hunting for the ones you discarded as not pertinent, when you figure out later that they actually were pertinent.
Imagine an investigation and case where there are hundreds of calls a day, that goes on for several months. I had some where I would have hired you all.
I just can’t make myself do it anymore. I’m going to have to wait for the trial.
Faw, trial-schmial, observer — I’m waiting for NMC’s book!
There’s a good one here, no doubt about it. And, NMC has what it takes to write it, from what I have seen.