On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 08:41:30 -0500, DSK wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

~~ snippage ~~

Most of these solo types are very focused and competitive. From what
I've read, Amelia Earhart was much the same way.

Agreed. A polite way of saying she's an asshole?

No - not at all. We have some friends who are ultra marathoners and
one of my kids is a tri-athelete. Their whole perspective on what's
important changes while training and racing.

But Ellen and Amelia have made really outstanding accomplishments in
fields occupied by self-driven obsessives (assholes), so I think they'd
probably stand above most in that ranking. I don't know about Amelia
Earhart, but Ellen is at least polite and well-spoken (and very very
focussed)

Good - that's a plus then.