Re: Available consultant Vijay for Unix System Admin with sun Solories Expireance.

In article <slrng7t8bh.go4.ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Moe Trin) writes:
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.admin, in article
<ANGdnYSOBJ5UHeDVnZ2dnUVZ_hSdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Robert Melson wrote:

Farenheit 451! Classic SF novel by Ray Bradbury. Title was chosen
because that (233 C) is the ignition point of paper.

I have no idea how long ago it was when I read that.

I've never been a big Bradbury fan - much prefer "hard" SF and,
wouldya believe, alternate history - but I dig F451 out every
now and again and reread it. It really IS dystopic, maybe even
more so than "Brave New World" or "Man in the High Castle" by
Phillip ***.

<snip>
Apropos Phoenix (or, as some of would have it, Hell on Earth),

Hey!!! Both Death Valley, California and El Azizia (or is it Al`Aziziyah)
Libya are warmer. It's only hit 120F/49C once so far this year.

Yeah, but, generally speaking, people don't _live_ in either
place. But y'r right. Mebbe Yuma is worse.

<snip>

I kinda got discouraged at the climate when I found it was ~100 F in
mid-April and, despite the claims that "it's really a _dry_ climate",
found the humidity worse then than here in El Paso during the
mid-summer monsoon season.

Ah, but think about the snow birds here in February - "Ah, Margaret, it
is so nice here - let's buy a house and move here". They're ready to
sell by May at the latest.

Uh-huh. In many ways, I'd rather live in, say, Minnesota - you can
always put more clothes on to stay warm, but you damn well can't
take enough clothes off to stay cool. Still, had Motorola worked out
for me, I probably would've relocated to Phx.


Mid-April is right around the end of the wet season, so yeah, the
humidity would be up there a bit. A month or so later, and it's going
to be bone dry. We've had several days this year when the temps were
over 105F and the dewpoint below 20F, and thats beyond the range of the
humidity table I have here (it's below 6% RH). It's relatively muggy
right now, 104F/40C with a dewpoint of 55F/13C - that's 20% RH.

I don't recall my time there being particularly rainy - only one
6 inch rain (6 inches between drops) that I remember. As I said
below, it seems to me that the whole Phx basin has suffered a
change for the worse in terms of micro-climate - irrigation,
swimming pools, lawns, golf courses all contributing.

<snip>

most (if not all) workplaces here are smoke-free, which means the poor
smokers have to go outside (recent law change here - at least 50 feet
away from the building entrance or air intakes), and they're suffering
because the spray misters aren't pulling the temperature down in the
smoking area. You'd think they'd eventually take the hint. ;-)

Well, as a nicotine addict myself, I'd probably find myself a bit
torqued, too. While I try to be considerate of non-smoking others,
I do tend to expect a similar consideration in return.

That's definitely the case. Were you here after they created "Tempe
Town Lake" in the Salt River bed (about half way between Priest and
Mill, back to about 3/4 mile East of Rural)? It's about 2.5 miles long,
and 500-700 feet wide and a couple of feet deep. And people like me

ISTR them finishing that particular project shortly before I got
there. There was a continuing whoop-te-do about it in the local
rag and the TV stations. Can't say I gave it much thought at
the time.


Old guy

Swamp-cooled Ol' Bob

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Robert G. Melson | Rio Grande MicroSolutions | El Paso, Texas
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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable
reason so few engage in it. -- Henry Ford

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