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

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.admin, in article
<MvednelQGKQ_zhjVnZ2dnUVZ_r_inZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Robert Melson wrote:

Yeah, well, unless the backyard weather station down the block
is sanctioned by NOAA, then the official station's weather
records are the ones that apply. If we gauged the weather here
in El Pasy by _my_ location, our precip totals would be
a helluva lot higher and the temps would be dramatically
different, as well.

I've kept precip data at home for years. In California, I was about a
mile from Moffett Field which did make official (Navy) measurements,
but these weren't as commonly available. Likewise, there is a state
Department of Water Resources gauge about 700 feet away, but the data
is never published.

All you have to do is see the satellite pics of the moisture plumes
coming in from the Pacific ...

as they have been for the past week. My records and the city agree
that there has been no rainfall, although the area from about
Roosevelt Lake down past Falcon Field got substantial rain last
night - and a half mile length of power poles on Greenfield Road
got snapped off by a microburst. I think the "1.10 inch" in about
an hour was from the control tower at Falcon Field.

ISTR even more idiotic driving behavior in the DC area when I was
stationed there. The drive in to the District from Fairfax along
US 50 was, shall we say, an adventure. It'd probably make a helluva
good video game, come to think of it.

I think the worst I've ever seen was a cab driver (naturally) who
was taking me from hotel to airport in Montreal. Every time he turned
around to talk to be (in French - which I don't speak) his foot would
push down on the gas, and the tires would start spinning on the snow
and ice covered street. Haven't been back since.

Yeah, I've noticed that about AZ plated cars here in Texas. And,
no doubt, there'd be those who'd point out that Texas plated
cars are just as bad in wherever-the-hell.

Bingo.

Never been to South East Asia? They're lousy learners, and the
teachers were the French.

Been there, done that, plus they were shootin' at me at the same time.

Yeah, those taxi drivers really wanted generous fares. (I was getting
a cab from down town out to Tan San Nhut, and was in a fender-bender.
The two drivers get out, look at the damage, and then the other driver
begins chasing my driver round the wreckage. I get out of the cab,
pull a 100p note out of the pocket, hold it out - the cab driver grabs
it as he runs by. I hail a motor-cyclo driver - I gotta get to work.)

Some, to be sure, but it was the railroads and trails through
here that were key. The original El Paso (now Cd. Juarez) was
a stop on the Camino Real between Mexico City and Santa Fe during
the Spanish/Mexican rule.

Hmmm, learn something new every day. Didn't realize the original
difference. "The King's Road" I lived about 200 feet from it in
Mountain View, California (15 Southeast of San Francisco).

Current El Paso (formerly Franklin) was a staging point on the
Butterfield Trail, as well as a railroad hub.

From the non-Hispanic names (never mind the railroad), that would have
to be after the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

Old guy
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