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

In article <slrng8d43t.iic.ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Moe Trin) writes:
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.admin, in article
<MvednelQGKQ_zhjVnZ2dnUVZ_r_inZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Robert Melson wrote:

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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.

Can't think of any traffic events that threatened to turn me old
and grey before my time, tho' there _have_ been some hair-raisers.
Funniest - as a spectator - was on Arlington Blvd (US 50) in
Arlington. Biker was whipping along, beating the traffic, when
some blind idiot opened the driverside door just as the biker was
going past. Biker, bike, door and driver were spread from hell
to breakfast, traffic came to a dead halt, people were screaming
at one another.

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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).

Yeah, I did some serious growing up along the Camino Real in CA -
Monterey, San Luis Obispo, San Diego. Got the Fra Junipero Serra
story every school year from 1st-7th grades, at least. Here 'bouts,
however, the Camino Real ran from Mexico City, through Torrejon,
Chihuahua City, El Paso del Rio Bravo del Norte, to Albuquerque
and Santa Fe. Santa Fe at the time was the capital of the
Spanish and, later, Mexican territories north of the Rio Bravo.

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.

Actually, no. The original El Paso was renamed Ciudad Juarez in
commemoration of Benito Juarez back in the 1880s or so - I'm not
firm on the date - and the folks in what was then Franklin decided
they'd appropriate the name El Paso for their growing town.

Swelterin' Ol' Bob

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Robert G. Melson | Rio Grande MicroSolutions | El Paso, Texas
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