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

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.admin, in article
<-omdnVPuWewRBhvVnZ2dnUVZ_jKdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Robert Melson wrote:

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.

That happens to often. Drivers get bitchy if bikes are not in the
curbside of the curbside lane, while people open doors without
noticing anything. Saw one 2-3 years ago where front AND back seat
decided to open the doors at the same time, and neither noticed the
city bus coming. I'm surprised they weren't thrown under the bus
when it hit both doors. Luck, I suppose. Heard of another a few
weeks ago in Sydney where a gal on a recumbent bike got doored by
someone. She had ankle damage, but the driver came off worse because
the door got knocked loose, and then he discovered how expensive a
recumbent bike can be to repair (the local bike dealer has been
trying to convince me to buy one - for only $1900 - plus tax of
course - no, I'm not that much of a bike freak.)

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.

My wife is native Californian - born in Santa Barbara, and later lived
in San Francisco. She got it too, and gave it to me on a regular basis.

Ever see the statue in the rest area on I-280 just North of CA-92 in
Hillsbourough? It's fairly close to the spot were they discovered the
bay. The statue portrays him down on one knee with the arm
out-stretched and pointing - you know "Look at that!!!" Only thing
wrong is that it's facing the wrong direction (West rather than East)
and the thing he's pointing at is Lower Crystal Springs Reservoir - the
location of the San Andreas fault. Usually good for a laugh when you
are driving tourist relatives around showing them the sights.

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.

In a way, that does surprise me. About when was Franklin formed and
named?

Old guy
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