Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Georgia governor's rain dance fails
Howdy Vorts, Working in the water industry a lifetime, assurance can be given the drouth in Georgia can lead to a nightmare scenario that would make the Katrina episode pale into insignificance. Either the area receives sufficent rain to refill the raw water supply reservoirs and lakes or the experience will demonstrate the difference between no energy and no water. A commode requires water. Richard
Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Georgia governor's rain dance fails
On 11/13/07, Stephen A. Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OrionWorks wrote: Jed sez: Georgia is suffering from the worst drought in recorded history. Gov. Sonny Perdue of Georgia along with various religious and political leaders prayed for rain this afternoon at the state capital. A small number of atheists and people who oppose mixing church and state protested. Rain was predicted today, and it was cloudy earlier, but the weather is beautiful clear, despite the governor's best efforts. For once this season I am happy to see clear skies. Except that I fear people will blame the atheists! - Jed Last night my PC started acting up in an ominous way - taking forever to reboot. I Dunno... Might be a prelude to a major hard drive crash. Or gremlins. Tonight I may sacrifice a chicken and sprinkle the blood over the tower. Poor chicken! If you've got personal data you care about on the machine, you might also consider getting a USB drive and copying it off, just in case. They are astonishingly easy to set up (remove from box, remove cable from the little plastic bag it comes in, figure out which end fits in the socket, turn drive on, *done*). May not help much with rebuilding the system if it smokes the internal HD, but if you've got all your personal stuff backed up, at least all you'll lose will be time (and money, of course). I've got a rather nice tape drive here, courtesy of the company I work for, and I never use it any more. I do all my backups to a couple of USB disks. They were no more expensive than a few more blank tapes would have been. Fortunately the mystery was resolved last night. One of my external USB2 hard drives had been left on, sort of as if it had been left in a phantom state. Apparently Microsoft's XP O/S can get a little confused during the shutdown and start-up process when external devices are left on. Damn inconvenient! Appears to cause my system to temporarily hang, sometimes for several agonizing minutes, while it thinks about what to do next. No animals were harmed during the investigative process. However last night's meal... M... you gonna eat that drumstick? PS: Getting back to Jed's original comment. I think we had rain over the weekend in Madison, Wisconsin. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com
Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Georgia governor's rain dance fails
PS: Getting back to Jed's original comment. I think we had rain over the weekend in Madison, Wisconsin. We had over 6 inches of snow here in Palmer, Alaska. Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Georgia governor's rain dance fails
Jed Rothwell wrote: Rain was predicted today, and it was cloudy earlier, but the weather is beautiful clear, despite the governor's best efforts. For once this season I am happy to see clear skies. Except that I fear people will blame the atheists! Hi Jed, I was just thinking about you. I'm watching a show on the court case involving Intelligent Design. It never ceases to amaze me how two intelligent people can view the same phenomena and accept two totally different paradigms BTW, I heard that it rained in Georgia. --- http://USFamily.Net/dialup.html - $8.25/mo! -- http://www.usfamily.net/dsl.html - $19.99/mo! ---
Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Georgia governor's rain dance fails
Jed sez: Georgia is suffering from the worst drought in recorded history. Gov. Sonny Perdue of Georgia along with various religious and political leaders prayed for rain this afternoon at the state capital. A small number of atheists and people who oppose mixing church and state protested. Rain was predicted today, and it was cloudy earlier, but the weather is beautiful clear, despite the governor's best efforts. For once this season I am happy to see clear skies. Except that I fear people will blame the atheists! - Jed Last night my PC started acting up in an ominous way - taking forever to reboot. I Dunno... Might be a prelude to a major hard drive crash. Or gremlins. Tonight I may sacrifice a chicken and sprinkle the blood over the tower. Hey! If it works! Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.colm
Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Georgia governor's rain dance fails
OrionWorks wrote: Jed sez: Georgia is suffering from the worst drought in recorded history. Gov. Sonny Perdue of Georgia along with various religious and political leaders prayed for rain this afternoon at the state capital. A small number of atheists and people who oppose mixing church and state protested. Rain was predicted today, and it was cloudy earlier, but the weather is beautiful clear, despite the governor's best efforts. For once this season I am happy to see clear skies. Except that I fear people will blame the atheists! - Jed Last night my PC started acting up in an ominous way - taking forever to reboot. I Dunno... Might be a prelude to a major hard drive crash. Or gremlins. Tonight I may sacrifice a chicken and sprinkle the blood over the tower. Poor chicken! If you've got personal data you care about on the machine, you might also consider getting a USB drive and copying it off, just in case. They are astonishingly easy to set up (remove from box, remove cable from the little plastic bag it comes in, figure out which end fits in the socket, turn drive on, *done*). May not help much with rebuilding the system if it smokes the internal HD, but if you've got all your personal stuff backed up, at least all you'll lose will be time (and money, of course). I've got a rather nice tape drive here, courtesy of the company I work for, and I never use it any more. I do all my backups to a couple of USB disks. They were no more expensive than a few more blank tapes would have been. Hey! If it works! Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.colm
