[TAG] I'm back... mostly. :)

[Mike Orr]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 11:30:20AM -0400, Ben Okopnik wrote:
> Hey, folks -
> 
> I'm back on the net, back in the world, back with my laptop. Things look
> good... whups, maybe it's too early to say that yet.
> 
> http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ftp/graphics/AT09/refresh/AL0904W5+GIF/

That's where I'm working now, heh heh.  NOAA is a big place, but my
department gets called out to clean up offshore oil spills and chemical
spills like the Exxon Valdez.  So they go to Florida a lot.  I'm just a
lowly web application developer so I don't go anywhere.  Confusingly,
the department is called ORR just like my last name.  (ORR = Office of
Response and Restoration, http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/ ).  I'm
not working on that site directly, but I'm working on some database
projects that may be on the web someday.

> Hurricane Ivan is on the way (I've always _said_ them damn Russians are
> trouble...) 

Show me a pair of dark sunglasses, and I'll show you a member of the 
Russian mafia.  Extortion: what apparatchiks do under Capitalism. 
Oh wait, they did the same thing under Communism too.

> This is THE year for weird hurricanes. 

I heard on the radio this morning there's a third one in the Bahamas.

> Soft mud plus a steel
> boat - shouldn't be too much trouble, but - again - I'm reserving
> judgement until I get there. Note that both of these places are known
> for _not_ getting hit: St. Augustine, in particular, has had a total of
> four hurricanes pass over it since 1906.

Do you want me to ask the Weather Service to redirect the storm so it
hits St Augustine and the "Ulysses" but nothing else? 

-- 
-Mike Orr (aka. Sluggo), mso at oz.net  (iron at sense-sea-MegaSub-1-465.oz.net)
   http://sluggo.kicks-ass.org/                  Cxu vi parolas Esperante?