[TAG] [lgang] 'Cane in the offing

[Mike Orr]

On 8/28/06, Benjamin A. Okopnik <ben at linuxgazette.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 01:33:19PM -0700, Mike Orr wrote:
> >
> > We're working on a turbo'cane accellerator that'll make then hit
> > within five minutes of the prediction rather than a week.  But it
> > doesn't work quite yet.  Hurricanes are just so frustratingly *slow*
> > in their movements.  You can prod them but you can't make them run.
>
> What, 10-15kt? Dude, that's *plenty* fast enough for me. Besides, if
> they moved slower, they'd run out of energy - and you wouldn't have a
> job. So stop bitching. :)

Actually, I don't have anything to do with 'canes.  If you want to run
me out of a job, get the US to stop depending oil.  Then 80% of the
tanker collisions would be eliminated, and nobody would have to clean
them up.

> > >* Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette *
> >
> > My, my, Editor *in Chief*.  Hope that hasn't swelled your head too badly.
>
> [blink] You _just_ noticed? Boy, you're *slow*. According to my mail
> archives, I started using it in May 2004.
>
> *YOU*, however, started using it for yourself on 29 Oct 2003 - so you've
> got _very_ little room to talk. Or have you deflated your own head yet?

My head was never inflated.

-- 
Mike Orr <sluggoster at gmail.com>