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Grex > Agora56 > #34: Bruce's NOLA experience (fall agora item 99) | |
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cross
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response 14 of 119:
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Jan 13 00:18 UTC 2006 |
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mcnally
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response 15 of 119:
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Jan 13 01:32 UTC 2006 |
One of the things that might not be obvious is that armed security has
long been a big business in New Orleans. I'm sure things have expanded
considerably since Katrina hit but I visited ~5 years ago and there were
armed guards all over the place, including places that would seem simply
bizarre in Michigan such as highway rest stops and softball fields in
city parks.
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cross
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response 16 of 119:
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Jan 13 04:23 UTC 2006 |
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tod
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response 17 of 119:
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Jan 13 04:59 UTC 2006 |
Those weren't security..they were den mothers!
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cross
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response 18 of 119:
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Jan 13 05:13 UTC 2006 |
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other
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response 19 of 119:
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Jan 13 06:03 UTC 2006 |
Actually, those guys are all just armed so they can deal expeditiously
with the exploding population of nutria.
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gull
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response 20 of 119:
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Jan 14 02:38 UTC 2006 |
Re resp:13: That's an old office scam. Used to be people would swipe
RAM from their coworkers' computers to make their own workstations go
faster.
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marcvh
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response 21 of 119:
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Jan 14 02:43 UTC 2006 |
I knew a guy who worked in support for a software company. He'd swipe
RAM from office computers after hours. Then, when customers called in
for support, he would tell them that the problem was insufficient memory
and offer to sell them some.
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slynne
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response 22 of 119:
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Jan 14 03:12 UTC 2006 |
We had someone in our department a few years ago who was stealing RAM.
They never caught him but fired him for something else. Then no more RAM
went missing.
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tsty
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response 23 of 119:
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Jan 14 06:13 UTC 2006 |
ram-bam-thankya slam!
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bru
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response 24 of 119:
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Jan 15 02:02 UTC 2006 |
Today I have access to a real computer. They transfered me for a
couple of days to a hotel down by the french quarter. real shortage of
women down here according to the ladies working the desk, and it is
carnival time on a saturday night. fun, fun, fun.
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bhoward
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response 25 of 119:
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Jan 15 03:14 UTC 2006 |
I used to stay at a place on the ground level of an old merchants
mansion on Prytania Street during the Jazz & Heritage festival every
year, maybe a 10-12 minute walk from the quarter.
It was quite cheap because the owner was trying to restore the whole
building and had only finished off the rooms in the part of the
building where we were staying.
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tod
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response 26 of 119:
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Jan 15 05:41 UTC 2006 |
re #24
Shortage of women for what?
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bru
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response 27 of 119:
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Jan 15 05:52 UTC 2006 |
the touro hospital is on prytania. a lot of very nice houses on
prytania.
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cross
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response 28 of 119:
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Jan 15 05:59 UTC 2006 |
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tod
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response 29 of 119:
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Jan 15 06:01 UTC 2006 |
How juvenile
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cross
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response 30 of 119:
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Jan 15 17:48 UTC 2006 |
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tsty
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response 31 of 119:
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Jan 15 21:23 UTC 2006 |
bru - guess that puts yo on the othe side of hte mississippi now. but
event he french quarter is high/dry ground, in'nit?
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bru
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response 32 of 119:
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Jan 16 05:17 UTC 2006 |
most of the french quarter, and most of the garden district were free
of water, but the areas around them had some damage.
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mcnally
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response 33 of 119:
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Jan 16 06:44 UTC 2006 |
Do you mean damage from the flood? Because the areas around the edges of
the French Quarter and Garden District were pretty hard-hit looking when
I was last in New Orleans and that was several years *before* Katrina..
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It sounds like the neighborhood Cathy lived in ("Uptown", off of Carrollton,
kind of near Tulane) was spared from the flooding, which I was glad to hear,
as that neighborhood was friendly and the people around her looked after
each other. It would be sad to think that it was destroyed and the people
scattered, though I'm sure that's the case in many parts of the city.
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klg
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response 34 of 119:
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Jan 16 11:39 UTC 2006 |
(Bru's experience has improved his spelling.)
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aruba
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response 35 of 119:
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Jan 16 18:01 UTC 2006 |
Re #33: I believe Tulane itself was flooded.
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mcnally
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response 36 of 119:
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Jan 16 19:06 UTC 2006 |
re #35: Big parts of it, from what I understand. Apparently they're
not even going to re-open their engineering school, having decided to
concentrate their limited resources on other academic programs.
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albaugh
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response 37 of 119:
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Jan 16 19:30 UTC 2006 |
> One of the things that might not be obvious is that armed security has
> long been a big business in New Orleans.
If you go overseas (e.g. Asia e.g. Philippines) you will see armed guards all
over the place, including drug stores, grocery stores, you name it.
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mcnally
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response 38 of 119:
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Jan 16 19:33 UTC 2006 |
Yes, and no doubt for good reason in many places. It's still a bit
jarring (to me, anyway) to see it in the USA.
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