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Grex > Agora56 > #34: Bruce's NOLA experience (fall agora item 99) | |
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tod
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response 4 of 119:
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Jan 6 22:08 UTC 2006 |
Wilford Brimley as the company security officer shows Bruce 8x10's of him with
that woman they set him up with at the TA truckstop just like in The Firm.
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gull
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response 5 of 119:
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Jan 7 03:58 UTC 2006 |
Re resp:3: I was surprised, when the big blackout hit the East, to read
that the power grid isn't as interconnected as I'd thought. I'd assumed
that pretty much the entire North American continent was interconnected.
It turns out that the western half of the U.S. isn't tied to the
Eastern half, and that Texas is an island unto itself.
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slynne
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response 6 of 119:
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Jan 7 06:14 UTC 2006 |
Well, I dont see Bruce becoming some sort of Norma Rae, thats for sure!
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tsty
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response 7 of 119:
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Jan 7 09:07 UTC 2006 |
bru is missing .... wenton acruise ship?
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richard
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response 8 of 119:
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Jan 7 16:39 UTC 2006 |
maybe Bruce has been changed by hanging out with all the good people
down in the bayou. Maybe he has become a sensitive, caring liberal
and has decided to throw his gun away and dedicate his life to social
causes :)
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other
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response 9 of 119:
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Jan 8 17:10 UTC 2006 |
re 5: Texas...it's like a whole other country.
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tod
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response 10 of 119:
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Jan 8 21:00 UTC 2006 |
Maybe Bruce latched onto some Cajun strange and is sitting in a gin house in
coveralls watching cockfights?
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bru
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response 11 of 119:
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Jan 12 23:05 UTC 2006 |
i have not changed, just have trouble getting access to the web.
all is strange down here. the hospital we are associated with just
ordered shotguns for security staff, andit is known that they acte to
back up the nat. guard on several occassions.
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bru
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response 12 of 119:
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Jan 12 23:23 UTC 2006 |
also, this site is currently unarmed, fema, but the hospital would
prefer we were armed. not a problem right now, but might be come
summer. i should be back for at least a wek feb. third.
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tod
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response 13 of 119:
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Jan 12 23:41 UTC 2006 |
Tell your FEMA folks to keep an eye on the amount of RAM on their desktops.
1 out of 2 sticks of RAM have been coming up missing around the various
agencies. (Check Properties on "My Computer)
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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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