Celebrating the creator of Cobol

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6168489.stm

On 14 Dec 2006 09:40:26 -0800, "andrewmcdonagh"
<andrewmcdonagh@gmail.com> wrote:

>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6168489.stm

How many of us got one of her nanoseconds?

I never got one of _those_ nanoseconds, BUT - I did get about 30 clock
seconds alone with her...

I think it was about 1985, and I was living in a big apartment house,
in Pentagon City, which is about halfway between the Pentagon and
Crystal City, in what is probably formally known (as an incorporated
city) as Arlington, VA.

I got on the elevator to ride down, and there she was. I must have
stared at her on the elevator ride down, not quite believing my
experience, though I had heard she lived in that building. She didn't
look at me, but she did stand even a bit more ramrod straight, and even
puffed out her chest some more.

Nothing was said. Nothing needed to be.

I still remember it.

Ken

Howard Brazee wrote:
> On 14 Dec 2006 09:40:26 -0800, "andrewmcdonagh"
> <andrewmcdonagh@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>
> How many of us got one of her nanoseconds?

"andrewmcdonagh" (andrewmcdonagh@gmail.com) writes:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6168489.stm

Global warming is already costing Canadians billions every year and will be
up to a large fraction of the GDP, world wide, during our children's life
times. Mountain Pine beetles killing every pine tree in BC is just part of
the loss which is already happening. Malaria is going upslope in the Andes
as mosquitos are able to survive farther up the mountains than in the past.

Swiss banks no longer loan money to ski resorts below 1500 meters.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6176271.stm

The Victoria snow fall one ncf.general warming denier was so worked up about
http://www.crd.bc.ca/water/watersup.../1129/2_thm.jpg
was nearly gone a w later
http://www.crd.bc.ca/water/watersup.../1208/2_thm.jpg
and totaly gone from lower elevations by last w
http://www.crd.bc.ca/water/watersup.../1214/2_thm.jpg

The reservoir had filled and started to spill over the dam by Dec 15
http://www.crd.bc.ca/water/watersup...thm.jp
g
which is a new record.
http://www.crd.bc.ca/water/watersupplyarea/summary.htm

With warmer winters local snow pack accumulations have become a thing of the
past. The precipitation either falls as rain, or melts quickly and runs off.

In 4 months of cycle commuting last summer there was only 1 day of rain. So
much for the "Rain Coast", at least during the summer.

Kelly Bert Manning wrote:

> Global warming is already costing Canadians billions every year and
> will be
> up to a large fraction of the GDP, world wide, during our children's
> life
> times. Mountain Pine beetles killing every pine tree in BC is just
> part of
> the loss which is already happening. Malaria is going upslope in the
> Andes
> as mosquitos are able to survive farther up the mountains than in the
> past.

Uh, the trend over the past decade is a global LOWERING of average
temperatures.

If global warming is in progress, the problems you mention (snow resorts,
etc.) will be more than offset by longer growing seasons.

HeyBub wrote:
> Kelly Bert Manning wrote:
> 
>
> Uh, the trend over the past decade is a global LOWERING of average
> temperatures.
>
> If global warming is in progress, the problems you mention (snow resorts,
> etc.) will be more than offset by longer growing seasons.
>
>
The longest growing season is in the Sahara. It solves little there ...

Donald

Donald Tees wrote: 
> The longest growing season is in the Sahara. It solves little there
> ...

That's because the godless Italians (Romans at the time) chopped down all
the trees.

Look at other places with the same latitude: Saudi Arabia for one.

Besides, I was talking about the growing season in Canada where they grow
things like, er, otters.

HeyBub wrote:
> Donald Tees wrote: 
>
> That's because the godless Italians (Romans at the time) chopped down all
> the trees.

I also live in Canada.  We too have chopped down all the tress. The
forests are just about gone,  in fact, for the whole of North America.
We are in the process of paving it though, so sand should not be a problem.

>
> Look at other places with the same latitude: Saudi Arabia for one.
>
> Besides, I was talking about the growing season in Canada where they grow
> things like, er, otters.

Ah yes, but that takes water.  We are poisoning the water.  Would you
drink untreated water that was just sitting there, out in the open? I
can *remember* when the great lakes were full of drinkable water.  Now
they are full of piss, and the fish are gone.

Donald

"Donald Tees" <donald_tees@donald-tees.ca> wrote in message
news:emeo48$n7i$1@aioe.org...
> HeyBub wrote: 
>
> I also live in Canada.  We too have chopped down all the tress. The
> forests are just about gone,  in fact, for the whole of North America. We
> are in the process of paving it though, so sand should not be a problem.
> 
>

And (a favourite of mine) beaver.... :-)

> Ah yes, but that takes water.  We are poisoning the water.  Would you
> drink untreated water that was just sitting there, out in the open? I can
> *remember* when the great lakes were full of drinkable water.  Now they
> are full of piss, and the fish are gone.
>
> Donald
>

So the fish pissed off?

Where would they go....?

Bass Strait
Cape Cod
Bream lighthouse
Florida (just for the halibut...)
Salt Hake City
DeTrout
Bismarck (only the herrings...)
Sardinea
Guppysburg
Monkgomery
Atmanta
Sharkansas
Washlington

Of course, all the Lesbian fish go on bicycles...

The rest go on skates.

Pete.

Donald Tees wrote:
>
> I also live in Canada.  We too have chopped down all the tress. The
> forests are just about gone,  in fact, for the whole of North America.
> We are in the process of paving it though, so sand should not be a
> problem.

I think you're selling the wood to the U.S. I do know that we have more
trees in the U.S. now that we did when Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
> 
>
> Ah yes, but that takes water.  We are poisoning the water.  Would you
> drink untreated water that was just sitting there, out in the open?

Well, I, for one, don't drink "designer" water, so maybe I'll have to. And
with genetic engineering, we may very well have a waterless otter soon.

> I
> can *remember* when the great lakes were full of drinkable water.  Now
> they are full of piss, and the fish are gone.

Thank goodness. That means the Great Lakes are no longer full of fish piss.