[OFB Cafe] Tech Buzz: Who Deserves the Tech Vote?

[Fred A. Miller]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> On August 26, 2008 17:50:53 Fred A. Miller wrote:
>> Fred Smith wrote:
>>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Timothy Butler <tbutler at ofb.biz> wrote:
>>>> On Aug 26, 2008, at 10:34 AM, Fred Smith wrote:
>>>>> You have to be pretty desperate to live in a shithole like the
>>>>> Midwest.
>>>>        Do elaborate on that eloquent statement about my region, Fred.
>>> There's a reason that home prices and cost of living are so low, and
>>> yet relatively no one lives there.  It's not because people are just
>>> not aware of the wonderful culture of the midwest, or the great jobs
>>> or the wonderful things to do there, it's that none of those things
>>> exist.
>> That is not only wrong, it's ignorant.
> 
> No, it's a normal reaction for a 'coaster.  I feel much the same way (even 
> though I know they _do_ have culture, if not jobs - home of the St. Louis 
> blues! [not the hockey team]).  My people are from the prairies, and I've had 
> great times there, but I couldn't _live_ there.  When you've lived by the 
> ocean, you can't be happy anywhere else.

That's not true either. I did live by the Pacific years ago, but don't
now. I'll
take my country with hardwood forests anytime.

> Tolkien wrote something in the /Lord of the Rings/ that I'm too lazy to look 
> up, about Elves, having heard the cry of the gulls, being unable to rest 
> again in their inland forests.  I've always thought he was tapping into 
> something very primal.  Of course he did that before 100+ acre uncovered 
> land-fills, that have brought gulls into every part of North America, and 
> probably England.  In my English childhood, I don't ever remember gulls until 
> I lived on the coast.

I do. Gulls don't have any natural predators except for the occasional
shark. With
plenty to eat, they simply have over populated.

Fred

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