Subj : Re: Computer Failure Haik
To   : George Pope
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Tue Feb 02 2021 06:26:00

George,

 GP> Is this the same Daruyl Stout who, IOIRC, was sysop of a Florida BBS in
 GP> Jax?

  Nope...I originally am from the Miami, Florida area, but my late father's
job transferred the family to Arkansas in mid-1977, and I've been here since
then. I didn't start calling other BBS's until 1985, and didn't start my own
until 1990.

 GP> BTW, you're still getting more snow than I do here in Canada (HI had
 GP> more snow than me this winter, too!)

  Much of Arkansas...especially central Arkansas...has been in a snow
drought for awhile (at least 1111 days). However, that may change early
next week. Much colder air is forecast by Saturday, lasting into next
week. However, forecasting winter weather in Arkansas is a nightmare.
You have the Ozarks and Ouachita Mountains in northern and western
Arkansas, respectively...and that can dam up/bottle up the cold air
from getting further into the state. The vertical temperature profile,
from the ground through the midlevels to the clouds, makes all the
difference in the world, as follows.

1) If the temperature is below freezing through the entire vertical
column...the precipitation type is snow.

2) If the temperature is below freezing aloft, with a shallow layer of
warm air at the mid-levels, but below freezing toward the ground, the
precipitation type is sleet (technically, ice pellets). 

3) If the temperature is below freezing aloft, with a deep layer of
warm air at the mid-levels, but below freezing toward the ground, the
precipitation type is freezing rain (an ice storm, with widespread
and devasting, long term power outages and icy roads).

4) If the temperature is above freezing through the entire vertial
column...the precipitation type is rain.

  And, that's meteorology 101 for today. <G> I'm not a meteorologist,
but I'm an amateur weather enthusiast. I know enough to be dangerous...
and "I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night". <BG>

 GP> Things That Are Difficult to Say When You're Drunk:

 GP> Indubitably; Innovative; Preliminary; Proliferation; Cinnamon.

  Spit it out. :P

 GP> Things That Are VERY Difficult to Say When You're Drunk:

 GP> Specificity; Cogito ergo sum; British; Constitution; Passive-aggressive
 GP> disorder; Loquacious; Transubstantiate.

  You'll spit your teeth out on these. :P

 GP> Things That Are Downright IMPOSSIBLE to Say When You're Drunk:

 GP> Thanks, but I don't want to have sex; Nope, no more booze for me;
 GP> Sorry, but you're not really my type; Good evening, officer, isn't it
 GP> lovely out tonight? Oh, I just couldn't-- no one wants to hear me sing!

  Honest, Ocifer, I'm serfectly pober...not as think as you drunk I am, not 
under the alcfluence of incohol...and can straight a walk line. <G>

 GP> My DOS/Dialup computer is not hooked up, so I'm going through a local
 GP> web- accessible BBS. . .

  Whatever works. :)

  The charges now for dial-up analog lines (even if it's a "no frills 
line" are ridiculous. In many cases, over $75 a month...yet, a MagicJack 
VoIP line can be under $50 a year. The phone company can't touch that.

Daryl

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