[Rhodes22-list] Happy New Year & Other Stuff

[john Belanger]

all's fair in love and war. both sides are fighting for their survival. rats in a corner? i, too, would rather dance.

Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:  Mike,

Year of the Rat should make for some interesting costumes. The local
Chinese Association puts on a good show and they keep getting better.
Hopefully, this year there will be fewer accomplished 12 year old pianists
and violinists and more dance troupes.

Three cables in three days is a bit much for coincidence. Most of the loss
of bandwidth was between Europe and the Middle East and India. It will be
interesting to see who was responsible. It has been a busy week in Iraq.
Michael Yon is back in country and reports that IQI is on the run in Mosul
but he thinks they'll escape. We'll see. IQI is now using women with
Down's Syndrome and blowing them up with remote control. Really nice
people. The MSM is sticking to their formula, "if it bleeds it leads".

Time to get dressed.

Brad



On Feb 2, 2008 11:28 AM, Michael D. Weisner wrote:

> Brad,
>
> The best part of the Internet failure due to cable damage is that the spam
> levels diminish until the cable is repaired, especially if it affects
> Asia.
> It can't be too bad since I am still receiving a fair amount of spam as of
> this morning. Oh, well Happy New Year 4706 (see: www.happyratyear.com)
>
> Mike
> s/v Shanghaid'd Summer ('81)
> Nissequogue River, NY
>
> From: "Brad Haslett" Saturday, February 02, 2008 10:05
> AM
> > Happy New Year! I'm going to celebrate a bit at the hangar this morning
> > and
> > then go to the Chinese festival at the U of M later in the day. Fan
> > called
> > her parents this morning (Saturday morning ritual) to see how they were
> > coping with global warming (China has had the worst winter weather in
> six
> > decades the last week and the worst civil unrest since Tiananmen
> square).
> > The cost of a call to Beijing? One point eight cents per minute
> ($.018).
> > Here's why.
> >
> >
> http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Technology/Pix/pictures/2008/02/01/SeaCableHi.jpg
> >
> > In other news, three, count'em, three undersea cables have been cut in
> the
> > Middle East this week. The first one the cable company (Indian) said a
> > ship
> > dropped an anchor on the cable. The second one, uh, they dunno. The
> > third
> > one? They quit talking. Much of the Middle East is operating on
> limited
> > bandwidth and most of Iran is in Ethernet darkness.
> >
> > Those silly spooks at the CIA, they'll do anything for a good laugh.
> >
> > Brad
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