Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Don_from_AZ Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: OT - TV Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2026 10:32:45 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 35 Message-ID: <87wlrp5uma.fsf@comcast.net.invalid> References: <118cshs$2v7m0$1@dont-email.me> <119tba1$3quvc$1@dont-email.me> <11a38uf$24fks$1@dont-email.me> <11a4u79$2lnse$1@dont-email.me> <11a55g7$2nipf$4@dont-email.me> <11a5at8$2nipf$18@dont-email.me> <11a80sh$3pnm3$4@dont-email.me> <11a90dj$7ae1$1@dont-email.me> <11a9169$73vs$8@dont-email.me> <871p9y6ykk.fsf@comcast.net.invalid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:32:46 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; logging-data="2029928"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19VhZOHrJP18J/qFU62WQUkWf/3P1cZs7s="; posting-host="951a4819ba4cd4bfb5553ba367caa462" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:p7iw2fHracUi01xmEFkGIti7QGA= sha1:Ly1i1OXku/ssvmJiYYZKL65rK5I= sha256:UfDfIW6PoU9glFR+jVPqad8v0w3+xCcNwHtMD2sygNc= sha1:3+KUItmLw6DUO4W6K36pFfEWdD0= sha256:SVyLcSW3egS7tI1d/hJ+CB1g5muqrwuHCCw63eZTk9A= Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:93310 rbowman writes: > On Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:09:47 -0700, Don_from_AZ wrote: > >> When I was at RPI from 1964-1968, I avoided the Approach pretty much all >> the time, due to its condition, but especially in the winter. I lived in >> an apartment along River St, but to supplement my scholarship I worked >> breakfast in the Freshman dining hall on the north side of campus. I >> usually went up Fulton St and climbed the hill by West Hall to get up to >> the main part of campus. I remember one winter where I would see the >> time/temperature display on one of the bank buildings downtown reading >> -25 F or so every morning for at least a week. Ah, Good Times! > > I'd visited Clarkson in the winter. We didn't see pavement past Lake > George. I noted the freshmen dorms were about a mile from the campus and a > dog sled would come in handy. Hard pass. > > Troy wasn't much better. At least they put down the wooden gratings on the > steps so it wasn't pure ice covered granite. > > January of '68 was one of those -25 spells. My father's car wouldn't start > but he got into the city on a bus. Most of the buses weren't running so he > walked across the Green Island bridge to get to work. He and his boss went > to another warehouse to clear the snow around a loading dock. My father > died in his boss's car on the way back. Most of my relative died in the > winter almost like they were thinking 'I can't do this again.' > > I'm all for global warming. The winters in Troy, and later on in Rome NY at Griffiss AFB, are a large part of the reason I have lived in Arizona for the last 46 years. But it seems that the days of 100+ F temperatures are extending further and further into September and early October, so I am *not* a fan of global warming. -- -Don_from_AZ-