Re: Nerds for Kerry

From: Spehro Pefhany (speffSNIP_at_interlogDOTyou.knowwhat)
Date: 11/04/04 

Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 20:00:58 -0500

On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 15:38:18 -0800, the renowned John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote:

>On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 14:17:25 -0500, Spehro Pefhany
><speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote:
>
>>On 2 Nov 2004 09:29:51 -0800, the renowned Winfield Hill
>><whill_a@t_rowland-dotties-harvard-dot.s-edu> wrote:
>>
>>> The Slashdot programmer's website has a lopsided vote for
>>> Kerry, 27584 to Bush, 11353. It's amazing how engineers
>>> are so much more conservative than computer programmers.
>>> http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1202&aid=-1
>>
>>
>>Slashdot is populated by young folks. Usenet is the territory of old
>>farts, many of them embittered.
>>
>>
>>Best regards,
>>Spehro Pefhany
>
>
>Spehro,
>
>Want a few?
>
>http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=6704292
>
>John

Already got some nice native Southern Californians and Pennsylvanians
on the street, who say they're staying. Any more would be a ghetto ;-)
but there are lots of other streets. Sure, the more the merrier.
Engineers (with real degrees) don't have any real trouble (other than
the usual issues with moving) moving either way across the Canada-USA
border for a few years (extendable and convertible to permanent).
Ordinary Joes are not so fortunate.

During the Vietnam war, apparently, there was a street (Baldwin St.)
near the University of Toronto campus that was pretty much overrun by
US draft dodgers running little shops and restaurants. Very
industrious folks, even the hippies.

But I don't expect many will come anytime soon, barring disaster.

Different folks came in the 1850s:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/j1a.html

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany 

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