Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 00:21:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: mavery@mail.otherwhen.com Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to start to be a hacker? Message-ID: <199907140021.RAA19095@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199907061327.IAA11296@hostigos.otherwhen.com> from "Mike Avery" at Jul 6, 99 08:25:29 am
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> An exchange student was working for my wife in a library on the > east coast, and said she was going to visit her friends in Washington > over a 3-day weekend. She was going to take the train. My wife > was familiar with Washington DC, so she suggested a few resturants, > and was told, "No, not Washington DC, my friends are in Washington > state!" > > If there was an excellent train service, she'd have had just enough > time to make it to Washington state, get a cup of coffee, get back > on the train, and drink the coffee on the way back. But train service > gets worse and worse the farther you get from the east coast. > Sadly, the student couldn't afford a plane ticket, so the visit with > friends was considerably delayed. FWIW, in the same way that vistors can get a Europass to travel Europe by train, visitors to the US can get a pass that will allow them to ride standby at no additional cost on aircraft in the US. This option is generally very cheap; cheaper than the train fare. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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