Out here we say, "The Other Washington". But I was told, by some
grade school teacher back in the Dark Ages, that our capitol was named
The District of Columbia so the naming of the state of Washington
would not be an issue.
If I'd been around back then I'd have voted for the name, "Pacifica",
but then I'd not be writing this note today. I can't recall why the
entire Oregon territory was not made into one single state, but it had
to have involved politics.
When Washington became a territory, a battle by the existing towns
ensued. The fight was over who would grab off one of the plums, the
University, the Capitol and the state Prison. Seattle won the
University, Olympia was given the Capitol and far off Walla Walla
became the location of the state's Prison.
The one that was the most controversial was the placement of the
Capitol. Olympia was in the center of Western Washington, but a very
long distance from the larger Eastern portion. As the west side
industrialized and the population exploded, the eastern side began
feeling estranged. The Cascade mountains not only divided the
climate, but also the political climate. Until the Eisenhower years,
the highways wound around the hills and went directly through the
towns, making travel slow and often treacherous. Today the roads go
through the hills and around the towns. When I was a boy, we'd load
up the old Hudson and head off from Seattle around 9:00 in the
morning, arriving some 310 miles later in Spokane at about 5 or 6 PM.
Highway speeds were 50 MPH except in the many towns, where speeds were
reduced to 25 MPH. Truck speeds were set at 45 MPH, but there were
far fewer semi's on the roads, back then, and the drivers were far
more considerate, being dubbed "The Knight's of the Highways", a name
that would not fit many of the road weary drivers of today.
I see I'm getting carried away again, so I'll quit for now.
Carl Jarvis
On 10/14/19, Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I just went to her web site to see if I could find a station in your
state that broadcasts her, but apparently the word Washington was
interpreted to mean DC rather than state. I didn't stay around long
enough to figure out another way to word my search. Anyway Kim Komando
is a female and she touts herself as your computer guru. I don't know if
I would want her to be my guru of any kind, but she has a reputation for
being pretty reliable. If you want to look for a station in your area or
if you want to learn anything else about her here is a link to her web
site: https://www.komando.com/
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Albert Einstein
???Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.???
??? Albert Einstein
On 10/14/2019 5:30 PM, Carl Jarvis wrote:
Well Roger, I certainly did misread what you wrote. Still, it gave me
an opportunity to go off on old Rush. As far as Kim Komando goes, I
never heard of her/him. Lots of East Coast stuff never reaches out
West. Or maybe the topic didn't catch my fancy.
Kim is one of a growing pile of names that are sexless. Like Pat,
Jamie, Bobby, and Bo diddly.
Carl Jarvis
On 10/14/19, Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
You didn't read my email closely. I did not learn that tidbit from Rush
Limbaugh. It was Saturday and Rush Limbaugh does not broadcast on
Saturdays. It was the Kim Komando show that broadcasts in the same time
slot on Saturdays. If you are unfamiliar with Kim Komando she is the
computer expert who runs a radio show that discusses computers and
related technologies. I only listen while preparing and eating lunch, so
I didn't catch all of the context in which she was discussing
octothorps. I only know that she had a multiple choice quiz for her
listeners and the correct choice for the official name of that number
sign/pound sign/hash tag is the octothorp.
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Albert Einstein
???Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.???
??? Albert Einstein
On 10/14/2019 10:46 AM, Carl Jarvis wrote:
The Octothorp, huh? After listening, off and on, to Rush Limbaugh
for over 25 years, that is the first bit of "information" I ever
learned from his program. I finally had to stop listening to old
Rush, because even though I knew what he was going to say, my blood
would boil. If I want to torture myself, I can think of far more
pleasant ways than listening to that slobbering, snarky, sneering hate
monger. But that's just my gentle opinion of such a vile leech.
Carl Jarvis: whose mother said, "if you can't say anything nice about
a person, it's best that you say nothing at all". But Mother, Rush is
a non human person.
On 10/13/19, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I thought I would mention something that I learned yesterday. I
mentioned before that all of my life when I learn something new I get
excited and can't wait until I can pass it on to someone else. In this
case I was frustrated because I had no one to pass it on to until I
thought of this list and it struck me as the perfect place to pass it
on. If any of you already knew this let me know. At noon every day I
flip on the radio and listen to it while I prepare and have lunch.
That
usually means that I catch the first segment of Rush Limbaugh most
every
day, but yesterday it was Saturday and so I found myself listening to
Kim Komando. She was doing a little quiz to test the knowledge of her
listeners. She mentioned that little symbol that is variously called a
pound sign, a hash tag or a few other names. She said that it had a
technical name that was not any of those names that people usually
call
it by and she gave a multiple choice of several possible answers. It
turned out that its technical name is the octothorp. This list started
out on the Octothorp web site and I had no idea what it meant. I kind
of
thought that it might be just some made up nonsense syllables that was
applied to the web site. Now I found out that it is the number sign,
the
pound sign, the hash tag.
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Albert Einstein
???Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.???
??? Albert Einstein
