On Tue, 03 May 2005 03:04:01 +0000 (GMT), Stan Goodman
<SPAM_FOILER@hashkedim.com> wrote:
> I'm sure that is intended to be an attractive description. For me, any mention
> of upstate New York makes me shiver uncontrollably. My first year in Troy, at
> RPI, temperatures went down to -40F, and the aggregate snowfall was 100inches.
> And me a Southern boy. You didn't see the ground from early October to late
> April, at which time you were surprised not to see your breath, so you thought
> you were dead. Once, driving to a lacrosse game in Syracuse, I ran into a
> snowstorm, IN JUNE!!
>
> For anybody taken in by talk about the beauties of Upstate NY, they don't have
> any summer at all, only two weeks of bad skiing.
As a fellow alum of RPI, I'd have to agree about pretty cold winter weather.
The summer can be hot and humid, though. I learned to love the cold there, and
in Boston. When I moved to the California coast, I thought I'd really miss the
cold weather.
I don't.
I spoke to an RPI student a few weeks ago, and the students now use only
Windows. The school issues a brand new Thinkpad with XP pro to every entering
freshman. Other platforms are all but banned. As far as I'm concerned, 'Tute
sucks.
Neil
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Neil Waldhauer, neil@blondeguy.com
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