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From:
Blinky the Shark <no.s... @box.invalid>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 17:49:21 -0700
Local: Fri, May 16 2008 8:49 pm
Subject: Thermosats
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"ZBicyclist" <ZBicycl... @excite.com>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 08:03:20 -0500
Local: Sat, May 17 2008 9:03 am
Subject: Re: Thermosats
Is that a refrigerated truck? That would make a lot of sense.
-- Mike Kruger "You have to be careful if you are reckless." - Richard M. Daley
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QueBarbara <que.barbara.l... @gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 09:19:41 -0500
Local: Sat, May 17 2008 10:19 am
Subject: Re: Thermosats
On Sat, 17 May 2008 08:03:20 -0500, "ZBicyclist"
<ZBicycl
... @excite.com> wrote:
>Blinky the Shark wrote:
>> Here's some tech I didn't know about.
>> Big rig reefers temp-monitored by satellite.
>> http://blinkynet.net/stuff/thermosat.jpg
>Is that a refrigerated truck? That would make a lot of sense.
Yes, "reefer" is the commonly used term for refrigerated.
-- QueBarbara
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"Bill Bonde { ''the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attack'')" <tributyltinpa... @yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 16:36:47 +0100
Local: Sat, May 17 2008 11:36 am
Subject: Re: Thermosats
I think it's time for a rewrite of "East of Eden".
-- "Question, two men starving to death decide to eat their hair like
spaghetti. Is that funny?"
"Hmmm, well, it depends on if by funny you want to make people
laugh."
-+Eddie Izzard and Joanna Lumley, "The Cat's Meow"
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"Bill Bonde { ''the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attack'')" <tributyltinpa... @yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 16:41:45 +0100
Local: Sat, May 17 2008 11:41 am
Subject: Re: Thermosats
QueBarbara wrote:
> On Sat, 17 May 2008 08:03:20 -0500, "ZBicyclist" > <ZBicycl... @excite.com> wrote:
> >Blinky the Shark wrote: > >> Here's some tech I didn't know about.
> >> Big rig reefers temp-monitored by satellite.
> >> http://blinkynet.net/stuff/thermosat.jpg
> >Is that a refrigerated truck? That would make a lot of sense.
> Yes, "reefer" is the commonly used term for refrigerated.
Unless they are hauling cargo for the Doobie Brothers concert.
-- "Question, two men starving to death decide to eat their hair like
spaghetti. Is that funny?"
"Hmmm, well, it depends on if by funny you want to make people
laugh."
-+Eddie Izzard and Joanna Lumley, "The Cat's Meow"
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From:
Les Albert <lalbe... @aol.com>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 08:35:57 -0700
Local: Sat, May 17 2008 11:35 am
Subject: Re: Thermosats
On Sat, 17 May 2008 16:36:47 +0100, "Bill Bonde { ''the oblique
allusion in lieu of the frontal attack'')"
<tributyltinpa
... @yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>Blinky the Shark wrote:
>> Here's some tech I didn't know about.
>> Big rig reefers temp-monitored by satellite.
>> http://blinkynet.net/stuff/thermosat.jpg
>I think it's time for a rewrite of "East of Eden".
Everything would have been fine if the train didn't stop for hours in
the hot sun.
Les
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From:
Blinky the Shark <no.s... @box.invalid>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 13:05:30 -0700
Local: Sat, May 17 2008 4:05 pm
Subject: Re: Thermosats
ZBicyclist wrote:
> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>> Here's some tech I didn't know about.
>> Big rig reefers temp-monitored by satellite.
>> http://blinkynet.net/stuff/thermosat.jpg
> Is that a refrigerated truck? That would make a lot of sense.
That was my assumption and the underlying reason for my use of "reefers".
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From:
"ZBicyclist" <ZBicycl... @excite.com>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 15:12:06 -0500
Local: Sat, May 17 2008 4:12 pm
Subject: Re: Thermosats
Blinky the Shark wrote:
> ZBicyclist wrote:
>> Blinky the Shark wrote: >>> Here's some tech I didn't know about.
>>> Big rig reefers temp-monitored by satellite.
>>> http://blinkynet.net/stuff/thermosat.jpg
>> Is that a refrigerated truck? That would make a lot of sense.
> That was my assumption and the underlying reason for my use of > "reefers".
I'd never heard "reefers" used in THAT context before. That's
today's new word for me.
-- Mike Kruger "You have to be careful if you are reckless." - Richard M. Daley
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From:
Blinky the Shark <no.s... @box.invalid>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 13:56:21 -0700
Local: Sat, May 17 2008 4:56 pm
Subject: Re: Thermosats
ZBicyclist wrote:
> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>> ZBicyclist wrote:
>>> Blinky the Shark wrote: >>>> Here's some tech I didn't know about.
>>>> Big rig reefers temp-monitored by satellite.
>>>> http://blinkynet.net/stuff/thermosat.jpg
>>> Is that a refrigerated truck? That would make a lot of sense.
>> That was my assumption and the underlying reason for my use of >> "reefers".
> I'd never heard "reefers" used in THAT context before. That's > today's new word for me.
Enjoy. :)
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From:
Greg Goss <go... @gossg.org>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 14:56:06 -0600
Local: Sat, May 17 2008 4:56 pm
Subject: Re: Thermosats
"ZBicyclist" <ZBicycl
... @excite.com> wrote:
>Blinky the Shark wrote:
>> ZBicyclist wrote:
>>> Blinky the Shark wrote: >>>> Here's some tech I didn't know about.
>>>> Big rig reefers temp-monitored by satellite.
>>>> http://blinkynet.net/stuff/thermosat.jpg
>>> Is that a refrigerated truck? That would make a lot of sense.
>> That was my assumption and the underlying reason for my use of >> "reefers".
>I'd never heard "reefers" used in THAT context before. That's >today's new word for me.
Back in the seventies, everyone in Rez had calendars from "Clark
Reefer Lines" a trucking company. Strange that college kids had a
thing for pictures of trucks, eh?
http://www.clarkfreightways.com/web/OurHistory.aspx --
Tomorrow is today already.
Greg Goss, 1989-01-27
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From:
dilbert firestorm <scan... @bytemeati-55.com>
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 19:20:49 -0500
Local: Sun, May 18 2008 8:20 pm
Subject: Re: Thermosats
Blinky the Shark wrote:
> ZBicyclist wrote:
> > Blinky the Shark wrote: > >> Here's some tech I didn't know about.
> >> Big rig reefers temp-monitored by satellite.
> >> http://blinkynet.net/stuff/thermosat.jpg
> > Is that a refrigerated truck? That would make a lot of sense.
> That was my assumption and the underlying reason for my use of "reefers".
how do you know its a reefer? I wouldn't know from looking at this picture.
-- Dilbert Firestorm
Opus is my Hero!
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Tim Wright <tlwrigh