Category: Thoughts

New Orleans – Hurricane Katrina

I have a friend, LeRoy Hartley, who is an attorney in New Orleans. We met about 16 years ago, when I working on a schooner in Bar Harbor, Maine. Several phone calls and emails have gone unanswered. Considering the chaos of Hurricane Katrina and lack of utilities in the area, I hope that yourself, your family, and loved ones are well, and simply unable to return the messages.

If anyone does happen to know LeRoy, and if he is well, please post a comment or send me and email. LeRoy lives at 1805 Esplanade Avenue.

Our thoughts are with you, and all of those affected by Katrina.

Update: I found from a tab added on scipionus.com that there is 3 feet of water at 1824 Esplanade. Google maps added a Katrina satellite link with updated photos, including the flood water.

Update 2: LeRoy seems to be well and has stayed at his home throughout this ordeal. Thanks for the update, Jim!

Warm Regards,
Michael

Good Email Sig ;)

Windows: “Where do you want to go today?”
Linux: “Where do you want to go tomorrow?”
FreeBSD: “Are you guys coming, or what?”

I’m doing pretty well with my ankles, and have started crutching around (mostly) full time. My left ankle is healing up nicely, and I just started physical therapy on my right one. The muscle atrophy is quite amazing – I was already pretty skinny… 😛

Fitting Fortune

[michael@apollo ~]$ ssh slack
michael@slack's password:
Last login: Thu Mar 17 14:49:09 2005 from apollo
Linux 2.6.11.

If God had intended Man to Smoke, He would have set him on Fire.

michael@slack 15:45:32 ~ $

Slackware Update

Patrick V. is slowly working back into the swing of things. The slacksec.org folks have moved their site to another host, and the donated server will be retired. My mirror may be dated, since name resolution for slacksec.org failed for many days, and I disabled my sync script, after tiring of the error emails. I will check out their rsync setup in a day or so.

I wish Patrick the very best, and a steady recovery.