Airport Negotiations Moving Again.

Attorney Stephen J. Moore, attorney for the Memorial Airport Committee, Inc., confirmed yesterday that a draft proposal has been sent to City Attorney David Mouton. Moore did not go into any details of what conditions the Memorial Airport Committee was proposing. The committee filed suit in November of 1996 asking that the City be required, among other things, "to deposit all proceeds obtained from any sale of all or any part of the Myers Memorial Airport Property into a separate, segregated fund for the construction and operation of a new Myers Airport."

The draft is the first evidence that meetings between the City and representatives of the Committee last fall may have produced some movement in the City wide debate raging since the airport was closed.

The Council voted last year to set aside $500,000 that was earmarked to go toward the purchase of land for a new airport. City Administrator Tom Short has reported to the Council that a survey of one proposed site is near completion. The survey is the first of many steps necessary to have the property appraised.

Just Jake Talkin'
Mornin',

My dad tells the story of when he was a kid a guy asked him and his buddy if they'd like ta work. The buddy asked how much it paid. The guy say he'll pay a quarter. Dad took the offer. His buddy said no, he already had a quarter.

I've never really been able to sort out 'xactly what that story relates to. I think Dad looks at as just an example of bein' a little on the stupid side. That's prob'ly all there is to it, but it has always seemed to be some hidden meanin' in the buddy's logic, or should I say lack of logic.

The really aggravatin' part of the situation is no matter how much ya might have tried to convinced the buddy he wasn't thinkin' straight, he wouldn't have listened. The cold fact was that he had a quarter and he apparently didn't see the need to have two. I wonder what the response would have been to six bits.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin'.

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Intro to the Internet.

One of the biggest misconceptions about the Internet is that it was planned. The Internet was indirectly created back in the ‘60’s by the U.S. government during the Cold War. The government was tired of mailing magnetic tapes back and forth between computers. So they decided to devise a way to link computers together using cables.

The first concern the government had in doing this was that the system had to be very robust. Meaning if one computer crashes or was disconnected the other computers needed to be able to stay working. They wanted a design whereby they could connect and disconnect computers all day without disturbing any of the other computers on the network. Any of you who have looked through Christmas tree lights for that one burned out bulb can appreciate the design they were looking for.

In order to manage this huge project the government created an organization called Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA). Later this new network was called the ARPANET. I personally like Internet better.

At the end of the ‘70’s and the seeming ease of the Cold War, this incredible network was losing it financial backing. At this time the government began to invite science organizations and universities to use the network for their purposes.

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