I can see your point too Brice. My wife wants to head someplace warm, probably Texas, when the kids are gone. And then there's that 30 year mark that I have programming on the HP3000/HP9000 called retirement, only 5 1/2 to go.
Wayne Johnson
Systems Analyst
ML&P Systems Divisions
907 263 5326
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brice Yokem [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, 15 October, 2009 08:52 AM
To: HP3000 List; Johnson, Wayne H.
Subject: Re: OT: Wild Alaskan Salmon (taught to swim to China)
You can have it Wayne, I used to live there and now I am in Texas,
never to return.
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:50:38 -0800, Johnson, Wayne H.
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>I live here and fish for salmon every chance I get. Most people can't handle
the long winters, but they put up with them for the summers and the fishing.
>
>And I am a Texas boy that fortunately only visits Texas in the mild heat
months.
>
>Wayne Johnson
>Systems Analyst
>ML&P Systems Divisions
>907 263 5326
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>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Chuck Ryan
>Sent: Thursday, 15 October, 2009 06:47 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Wild Alaskan Salmon (taught to swim to China)
>
>You guys are killing me!
>
>Now all I can think of is the fresh, and I mean so fresh that the meat is still
quivering, halibut/salmon/etc... I caught, cleaned and ate while stationed in
Alaska.
>
>I miss living there more than any place I have been in my life... /sigh.
>
>
>
>Charles J. Ryan
>Sr. Systems Analyst
>State Volunteer Mutual Insurance Company
>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Ray Shahan
>> Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 8:38 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: OT: Wild Alaskan Salmon (taught to swim to China)
>>
>> LOL, yup, the night shift at the Nike factory processes the Salmon.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Senn, Bruce [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 4:11 PM
>> To: Ray Shahan; [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: RE: OT: Wild Alaskan Salmon (taught to swim to China)
>>
>> Well, here is a URL
>>
>>
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002384544_usc
>> h
>> inafish16.html
>>
>> Turns out it's cheaper to ship the fish to China to be filleted and
>> packaged and then shipped back to the States. So, the extra shipping
>> must be cheaper as well as the labor to process the fish.
>>
>> So, it costs less to ship the fish half way around the world than to
>> just process it in the US.
>>
>> Bruce.
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>> Senior System Manager FAX: (518) 388-6458
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Ray Shahan
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 2:49 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: OT: Wild Alaskan Salmon (taught to swim to China)
>>
>> Well, I wanted to smoke some good old Coho (or Sockeye) Salmon in the
>> smoker this coming weekend, so I went to the grocery store to pick some
>> up (in the Dallas, Texas area), and I was really surprised by what I
>> found:
>>
>>
>>
>> Frozen wild Alaskan Salmon that was "a product of Seattle Washington"
>> costs 8.00 per lb (on sale) at Albertson's, but wild frozen Alaskan
>> Salmon that's "manufactured in China" is 5.00 per lb everyday (at
>> Wal-Mart and Target (give or take a couple of cents per pound at either
>> store)).
>>
>>
>>
>> Me thinks to meself: A). How does one manufacture Salmon
>> (anywhere)?
>>
>> B). Did they train (or herd) the
>> Salmon to swim from Alaska to China?
>>
>> C). Have we come to another point
>> where our raw resources can be extracted on our shores/land, then
>> shipped abroad, processed and
>> packaged, then shipped back to us to purchase cheaper than we can do
>> these things ourselves?
>>
>> D). Who/how are the fishing (or
>> herding - LOL) quotas for the Chinese fisherman/Salmon-cowboys set?
>>
>>
>>
>> Finally, I decided to wait for the Seattle wild caught Salmon to go on
>> clearance.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Life is not a journey to the grave with the
>> intention of arriving safely in a pretty and
>> well preserved body, but rather to skid in
>> broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out,
>> and loudly proclaiming:
>>
>> -- WOW!!! What a Ride!!!
>>
>>
>>
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