[ale] Heya folks! Any suggestions for a geek movingto/near Atlanta?

[Jerald Sheets]

And from those of us who practice our faith conservatively, we  
apologize in advance for the fundies that do tend to come out of the  
woodwork on occasion.

--j



On Jun 10, 2007, at 11:35 AM, Jeff Lightner wrote:

> I missed the atheist thing in the post.   There are (or were last  
> time I
> looked) so called "free thought" organizations in Atlanta metro.    
> Also
> you wouldn't be the only one sporting the Darwin fish - but you're  
> more
> likely to see the "Truth" fish that eats the "Darwin" fish.   The
> regular "Jesus" fish however is the one you'll see most often.
>
> The South IS called the Bible Belt for a reason.  It is also a bastion
> of right wing ideology.  That doesn't mean all of us are  
> fundamentalists
> or republicans - just that those of us who aren't are outnumbered.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Jeremy T. Bouse
> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 11:19 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Heya folks! Any suggestions for a geek movingto/ 
> near
> Atlanta?
>
> Brian Schenken wrote:
>> We live in Tracy now, about a 2 hour commute to my old work.  (Yup,
>> four hours a day) There's a two lane highway into Tracy and it's
>> always packed - mostly because folks can't PICK A LANE.  They jump
>> back and forth and the folks behind them have to slow down, rinse and
>> repeat.  Maybe they should just make the freeways one big lane.
>>
> 	I lived in Pittsburg when I was back in CA and worked down in
> Palo
> Alto. Took me about 3 hours one-way.
>
>> Jeremy: We've been using Comcast here, but <boggle>they don't support
>> relocating business class connections with static IP's</boggle>.  So,
>> if we had a standard connection we could just pick up where we left
>> off, but because we spend three times the normal amount for a bit  
>> more
>> bandwidth and a few static IP's (which I would have thought would  
>> have
>> made us particularly valuable suckers) we are forced to shop around
>> when we get to town.  Of course broadband is life to us, more
>> important than clean drinking water.
>>
> 	Yeah I had business class Covad SDSL back in CA and found they
> couldn't
> provide me service when I moved and ended up having to pay the fews  
> for
> breaking my contract early. Since I don't do cable modems I only had
> Bellsouth to go with.
>
>> We're Atheists too, which I understand is even_worse_than_gay down
>> there.  Might be time to peel off the Darwin fish if we wan't to keep
>> from having our windows smashed...  I can live with treating my  
>> ideals
>> like a terrible secret, but I don't think I'll be buying a gun...  I
>> qualified with my m16 in the Army and  haven't any reason to pick  
>> up a
>> gun since.  Plus with kids around...  I prefer the mouse.
>>
> 	Then avoid Kennesaw where I believe there's still a law that
> ever home
> owner must have a firearm. I thought that was a funny law but I do  
> hear
> the B&E rate is quite low.
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