Dear Rich
On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Richard D. Arnold wrote:
=%OJohn:
=%O
=%OOn Tuesday, 16 September 1997, at 08:41 John J. Peloquin wrote:
=%O
=%O>Dear Richard,
=%O
=%OSuch formality -- please, call me Rich....
=%OMy error was in calling the smaller size a pint, when it was actually a
=%Ohalf-pint or 8 oz. size. I blame my third grade teacher, who insisted on
=%Ocalling those little cardboard containers of milk a pint when they were
=%Oactually a half-pint.
Hmmm, we used to get milk in those little cartons when I was in 1rst grade
too. I forget exactly what the teachers (actually Nuns for me) called
them. I don't think they ever referred to the volume while passing them
out.
Incidentally, she used cats to clean chalkboards.
=%O
=%O>Even I, a simple Youper...
=%O
=%ONow that explains it -- there you were, close to Iowa (God's country and
=%Othe center of the universe), and you ended up moving to Iowa's west
=%Ocoast. ; )
Yeah, I would rather be in Iowa than out here too.
Say, wasn't UCI the site of the US Supreme Court _Bakke_
=%Odecision?
I don't know- I thought it was UCSF?
=%O
=%OMy concern with water in the system is more along the line of worrying
=%Oabout it 'boiling' and introducing air in the system, than with causing
=%Ocorrosion. I do, however, purge my system every two years, and bleed it
=%Opre and post storage to avoid allowing water to sit at any low point.
Oh- I knew that! ;)
That is certainly a greater concern than mere corrosion! Thanks for
reminding me about that primary hazard!
Thanks!
=%O
=%OLuck,
=%O
=%ORich Arnold
=%OCouncil Bluffs, Iowa, USA
=%Orichard.arnold@juno.com
=%O
=%O"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
=%O
"Never ascribe to Malice that which can be explained by Ignorance"
John J. Peloquin
Molecular Biology &
Biochemistry
3205 BioSciences II
UC IRVINE
Irvine, CA 92697-3900
jpeloqui@uci.edu
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