RE: whence the Intel code-nomenclature
Mike,
Tillamook -- a county, town, and bay in NW Oregon. Home of a mild, rather tasteless cheese, probably a variety of Longhorn. Once great fishing for salmon I'm told.
Deschuttes -- a big river in NW Washington State tributary to Columbia, and a small one in Oregon, ditto (the salmon and steelhead, (I'm still guessing; I've never fished it) not the cheese.
Merced the river runs through Yosemite and has cleft it in two. Can one still wade in it and feel the chill bite into one's shivering flesh, watch the climbers strung like caterpillars on a thread down El Capitan in the golden sunset, settling into their chrysales spun to the tall walls. Knowing one of them is one's son , and then stand and watch with another while the fire falls from the mountain to the valley, each saying a prayer though neither has ever prayed but once before?
Jalapeno -- a person or hot pepper from Jalapa, Mexico or Guatemala Hot stuff!
Cayenne -- a particularly hot town in French Guiana, reputedly the origin of a much overrated variety of hot pepper. Should be Cayennoise -- a spicy, francophone mulatta with fire in her lips and thighs
to correspond to Jalapeno, but Cyrix never gets the details right and misses the romance. of computing and of language. Why would Cyrix want customers to think their chips ran hot?
What do we in Hawaii do for vacations? We are very poor. They pay us lots of money to trick us into thinking we are rich, but it buys very little, so we mostly welcome our family and friends who fly in and stay not long enough with us, swim and surf the oceans, lie motionless fanning our hands in the warm and welcoming sea and look into the myriad fish at their work of eating up the reefs and each other, climb the mountains and valleys, eat the fish (so excellent a thing it is to be a rational creature, said Ben), and fruit, smell the coffee, and the fancy, Hawaiian Regional cuisine (but we dare not eat it), gaze long at the stars as the Pacific night falls, and look through the great telescopes --- deeply into space at the galaxies --those that died billions of years ago and those that yet live (especially the Hubble Deep Field), courtesy of the world's governments and
hawaii.edu
ifa.hawaii.edu
cfht.hawaii.edu (observing the astronomers is more fun than observing the stars!)
stsci.edu
Aloha,
Hugh |
