It’s hot out, and the days are long - hard to concentrate sometimes…for me I go to the Princeton Community Pool, lots of outdoor cooking, also, and plenty of Longtrail Doublebag beer! What are you doing this summer? In two weeks, I will visit DC - should be hot there as well!
Here, in Slovenia, it’s not nearly as hot as it should be this time of year. I think it was only 16 degrees C near noon 
I’ll be writing my bachelor’s degree and probably head of to Greece for a week or so…
Gets to like ~25C here in Toronto, not exactly hot by other countries standards but when the bus has no/broken air conditioning and I have to sit in there for an hour… its like an oven.
After a few days here http://www.ginoparadise.sk/
On 2014-07-09 16:16, alanbortu wrote:
>
> Gets to like ~25C here in Toronto, not exactly hot by other countries
> standards but when the bus has no/broken air conditioning and I have to
> sit in there for an hour… its like an oven.
Heh.
I live in the south of Spain, so I’m quite used to hot weather.
I remember my first visit to London, as a kid, during a hot summer
spell. 1975, I think. Buses were simply horrible, the windows could be
barely opened, and the driver tried to run the bus with the front door
wide open as much as he could.
Outside it was very nice weather, for us. For the British, not quite :-p
I remember people drinking lots of cans of coke - I had never seen those
cans in Spain - the garbage bins were completely full, and people very
carefully deposited the empty cans on the street floor just beside the
garbage recipient. This, to me, was astonishing, that people would be so
good mannered. Of course, the fine being 100 pounds, which at the time
was a fortune for us, helped to make them toe the line 
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
Summer, what summer?
16degC and all rather a washout here at the moment.
http://s28.postimg.org/enxhq6mvt/flooded.jpg](http://postimg.org/image/enxhq6mvt/)
Taken from my back-yard yesterday. rotfl!
'75 was quite warm and dry…
'76 was the exceptional one, The incredible heat-wave of 23rd June/8th July 1976
On 2014-07-09 19:06, tannington wrote:
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> robin_listas;2653110 Wrote:
>> I remember my first visit to London, as a kid, during a hot summer
>> spell. 1975, I think.
>
> '75 was quite warm and dry…
>
> '76 was the exceptional one, http://www.iceni.org.uk/index/heatwave.htm
You are right, it was on the 76, the summer after Franco died, by the
end of the 75.
I think I commented with my father that London felt hotter than Spain,
and that was contrary to everything they had told me about Britain!
Your link says the peak was June 26th, and that matches. I remember my
parents asked my school for permission for me to leave the school a few
days earlier than course end, because I was going to Britain to learn
English, and we had to go early I don’t remember why. Perhaps in order
to match my relatives vacations there. Too long ago… 
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
On 2014-07-09 18:56, tannington wrote:
>
> Summer, what summer?
>
> 16degC and all rather a washout here at the moment.
>
> ‘[image: http://s28.postimg.org/enxhq6mvt/flooded.jpg]’
> (http://postimg.org/image/enxhq6mvt/)
>
> Taken from my back-yard yesterday. rotfl!
LOL.
I love green. Here it is all yellow and brown, and dry.
Excepts that when it does rain, it often floods.
I hope one day we can regulate the climate, and do it well…
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 10:26:01 +0000, BSDuser wrote:
> It’s hot out, and the days are long - hard to concentrate
> sometimes…for me I go to the Princeton Community Pool, lots of outdoor
> cooking, also, and plenty of Longtrail Doublebag beer! What are you
> doing this summer? In two weeks, I will visit DC - should be hot there
> as well!
My wife and I moved to the Seattle area back in February (from the Salt
Lake City area). The weather difference is amazing.
This week is going to be a little warmer than it has been up to this
point - in the upper 80’s/low 90’s. The days typically have been in the
mid-70’s to mid-80’s, and the nights have been in the 60’s for the most
part.
It’s been incredibly nice weather. Occasional rain (but it’s been a
dry year here, from what others we have asked have said), but nice and
green - and we’ve got a great view of lake Washington.
Jim
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Hello Jim.
70-80-90’tis It’s a courtesy when someone outside here use F and pounds as a measure. No one else outside Us does.
I have a lot of photos that prove US have sign upon and are in transition.
http://www.jodo.nu/pic/pic/ls.jpg
Regards
On 2014-07-10 01:36, jonte1 wrote:
> Hello Jim.
> 70-80-90’tis It’s a courtesy when someone outside here use F and pounds
> as a measure. No one else outside Us does.
>
> I have a lot of photos that prove US have sign upon and are in
> transition.
> [image: http://www.jodo.nu/pic/pic/ls.jpg]
LOL. They lost two space missions to Mars because of that.
Not very long ago, that is, about a century ago, in Spain we had
different measuring units between our regions (and many of the units had
similar names). There could be differences even between cities⁽¹⁾.
I know because I saw a pocket English-Spanish dictionary from my
grandfather, with a big section dedicated to the many units we had,
bewildering to a Briton.
So… we switched to the then called metric system in order to
understand ourselves.
(1) http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiguas_medidas_españolas
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
On 2014-07-09 21:00, Jim Henderson wrote:
> My wife and I moved to the Seattle area back in February (from the Salt
> Lake City area). The weather difference is amazing.
LOL.
It always surprises me how the North Americans and Canadians consider
distances. Many people I know would consider “unthinkable” a move of
such length as yours, taken so lightly. I looked it up, it is close to
1400 km. Such a distance here, even just a hundred Km, can mean learning
a new language, if you go on the adequate direction.
And on the other hand, when I go over there, I forget that just a
centimeter on the map can be a day long road trip… and still be the
same country. Even the same state!
> This week is going to be a little warmer than it has been up to this
> point - in the upper 80’s/low 90’s. The days typically have been in the
> mid-70’s to mid-80’s, and the nights have been in the 60’s for the most
> part.
That’s very nice weather. We may get 35 centigrades here soon, by night.
Not every night, fortunately. The forecast for this week is between 21
and 33, which is quite acceptable.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
LOL X2. I was using a sexkant (fount in my father of law kitchen) down at the very end of Africa and found out that is 11,008,342m from home. No guarantee. Measure by my personal clock there and then.
Regards
On 2014-07-10 12:56, jonte1 wrote:
> LOL X2. I was using a sexkant (fount in my father of law kitchen) down
> at the very end of Africa and found out that is 11,008,342m from home.
> No guarantee. Measure by my personal clock there and then.
A sextant! Wow.
Time ago I read many of Jules Verne novels, where they often find their
position by using a sextant. Well, the captain of the expedition does
it, because he is the captain and studied how to use that instrument; on
“Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen”, they get lost precisely because the
young acting captain doesn’t yet know how to use it.
I dreamed of laying my hand on a sextant and learning to use it. :-}
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
Yep. If you move from Slovenia 150km any direction, you’re in another country speaking a whole other language 
I call it a sexkant. Not to hard to handle if knowing some math basic and know the relevant time (no NTP for my watch there). Ok I’m cheating a bit as a construction engineer and during my practice to lay out endless polygon-chains in the terrain.
Attach a photo of one of the things from here(its never get dark now) today to start calculation from. The Moon.
http://www.jodo.nu/pic/pic/m1.jpg
regards
Carlos E. R. wrote:
> It always surprises me how the North Americans and Canadians consider
> distances. Many people I know would consider “unthinkable” a move of
> such length as yours, taken so lightly. I looked it up, it is close to
> 1400 km. Such a distance here, even just a hundred Km, can mean learning
> a new language, if you go on the adequate direction.
>
>
A quote I heard long ago… “Europeans think 100 miles is a long distance,
Americans think 100 years is a long time”
On 2014-07-11 01:26, George Baltz wrote:
> Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
>
>> It always surprises me how the North Americans and Canadians consider
>> distances. Many people I know would consider “unthinkable” a move of
>> such length as yours, taken so lightly. I looked it up, it is close to
>> 1400 km. Such a distance here, even just a hundred Km, can mean learning
>> a new language, if you go on the adequate direction.
>
> A quote I heard long ago… “Europeans think 100 miles is a long distance,
> Americans think 100 years is a long time”
ROTFL! X’-)
Quite true.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
It’s raining for the fourth day in a row here, so i’m eff da system