-
Happy New Year!!!
Buon Anno, Old Weather!!!
:)
-
Gelukkig Nieuwjaar
Happy New Year
:) I wish you all a happy and healthy 2014. :)
-
Happy New Year!
-
(http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/4448972-3x2-940x627.jpg)
Happy new year!
-
Happy New Year to all :)
-
Happy New Year everybody!
Hope this didn't happen to you:
(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/169/3/3/explosive_countdown__by_coltsteelstallion-d5px0ig.jpg)
-
Bonne Ann?e!
-
That's why I didn't do it in French ;)
-
Happy New Year!
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luxknxCWO31qlsiq8o1_500.gif)
-
That's why I didn't do it in French ;)
Live and learn. :D
The
question mark appropriately symbolizes the profound uncertainty of life
only exceeded by our eternal hope for peace and harmony.
-
;D
-
May the New Year bring an abundance of blessings to you and yours!!
(And may you finds lots of time for OW!) ;)
-
Here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-25567253) are some nice New Year's pictures from around the world.
-
Happy New Year to everyone!
-
Belated HNY to everybody.
Did anybody see the Dubai display? and is it available for reply anywhere?
(Joan,
our horses get a year older on 1st Aug in the southern hemisphere,
(maybe that's why the northern horses come down and win our races they
are older?))
Expecting close to 500c in some parts of Australia today.
-
It's on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?feature=player_detailpage&v=X0lS-nkCcwk
Of course. :)
-
Yes, I saw the Dubai display. I thought it was
spectacular. (I had been going to tactfully not mention it
::) ... but then Stuart brought it up...) I don't think Sydney can
afford to be complacent about this - the London fireworks were pretty
good, too, this year.
-
Thanks for your consideration Thursday (Su?)
We don't quite have the money the UAI has.
London was well presented on the BBC recording, we will have to lift our game as some fireworks were very nice.
Wonder if you could get a gondola in the eye for the display and how much if so?
"I'm
the cat with the base and drum' song is used on an ad for 'Target' ( a
general store chain, mainly clothing) and the Bum, Bum,Bum was very well
fitted in..
-
OW computers seem a bit sluggish this AM. It must be cold over there. It sure is here.
-
It didn't rain this morning here. But the skies are darkening and
the met office has warnings out. Still - we are not as chilly as you are
Craig - you need a bit of what Stuart is getting!
-
Good evening OW.
I have found another one of those nice
videos about helping homeless people - in this one, they get Christmas
presents. (http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=mm1I3mjDFvA)
-
Lovely, Hanibal. Thanks.
-
That was lovely, Hanibal. It's interesting how reasonable their
requests were. It shows that the less you have, the less you want. Or,
perhaps they didn't dare ask for too much.
-
Joy comes from little things more often than big things. It's hard when even the little things are out of reach.
-
Wow - that's a good one Hannibal!
I heard about the equality
issues that new Mayor de Blasio wishes to deal out within the Big Apple.
Let's hope he can work similar magic! :D
-
Good morning OW, good morning rain. :o
-
I've just seen the news reports of the blizzards and snow in the NE
US (and presumably Canada as well). It also looks like Caro and UK
colleaguesmight be getting some wet-rot between the toes in the UK as
well. Hang in there, shipmates, and keep the hot water bottles
charged ...only a few months to spring, if you manage one this year.
Meanwhile,
at the bottom of the planet, things are ever so slightly
different. The following is a synopsis of an article on the ABC
web site at the moment (with political comments removed, to avoid
upsetting anyone):
"The Bureau of Meteorology's annual climate
statement shows that 2013 was Australia's hottest year since records
began in 1910, with the hottest spring and summer, the hottest January
and September, the hottest summer day and the warmest winter day.
The
national mean temperature was 1.2 degrees celsius above the 1961-1990
average. The record-breaking heat is continuing into 2014, with
four weather stations in central Queensland recording highest-ever
temperatures on Thursday."
Yesterday, Moomba in northern South
Australia reached 49.3C, not all that far short of the all-time Oz
record of 50.6 set at Oodnadatta 53 years ago.
I'm sure that these are all perfectly normal variations. Not.
8)
-
Perfectly abnormal variations, yes. ;)
-
Perfectly normal variations given what we are pumping into the atmosphere ::)
-
(http://burnanenergyjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/WorldMap_EnergyConsumptionPerCapita2010_v4_BargraphKey.jpg)
http://burnanenergyjournal.com/how-much-energy-are-we-using/
-
Wish me luck, I'm driving back to Scotland over the next couple of
days. Fortunately it's mainly motorway but the winds look nasty. I
debated whether to stay on but the next few days look little better and
I could do with getting back to deal with normal life again next
week. Apparently this set of storms is due to the jet stream and
its current position according to the Met Office.
:( >:(
-
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Four_Leaf_Clover_068.jpg)
-
Wish
me luck, I'm driving back to Scotland over the next couple of days.
Fortunately it's mainly motorway but the winds look nasty. I
debated whether to stay on but the next few days look little better and I
could do with getting back to deal with normal life again next
week. Apparently this set of storms is due to the jet stream and
its current position according to the Met Office.
:( >:(
Safe trip! We'll keep you in our thoughts and prayers! :-*
-
Good luck, Rosemary.
Do let us know when you reach home.
-
Greenland energy consumption ;)
-
Good luck Rosemary - hope you can dodge the downpours and the gales.
-
Wish
me luck, I'm driving back to Scotland over the next couple of days.
Fortunately it's mainly motorway but the winds look nasty. I
debated whether to stay on but the next few days look little better and I
could do with getting back to deal with normal life again next
week. Apparently this set of storms is due to the jet stream and
its current position according to the Met Office.
:( >:(
Goodluck Rosemary - very good choice to go soon - the isobars tomorrow don't look too bad, but Sunday's looking grim.
Safe journey.
Joan
-
Jeepers - just seen the news about the weather in NE USA :o - I hope you are all warm and safe!
-
I'm warm and toasty inside - my sister is in Connecticut - I haven't
heard anything from her, so I'm assuming she and her family are ok -
seems like nasty weather everywhere!
-
Good to see you here, Kathy, and glad to hear that you're warm and toasty - me too!
-
Wish
me luck, I'm driving back to Scotland over the next couple of days.
Fortunately it's mainly motorway but the winds look nasty. I
debated whether to stay on but the next few days look little better and I
could do with getting back to deal with normal life again next
week. Apparently this set of storms is due to the jet stream and
its current position according to the Met Office.
:( >:(
Good
luck on your journey, Rosemary. With regard to one of the
previous sets of storms the Met Office said the freezing conditions in
eastern Canada were also linked to the jet stream and the speed of air
currents within it, so looks like the present extreme weather on both
sides of the Atlantic might also be linked.
-
Quite right, Su; Eastern Canada is getting hit. The rest of us have
been in a deep freeze for the last several days. It was down to about
-28 C last night in Ottawa and it got all the way up to -23 this
afternoon - although they said it's about -35 with the windchill factor.
Just right for a brisk walk. But we'll get a bit of snow and higher
temperatures on the weekend. This was normal weather for this part of
the world 20 years ago but it is rather rare now.
-
30 degrees below average here in NY, but not nearly as cold as
Ottawa! I'm not liking when I have to go outside! Stay warm,
everyone!
-
Lordy, Craig I"m glad you Canadians sent us only the warm edge of
your arctic cold!!! We've had only about a foot of snow, and it
dips down to 0F only at night. Chicago weather is surprising, our
bad weather is much nicer than what others are being hit with.
England is having it hard too, in a different way. It's like the
whole northern hemisphere is going nuts together.
Take care, and keep yourselves well wrapped.
(http://www.smileyvault.com/albums/userpics/12177/x-aknigh.gif)
-
Quite
right, Su; Eastern Canada is getting hit. The rest of us have been in a
deep freeze for the last several days. It was down to about -28 C last
night in Ottawa and it got all the way up to -23 this afternoon -
although they said it's about -35 with the windchill factor. Just right
for a brisk walk. But we'll get a bit of snow and higher temperatures on
the weekend. This was normal weather for this part of the world 20
years ago but it is rather rare now.
You
are welcome to come and join us down here to thaw out; we have plenty
of degrees to spare for you all at the moment. If you could find a
plane that can take off at the moment, Craig, you could get here in
about 24 hours. However, the change of temp of 60C in that time
might be a bit testing for the body!
-
Ha! thanks for the offer, Steeleye. ;D A compromise
might be to go south until it's pleasant, like many Canadians do. We
call them Snowbirds. Florida is a popular destination. I quite like the
winter though, as long as I don't have to shovel snow too frequently.
Today's high will be -7 C, which is quite tolerable. It never stays
below -20 for more than two or three days at a time here. Our US friends
usually send up a low pressure system to warm us up. This is part of
the NAFTA free trade agreement. In return, we send them our oil and
gas ;D
-
I thought we were just complaining about your over-shipment to us of too much arctic air. :o ::)
-
We definitely need to fine-tune the agreement, Janet ;D
-
;D
-
The forum may well have a hot line to someone up there. The
gale force winds were blowing me nicely up the M6, reduced my petrol
consumption as well! The threatened snow did not materialise and
the traffic was much lighter than usual. So, while the journey was
still tiring the dreaded cross-winds did not happen and at times the
road was almost dry.
Thanks for your good wishes.
-
Glad to hear you are safely home, Rosemary.
As Philip once said, we always knew oldWeather was awesome .... :o :)
-
I'm glad our prayers and good wishes worked. It's good to know you are safe home. :)
-
Thanks for letting us know ;D
-
Thanks for letting us know ;D
;D ;D ;D
-
Bless you all. I haven't met any of you for 'real' but the sense of comradeship here is almost tangible.
-
I haven't met any of you for 'real' but the sense of comradeship here is almost tangible.
I
agree 100%. You guys are my biggest reason for sticking with OW no
matter what, because it just wouldn't feel the same without this forum
and all the great information and laughs it contains. And all this
despite the fact that I haven't met any of you in real life.
-
We are a true community. :)
-
If any of us do meet in 'real' life (and what's 'unreal' about this
one, pray tell?), do you want to bet that the first words we'll say to
each other will be something like: "You don't look like that!"
I
don't know what strange quirk of the human mind it is that automatically
assigns a face to somebody who we know but who we haven't actually
met. Perhaps we could start a new forum thread: "In 10 words or
less, describe what Janet/Caro/Dean (whoever) looks like".
:-[
-
If
any of us do meet in 'real' life (and what's 'unreal' about this one,
pray tell?), do you want to bet that the first words we'll say to each
other will be something like: "You don't look like that!"
;D Before or after discussing the weather?
-
I haven't met any of you for 'real' but the sense of comradeship here is almost tangible.
I
agree 100%. You guys are my biggest reason for sticking with OW no
matter what, because it just wouldn't feel the same without this forum
and all the great information and laughs it contains. And all this
despite the fact that I haven't met any of you in real life.
Thank you Hanibal94!
I think we all feel the same way!
-
If
any of us do meet in 'real' life (and what's 'unreal' about this one,
pray tell?), do you want to bet that the first words we'll say to each
other will be something like: "You don't look like that!"
;D Before or after discussing the weather?
;D That's what I was thinking, Jil.
I
agree, Hanibal. As for your suggestion, Steeleye, this could be
dangerous. To be safe, I would say that you all look beautiful and/or
handsome and, given my lack of success in guessing people's gender I
would leave it at that. ;D
-
It's funny, I don't put faces to names but I do put voices and, to
some extent, figures. I imagined HelenJ as taller than the photo
she shared. Because I don't have a TV I often don't match up names
of people in the news to photos or voices and sometimes the reality can
be a real shock. When I watched the Lord of the Rings I thought
'Legolas doesn't sound like that!' (I couldn't describe what he did
sound like though).
-
Glad you got home OK Rosemary - and if we don't have a hot line for sorting out the weather, then who does?
I'd
love to be taller than I am! Maybe that desire is what you were
picking up in your imagination? Though I keep trying to be
grateful that I've got to the height I have, given how small my mother
is ....
-
If
any of us do meet in 'real' life (and what's 'unreal' about this one,
pray tell?), do you want to bet that the first words we'll say to each
other will be something like: "You don't look like that!"
I don't
know what strange quirk of the human mind it is that automatically
assigns a face to somebody who we know but who we haven't actually
met. Perhaps we could start a new forum thread: "In 10 words or
less, describe what Janet/Caro/Dean (whoever) looks like".
:-[
I
tend to think of the other people here as being older guys, because I
know we have some retirees here (Dean, Stuart and possibly Silvia).
I
also imagine Maikel as being a stereotypical geek, the kind who drinks
Mountain Dew instead of water and is more fluent in Technobabble than
English (OK, maybe I'm exaggerating a little here).
As for me - well,
I'm a geek too, because I just started a course in computer science, I
know how to do things like hacking into the files of computer games to
make my character invulnerable (INSERT EVIL LAUGHTER HERE), and in my
spare time, I like to play Batman computer games or watch a children's
cartoon about colorful ponies having magical adventures and learning
about friendship.
Oh, and I may just be the youngest member here too - I started at the age of 16 in October 2010, and I'm 19 right now.
-
I
tend to think of the other people here as being older guys, because I
know we have some retirees here (Dean, Stuart and possibly Silvia).
And me. ;)
That's part of being true community - its generational. :)
-
I no longer do paid work either but I'm still working on the
learning bit - I don't know if it does stave of the dreaded dementia but
it's fun trying!
Helen - as I say to my much taller brother - you don't get diamonds as big as bricks.
-
I figure, as long as I like learning - and putting young folk around
me to learn from - I still count as young inside. (complaints
from feet and knees don't count.) :)
-
Perhaps those of you who are within travelling distance could plan
to be in Portsmouth UK (I think!) for the next ZooCon in early summer?
I'm sure more definite plans will be announced nearer the time. ;)
I hope that it is held in Portsmouth. I haven't seen the new Mary Rose museum yet.
Philip, Joan and I went to the 2013 ZooCon and I think it's fair to say we had a great time.
-
This is the latest extreme weather report - hope all our N American OWers stay safe and relatively warm.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25609411
-
I haven't met any of you for 'real' but the sense of comradeship here is almost tangible.
I
agree 100%. You guys are my biggest reason for sticking with OW no
matter what, because it just wouldn't feel the same without this forum
and all the great information and laughs it contains. And all this
despite the fact that I haven't met any of you in real life.
Thank you Hanibal94!
I think we all feel the same way!
I
think this is true for most of us. The FORUM is as important as the
transcribing we do. Just to have 'met' such great, fascinating
people...to have shared information, help, AND 'personal things' (trips,
vacations, local weather) has made this a most enjoyable situation that
I (we) hope continues for a Looooooooog time! ;D ;D
BTW - Some of us have 'met' via Skype & stuff. Interesting!
-
This is the latest extreme weather report - hope all our N American OWers stay safe and relatively warm.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25609411
Safe
and indoors - I went shopping this morning and stocked, on the
assumption the continuing (not yet shoveled) new snow is safer than this
kind of frigid cold. We had something a little worse than this 30
years ago in the early 1980s, and I've been hoping ever since it was a
once-in-a-lifetime experience. It's going to twice in life
time. Sigh. And I don't want to even think of what the Canadians have north of the border.
How
is England doing with your record breaking rain and floods?
Having this much bad on both sides of the Atlantic at the same time is
creeping me out.
Translating the attached numbers to Centigrade
high tomorrow of -7F to -15F (-22 to -26C)
minimum (could get worse) wind chills of -30F to -50F (-34 to -45C)
-
It's been relatively quiet where I am in the south of the UK today.
The outlook is not good: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/05/uk-winter-storms-worst-two-decades
-
You can't blame that one on us, Janet. It's going up to +1 C here
tomorrow with a balmy -18 C ( 0 F) low tomorrow night. ;D
-
I'm glad - I wasn't blaming, I was worrying. I didn't know it
had gotten weird enuf to be colder in the south than the north.
-
Holidays - the politicians were home with their families instead of giving speeches :-X
-
All that hot air has value somewhere? :o ::)
-
2013.
Australia's hottest year on record.
See the video at
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/2013-confirmed-as-australias-hottest-year-on-record-20140103-308ek.html
(http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/2013-confirmed-as-australias-hottest-year-on-record-20140103-308ek.html)
They
say there is no such thing as bad weather just bad choice of clothes.
That is fine for those who can chose, not good for the others.
I hope they are surviving the mess up north.
-
Wild no-good weather everywhere globally. Totally not good.
-
Perhaps
those of you who are within travelling distance could plan to be in
Portsmouth UK (I think!) for the next ZooCon in early summer? I'm sure
more definite plans will be announced nearer the time. ;)
I hope that it is held in Portsmouth. I haven't seen the new Mary Rose museum yet.
Philip, Joan and I went to the 2013 ZooCon and I think it's fair to say we had a great time.
Yep - great day - and a great chance to keep the night-sky zooniversers in contact with the motherplanet.... ;) ;) ;D
And Portsmouth has to be good - Mary Rose and all!
-
I got this from a friend, a global wind map. The globe can be
rotated with click-and-drag. The system occupying the entire North
Atlantic looks scary-fierce.
http://earth.nullschool.net/
-
That's neat. 8)
-
Very neat!
-
Good morning OW.
Hope you are all safe and keeping warm in the frozen parts of the US and Canada.
The storms continue here; gales, violent seas, flooding ... but it is not cold.
-
Beautiful in its simplicity :)
-
Hi, szukacz, glad to see you some times. :)
-
We are STILL working on getting some typed logs! ;)
-
Good morning OW.
Hope you are all safe and keeping warm in the frozen parts of the US and Canada.
The storms continue here; gales, violent seas, flooding ... but it is not cold.
Everything's
fine in Saxony, where I live. No snow except in the mountains, and
temperatures are expected to stay around 8 - 13 C for the next few days.
-
I'm glad someone had decent weather - that sounds more like late autumn instead of winter. Nice.
-
It's not going to last, I think - forecast for the weekend is 0-3 C,
and I remember a cold snap in mid-January 2012 that took everyone by
surprise.
-
That's still very mild. Enjoy. :)
-
8)
I
got this from a friend, a global wind map. The globe can be
rotated with click-and-drag. The system occupying the entire North
Atlantic looks scary-fierce.
http://earth.nullschool.net/
-
I like that wind animation a lot. I think it uses data from GFS
(http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/model-data/model-datasets/global-forcast-system-gfs),
and basically we are trying to do what GFS does , but with the logbook
observations, for historical periods. It runs best in Chrome for me - I
recommend the view at 250hPa (height) - you can see the jet streams.
I
live in South-West England, and we've been experiencing that North
Atlantic storm and it's friends for way too long now - they are
producing lots of rain, which is coming down the rivers, and blowing the
sea onto coastal communities and back up the rivers - lots of people
are experiencing floods.
-
Good evening OW.
Anybody else feel like stealing a donut truck and giving away the goodies? (http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=72NELwSeafk)
-
:D :D :D
-
(http://s3.amazonaws.com/beZambee/smiley_images/36/df86b527c567a6b5c53fa2472070060bd2f84483.png)
-
When I went up to 10 pascals, to see what earth-rotation does when
rubbing against space, I found a surprise. The south pole (pacific
on top) are a perfect circle moving counterclockwise. The north
pole (pacific on top) is an S-shape, clockwise over the Pacific and
counterclockwise over the Atlantic. Cool.
-
What a wonderful attitude!!! ;D ;D
Gotta give the guy credit!! AND Krispy Cream!!
(P.S. Lost a friend to ALS - it's pretty rough.)
-
Love the images, Janet.
-
I
like that wind animation a lot. I think it uses data from GFS
(http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/model-data/model-datasets/global-forcast-system-gfs),
and basically we are trying to do what GFS does , but with the logbook
observations, for historical periods. It runs best in Chrome for me - I
recommend the view at 250hPa (height) - you can see the jet streams.
I
live in South-West England, and we've been experiencing that North
Atlantic storm and it's friends for way too long now - they are
producing lots of rain, which is coming down the rivers, and blowing the
sea onto coastal communities and back up the rivers - lots of people
are experiencing floods.
How do you change the pressure view, I can only rotate the globe?
-
Click on the word Earth.
-
Click on the word Earth.
Ta.
-
Seen on Twitter:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BdY_CpFCYAAoPBe.jpg)
St Joseph Lighthouse, Lake Michigan. :o
-
Wow, that should be Lake "Erie" !
-
Woah. I sure hope nobody was inside.
-
This was one photographer (definitely crazy to be out in this frigid
windy bit with lake water maybe blowing on him) taking views of one
lighthouse pier. And all lighthouses in the US went automated a
long time ago. I can't find any others, apparently no other
photographers were that suicidal. But the results are
breathtaking. Never doubt that the Great Lakes are large and
dangerous bodies of water.
-
Amazing photos!
-
Good evening OW.
Yet another nice story of people helping the
homeless can be found here,
(http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/inspired/individuals/73-shoeboxes-filled-with-goodies-for-homeless.html)
and there's also a great video at the bottom of the page.
-
Jeepers - that's a very impressive photo. Crushing weight of water -
that tower used to stand at the best part of 50 metres.... ;) ;)
;D (just joshing - well if you don't laugh at it you'd have to
cry!)
just to say that the US made it as headline news today over
here - they poured cold water on a t-shirt in Washington (only at -12C)
and it froze solid in 5 minutes...eek.
-
Good evening OW.
Yet
another nice story of people helping the homeless can be found here,
(http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/inspired/individuals/73-shoeboxes-filled-with-goodies-for-homeless.html)
and there's also a great video at the bottom of the page.
Wonderful!
If more people did that...
-
The dog has NEVER gone about her business so fast - :P
-
This
was one photographer (definitely crazy to be out in this frigid windy
bit with lake water maybe blowing on him) taking views of one lighthouse
pier. And all lighthouses in the US went automated a long time
ago. I can't find any others, apparently no other photographers
were that suicidal. But the results are breathtaking. Never
doubt that the Great Lakes are large and dangerous bodies of water.
There is another fairly spectacular photo of Lake Michigan on this page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25632586
Not quite as dramatic as the lighthouse, and we can't be sure if it's another suicidal photographer - or the same one!
-
The dog has NEVER gone about her business so fast - :P
;D
-
From Thursday Next's link :o
And
in Kentucky, a man who escaped from a minimum security prison turned
himself in to get out of the cold, the Associated Press reported.
-
Seen on Twitter:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BdY_CpFCYAAoPBe.jpg)
St Joseph Lighthouse, Lake Michigan. :o
THAT will put a little frost on your pumpkin!!! ::)
-
They've had smaller waves than those battering the English coasts on
the BBC articles, it just all freezes in place. I don't know
which of the two is scarier.
-
I recognize the POV of that photo of the ice
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25637817) in front of the
Chicago skyline - they were standing on the man-made peninsula into the
lake, right next to the Adler Planetarium where our PTB have their US
headquarters. You're looking at what Zooniverse folks will see
when they finally show up for work. (That museum was closed these 2
days - they wanted no one walking in that lake breeze to get in.)
-
The dog has NEVER gone about her business so fast - :P
On
the bbc news they showed N Americans throwing pans of BOILING water in
the air and it instantly turned into ice, way before hitting the
path. If I were a dog I'd be tiddling at top speed too. ;D ;D ;D
-
That trick, while true, falls in the "do not try this at home"
category - some kids tried it in a different format, just opening a
window to throw the water out of without noticing the wind was blowing
everything sent out directly back in. The water never left the
room-warmed air, just got flung back in their faces to scald them.
The reporter I saw, did it outside in a wind-sheltered alley. It
turned to ice crystals in mid air.
Kathy has a very smart dog. :)
-
How have I lived in the north for 15 years and not tried this!? ;D I probably shouldn't give my kids any ideas....
My cat usually loves to go outside, but these days actually hides under the desk when we open the door!
That
trick, while true, falls in the "do not try this at home" category -
some kids tried it in a different format, just opening a window to throw
the water out of without noticing the wind was blowing everything sent
out directly back in. The water never left the room-warmed air,
just got flung back in their faces to scald them. The reporter I
saw, did it outside in a wind-sheltered alley. It turned to ice
crystals in mid air.
Kathy has a very smart dog. :)
-
Because we live in the southern part of north, and only get the polar vortex once every 20 or 30 years? 8)
-
:D
-
Polar vortex: How to survive extreme cold (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-25642694)
-
Absolutely BALMY here right now in western New York State at 18?F or -7?C!! ;D
Wind died off over night. We've been looking at -15?F (-10?C) with - 40?F (-40?C) wind chills for the last couple of days!
-
Sounds like you received exactly what passed thru Chicago unchanged,
with 4F degrees added to our warmth today. It is indeed
over. Thank goodness. :)
-
Happy Birthday Michael (MAPurves)
To all the Northerners, Keep Warm.
-
Happy Birthday, Michael :D
(http://caccioppoli.com/Animated%20gifs/Birthday%20cake/0020.gif)
-
Thank you one and all. :)
About throwing the boiling
water in the air - I've done it, and it works. It is a case of rapid
evaporative cooling as the very hot water droplets evaporate extremely
quickly in the very dry air lowering their temperature quickly to values
below freezing. If you throw cold water in the air, nothing much
happens. It lands on the ground and in a minute or so it freezes,
leaving a very slick sidewalk.
Michael
-
Happy Birthday, Michael and thanks for the tip! ;D
-
Michael:
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy
Birthday dear
Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiichaaaaaaaaaaaaaaeeeeeellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll,
Happy Birthday to you!
Hope it's a happy one and that you get lots of neat presents!
Hope also you get to share with family! ;D ;D
-
Happy Birthday, Michael!
And interesting about the need for the water to be boiling!
-
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear Miiiichaaeelll,
Happy Birthday to you!
Have a great day with friends and family!
-
All the best, Michael!
-
Happy birthday, Michael. Maybe your present from OW will be a solution to the pages loading problem?
-
Best wishes, Michael :) :)
-
Congratulations Michael,
Maikel :D
-
Sorry, I'm a bit late to the party.
Happy birthday Michael. :)
Good morning OW. A change in the weather here: the rain has stopped and the frost is back.
-
Happy Birthday, Michael - 1961, you?
-
Hi Kathy!
-
Hi to you!
-
Happy Birthday, Michael - 1961, you?
1961???
I was a teenager by then... :-[
Michael
-
It is still a great day :-*
-
Having met, even if vicariously, such a wonderful group as the OW crew makes each day even better!
-
That is very true. I was thinking though of the other notable
happenings on January 8: Elvis born, Nixon born, Battle of New
Orleans, and of course, January 8, 1961... :o ;D
-
Do I understand you to mean that we missed your birthday, Kathy?
If so, apologies and belated wishes for a very happy birthday. :-*
Hope it was a good one.
-
Wednesday January 8'th, 2014
Happy Birthday Kathy!
-
Sorry, I'm a bit late to the party.
Happy birthday Michael. :)
Good morning OW. A change in the weather here: the rain has stopped and the frost is back.
I think you got it on the actual day.
I think I was a day earlier (as usual ahead of the field) %^)
appy birfday kafi, hickup. (grin)
-
Belated Happy Birthdays to Michael and Kathy!
Can I claim I'm in some time zone several days behind everyone else?
-
Belated Happy Birthdays to Michael and Kathy!
Please accept
this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=jwC544Z37qo) of the
world's fastest tetris player in action as an apology for not
congratulating you earlier.
-
Thanks for the wishes - I had a very nice day.
I have to
laugh at myself (a frequent occurrence ::)) - I always wondered
how Caro knew when it was someone's birthday, but never really gave it
much thought until I found out that Michael and I share the same
date. I started rooting around the forum, and lo and behold, I
found, in my forum profile the birthday field, as well as gender and
location. I don't know how I missed those in 2010...so, at last,
the mystery of the birthdays has been solved for me. ;D :P
-
Happy Birthday, Kathy!
-
I only know it's someone's birthday if I am told! ;D And
I have a long memory. (That's not true. We keep a little list.)
Birthday and gender information on your forum profile is optional.
-
Happy Birthday, Kathy! I didn't clue in as quickly as the others.
Yours was the 8th, but mine was the 10th. We're not quite sharing the
same day, but close. You, however, are still a spring chicken!
:D I hope your birthday was as pleasant as was mine.
Thanks for the wishes - I had a very nice day.
I
have to laugh at myself (a frequent occurrence ::)) - I always
wondered how Caro knew when it was someone's birthday, but never really
gave it much thought until I found out that Michael and I share the same
date. I started rooting around the forum, and lo and behold, I
found, in my forum profile the birthday field, as well as gender and
location. I don't know how I missed those in 2010...so, at last,
the mystery of the birthdays has been solved for me. ;D :P
-
I am sure this is somewhere else but it may be useful for those who cannot find it.
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USS%20Concord/vol020of040/vol020of040_004_0.jpg
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USS%20Concord/vol020of040/vol020of040_004_0.jpg)
and
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USS%20Concord/vol020of040/vol020of040_004_1.jpg
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USS%20Concord/vol020of040/vol020of040_004_1.jpg)
-
Thank you. The clouds list is part of the cloud types
reference topic (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=3003.0),
but they are an early learning experience for the scan operator.
Yours are much clearer, so I will use them. :)
-
Hi szukacz!
-
That
is very true. I was thinking though of the other notable
happenings on January 8: Elvis born, Nixon born, Battle of New
Orleans, and of course, January 8, 1961... :o ;D
Happy belated Birthday, Kathy!!! :) :)
-
Hi OW.
Want to see London in 1927?
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?feature=player_detailpage&v=Qgxki8_R968
In 1927 Claude Friese-Greene shot some of the first-ever color film footage around London.
-
Very interesting - so much has changed in the world.
-
Very interesting film. 8)
-
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing!! :D
-
8)
-
Want to see Victoria, BC - Gateway to Canada - in 1935? It was an
early MGM Fitzpatrick TravelTalk. Like the London film this, too, was an
early colour film.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/OYZyqUVYaTc
Michael
-
Both films are fascinating 8)
-
Victoria and Vancouver: Gateway to Canada is wonderful. Thanks Michael. :)
-
41c on my veranda today.
Sorry no OW at the moment, beer time to cool down.
-
Be sure you're not in the sun have whatever breeze is going. That is edging on brutal.
-
Morning OW.
Hope it cools down soon, Stuart.
We have a mild (for winter) 9C, with rain. ::)
-
Want
to see Victoria, BC - Gateway to Canada - in 1935? It was an early MGM
Fitzpatrick TravelTalk. Like the London film this, too, was an early
colour film.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/OYZyqUVYaTc
Michael
Just
found 5 minutes to watch this film - I don't think it changed a lot
between that and 1982 - certainly not the Burdchart Gardens. Lovely -
much enjoyed film.
-
Be sure you're not in the sun have whatever breeze is going. That is edging on brutal.
Now:
Adelaide is currently 33.8 C @ 2:30 AM
12 Jan 2014
But
the hottest temperature measured in the state (WA) - and, indeed, on
the whole planet - was in the Mid-West town of Morawa, 370km north of
Perth. The town's 500-plus residents had to contend with a searing 46.9C
at 3.45pm
-
:o :o
Stay cool, Stuart, and good luck to everyone else in that heat!
-
Go aquatic - live in a cold bath - it sounds unbearable. :o
-
That IS brutal!! I'd be tempted to stand under the shower
fully dressed before going out, so the evaporation will cool me as I go.
-
Go aquatic - live in a cold bath - it sounds unbearable. :o
Joan.
I was/am English, we don't like water. :P
But thanks for the suggestion.
Where I am it is usually mild. For the rest of the week it is normal with Max's of 32c down to 16C.
Enough from downunder.
-
Kinda hot in Melbourne too, I hear. :P
-
Too hot in Australia and too cold in eastern North America and too wet in the UK. How about this...
I
was watching Philip Brohan's interesting movie "movie"
(http://"http://vimeo.com/43723075") showing the locations of global
weather stations from now back into the 1890s. While there, I saw he had
a "movie" of the weather maps for 1917
(http://"http://vimeo.com/77352513").
Before I left Whitehorse, I
did a small project transcribing the weather reports from the White
Pass and Yukon Route log books. (1902 until 1937) The logs went into the
1950s but I only got to 1932 and someone else finished them a year
later. Here are weather reports I extracted from the White Pass and
Yukon logs for the days just around Christmas, 1917. Temps in degrees F.
1917,12,24,Whitehorse,-60,,Calm,Foggy
1917,12,24,Lower L.,-65,,North,Foggy,
1917,12,24,Hootalinqua,-70,Clear,Calm,,
1917,12,24,Yukon X.,-72,,Calm,Foggy,
1917,12,24,Selkirk,-80,,Calm,Foggy,Temperature -86F at Pelly (Official Record North America low -81F!)
1917,12,24,Isaac Creek,-65,,Calm,Foggy,
1917,12,24,Stewart,-62,,Calm,Foggy,
1917,12,24,Dawson,-64,,,,
1917,12,25,Whitehorse,-70,,Calm,Foggy,Temperature at the barracks showed -79F last night
1917,12,26,Whitehorse,-66,,Calm,Foggy,
1917,12,27,Whitehorse,-58,,Calm,Foggy,Police thermometer showed temperature -69F last night
1917,12,28,Whitehorse,-54,,Calm,Foggy,
1917,12,29,Whitehorse,-29,Cloudy,North,,Snowed 1 in. last night
1917,12,30,Whitehorse,-17,Cloudy,North,Snowing,Snowed about 4 in. last night and this a.m.
1917,12,31,Whitehorse,-13,,North,Snowing,
The
official record low for Whitehorse is -62F. The Christmas Day minimum
is 17F below the official record! The -86F at Pelly is 5F below the
record for Snag Yukon, -81F being the lowest official temperature
recorded in North America.
Fort Selkirk 62o 47'N 137o 23'W 460m
Lower Laberge 61o 23'N 135o 17'W 608m
Hootalinqua 610 35'N 134o 54'W 586m
Yukon Crossing 62o 21'N 136o 29'W 490m
Isaac Creek 62o 50'N 138o 30'W 435m
Stewart 63o 19'N 139o 24'W 351m
Dawson 64o 03'N 139o 26'W 320m
Whitehorse 60o 43'N 135o 03'W 636m
I
attached a screen copy of the map for Christmas morning (13Z). On the
movie for 1917, you can see the high moving southeast and the low moving
into the Gulf, bringing some snow and milder temperatures for the end
of the year to the southern Yukon.
Michael
-
That looks about right for a hard winter in the high arctic.
Everywhere, the records being challenged are frequently old. And
if the other years balance it out, it's just freakish. It's when
the freakishness repeats in so many years that the decade's average
becomes freakish that I get genuinely scared.
I do not like winter. Canadians, you can keep your high arctic - what we have in Alaska is more than enough. ;)
-
Good morning OW, from the very rainy part of the world.
It's a positively balmy 7C.
-
Good evening, OW, from a very un-rainy part of the world. I
think this bout of heat must be starting to break. Canberra didn't
quite make it to 40 today and the highest I could find from around the
traps was only 45.6. A bit weak, it could be said. Another
40 here tomorrow, and then things get a bit more civilised next
week. I won't be grieving.
(Insert sweating emoticon here.)
-
Ew. ;)
-
I'm back and the cool change is here in Melbourne! It's good to see some familiar faces are still here, is Bunts back? ;)
I
would stay longer but I am currently doing vacation work to get my
engineering degree, which includes 7.5 hours of Excel a day. I think Old
Weather on top of that might be a bit much computer.
Also, I
picked up an old photo (probably not original?) of HMS Colne's 1908-1909
football team. If you have been here awhile you might remember that she
was the first ship I did a decent amount of transcribing for. Also, the
football team was mentioned often in the logs, I even found one of my
old posts about it! I would like to scan the photo to share with you
guys, but I'm not sure if there are copyright issues?
My post from 2011:
Looks like the sailors on Colne were sports fans!
1:00pm "Gave leave to Football party" and "to party to attend Boxing contest"
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM53-38213/ADM%2053-38213-005_0.jpg
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ADM53-38213/ADM%2053-38213-005_0.jpg)
If this belongs somewhere else feel free to move it. ;)
-
I just can't imagine what it feels like in those temperatures or how
you cope. I was getting a bit grumpy in the summer in the UK when it
was getting above 25C!
It makes me stop complaining about the generally dull & damp weather - at least for a few minutes!
-
Nice to see you again, Sean, and glad to see the temperature in Melbourne has returned to something like normal.
Our dear Bunts has not returned, yet, but we are always hopeful.
Good luck with the 7.5 hours of Excel per day!
-
Welcome back sean0118!!!
I just saw your name in who's online and I thought that I hadn't seen you for a long time.
Very to sorry to say, no Bunts :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
I hope you will join us on the US ships and/or climateprediction.net! - perhaps when you are doing a little less Excel ;)
In any case, do drop in more frequently.
-
Ta everyone -
I'm off to New York to see "No Man's Land" with
Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen... another great Christmas present
from my hubby! Two of my favorite actors!
-
Have a great time, Kathy! Nice to keep Christmas going for longer.
-
Have fun!
-
I've seen Patrick Stewart live - he (and McKellen) will be a real treat.
-
Thanks everyone. So whats the finding on the photo of Colne's football team, is it safe to scan and post? :D
I hope you will join us on the US ships and/or climateprediction.net! - perhaps when you are doing a little less Excel ;)
In any case, do drop in more frequently.
I
sure will! I have been trying to run some CPDN for awhile, but first I
couldn't re-connect, then all the work units would error at download,
now they are out of work. But I'll start as soon as there is work. At
the moment I'm running Docking@home for another team, but I'm in your
team for CPDN. ;)
-
Thanks everyone. So whats the finding on the photo of Colne's football team, is it safe to scan and post? :D
If
you scan it into any file small enough, send me an email - or a PM
asking for my email if you don't have access to it - and I'll send it to
Gordon and post it here.
-
Got this from a friend. Totally irrelevant fun from Russia. :)
https://www.youtube.com/embed/g-KIcQSWSmQ
-
Article of the Day: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Steam+donkey
-
Hi sean0118 ;)
-
Hey Randi ;)
That looks like an interesting article, I'll have to read it.
-
Hi szukacz ! ;D
-
Is it or me, or has the interface been updated recently? Some parts, such as the drop-down boxes, look different....
-
Haven't noticed anything different (but it's perfectly possible that I might not ....)
-
I seem to be getting blue outlines around boxes now, and they used
to be a sort of orangey yellow. But I had a vague feeling that
these changes went beyond OW and might have been down to a Google Chrome
update. But I have a 63 year old brain and it is not as sharp as
it used to be, so I might be imagining it all ... ???
-
I haven't noticed anything (Firefox)...
(but that doesn't mean too much ::))
-
I
seem to be getting blue outlines around boxes now, and they used to be a
sort of orangey yellow. But I had a vague feeling that these
changes went beyond OW and might have been down to a Google Chrome
update. But I have a 63 year old brain and it is not as sharp as
it used to be, so I might be imagining it all ... ???
You're
not imagining it, TN. You're right about the outline, and I noticed the
shape of the arrows in the drop down boxes have changed too.
But
you're right about one thing - I tried opening the forum in Firefox, and
it turns out nothing changed there. So it was a Google Chrome update
after all.
Sorry for the confusion.
-
;D
That clears it up!
-
That makes me feel better! I'm on Firefox, so I haven't just
missed something - always reassuring to know .... 8)
-
It is only a small the arrow shapes on mine between IE, Chrome and firefox, all with W7.
-
I am glad that Firefox is stable, although they never did fix the
bug in the auto-complete feature that crept in several months ago. If I
inadvertently delete one of the items in the list it is tricky to get it
back. I usually forget how to restore it and have to rediscover the
trick each time. My own mental auto-completion is faulty too. ;D
-
I had the auto-complete problem with Firefox too, but it seems to be working OK now :-\
I start to type in the subject in MS Outlook and wonder why I don't get a list of subjects like I do when I send a PM ;D
-
Morning all.
There is strange shiny thing in the sky. :o
-
There is here too .... :o
-
Here a blanket of fog covers everything. :(
-
Shiny yellow thing with blue background, making yesterday's fresh snow sparkle. :)
-
A new wave of Arctic air and blowing snow will sweep in this PM.
-
Hi Tegwen - haven't seen you around for awhile!
-
I
am glad that Firefox is stable, although they never did fix the bug in
the auto-complete feature that crept in several months ago. If I
inadvertently delete one of the items in the list it is tricky to get it
back. I usually forget how to restore it and have to rediscover the
trick each time. My own mental auto-completion is faulty too. ;D
Well!!!
How do you do it?
-
Hi Tegwen - haven't seen you around for awhile!
Hi Randi, and all
I
am still around the forum occasionally, but not as frequently as I used
to be mainly because I have been working more than I have for some
time. I am still happily editing HMS Juno in any spare moments.
I am tempted by the recent email regarding the WWI diaries. Has anyone tried it yet, or have I missed lots of posts about it?
All the best.
K
-
Re WWI diaries: http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=4013.msg81125#msg81125
-
Hi Keith.
Good to here your still around.
Be in your part of the country in Sept. Save some good weather for us. %^)
Stuart
-
Morning all.
Big frost, followed by another appearance of the yellow, shiny thing predicted for today.
"Save some good weather for us." ::) Good luck with that, Stuart.
-
The Chicago yellow thing has vanished behind gray and gloomy
clouds. More snow coming later today. (Sigh - it is January,
after all.)
-
BBC website today has "10 Myths about WW1 debunked" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25776836
I am tempted by the recent email regarding the WWI diaries. Has anyone tried it yet, or have I missed lots of posts about it?
All the best.
K
Hi
Keith - Randi's already referred you to the thread about Operation War
Diary and what I've done on it so far rather ties in with the BBC
article. It's interesting, but I don't find it as fascinating as
OW. I suspect it comes down to there just not being any
ships! And at the moment there are masses of people working on the
project, so you have no hope of following a story through - based on
what has happened on OW there are presumably a lot of people just doing a
couple of pages and then never being seen again, plus a number who will
be wildly enthusiastic for a few weeks then give up, so when it has
settled down there might be more continuity for individual
taggers. They are currently getting through the diaries at an
astonishing rate - on the first day the list of diaries went to 5 pages
(20 per page maybe?) and yesterday there were only two pages. So
they need to get some more available pretty quick because I think
they'll get a lot of drop-outs if there is a gap with nothing available.
-
Now that first myth explains a difference of perception between the
British shock at the extent of the bloodshed, and the American "this is
bad but not the worst" reaction. Our Civil War was still in living
memory, and everyone in power had powerful memories of their
grandparents telling them about the experience. And the US Civil
War did indeed kill 2% of our population in 4 years; over 620,000 died
from a population of 31 million. And seeing your own die always
feels worse than seeing it in others, the shock goes deeper.
Why do we humans allow wars to grow to that depth of atrocity?
-
Hi all -
Back from New York - Acela up; regular coach
back. Very nice trip - great food, nice hotel in the theater
district and well, I'm not sure I like the play, No Man's Land, but Sirs Ian and Patrick were wonderful.
-
Hi Kathy, good to see you back. I'm glad you enjoyed nearly all of it .... ;D
-
I
am glad that Firefox is stable, although they never did fix the bug in
the auto-complete feature that crept in several months ago. If I
inadvertently delete one of the items in the list it is tricky to get it
back. I usually forget how to restore it and have to rediscover the
trick each time. My own mental auto-completion is faulty too. ;D
Well!!!
How do you do it?
When
the dropdown list opens, place the cursor over the item you want to
remove and hit the delete button (not the backspace one) on your
keyboard.
-
That's how to delete, which I sometimes do by accident. But when I
try re-enter what I deleted, it doesn't always work. For example, if I
delete 4 AM and I re-enter it, all I will see is 4 PM. To get 4 AM back I
have to delete 4 PM too. I can't remember if that's good enough or if I
have to enter something else that begins with 4. This may be fixed by
now. I haven't had the problem lately.
-
Oh, sorry - my Aspergers brain misunderstood what Stuart wanted to know.
I don't know how the reentering works because I use Google Chrome, which does not have that feature.
-
Nice to see that Rosetta phoned home:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25814454
:)
-
...and this was the next article on the page index. Also interesting.
Cosmic 'web' seen for first time (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25809967)
-
FOG.
-
After many days of rain, we now have frost.
-
Snow tonight followed by single digits.
-
Light snowfall for the next few days with temperatures between 0 and - 3 C.
-
Really cold here for as long as the forecast can see. This is good
for killing nasty things migrating north from the U.S. (Janet,
Kathy, Carolyn, Dean, and any other OW'er are always welcome
though ;D)
-
WHEW!!! ;)
-
Thanks, Craig! ;D
-
Definitely cold, single digits F today, below zero tonight. Everyone around me and especially Canadians northward, keep warm.
-
A few years ago there was an article in a magazine that deals with
the American civil war some people who looked over the census figures
now estimate the death toll may have been in the 750,000 to 850,000
range. They point out that men that who came up with the figure of
620,000 based these figures on the believe that the number of
Confederate deaths do to disease and in hospitals which they didn't have
much in the way of records for would be about the same as for the
Union. In reality they were much higher. Also they neglected the men who
were wounded and discharged who die of the effects of their wounds
weeks, months or years later. Then there are the civilian casualties of
the war which they also neglect. I hope this is of some interest.
-
Thanks, I think that is a wee bit too much for my old bones ;D
-
I'm not surprised. At the time of WW1, many of our elders would have still been very war-weary.
-
Morning all.
I have been busy/wasting time looking at this: http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2014/aviation-100-years
-
Cool. I need to watch it this evening, I'm out-and-about today.
-
Thanks, James, for the info. I had family on both sides of that particular tragedy, but they all survived.
-
I saw a fascinating PBS American Masters film last night on J.D.
Salinger. Among a whole lot of interesting stuff, it says that he
kept writing after he stopped publishing, and before his death he
created a "Library Trust" now responsible for all his copyrights and for
publishing the new material. It is alleged to come to them market
beginning in 2015. Very tantalizing. :)
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/26/215734035/new-salinger-books-will-arrive-in-2015-authors-say
-
Thanks, James, for the info. I had family on both sides of that particular tragedy, but they all survived.
Thanks indeed, James. An ancestor of mine was wounded in that war fighting for the North, but he survived.
Also,
one of my great - grandfathers fought in WW1. He lost a finger and was
injured by mustard gas, but survived and came back home, although his
injuries affected him for the rest of his life.
-
Morning all.
I have been busy/wasting time looking at this: http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2014/aviation-100-years
Caro
See also http://www.flightradar24.com/51.15,-0.19/8
Stuart
-
Ha ha. Thanks Stuart. :) I could probably see a few of those from my kitchen window.
-
Now this is an example of not considering the consequences of actions, or Darwinian forces in action.
http://www.alabamanewsday.com/national/28179-homeowner-burns-down-house-after-deciding-to-clear-prank-toilet-paper-by-setting-it-on-fire.html?print
-
Morning all.
I have been busy/wasting time looking at this: http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2014/aviation-100-years
Caro
See also http://www.flightradar24.com/51.15,-0.19/8
Stuart
I'll add this one: http://www.liveatc.net/
Pick
your airport and listen in to the tower as they handle planes.
Sometimes 'silence' between planes is long depending on airport.
;D
Or choose: http://flightaware.com/
Pick a flight and you can follow it where ever it goes. I use this to track family when they fly from place to place. ;D
-
Now this is an example of not considering the consequences of actions, or Darwinian forces in action.
http://www.alabamanewsday.com/national/28179-homeowner-burns-down-house-after-deciding-to-clear-prank-toilet-paper-by-setting-it-on-fire.html?print
:o :o :o How can anyone think it's a good idea to do such a thoughtless thing? :o :o :o
-
(http://www.desismileys.com/smileys/desismileys_1822.gif)
It could have destroyed someone else's house or garden too!
-
I'm going to be looking up this weekend!
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/01/22/kaboom_nearby_galaxy_m82_hosts_a_new_supernova.html
-
If I look at the weather forecast what I will see is clouds!!
-
Yup. Telescope at the ready though, just in case.
-
Hello again.
Here is some interesting weather in Cumbria yesterday:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25873559
(The weather in Cumbria is always interesting, of course.)
-
Glad I wasn't out in that!
-
Hi everyone.
I'm not sure if this is a pop-out version or not. But here's a new way for whiling away the time at the traffic lights....
https://www.youtube.com/embed/C3Ozz6_pdMI
;D ;D
It is a popup now. ;) Replace .com/watch?v= with .com/embed/ JJ
-
What was that word that was translated as 'damn'? ;)
-
You can hear it in my house on occasion. German speaking hubby taught it to me ::)
-
I know it too, having grown up in Saxony, Germany. The translation is not 100% accurate ;)
Apparently, the light is in a place called Hildesheim. Click here (http://streetpong.info/#home) for more info.
-
It occasionally slipped out around my home also - side effect of me being the first generation of my family not raised in a bilingual English/German home. Very Anglo-Saxon in origin. 8)
-
One could say it is positively earthy! ;D
-
I was in Hildesheim back in the 70's. From what I remember, the city
looks the same. No ping pong games at the traffic lights, though.
-
Morning all. The FOG is back. Never a dull moment.
-
Hello again.
Happy Australia Day to Aussies everywhere. :)
-
Thanks, cobber
-
Hello again.
Happy Australia Day to Aussies everywhere. :)
Hear, Hear!!!!! ;D ;D
-
Indeed, yes!!
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-t2zTtaFczMc/UuULBFymJ_I/AAAAAAAADHM/inM-aHdPVtU/w508-h340-no/Australia+Day.JPG)
-
Yes, Happy Australia Day!
-
Happy Australia Day to all! ;D
-
Have a great Australia Day!
-
http://books.google.fr/books?id=wvKiBiWKrzMC&pg=PA311&lpg=PA311&dq=%22steer+board%22+%22load+board%22&source=bl&ots=sk07Ou12Ru&sig=HkhGOJOhkiPkKmpE7vllzAZtEwI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=alzlUszJPOWd0QW5-IGYCg&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22steer%20board%22%20%22load%20board%22&f=false
-
Thanks Randi - today's new fact learnt!
-
Twitter:
@the_zooniverse
If you're a Zooniverse user
from the CHICAGO AREA & keen to talk to a journalist about your
experiences, please email team@zooniverse.org :)
-
An interesting weather note: At Burwash, Yukon, at 2200 UTC on
January 24 the temperature reached 16.1 C. It was only 11C in Orlando
Florida at that time. The highest January temperature recorded in
January in Burwash was only 7.5 C. The previous record for the 24th was
just 4.6 C. The weather observer at Burwash said the snow is
disappearing fast and several communities in the Yukon have lost their
snow. Almost makes you want to move north of 60.
-
I think all the cold air must have been sent down south! The latest
analysis is that the recent extreme cold in the US was caused by a
"lazy" jet stream and not a "polar vortex". That doesn't make it any
less cold, though.
-
You are right about it not being a polar vortex - beyond one
slip-of-the-tongue last Friday, all the weather reporters are calling it
a front. And it is not as cold and windy, either.
Be that
as it may, it is -2F (-19C) air temp and -30F (-35C) wind chill outside
at 2pm and is probably representing the day's high temp. Beautiful
blue sunny sky or not, retirement means I never need to stick my nose
outside into that wind. I'm glad our normal "warm" didn't just
evaporate and is giving comfort to someone else.
-
I just learned that my son will have a snow day tomorrow - in New Orleans! (It will actually be a 'wintry mix' event.)
-
We have someone looking for interviewees!
...
I
produce a series of feature stories on citizen science projects for
WHYY-FM in Philadelphia. I'd like to do one on Old Weather.
I'd like to speak with someone from NOAA and also a volunteer from
either the Philadelphia area, southern New Jersey or Delaware.
...
Thanks,
Kimberly Haas
If you are interested, please send a PM to kimberlyhaas (and please copy the mods so that we can keep track of the responses).
-
Further to Burwash. The maximum temperature for the day was 16.5 C
(61.7 F) This is the highest temperature reached anywhere in the Yukon
in January in the climate record. The previous record was set in Haines
Junction with 12.2 C on 10 Jan 1947 (though they recorded 12.5 on Jan 23
at 06:00). I have attached a photo from the weather observer in
Burwash; this is a sight seldom seen in the Yukon in January... Be
amazed.
-
Be frightened more accurately describes how I feel about that.
That has to be throwing all kinds of wildlife internal calendars off
schedule, even tho it is very pretty.
-
Morning all.
Strange days in the Yukon, indeed.
Shipwrecks uncovered by the winter storms in Wales: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-25917404
-
I woke up middle of the night, insomniac that I am, only to find
this news waiting. What a long and wonderful life this was, I want
to celebrate him rather than mourn.
Folk legend, activist Pete Seeger dead at 94 (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-pete-seeger-dead-20140127,0,4347087.story)
-
Yes, I remember trying to learn to play the banjo with his music.
-
Just curious about what happens when two "third" transcribers are
leapfrogging? Say I get a page then will the other transcriber get the
following page, even if I haven't finished mine? Then if I don't save
mine will nobody get it?
-
It is not counted till you save it. That way, they can be sure to
have at least three transcriptions. Philip has said that additional
transcriptions are saved.
szukacz and I were third transcriber on Avoca and occasionally we got the same page when we were working at the same time.
-
Yes, so sad.
Folk legend, activist Pete Seeger dead at 94 (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-pete-seeger-dead-20140127,0,4347087.story)
-
Yes, so sad.
Folk legend, activist Pete Seeger dead at 94 (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-pete-seeger-dead-20140127,0,4347087.story)
I
think one of my primary school teachers must have been a big fan,
because singing 'If I had a hammer' in school assembly is almost my
earliest memory. And 'Little Boxes' has also been burned into my brain
(http://blog.oldweather.org/2012/09/05/theres-a-green-one-and-a-pink-one-and-a-blue-one-and-a-yellow-one/)
since well before I understood what it meant.
-
I always thought that title was attractive poetry, I recognized but
didn't remember the source. He's been background music for my
whole life.
-
There's a programme on Radio 4 this evening at 9pm which some of you
might be interested in - called Frozen in Mawson's Footsteps, it's
about life on board the Russian ship which was recently trapped in the
ice in the Antarctic.
-
About the ice that caused the problem.
3mtr+ multiyear ice
(http://<iframe width="400" height="500" frameborder="0"
src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/embed/smpEmbed.html?playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fiplayer%2Fplaylist%2Fp01qvj5q&title=Frozen%20in%20Mawson's%20Footsteps%3A%20%E2%80%98It%E2%80%99s%20the%20deepest%20sea%20ice%20I%E2%80%99ve%20ever%20seen%E2%80%99&product=iplayer"></iframe>)
-
Xin Nian Kuai Le， 新年快乐 for when it comes round to your area.
-
Sorry, have to stop working on OW. I just heard that Justin Bieber
is in jail again. Gotta go and protest, and organize and write petitions
etc etc... ;D
OK, fine, if you insist, I'll do some more ships instead...
-
Sounds more profitable, that young man needs to start listening to his sane adult mentors.
-
Hello OW. Happy year of the horse!
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2014/jan/29/chinas-year-of-the-horse-in-pictures
(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/1/29/1390998331332/8db93a73-8a80-41e8-9169-2a56553c1032-620x408.jpeg)
-
Not just any horse - in the full 60-year cycle, this is the year of the Male Wood (Green) Horse. (Green is the color representing wood.) http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/NewYearDays.htm
(http://cache.desktopnexus.com/thumbnails/1624490-bigthumbnail.jpg)
-
Love these swimming creatures too, especially the piggy:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2014/jan/30/animals-take-a-swim-in-pictures
:)
-
amazing pictures, and the summer!
-
Hi szukacz. Summer seems a long way off in this part of the world.
-
Sunny and a forecast high of 20?F (-6?C)
A veritable heat wave as of late!! :P
-
Sounds more profitable, that young man needs to start listening to his sane adult mentors.
I
am not surprised. Child stars often go crazy when they grow up.
(http://www.businessinsider.com/mara-wilsons-reasons-child-stars-go-crazy-2013-5)
-
Surprise, surprise.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25944823
-
Sunny and a forecast high of 20?F (-6?C)
A veritable heat wave as of late!! :P
;D
-
We are sunbathing here - it is 30 deg F
-
They said a high of 31F here, dropping again in the afternoon as
snow arrives from the NW. I'll take whatever warmth I can
get. :)
-
The
Old Weather
BOINC team
has just passed the
20,000,000 mark!
(http://boincstats.com/signature/-1/team/54739893/sig.png)
-
;D
-
Go team! ;)
-
39C on my varanda.
Guess where I am not.
;D
-
Really bad extremes, both (all!) sides of the globe. The earth is off balance.
-
Snowing here in southern France :o
(yesterday was rain)
-
Hello all. It's raining here. :o No kidding.
-
Continuous rain from yesterday and flood alerts here (hope i manage to return home easily this evening :-\)...
-
Sounds familiar. Hope you get home without trouble, Matteo.
-
Same here - travel safe around any flooding, Matteo. Light
snow here right now, with heavier snow expected later - temps are in the
positive double digits which is definite improvement.
-
Gong xhi fat choi everyone! Happy Year of the Horse! ;D ;D
-
Gong xhi fat choi everyone! Happy Year of the Horse! ;D ;D
I
learnt it from my father as 'Kung hee fat choi', Joan. (It is still
used as the family toast.) Mind you, that was almost 50 years
ago. My version was probably superceded at about the same time
that 'Peking' became 'Beijing'.
;)
-
Tomorrow morning it is highly likely that the Radcilffe Observatory
in Oxford will announce the wettest January on record (since 1815). Ian
Ashpole (one of our students) will turn up as usual to do the
measurement at 9.00am precisely. We only need about 2mm of rain today to
make the record. The local paper (Oxford Mail) will probably be down
there to take pictures. I'll get along if I can! :D
-
Gong xhi fat choi everyone! Happy Year of the Horse! ;D ;D
I
learnt it from my father as 'Kung hee fat choi', Joan. (It is still
used as the family toast.) Mind you, that was almost 50 years
ago. My version was probably superceded at about the same time
that 'Peking' became 'Beijing'.
;)
That's
interesting Steeleye - I heard it pronounced like that the other day on
the TV. My version comes from Singapore (I think I have it
right), perhaps that makes the difference in truth?? Singapore is a long
way from Beijing! :o ;D
-
... And my father picked it up in Malaya, circa 1964.
-
Tomorrow
morning it is highly likely that the Radcilffe Observatory in Oxford
will announce the wettest January on record (since 1815). Ian Ashpole
(one of our students) will turn up as usual to do the measurement at
9.00am precisely. We only need about 2mm of rain today to make the
record. The local paper (Oxford Mail) will probably be down there to
take pictures. I'll get along if I can! :D
Anything
that you can send down this way would be most appreciated. Our
average January rainfall is 58.3mm. With 40 minutes left to go in this
January, we have scraped together a whole 4.8mm so far. The grass
is looking pretty bleached.
:-\
-
You would be very very welcome to some of it - once again it's
pouring down. It's not just the rain, but the endless grey days -
very bad for the spirits.
Joan - can you get yourself an OW banner and inveigle yourself into any picture for the papers, advertising the project?
-
Snow is all gone :(
(but probably just as well)
-
Gong xhi fat choi everyone! Happy Year of the Horse! ;D ;D
This is an interesting podcast on the history of Chinese New Year
And this guy has it as gong xi fa cai - Happy Year of the Yang Wood Horse
https://soundcloud.com/the-history-of-china/episode-10-gong-xi-fa-cai
-
Not just any horse - in the full 60-year cycle, this is the year of the Male (Yang) Wood (Green) Horse. (Green is the color representing wood.)
(http://cache.desktopnexus.com/thumbnails/1624490-bigthumbnail.jpg)
They
have a very interesting calendar, there are exactly 60 different
animals. And while normal life is tied to the lunar year which
starts today, the years of the animals are tied to the solar calendar;
the year of the horse begins February 4th.
http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/NewYearDays.htm
The
first day of the animal year is different from the Chinese New Year
Day. The animal year starts on the first day of the Tiger month. Tiger
month begins from the day when Sun enters ecliptic 315 degree position,
which is around February 4 Gregorian calendar. That means the animal
month is solar month, not lunar month. This is why many people who born
in January or February confuse about their animal sign of birth year. To
verify the exact animal sign of birth year goes to use the free online
Chinese Astrological Animal Sign
(http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/YourSign.htm) page.
I attach the results for my birth date. I have no idea what it means or foretells. :)
-
Here's the one for my birth date. I don't understand it, but I do like the idea of being a "Metal Horse". :D
-
And here's mine: as you can see I've failed to copy it as
beautifully as you two did! I quite like the idea of being born in
the year of Green Sheep.
The following is your simple birth
chart. You are Black Snake, born in the year of Green Sheep. The first
character in DAY represents you. We can say you are a Water Snake, too.
Day (you) Month Year
Female Water
Female Metal
Female Wood
Black Snake
White Snake
Green Sheep
-
Hmmm - I knew I had been born in the year of the Metal Tiger, but it
seems I am a Fire Chicken ??? - not quite sure what to make of
that!
-
Potentially very tasty! Depends on what has been added to the
chicken before the fire was applied though .... Certainly more
edible than a Metal Tiger.
-
;D ;D
Uhm... it seems i'm a Green Chicken instead, born in the year of Green Rabbit.
So, here I am, in a young picture:
(http://www.peacefleece.com/images/Green_chicken.jpg)
-
I think I win!!! (It seems either I have a drink named after me, or
I'm named after a drink.) I'm a Brown Cow. :D I've included the
recipe...
2 msr Kahlua? coffee liqueur
milk
nutmeg
In a champagne flute with ice, add kahlua and top with milk. Stir. Garnish stirrer with nutmeg.
Not quite the same as The Dude's White Russian, but close... (for fans of The Big Lebowski).
-
Mmmmm - sounds rather good, though I'm not sure it will go with the fiery chicken.
-
Hmmm
- I knew I had been born in the year of the Metal Tiger, but it seems I
am a Fire Chicken ??? - not quite sure what to make of that!
(http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/334/f/1/fire_chicken_by_flipflopninja-d33xpnw.jpg)
-
It's amazing how you can pick something that fits out of any astrology chart.
Here is mine.
http://www.famousbirthdays.com/zodiac/1948.html (http://www.famousbirthdays.com/zodiac/1948.html)
(Nice pic hanibal)
-
I've always considered astrology fun, but see how they expect
everyone born in a certain period to be identical in personality and
circumstances... I just can't see it. The images can indeed be
fun. I'm Fire Cow?
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-hGFIzaTgxMI/UuwWemTfsvI/AAAAAAAADLc/VlQIMbiTkec/w671-h503-no/Janet+Jaguar%2527s+Chinese+astrology+Fire+Cow.jpg)
-
A brown cow celebrating the Chinese New Year with a brown cow while
entering weather data taken on the Min River just downstream from
Foochow, China, 10 Dec 1895. (I think that work on a holiday means
double pay.) Just so's ya know... :-[
-
Tripling your sign has to bring you triple the luck and prosperity this year. :)
-
How now brown cow?
I'm a brown snake. Suddenly I'm feeling very slithery - ssssss.
-
Morning all.
Temporary appearance by big shiny thing in the sky!
Not quite the same as The Dude's White Russian, but close... (for fans of The Big Lebowski).
I can't quite imagine the Dude drinking his White Russian from a champagne glass. :)
-
Hmmm
- I knew I had been born in the year of the Metal Tiger, but it seems I
am a Fire Chicken ??? - not quite sure what to make of that!
(http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/334/f/1/fire_chicken_by_flipflopninja-d33xpnw.jpg)
Slightly disturbing image there - presumably it lays fried eggs!?
-
;D ;D ;D
-
Slightly disturbing image there - presumably it lays fried eggs!?
Depends if you are male or female, I suppose. :)
-
I here there is a big game coming up in the USA.
As we are ahead of the USA I will let you know who wins so you can bet on them. ;D
Go the winners.
-
You found a TARDIS and are holding out on the rest of us? :o ;D
-
Good morning OW.
Here
(http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=hUj65M4T1cg) and here
(https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=iDkrSD8fOBo) are two videos
showing the many awesome things humans are capable of.
Just don't try any of this at home - unless you have the right equipment and are properly trained, of course.
-
I here there is a big game coming up in the USA.
As we are ahead of the USA I will let you know who wins so you can bet on them. ;D
Go the winners.
There's a game?????!!!!!!!! :o
Must be a sailboat race somewhere. ;)
-
Good morning OW.
Here
(http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=hUj65M4T1cg) and here
(https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=iDkrSD8fOBo) are two videos
showing the many awesome things humans are capable of.
Just don't try any of this at home - unless you have the right equipment and are properly trained, of course.
WOW!! Very neat!!!!!!!
DEFINITELY do not try this at home!! 8)
-
Those guys may end up getting the Darwin award (given to people who die prematurely doing crazy things).
-
Talking about crazy things - I found this amazing photo of a lifeboat out in 30 ft waves to rescue a fishing boat.
-
The fishing boat didn't look too healthy either!
-
The Australian Government are giving new lifeboats to "Illegal boat
Immigrants" whose boats are not suitable to go back to Indonesia and
getting the Navy to drop them back "just outside the Indonesian waters"
(except they don't seem to know where that is as they have infringed
it a few times.)
%^(
-
Happy birthday Matteo. Auguri! :)
And well done Seattle Seahawks. You have made DJ a happy man.
-
oh! a birthday!
MATTEO:
happy birthday to youooo
happy birthday to youooooo
happy biiiiirrthday dear Matteoooooooooooo
happy birthday to youooooooo
Have a lovely day
Best wishes,
Joan
-
Happy Birthday Matteo !
-
:D :D Thank you very much everyone! :D :D
-
Buon Compleanno, Matteo!!
:) :) :)
-
Happy Birthday indeed, Matteo!
Here's a present for you: A guided tour of the International Space Station. (http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=doN4t5NKW-k)
-
Have a great day, Matteo!
-
Happy Birthday, Matteo
-
I wish you a day of good handwriting and short remarks, Matteo. Happy birthday. ;D
-
And, ink for your log keeper ;)
-
Yes, and I should have wished Matteo interesting remarks, not short ones. ;D
-
Thank you again everybody :)
And, ink for your log keeper ;)
Yes, and I should have wished Matteo interesting remarks, not short ones. ;D
Hope both wishes becomes true (short and interesting would be the most appreciated ones) ;D
Just (a little less than) one month to do, then I'll finally be able to read something new (the Pacific and all the WWI period).
-
Happy Birthday from the west coast, Matteo.
Michael
-
Matteo
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear Maaaaattttttttttteeeeeeeeoooooooooooooooooooooo,
Happy Birthday to you!
Hope it's a happy one and that you get lots of neat presents!
Hope also you get to share with family! ;D
-
If you're not in Canada you probably can't see this, but today's
Google doodle is celebrating Canada's coldest day ever: -63C in Snag
Yukon
(https://www.google.ca/logos/doodles/2014/anniversary-of-the-coldest-temperature-ever-recorded-in-canada-5737634865348608.2-hp.png)
-
I love the cat, in a classic feline position, somewhere warm and comfortable!
-
Coldest day, not just in Canada, but in North America. (Officially)
1947 02 01 -57.2 deg C
1947 02 02 -62.2 deg C
1947 02 03 -62.8 deg C (-81 deg F)
1947 02 04 -58.3 deg C
1947 02 05 -57.8 deg C
The
police post in Pelly, Yukon, recorded a low of -86F on Christmas Eve,
1917, but it was never properly verified, so it doesn't count as a
record.
-
One can imagine why it wasn't properly verified. The thermometers probably froze ;D
-
I am SO glad I live south of the border. Chicago's
record of -27 F (-33 C) in 1983 is more than cold enuf for me. I
don't even want to move away from the nicely moderated temps of the
Great Lakes - the high plains also get very extreme in winter. We
did get below zero again this morning and expect it again later this
week after tomorrow's snow comes thru. But it's supposed to stay
in the single digits.
-
The reading at Snag was verified because the observer was clever
enough to make a mark on the thermometer with a nail file when the
temperature reached its lowest value. (This was off the scale.) The
thermometer was taken to the National Research Council cold lab in
Ottawa (?), where the temperature was lowered until the thermometer
showed the value marked. The lab was then able to give the exact value
of the reading. It was said by the people in Mayo, Yukon, that they
recorded a temperature even lower than that in Snag. However, no-one
thought to mark the thermometer, so it couldn't be verified. Mayo claims
to be both the coldest and hottest community in the Yukon; they can say
this because the airport at Snag no longer exists. It was one of the
airports built in WW II, along the Alaska Highway, to maintain an air
link to Alaska.
No one knows, to the best of my knowledge,
anything about those particular thermometers used in the early 1900s by
the police or how they were sited, whether they were properly screened
etc etc so that -86F temperature at Pelly, and the -79F at Whitehorse on
Christmas Eve 1917 will always be unofficial.
Currently it is -11C at Burwash, the nearest site to Snag, and -24C at Mayo.
Minimum Temperatures at Mayo:
1947 02 01 M
1947 02 02 M
1947 02 03 -62.2 deg C
1947 02 04 M
1947 02 05 M
-
The weather in central/northern Europe looks very bad - how are our
members in that part of the world? I hope you're all warm and safe
inside, and not needing to travel.
-
No negative temps here in southeastern upstate NY, although about 11
inches of snow are predicted for tomorrow! Stay warm, everyone!
-
http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/news/articles/140203-wettest-january.html
I
wasn't too well on Saturday morning so did not manage to get along to
the great 'wettest January on record' reading here in the UK.
Ironically the weather on Saturday morning was gorgeously sunny.
Joan
-
Hope you are doing better! :-*
-
Sunny and -3C in Victoria, BC right now, 7:00 a.m. The forecast has the 'S' word for the weekend :-[
-
:o
;D
-
My cousin in Ladysmith said he had about 4 inches of snow the other
day, just as the spring bulbs were appearing. We won't see those for a
couple of months yet.
-
Sunny and 22?F (-6?C) at noon in Niagara Falls - western New York State. ;D
Temperatures
are expected to remain around there but we are forecast for 4 - 8" (10 -
20cm.) for the over night period! Could be 'interesting!!'
Stay warm, dry, and well everybody!!!
-
We are getting the 'S' word in Chicago this afternoon thru tomorrow
morning. With any luck the city will be on the northern edge of
the storm and those of us north of the city won't get more than 3" to 5"
(7-12cm). I'm getting errands and shopping done, as there is
frigid cold coming in on the storms heals and right now we have an
overcast 20+ F temp that is quite pleasant.
-
Speaking from the positively balmy heights of 6C .... :o
-
All fine here in Saxony. Temperatures range from 3 to 8 C during the day (down to -2 at night).
-
Morning all.
Hope those of you in the SW and Wales have better weather:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26042990
This is wild weather.
-
It's Raining here :P
-
More bad weather in SW England. Dull Scotland seems positively desirable at the moment.
Hope all OWers down there are safe
-
Everyone everywhere, do your best to stay warm, dry and most of all
safe. The snow falling in Chicago right now tonight will bring
this season's total to double the normal full season's average.
And we still have all the snow that will fall in the rest of February
and March. I hear England set an all time record for January
rain. This is not good.
-
It's strange. The southern half of England had a lot more rain, in
the northern half it was less significant and in the north west of
Scotland they had less rain than usual. Where I live it was a bit
wetter but within normal variation - just lots of dull days.
The
areas suffering the most have tidal rivers through a drainage basin so
they've had water coming down the rivers from the hills and a tidal
surge from the sea meeting on the low lying plain and overtopping every
flood defence.
The south coast has had storm damage - sea walls
breached, shingle banks washed away, sand dunes dispersed etc.
Britain doesn't normally get such extremes so we are dumbfounded -
warning sirens which haven't sounded for 30 years going off twice in a
month!
-
He
who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot
mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.
I rather like this - I was surprised to discover the source.
-
Latest English weather disaster - part of a railway line washed
away, cutting off a large part of the southwest part of England from the
rest of the country. And people being evacuated from Somerset
villages as it's impossible to prevent them being badly flooded.
Certainly makes our transcribing work seem even more crucial ....
-
Latest
English weather disaster - part of a railway line washed away, cutting
off a large part of the southwest part of England from the rest of the
country. And people being evacuated from Somerset villages as it's
impossible to prevent them being badly flooded. Certainly makes
our transcribing work seem even more crucial ....
This
railway line is just beyond Exeter, where I live, and is very scenic,
as it follows the estuary of the Exe, the coastline at Dawlish and then
the estuary of the Teign. Technically the railway line
itself is still there - the sea wall and the ballast underneath it has
all been washed away though so the line is just hanging there, swinging
in the gale force winds. They think it may very well wash away
with tonight's high tide though. They reckon 4 to 6 weeks to get
the line open again. One of our local MPs is saying the line
should be rebuilt further inland - he may have a point, but I don't see
the land acquisition and planning processes for that project running
very smoothly!
I don't know if the video in this link will work
outside the UK, but there are some very dramatic pictures of the damage
here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26042990
-
He
who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot
mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.
I rather like this - I was surprised to discover the source.
I think he learned the hard way.
-
(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/2/6/1391690358617/a16d4ff6-31f6-41dc-91dc-f003e511625d-460x276.jpeg)
A giant wave totally engulfs a coastal pub at Chesil Beach in Dorset. Photograph: Paul McEvily/knsnews.co.uk
UK weather. :o
-
Totally frightening.
-
Good news for those in Australia, sort of.
Where have Australia's tropical cyclones gone? (http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/article/news/56086)
Maybe all those people who left Dorset in the 1800s for Australia were on to something...
-
It sounds like they went 'round the globe the long way and are now battering southern England. :(
-
Is the building still standing? :o
-
Some pictures, from Russia, I got from a friend. I have no idea
where or when these were taken, but it puts a foot of snow into
perspective.
-
Those modern apartment buildings should never have flat roofs in
that climate - very steeply slanted would have saved them a lot of work
shoveling in order to prevent the roof from collapsing.
Thank you
- I've been feeling very done-to this winter, having been spoiled by a
decade of mostly moderately warm seasons. Even being 3rd snowiest
winter in history is suddenly very easy to cope with. ;)
-
Glad I could help. :)
-
:o
-
Or check out this highway in Japan: Yuki-no-Otani Snow Canyon
(http://icons.wxug.com/hurricane/chrisburt/japansnow.jpg)
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ii8gjNXUps0/UZFMfHvmZuI/AAAAAAAAE1M/hOQ1yIl_uIw/s1600/Yuki-no-Otani+Snow+Canyon+road+in+Japan.jpg)
(http://www.buzzhunt.co.uk/wp-content/2010/12/snow-toyama.jpg)
(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_N-GlYZDQYno/TUMAskpt3vI/AAAAAAAAEjY/52wxtlF31K8/snow-canyon_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800)
-
Unreal.
-
This is how they carved that on out in Japan.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/jxtCntPsOGE? (Fixed now thanks.)
I cannot comprehend how much snow depth that is.
link coding repaired JJ
-
That link doesn't work for me.
This seems to work www.youtube.com/embed/jxtCntPsOGE?feature=player_detailpage, but it may not be ideal
-
Had to drive past Exeter's main railway station earlier today.
As well as the main line being closed to the south due to the track
being virtually washed away at Dawlish yesterday, the line has been
closed to the north for about three weeks now while the major works are
carried out following flooding last year (due to reopen tomorrow).
As a result it doesn't seem to be a railway station at all for the
moment - more of a coach station, with all the staff marshalling the
rail replacement buses in the car park. I am so glad I don't have to travel anywhere at the moment, and anyone who does has my heartfelt sympathy!
-
Any one got a spare aqualung system, and or any connections with
waterbus manufacturers? Looks like Oxford is going back under.
I am sooooo glad I don't live on the Somerset levels!
PS that Japanese snow is scarey! :o
PPS - glad to hear that somewhere is ok - lucky you Hanibal in Saxony ;)
-
Come up to the West of Scotland - the far northwest has had a drier
than average winter. The day length is a bit short but lengthening
daily. We haven't had any snow (yet) and not much frost.
Can't say that the amount of sun has increased but you can't have
everything.
Don't think I could cope with that amount of snow and
I'm not sure I could get wellies on at the moment so I too am glad not
to be in Japan or Somerset.
-
szukacz :-*
It's raining here!
-
Good morning szukacz, good morning all.
Enjoying the 'calm' before the next storm here. Southerly gales approaching, with some more rain.
-
And I was worried about my grass going brown in the drought... ??? :(
Sorry - got to dash - the vaporetto is just pulling into the bus stop and it's not easy to run in webbed feet... ;)
-
Meanwhile, in Cork, Ireland ....
(http://i3.irishmirror.ie/incoming/article3113064.ece/ALTERNATES/s510b/Bfq6cWjIYAEphOS-3113064.jpg)
-
:o :o
-
And I was worried about my grass going brown in the drought... ??? :(
Sorry - got to dash - the vaporetto is just pulling into the bus stop and it's not easy to run in webbed feet... ;)
Love this mental picture, Joan! :D :D :D
-
There are some interesting initiatives to help prevent flooding in the UK in this article
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26042518?utm_source=Weekly+Carbon+Briefing&utm_campaign=cd6d014c53-Carbon_Brief_Weekly_18_7_137_18_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3ff5ea836a-cd6d014c53-303420325
-
According to Gawker (for whom I have immense respect after they broke the Rob Ford crack story)
The
Weather in the UK Is So Awful the Animals Are On Antidepressants
(http://gawker.com/the-weather-in-the-uk-is-so-awful-the-animals-are-on-an-1517988350)
-
There are some interesting initiatives to help prevent flooding in the UK in this article
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26042518?utm_source=Weekly+Carbon+Briefing&utm_campaign=cd6d014c53-Carbon_Brief_Weekly_18_7_137_18_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3ff5ea836a-cd6d014c53-303420325
This
is only too true! Although we did experience a drought a couple
of years ago, it seems that on the whole flooding is becoming a steadily
worsening problem in the UK over many years. But this doesn't
seem to have stopped building developments on land known to be prone to
flooding. And people paving over their gardens is very
widespread. :(
-
This morning we had our third, and probably largest, snowstorm in
Victoria this winter!! I wasn't sure if I could get the car out of the
driveway, so I chose to do my morning walk on foot. In some places, the
drifts were at least 5 mm deep! There were times I counted up to 26
snowflakes in the air at one time between our house and the house next
door. We had a bit of a warming spell when the sun came out; fortunately
my fears of flooding caused by a rapid melt were unfounded. I fear we
could get another 5 mm dump again tomorrow morning. Pray for us...
-
We're all thinking of you, Michael ;D
-
Be safe!! ;)
-
;D
-
;D ;D
-
Try to get to the store and stock up before the next storm hits!!!!!!
Go early - just in case there is a mass panic ;D
-
;D ;D
-
Morning all.
Hang in there Michael. Spring must surely come.
-
Thought I'd add this from the National Weather Service in Buffalo, New York USA :P
10F is about minus 12C for those who don't work on the 'Frankenstein' Scale.
-
:o :( Stay warm, Dean!
-
yikes! - That's tooth chattering alright. Hot water bottles to the ready! :o :o
-
Hummph. The NWS didn't give my an equivalent chart for January
cold to compare. They did give a comparision of sub-zero (-18 C
and lower) for the whole season to date. Doesn't give me any more
comfort than your NWS gave you up there. I think you are too
tucked in between Great Lakes to get most of the cold, nor to be spared
any of all that excess snow. I guess I'll keep my cold if you
promise not to send me any white stuff.
(http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/lot/cold_snow_1314/subzero_chi.png)
THE LONG TERM AVERAGE SINCE 1872 FOR SUBZERO LOWS PER SEASON IN CHICAGO IS 7.
NOTE: BASED ON THE CURRENT FORECAST...A SUBZERO LOWS APPEARS LIKELY ON 2/11...AND SUBZERO LOWS ARE POSSIBLE ON 2/10 AND 2/12.
-
And here in the UK it just keeps on raining (and blowing
gales). The whole southwest of England is now cut off by rail from
the rest of the country - the last remaining line has just been blocked
by a landslide. I used to live near where it's happened, and it's
not the first time - but there weren't usually floods all over the
place at the same time, preventing any alternative routes being
used. They're running replacement bus services, but that's going
to mean some very long journeys, especially as some of the roads are
closed too. It feels as though it's never going to end .....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26095937
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-26096286
-
When that many transportation routes are blocked, you have a very
major problem down there. Take care to stay safe (and hopefully
dry.)
-
At 8.08 am there were 33 road closures around Oxfordshire county.
Since then we've had torrential rain, hail, sleet, lightening, and some
brilliant sunshine. I've seen pictures of vast areas of water out in
Witney, Eynsham and Banbury. This all has to flow out through Oxford.
The footpath from work to Marston is now under kayak use. :o ::)
-
Take care of yourself in all that, Joan. That is getting frightening.
-
Take care and stay dry, Joan. If you're in a kayak, make sure you're
wearing a life jacket. Better to stay dry and warm at home...
-
If you want some cheering up then this may help.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/travel/travel-news/sea-and-a-supermodel-in-new-air-new-zealand-safety-video/story-fnjjv9zl-1226820313644
(http://www.couriermail.com.au/travel/travel-news/sea-and-a-supermodel-in-new-air-new-zealand-safety-video/story-fnjjv9zl-1226820313644)
Its only a day away from everybody.
-
I know. It's a tough life, but somebody has to do it! ::)
-
More nice pics.
http://cdn0.lostateminor.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/floating-forest-650x406.jpeg
http://cdn0.lostateminor.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/0_a9aa9_6bd191c7_orig-650x430.jpg
by Rebekah Rhoden in New Photography on Friday 19 July 2013
This
incredible 102-year-old floating forest is the result of 40 years of
mangrove tree growth in Homebush Bay, Sydney. The SS Aryfield is an
abandoned ship used in WWII that was left in the bay to deteriorate
after the ship wrecking yard closed down. The massive ship?s rusty hull
is now home to lush vegetation, including full-grown mangrove trees.
What an incredible sight.
I did not know it was there till today. %^(
Something to do when next in 'Town'
-
That ship is proof the nature won't waste anything we make. How lush.
-
Nope, nature does not waste anything made by humans.
Unfortunately, the opposite is not true.
Thanks for finding that, Stuart.
-
Anyone else lose pages of work due to the ethernet creaking under the weight of the winter olympics? Grrrrrr!! >:(
-
Something strange happened last night >:(
-
I've managed to avoid the Olympics so far... Just in case you need
reminding about what's going on in the world and why we're doing this,
watch this very short video. The link came from a friend; I have no idea
of the scale used to set the colours..
Gloal Warming (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gaJJtS_WDmI)
-
Oh, yes. Whatever the range, they are measuring the gains not the actual. Scary.
-
Non-sports clip on why life is interesting in Russia.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/756eDZ_myuM
-
:o :o ;D ;D ;D
-
Very interesting - and funny too!
Here's something nice I discovered:
Real Life Superheroes (http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=hohnzMe0cWw)
-
I don't think I'd ever want the costumes, but they definitely know how to be good. :)
-
Hello OW.
Today's weather:
Fourteen severe flood warnings are in place in Berkshire and Surrey while two remain in Somerset.
BBC weather forecaster Laura Gilchrist said winds could exceed 100mph around the coast of west Wales.
Help.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26137148
I'm sure you can see another chunk falling into the hole at about 40 seconds. :o
-
This is getting very, very scary. Take care and stay dry (and above ground.)
-
Weather warning:
LATEST:
Met Office shipping forecast now warning of Hurricane Force 12 winds imminent in sea areas Lundy, Fastnet and Irish Sea
-
Very seriously, batten down and evacuate to high ground. Hurricanes yet now!! :o
-
The Met office have extended the Red Warning of wind to include NW
England - eek! Hopefully I far enough inland not to get the worse. I'm
just about on the edge of the red blob on the map.
-
That's scarey, jil. I just checked the maps and I'm farther
away than that from the red bit (further south) - it's still pretty
windy though. Hope you're able to stay safely indoors today and
let it pass over.
-
It's that pub in Dorset again ...
(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/72932000/jpg/_72932066_dorset.jpg)
Take care, everyone.
-
Phew, my brother's area is amber not red. If it goes red he'll
be called in to gold or silver command and if they get twitchy he could
get called in anyway. He'll be put on formal standby anyway, I
suspect. That means that he has to stay sober enough to drive in
if they activate the command centre and keep his mobile switched on.
I'm away from it, thank heavens.
-
Stay safe over there in Britain!
-
New 'SUB-stitution' travel arrangements are in place for South Oxford after the latest deluge:
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/560/erfz.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/fkerfzj)
on 'foot routes only' the situation is bleak:
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/571/knsy.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/fvknsyj)
I am just so grateful not to be living on the SW coasts just now! :( :o
-
This looks terrible. Everyone in Britain, take great care and stay safe.
-
What a mess - good luck all -
-
Not that any reasonable person in the UK could doubt it right now,
but here is a good Guardian article that explains how global warming has
not paused, as some have suggested.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2014/feb/12/global-warming-fake-pause-hiatus-climate-change=
-
That's
scarey, jil. I just checked the maps and I'm farther away than
that from the red bit (further south) - it's still pretty windy
though. Hope you're able to stay safely indoors today and let it
pass over.
Helen, that's definitely my plan! Not too bad so far.
-
Glad to hear it - I've just got back safely from driving to
somewhere I hadn't been before, down some very small (and very wet)
rural roads. On the way there I also had high winds, rain, from
steady to torrential, and hailstones from a very black sky. Then
there was a rainbow, and just as I arrived at my destination the sun
came out - all in about 30 minutes! Weird weather.
-
One of us is safe at least, hope you can now stay warm and dry.
-
"It's that pub in Dorset again ... " Did you want water with your scotch sir?
What about the chap to the right of the pub, I wonder where he is now?
Good luck Jil. I hope Preston misses it as well. 80mph winds have hit Blackpool.
-
Thanks all in Britain for staying in touch.
For a light touch, this came to me thru Facebook. A fun way to exercise lots of people. :)
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=564939543590508
-
;D
-
Could make commuting a lot more fun!
-
Morning OW, a little less blustery today. :)
-
For anyone interested, Dreadnought by Robert Massie is available for
99p on Kindle, today only. If you don't have a Kindle you can download a
free app on your computer.
-
How are our northern and eastern Americans coping with their
weather? It looks pretty grim from the pictures on the BBC.
Meanwhile we've had a day of better weather - but tomorrow it's going to
rain and blow and generally be terrible again.
Hope everyone, wherever they are, is coping with whatever Mother Nature is throwing at them ....
-
For
anyone interested, Dreadnought by Robert Massie is available for 99p on
Kindle, today only. If you don't have a Kindle you can download a free
app on your computer.
Thanks for that! Definitely an opportunity not to be missed.
-
The northern midwest was missed entirely. The deep south and
the Atlantic seaboard were pummeled hard. I'm concerned about
Kathy and others there. Thick ice in the south and 9 to 20 inches
snow in the northeast. They are saying half a million households
lost power.
Another case of both sides of the Atlantic getting swamped together. It's starting out as a very bad year.
-
For
anyone interested, Dreadnought by Robert Massie is available for 99p on
Kindle, today only. If you don't have a Kindle you can download a free
app on your computer.
Thanks for that! Definitely an opportunity not to be missed.
I was to late back up to $8.47 %^(
-
I was trying to add some levity to the comments about 'average' and I guess it lost something in translation! :-[
I
sometimes need to explain to people that I tried being 'Normal' but it
was too boring so I went back to being Me... besides - how would
normal people know they were normal if it weren't for the rest of
us?! :-\
-
Me, I just hated being stereotyped. OK, I am female and I
enjoy handicrafts. I also spent my career in engineering.
I'm sure some of my students would have felt happier if my hobby had
been model railways or something but lacemaking, embroidery, knitting
just didn't fit their pigeon-hole. Me, if it wasn't illegal or
immoral but merely upset their preconceptions then it was their problem
not mine.
-
Me too - I was Quality Control Manager in a factory, dealing mostly
with blue-collar men. My favorite hobbies were embroidery,
needlepoint and piano (which last I enjoyed but was never really good
at.) And then I started doing tai chi. The men never did
figure me out. :D
-
Me,
I just hated being stereotyped. OK, I am female and I enjoy
handicrafts. I also spent my career in engineering. I'm sure
some of my students would have felt happier if my hobby had been model
railways or something but lacemaking, embroidery, knitting just didn't
fit their pigeon-hole. Me, if it wasn't illegal or immoral but
merely upset their preconceptions then it was their problem not mine.
I had to read that first line 3x because it kept looking to me like "OK I am female and I enjoy handcuffs"
Not sure what that says about me....
-
We're in the middle of this snow storm. About 8-9 inches of
snow fell today, followed by some sleet. Another 8 inches are
expected tonight. My cousin in Roanoke, VA, posted a pic of ruler
with snow at 21 inches!
-
Is it possible to start seeing melt in a few days, or are you - like
Chicago - too far north? If you are to have a total of 20" +/- it
will shut everything down anyway.
You keep safe.
-
Morning all.
Happy Valentine's Day.
(http://www.clipartpal.com/_thumbs/pd/plants/flowers/coloured_rose.png)
-
:-*
-
It means you need to get your eyes checked?
-
:D :D :D
-
Nice post WW1 story proving the power of the Internet.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-26174948
-
Wonderful!
-
Lovely story.
-
Me,
I just hated being stereotyped. OK, I am female and I enjoy
handicrafts. I also spent my career in engineering. I'm sure
some of my students would have felt happier if my hobby had been model
railways or something but lacemaking, embroidery, knitting just didn't
fit their pigeon-hole. Me, if it wasn't illegal or immoral but
merely upset their preconceptions then it was their problem not mine.
I had to read that first line 3x because it kept looking to me like "OK I am female and I enjoy handcuffs"
Not sure what that says about me....
One for the 'Mondegreen's File' ??!! ::)
-
Very nice! Thanks for posting it.
-
Great story. I'm so glad the writer survived the war.
Update
from southeastern upstate NY - 12.5 more inches of snow on top of the
driveway we shoveled yesterday, for a total of about 2 feet in the
yard! Thank goodness we have the weekend to find someplace to put
all this snow! Wishing everyone a warm Valentine's Day!
-
I'm female and I do handicrafts too - and several other things as well - no pigeon holes here!
-
Quite. I had one student (male) who was a keen knitter and a brother who made lace. It works both ways for me!!
-
My back yard:
(http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee462/Pwendolk/IMG_0142_zps528e7c3c.jpg)
(http://s1229.photobucket.com/user/Pwendolk/media/IMG_0142_zps528e7c3c.jpg.html)
-
It looks beautiful Kathy, but I expect living with it is rather less so ....
-
And more on the way tonight - :o
It doesn't bother me one bit - the husband and the boy do the shoveling - all I have to do is make hot cocoa ;D
-
Keep on making the hot cocoa and taking the pics, Kathy. :)
-
That sounds an excellent division of labour, Kathy (or even labor). Stay inside and warm :D
-
That is definitely a Big Snow. You and yours stay warm and safe.
-
I'm a stitcher, too - I wonder if there is a correlation between enjoying a project like OW and also enjoying needlework?
-
Keep the cocoa going, Kathy, and stay warm!
-
Count me in the scientist-and-fiber-arts group! My co-workers
in the field knew where to find a needle and thread when they needed
one. And small crochet hooks were great at rescuing slides stuck
in the carousel. OK, I'm really dating myself with that last one.
-
Yes, that makes sense - I thought I'd done more on OW than they'd recorded.
However
I have to say I give the lie to the link between OW and needlework -
couldn't wait to give it up at school, and can just about sew a button
back on or put up a (simple) hem.
-
However
I have to say I give the lie to the link between OW and needlework -
couldn't wait to give it up at school, and can just about sew a button
back on or put up a (simple) hem.
Actually
I hated needlework at school as well! I only rediscovered it much
later in life. I think Randi's correct in saying that both
pastimes require patience and attention to detail.
-
Count
me in the scientist-and-fiber-arts group! My co-workers in the
field knew where to find a needle and thread when they needed one.
And small crochet hooks were great at rescuing slides stuck in the
carousel. OK, I'm really dating myself with that last one.
I'm old enough! I used a dental pick - never thought of the crochet hook! ::)
Mom
taught me to sew, iron, fix tears, etc. VERY THANKFUL for that. The
'Yachties' in our Club know I can do sail repair and this winter I sewed
new curtains for the boat. I'll hang them when we get ready to launch
in April. Did I hear 'Suzzie Homaker??!!' 8)
-
Stay safe Kathy!
WOW! For YOU that's CATASTROPHIC. For us up
here in western New York State near Niagara Falls that's a 'normal
afternoon.' We are up to 70" (175cm) for the season. A 'normal' one
around here is 110" (275cm) or so. Haven't seen one of those in several
years so we find this 'interesting!'
-
WOW! For YOU that's CATASTROPHIC.
Cocoa or snow? ;D
-
I'm old enough to remember carting around glass slides which were
manually loaded into the holder which held two slides, one projected and
one ready. You needed a projectionist and you had to settle on
the cue for the next slide. A box of slides really weighed down
your luggage and had to be handled with great care because it was so
easy to scratch them.
The handicraft I struggled with was
tatting, I managed simple motifs but I never produced anything bigger
because I always seemed to get it twisted so it would not lie
flat. Frustrating because it was so easy to pack into handbags for
traveling and if you had the right shuttle that was all you needed.
Unlike knitting or crochet you could do it on flights. The major
drawback of lacemaking is the effort it takes to transport - if you get
the packing wrong you can end up with several dozen threads all tangled
up together and it can take you an age to disentangle them and work out
where you were in the pattern.
-
Tried tatting, crochet, and knitting - well, the less said, the better :P
I
do bead work - I make jewelry and beaded bookmarks (I designed one for
OW, using an anchor charm and blue, red, white, and orange beads - the
colors for O and W in signal flags ;D ). I make Christmas ornaments too -
(I have done some sewing, but bead work is what I really enjoy) -
-
I had fun knitting, but I never made much ::)
(lots of test swatches and experiments ;D)
It was more something to keep my hands busy.
I did a little bit of tatting, but I could never get the hang of crocheting.
-
The Zooniverse has 1 million members! Huzzah!
Did this happen today Hanibal? :o 8) 8) 8) :)
Crafts:
my mum was an haute couturist in her early days. So me and my sister
learnt to sew from very early on. I knitted my first piece of work at
age 5 - a hot water bottle cover made of lilac and purple nylon 'wool'
which IS STILL in use (albeit a bit thin these days, 50 years on). She
always said that I was cack-handed (a messy worker doing things the
wrong way around). However, about 10 years ago it suddenly came to me
why she thought my sewing was weird, she sat next to my sister on the
sofa to teach us hand work, I had to sit on the floor in front of
her..so I work 'upside down'. And she was a real tartar about work
- can't tell you how many seams I had to unpick in the early days..I
used to weep floods of tears in sheer frustration and anger. A few years
ago her back had become so badly bent over with age and elderly bones
that no clothes would fit, so I designed a whole set of dresses and
blouses and skirts that would sit smartly over her twisted frame. She
went to meet her maker dressed in the yellow primrose frock. And then I
thanked her for all those miserable moments - learning the job properly
was indeed worth the effort.
I run the (rather small) craft
session at work on Thursday lunch times. I do think that a lot of why I
enjoy crafts links in with OW....attention to detail - a useful outcome
for my efforts.
PS - anyone into nalbinding?
-
;D ;D ;D
-
Fascinating - I'd never heard of that before; it sounds possible for
me, I could never hold tension to do decent knitting or crochet.
There are how-to links at the end, I might give it a try.
naalebinding (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A5lebinding) :)
-
My knitting group has been wanting to learn tatting. Maybe
I'll add naalebinding, too, especially if it doesn't unravel! ;D
-
Now the arthritis in my fingers is getting worse that is one to
investigate. Could even do kids sessions at the local museums if I
get any good - they've got some Coptic socks but I think they are
labelled 'knitted'. Next time I get over there I'll check.
-
Naalebinding - That's another thing to add to the very long list of things I've learnt from OW!
I
used to knit until I realised that I didn't really like wearing
knitwear. ::) I still do bits of cross-stitch and other embroidery
and had a go at lace making some time ago after being fascinated by
watching lace makers when I was on holiday on Malta - usually little old
ladies sitting on their doorstep. I'm currently learning about willow
weaving.
-
It is good to know there are so many people here who appreciate handicrafts :)
I can say I enjoy most of them, possibly crochet is not my cup of tea :) but I like tunisian crocheting :)
I do cross stitch, knitting and quilting regularly :) :)
-
never heard of tunisian crochet...just looked it up - nice one lollia! :D
-
Never heard of tunisian crocheting either.
In fact, I don't have a clue when it comes to all this fancy knitting stuff, since I'm young and male.
I'm more into computer programming, which is a different form of crafting all together.
P.S.
Shouldn't this discussion of knitting and other hobbies be moved to the
Dockside cafe? Methinks it's way too off topic to be in the news
section.
-
To all OWers on the other side of the pond - stay safe and warm.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26203675
-
Sheriff
Scott Berry declared all men in the area were exempt from having to buy
chocolate or other gifts for their partners until next Tuesday.
Best excuse ever! ;D
-
Sheriff
Scott Berry declared all men in the area were exempt from having to buy
chocolate or other gifts for their partners until next Tuesday.
Best excuse ever! ;D
If anyone thinks they are going to get off free, they are going to be hip deep in trouble come Tuesday. >:(
-
P.S.
Shouldn't this discussion of knitting and other hobbies be moved to the
Dockside cafe? Methinks it's way too off topic to be in the news
section.
You are right. DONE.
-
I used to do Rug Hooking with strips of felt and a piece of sacking to make floor mats.
(They where nowhere near as fancy as the ones shown when you look them up on TFSE.)
-
My grandmother had rugs made from cut up old coats, trousers and
skirts hooked into sackcloth. By upbringing and necessity she
belonged to the 'waste not, want not' school of housewifery.
-
I did a one day course on making rag rugs - interesting, but I
decided it was going to take me a long, long time to make even a small
rug!
-
I did a couple of rugs with cut up wool on canvas which wasn't too
bad but a bit tough on the fingers. The rag rugs looked really
hard work though and I decided that this wasn't for me although the
recycling aspect appeals.
-
Good morning all.
In this part of the world, we are delighted to greet a new day of sunshine and NO wind.
On
the handicrafts front, I have made many stuffed toys (Teddy bears and
other kinds of animals, a few dolls), wooden automata from kits ...
I have made articles of clothing too (including a man's shirt; never again) and curtains and cushion covers.
I would rather make pictures though.
-
I'm glad you make pictures, Caro - they're more possible to share with the rest of us ... :) :)
-
Cannot remember if I shared this link with you before but just in case.
http://matadornetwork.com/bnt/60-insane-cloud-formations-from-around-the-world-pics/
(http://matadornetwork.com/bnt/60-insane-cloud-formations-from-around-the-world-pics/)
-
http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=2988.msg47576#msg47576 ;)
-
To all our UK friends.. We hope you are above water and safe!!
You have made the National Network News each night for the last several.
We are keeping you in our thoughts and Prayers.
Please let us know if there is anything we can do (besides "Rain, Rain, go away come again some other day....")
-
Thanks Dean - the weather does finally seem to be improving
somewhat, and the number of severe flood warnings has decreased
dramatically. The problem for the next while seems likely to be
groundwater; with the ground so saturated any amount of water could
flood or re-flood at risk areas for weeks or even months.
And of course there are still flooded areas, especially in Somerset - and a huge amount of clearing up to do.
-
A weighted butt gives chickens a dinosaur strut
(https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/scicurious/weighted-butt-gives-chickens-dinosaur-strut)
-
A
weighted butt gives chickens a dinosaur strut
(https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/scicurious/weighted-butt-gives-chickens-dinosaur-strut)
Weird alert! Ummmm...and the practical application of this is...???????
Joan (SMILE)
-
A
weighted butt gives chickens a dinosaur strut
(https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/scicurious/weighted-butt-gives-chickens-dinosaur-strut)
Weird alert! Ummmm...and the practical application of this is...???????
Joan (SMILE)
An Ig Nobel Prize for Biology?
-
;D
-
;D ;D ;D
-
Did anybody in Britain feel this?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-26277432
-
Did anybody in Britain feel this?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-26277432
It shook the Met Office (Exeter) quite noticeably. No damage, though.
-
That's interesting, Philip - I didn't notice a thing! I think I
would have been in my car at the time - perhaps it's less noticeable in
something that would move with the tremor?
-
perhaps it's less noticeable in something that would move with the tremor?
Most
surely! I live in a country where earth is shaking every now and then
(lately we've had a lot of little tremors and a few damaging quakes).
When
you're moving in a car, the magnitude has to be relatively high (you'd
see at least some damage to structures) to be noticeable.
-
Thanks - it's good to have an explanation!
-
I see nobody else has commented on the most important news of the day:
http://bit.ly/1d6ifHZ
-
It was a thrilling game. :)
Congrats Canada, commiserations US.
-
oh THAT important news - I thought you meant the women's curling
team! (not the Canadian winners - the UK team coming third) ;) ;) 8) ;D
-
Quote Joan.
" I thought you meant the women's curling team!"
I did not know they did Hairdressing in the winter Olympics. ???
-
Wasn't that a brilliant comeback? When Canada pulled it's goalie
there was a shot on goal that glanced off the goal post. Had it gone in
that would have been game over.
-
Great game! Congrats, Canada!
-
;D
-
Quote Joan.
" I thought you meant the women's curling team!"
I did not know they did Hairdressing in the winter Olympics. ???
Next Olympics they'll bring in Freestyle Beehives, Stuart. Men and Women's. ;) 8) ;D
-
In today's Guardian:
(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/2/20/1392925141078/Borth-forest-remains-Card-011.jpg)
Gales
hitting the west coast of Wales have uncovered these oak, pine, birch
and alder trees dating to 6,000 years ago. Photograph: Keith Morris/LNP
A
prehistoric forest, an eerie landscape including the trunks of hundreds
of oaks that died more than 4,500 years ago, has been revealed by the
ferocious storms which stripped thousands of tons of sand from beaches
in Cardigan Bay.
The forest of Borth once stretched for miles on
boggy land between Borth and Ynyslas, before climate change and rising
sea levels buried it under layers of peat, sand and saltwater.
-
Amazing!!!! ;D
-
The stakes for today's hockey game are scarily high
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bg86QivCMAALFvU.jpg)
-
:o ;D
-
Now THAT is what I call motivation! Good one! ;D ;D
-
Ooooo. ;D
-
;D -please take him -
8) - that is so cool about the forest - it is a shame that it took such a disastrous storm to uncover the trunks -
WOW - I did not know there were earthquakes in that part of the world.
-
Fantastic forest - really neat! :D
-
8) about the forest! I hope the storms stop before it, too, is washed away!
-
It seems other people have had trouble with hard to read handwriting:
200 year old typo (http://www.yukon-news.com/life/the-case-of-the-200-year-old-typo)
Michael
-
Tricky inaccurate transcriptions? ;D
-
;D
-
Glad we're carrying on the tradition of not being able to decide if someone's crossing their 't's or not.
-
Interesting. Just to play devil's advocate (one of my
favourite hobbies) does it matter what the original intention was?
If the "l" spelling has become customary usage, isn't that it's
name? How many variations in spelling of placenames do we see in
all our logbooks? For example, when and why did the Mull of
Cantyre become the Mull of Kintyre? (Google has been no help on
this one.)
-
And remember, for most of history there was no standardized
spelling. So lots of people just wrote down the phonetics of what
they heard. Which varies depending on the accent of the
speaker. English spelling (both sides of the Atlantic) is a mess.
Just to make the situation stickier. ;)
-
Winter strikes again. Fourth snowstorm of this winter. Happily, or
maybe not, we were able to get the car out of the driveway and go to the
gym. :( Will this winter never end?
-
:o Happy shovelling - DON'T overdo it!! ;) ;D ;D
-
My latest New Scientist arrived yesterday. (22 Feb
1893 2014)
Front cover.
Special Report
ABANDON OR ADAPT?
The future of Englands green and flooded land.
-
It seems other people have had trouble with hard to read handwriting:
200 year old typo (http://www.yukon-news.com/life/the-case-of-the-200-year-old-typo)
Michael
Well, at least I have more hair than my namesake.
J.S.Franklin
-
At last -
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=777_1392789840 (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=777_1392789840)
-
Thank you for finding that for us. :)
-
Coooool.
-
;D
-
No more curling, please.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/evNi4_2qHPY
It's raining!
-
Caro! Finally, somebody has found a good use for a cat!
-
And aren't they adorable?! :)
-
That was a very restrained respomse to a disparaging comment
about our feline friends, Caro. I expected to receive a
tongue-lashing at least.
:o
-
How about this one:
(http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/4/9/5/168495.jpg?v=1)
Click here for more info (http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981596861)
-
Not quite as striking, but this is the best I can do in the way of
cats with unusual facial markings. This is YingYang, currently
available for adoption!
-
Both are striking and beautiful - and made me smile :D
-
One more:
(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/4502670848/hA0F43373/)
-
:D :D :D
-
UK storms: World War One wreck revealed on beach (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-26352355)
-
Oh look, it is snowing.... :o
-
oh no!
-
where?
-
Good luck, Kathy! We survived several snowstorms this winter, and I'm sure you can do the same. Be brave! ;)
-
I'm in Maryland, outside of DC, this has been our snowiest winter
since Snowmaggedon and the Snowpocalpyse. Oh well, it is pretty on
the trees. :P
-
Get the hot chocolate on, and send out the men to get clearing!
-
;D
I think the sun will take of this batch - but I might just make hot cocoa anyway - it is still cold!
-
Chicago is on its second day of bright sun in clear blue sky - and
below-zero wind chill. The are calling it "arctic drift" this time
as it looks like a broad front this time, not a tight vortex that
pushes warm up around it into the north.
I am very very tired of this winter, nobody is having it easy.
-
One more:
(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/4502670848/hA0F43373/)
There
is, of course, a whole website devoted to Cats That Look Like
Hitler! See
http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/cgi-bin/seigmiaow.pl
-
I wonder if Planet Hunters had a hand in this -
http://news.yahoo.com/population-known-alien-planets-nearly-doubles-nasa-discovers-191250870.html
-
I'm very certain yes. I'd feel miffed at Zooniverse not being
mentioned, except no scientist or team got mentioned. So we are in
good company.
-
Interesting interactive map appeared on the ABC site a couple of
days ago (that's 'our' ABC, not your version!). It shows
Australia-wide rainfall for every year from 1900 to 2013.
Interesting viewing, particularly the contrasts between 1902, 1940,
1950, 1973/74, 1994, 2002 and 2010/11.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-26/100-years-of-drought/5282030
(http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-26/100-years-of-drought/5282030)
-
Amazing variations. You never really know what you will be getting long term. Thanks for sharing.
-
The interview with Dr Karl Wheelbarrow I found interesting.
-
Hello OW.
More interesting news on the climate-change front: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26340038
-
One more:
(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/4502670848/hA0F43373/)
There
is, of course, a whole website devoted to Cats That Look Like
Hitler! See
http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/cgi-bin/seigmiaow.pl
There's
lots of weird stuff (http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26343700) on
the Internet, if you know where to look. I like the Birds With Arms.
-
:o
Hmmm...do some people with PaintShopPro on their computers have too much time on their hands? ;)
-
::)
They could do something more useful with all that time... ;)
-
I think the cats on the Cats That Look Like Hitler site are genuine - no PhotoShop involved!
-
Yeah, but these are definitely not real - I hope!
(http://www.iywib.com/birds_with_arms5.jpg)
(http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEzLzAxLzAyLzUxL2JpcmRzd2l0aGFyLjMwYWU4LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTEyMDB4OTYwMD4/1c8017f9/6f4/birds-with-arms-1200.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/iiIGOQt.jpg)
(http://brojsimpson.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/animal-human-arms-10.jpg)
-
I hope so too! ;D
-
Yeah, but these are definitely not real - I hope!
(http://www.iywib.com/birds_with_arms5.jpg)
Looks like A-Rod's been tossing gummy bears off the Staton Island Ferry again.
I promise that makes sense in America.
-
Where did they get my arms from?
(not me) ::)
-
Greetings all.
Aurora borealis put on quite a show for a large part of the UK last night.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26378027
I live too far south to have seen any of this.
-
Greetings all.
Aurora borealis put on quite a show for a large part of the UK last night.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26378027
I live too far south to have seen any of this.
Fabulous!
My god-daughter lives in Stonehaven...lucky her! :D
-
Great pics!
I didn't look outside last night so don't know if I missed them :'(
-
I would love to see the aurora borealis :'(
-
Ditto but I've always lived too close to cities to see them.
So unless I am very, very lucky on holiday I won't see them. One day
maybe.
-
Been a while since I last posted a heartwarming story of homeless
people getting help, but I finally found another one.
(http://vimeo.com/85667492) Enjoy!
-
I loved the pictures of the northern lights - just as good as the
ones in the Yukon. Living in the Yukon had it's benefits and challenges.
The challenge is best illustrated by this photo i took on our street in
Whitehorse in January, 1996, at solar noon with a temperature of -46C
(-51F). The benefits were, among other things, the northern lights. The
northern lights photo wasn't taken by me. It is on the Dempster Highway,
along the Richardson Mountains. Enjoy!
-
Stunning. Absolutely gorgeous country up there. :)
-
There are mountains in my Heaven -
-
Good morning all.
Happy St David's Day, Wales. :)
-
(Sing along...) "Oh the sun is a-shining to welcome the morn, with a
Hey! Ho! come to the fair..." Bright and lovely in Oxfordshire this
morning. Real sense of spring just around the corner. Daffodils
just breaking cover...
And mentioning that delightful flower...for those in the west:
-
New in OWpedia (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=3209.0):
SHIPLOADING
- A Picture-Dictionary of Shiploading Terms - US Navy 1945
(http://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/s/shiploading-picture-dictionary.html)
Definitions with pictures!
-
Definitely a super land-lubbers guide to naval jargon.
-
:o :D :o
Definitely what i was looking for!!
Thank you Randi
-
Ooooo. What's at the bottom of the 7,000m-deep trench?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26373896
-
Woah. Very interesting!
Anybody up for a game of golf? (http://safeshare.tv/w/lNQxKkFRoZ)
-
Woah. Very interesting!
Anybody up for a game of golf? (http://safeshare.tv/w/lNQxKkFRoZ)
Well - that's reason 595 out of 1000 for working on OW. ;) 8) ;D
-
Ooooo. What's at the bottom of the 7,000m-deep trench?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26373896
Something you really would not want to meet on a dark night! :o
-
Looking out into my back yard and what do I see...more snow
yea....
-
:o Oh, Kathy, my sympathies! We here in SE
NY escaped this latest round of snow and still have almost a foot
on the ground thanks to this persistent freezing weather.
Good luck!
-
Weather yesterday in Sydney.
-
Nice roll cloud.
-
That's quite a dark storm moving in. Take care.
-
See also.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/spectacular-tsunami-of-cloud-rolls-across-sydney/story-fni0cx4q-1226846159785
(http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/spectacular-tsunami-of-cloud-rolls-across-sydney/story-fni0cx4q-1226846159785)
Short but quite effective.
-
Wow. What a cloud! Thanks for posting, Stuart.
Sunny and almost like spring here.
-
How would you describe that cloudy day in the logs?
-
How would you describe that cloudy day in the logs?
gtsdbtb (get the sails down, back to bed) ::)
-
See also.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/spectacular-tsunami-of-cloud-rolls-across-sydney/story-fni0cx4q-1226846159785
(http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/spectacular-tsunami-of-cloud-rolls-across-sydney/story-fni0cx4q-1226846159785)
Short but quite effective.
:o :o :o Really impressive
gtsdbtb (get the sails down, back to bed) ::)
;D
-
;D ;D
-
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/the-captain-of-the-queen-mary-2-gets-close-to-his-ship-like-never-before/story-e6freon6-1226847012274
:o
-
Wow :o 8)
-
Neat!!!
-
Several mentions for Citizen Science on Radio 4's Inside Science
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03ws21x) program this afternoon
(repeated at 21:00 for those in UK) - Bat Detective and weather@home
-
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/the-captain-of-the-queen-mary-2-gets-close-to-his-ship-like-never-before/story-e6freon6-1226847012274
:o
One
of the ladies I used to work with - her husband was Senior Captain with
Cunnard. He was offered the Queen Mary but being near retirement he
chose to stay with the QE 2. He said the QM was 'quite a ship!'
Looks like he was 'quite right!!' ;D
-
One for you Dean (and others)
http://digital-photography-school.com/39-stunning-photos-boats (http://digital-photography-school.com/39-stunning-photos-boats)
-
USS Truxton:
http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=3513.msg68047#msg68047
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/03/07/uk-ukraine-crisis-usa-warship-idUKBREA260ZB20140307
-
Interesting bit of trivia: While checking Wikipedia, I noticed the
following in the "Did you know" section (bottom left of main page):
Did
you know.... that HMS Vindictive (1918)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Vindictive_(1918)) served as four
different types of ship?
I
checked the article, and it turns out they were wrong... she actually
served as FIVE different types - aircraft carrier, heavy cruiser,
training ship, repair ship, and finally a destroyer depot ship.
Now that's some career diversity!
-
A highly useful and well used ship. :)
-
;D
-
Good morning/afternoon everyone.
Today the convention is that
we advance our clocks one hour. I will resist as long as possible, even
though my computers got reset automatically. Determination and
perseverance are required. At least nobody is fiddling with the sun earth, so far. ;D
-
I don't have to make the change until March 30th. Click here
(http://www.worldtimezone.com/daylight.html) for worldwide details.
One
thing that strikes me as odd is that parts of Canada, Mexico and the US
don't follow DST, even though most of the country does. ??? ???
-
Yes, Saskatchewan is a holdout. I suppose it was originally because
they were mostly farmers (although so were Alberta and Manitoba).
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/daylight-saving-time/canada/saskatchewan/
-
It's not federally mandated - states and territories get to choose in the US.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_the_United_States
Most
areas of the United States currently observe daylight saving time
(DST), the exceptions being Arizona (except for the Navajo Nation, which
does observe daylight saving time), Hawaii, and the overseas
territories of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana
Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands.
Arizona observed
DST in 1967 under the Uniform Time Act because the state legislature did
not enact an exemption statute that year. In March 1968 the DST
exemption statute was enacted and the state of Arizona has not observed
DST since 1967. This is in large part due to energy conservation:
Phoenix and Tucson are among the hottest US metropolitan areas during
the summer, resulting in more power usage from air conditioning units
and evaporative coolers in homes and businesses. An extra hour of
sunlight while people are active would cause people to run their cooling
systems longer, thereby using more energy.[14] The summer of 1967 was
the one year that DST was observed. The State Senate Majority leader at
the time[citation needed] owned drive-in theaters and was nearly
bankrupted due to DST, as movies could not start until 10:00 p.m. at the
height of summer, well past normal hours for most Arizona residents.
There has never been any serious consideration of reversing the
exemption.[citation needed]
The Navajo Indian Reservation, which
extends into two adjacent states, Utah and New Mexico, does observe
daylight saving time.[15] The Hopi Reservation, which is entirely within
the state of Arizona and is an enclave of the Navajo Indian
Reservation, does not observe DST.
Because of Hawaii's tropical
latitude, there is not a large variation in daylight length between
winter and summer. Advancing the clock in Hawaii would make sunrise
times close to 7:00 a.m. even in June.[21] Most of the inhabited islands
are located close to the west end of the Hawaii-Aleutian time zone, but
Oahu, Kauai, and Niihau are located more than 7 degrees west of the
Hawaii-Aleutian time zone's meridian and should, theoretically, be
located in the next time zone to the west. (Until about 1946 Hawaiian
standard time was based on longitude 157.5 deg west rather than 150
deg.) ... Hawaii has never observed daylight saving time under the
Uniform Time Act, having opted out of the Act's provisions in 1967.[24]
All
U.S. insular territories with civilian government (American Samoa,
Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands),
lie in the tropics and do not observe DST.
While neighboring Samoa
began observing DST in September 2010, the smaller American Samoa cannot
legally follow because of the DST observation period mandated by the
Uniform Time Act. This period is actually wintertime in this Southern
Hemisphere territory.
-
Same down-under, some states use DST and others not.
(I think some people think DST fades the curtains.) ;D
New
South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria, Tasmania and
South Australia observe DST every year. This has resulted in three time
zones becoming five during the daylight-saving period. (DST is shown
below)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Australia-Timezones-Daylight.png/300px-Australia-Timezones-Daylight.png)
-
The following article appeared in the Canberra Times this morning on the the summer just finished;
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/environment/weather/angry-summers-will-just-get-madder-scientists-warn-20140309-34fhr.html
(http://www.canberratimes.com.au/environment/weather/angry-summers-will-just-get-madder-scientists-warn-20140309-34fhr.html)
I
also read this morning (but I can't find the reference now) that,
despite the rather chilly goings-on in parts of the US and Canada
recently, the US has just had its 4th warmest January on record.
(cue sweating emoticon)
-
(cue sweating emoticon)
(https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTctk5MxBcKOjrztwHQ6vUQC3DFjr3ufdByJpCvkA-F_8SYO3Mjtw)
-
The following article appeared in the Canberra Times this morning on the the summer just finished;
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/environment/weather/angry-summers-will-just-get-madder-scientists-warn-20140309-34fhr.html
(http://www.canberratimes.com.au/environment/weather/angry-summers-will-just-get-madder-scientists-warn-20140309-34fhr.html)
I
also read this morning (but I can't find the reference now) that,
despite the rather chilly goings-on in parts of the US and Canada
recently, the US has just had its 4th warmest January on record.
(cue sweating emoticon)
Googling got me this. Not in the US or Canada (http://www.weather.gov/cle/climate_Jan2014) - globally. Your summer undoubtedly had something to do with that.
http://www.wunderground.com/news/january-4th-warmest-record-continuing-warming-trend-20140220
Globally,
Earth had its fourth warmest January this year since modern temperature
record-keeping began in 1880, according to a report released Thursday
by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
In
January, the global average temperature ? the combined temperature of
both land and ocean surfaces ? was 54.8?F, or about 1.17?F above the
20th century average of 53.6?F.
At the same time, if you ask
anyone living in the eastern half of the United States, they?re likely
to tell you this winter has been brutal. This was particularly true in
January, when temperatures dipped below -40?F in International Falls,
Minn., and many parts of the Deep South reached the single digits.
...
-
I cannot put the URl up as it contains a word some may find offensive.
But,
New App Crunches Scientific Data While You Sleep
(http://www.iflscience.com/sites/www.iflscience.com/files/styles/ifls_large/public/blog/%5Bnid%5D/samsung%20power%20sleep.png?itok=_b9Tf0V8)
photo credit: Samsung/Power Sleep
Claus
Adams from the University of Vienna noticed that computers aren?t the
only devices able to develop cancer treatments or study climate patterns
while the user is away; smartphones are able to get quite a bit of work
done as well. He approached Samsung with his idea for an app that would
work a lot like BOINC and help facilitate research. They were
immediately receptive, and Power Sleep was born.
-
Watch: Amazing Visualization Of Arctic Ice Over The Last 25 Years
(http://www.iflscience.com/sites/www.iflscience.com/files/styles/ifls_large/public/blog/%5Bnid%5D/arctic%20ice.jpg?itok=pPV_6KPU)
February 19, 2014 | by Lisa Winter
photo credit: NOAA/Mark Tschudi
Yesterday,
IFLScience shared a video showing the largest glacial calving event
ever recorded on film, as three square miles of thick ice broke off and
fell into the ocean. It was met with a lot of skepticism, with many
unsure of how one chunk would affect the overall well-being of the
planet. With impeccable timing, a video produced by the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) was presented this past week at
the 2014 Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS), which helps put into perspective how an isolated glacier
calving is related to long-term loss of Arctic ice with very real
consequences.
Since January of 1987, NOAA has been tracking the
volume of ice up in the Arctic using a combination of satellite data and
buoys which provided physical markers of glacier boundaries. The 25
years? worth of data was put together into a jaw-dropping animated video
which shows all those years compressed into only one minute.
While
area is an important factor of measuring levels of Arctic ice, it can
be somewhat misleading. Last fall, reports of a 29% increase in area of
ice in the Arctic swept certain news outlets as they erroneously claimed
the Arctic had rebounded and claims of climate change were wrong.
Unfortunately, new ice means thin ice. When ice has been present for
several years, it has enough time to freeze additional layers and create
a thick and stable glacier. Young, thin ice is easily melted away,
especially in the increasingly-warm conditions that now face the Arctic.
Not
all glaciers are bobbing around the ocean, without particularly
affecting sea levels at all. Much of the ice, especially the thicker,
older ice, is tied up on land. As the glaciers melt and the water runs
off into the ocean, increases in sea level become incredibly problematic
for people living on islands or shorelines.
Adding to the
problem, wildlife that depend on thick Arctic ice to rest or escape
predators are forced to go on land where they are in closer proximity to
humans. For animals that startle easily such as walruses, this could
have devastating effects. Because they live in herds containing several
thousand members, if they get spooked and start to stampede back into
the water, smaller walruses will be in danger of getting trampled to
death.
Unfortunately, the loss of ice in the Arctic is going to
compound the heating problem. With less bright white ice and snow to
reflect the sunlight, the dark blue water will absorb more light and
heat, expediting the loss of ice.
NOAA ranks the age of the ice
on a scale of 1-9. Ice that is less than one year old is given a 1 while
ice that is at least 9 years old receives a 9. In the video, the newer
ice is denoted with dark blue and the older ice is shown as white, with a
variable scale showing the different numbers in between. As you can
see, the older ice is being shuffled away from the land into the ocean,
where it will melt and add to the global sea level. At the beginning of
the video, old and thick ice covered over a quarter of the Arctic. As of
2013, it has fallen to a meager 7 percent.
Video clip (http://www.youtube.com/embed/H-BbPBg3vj8)
-
very scary.
-
ouch! That's very sobering stuff..... :o :(
-
If only it would sober the politicians.
-
"... sober the politicians."
Does that have the same degree of difficulty as teaching puppies synchronised swimming?
:o
-
I think puppies could be trained to do that. Of course, it requires a clear message and rewards for obedience. ;D
-
500 pages of Chat!
-
A magnificent achievement, chatterers! Don't stop now. :)
-
A magnificent achievement, chatterers! Don't stop now. :)
500 pages of Chat!
I've been watching that number come closer and closer!
My, we ARE a 'chatty' group.
Maybe THIS will be the first of Page 501! ;)
-
A magnificent achievement, chatterers! Don't stop now. :)
500 pages of Chat!
I've been watching that number come closer and closer!
My, we ARE a 'chatty' group.
Maybe THIS will be the first of Page 501! ;)
Sorry, not quite :(
-
I'm giving a talk - perhaps modeled on Ch. Egr. Melville's 3 hour
discourse? - at U of Western Ontario in London (Ont.) May 12th.
-
That should be entertaining. Will you be talking about the Jeannette expedition, or one of your own?
-
As part of the Canberra Day celebrations (and holiday, of course)
every year, there is a hot air balloon festival. Most of the
balloons are rather conventional; some are, shall we say, slightly more
eccentric.
This morning, the commuter traffic on one of the main
arterial roads was disrupted by the unexpected landing of 'Pegleg Pete',
the pirate parrot.
More happy snaps at
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/photogallery/act-news/parrot-down-at-balloon-spectacular-20140311-34ja4.html?aggregate=&selectedImage=0
(http://www.canberratimes.com.au/photogallery/act-news/parrot-down-at-balloon-spectacular-20140311-34ja4.html?aggregate=&selectedImage=0).
-
He'd be a hit at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade!
-
He's great. ;D
-
What a wonderful interruption.
-
Mad parrot - I really like it! ;D
-
On an unrelated note, and because it bears repeating on this board
Cats are evil (http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/03/11/22pound_cat_attacks_baby_traps_owners_in_bedroom.html)
-
their dog will never be able to lift its head in public again.... :o ;D
-
I love the way they've subtitled the cat on the 911 call. ;D
-
On an unrelated note, and because it bears repeating on this board
Cats are evil (http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/03/11/22pound_cat_attacks_baby_traps_owners_in_bedroom.html)
Woah. I've taken scratches from three different cats, but never anything like that.
Here's (http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=dR_LHlFwlhk) another wild kitty.
-
"Iz do NOT do leashes"
-
I suspect Pinky may not find a new home soon .... :(
-
This should be a fascinating 24 hours in beautiful Niagara Falls, New York. ::)
Sunny with Current Temp 50F (12C). 8)
The
next 24 hours are supposed to bring temps around 30 (-2C) and 12 - 16"
(30-40cms.) snow. It starts with rain tonight and then shifts to snow
near dawn ::)
This winter may never end. ???
Stay tuned!
-
I got this from a Facebook friend. Pure exhilarating surprise fun.
Orca Whales Chase A Speed Boat (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151690809714364)
-
That was great (apart from woman going on and on about her friend up top).
I wonder if it was the Orca version of the seals riding the bow wave.
-
I suspect Pinky may not find a new home soon .... :(
Might have been a good idea if they'd leash-trained the cat first! ::)
And as for:
On an unrelated note, and because it bears repeating on this board
Cats are evil (http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/03/11/22pound_cat_attacks_baby_traps_owners_in_bedroom.html)
If
you read between the lines, I suspect the cat would behave a lot better
in a home where the child wasn't allowed to pull its tail. Most bad-tempered cats have been made that way by the humans they've had the misfortune to live with.
-
Cats are good predators equipped to kill - if he had wanted to attack the baby, there would have been more than one swipe administered.
A
long time ago, some friends of mine showed up at church one Sunday with
their 2-year-old who had a big scratch down his cheek. When
everyone wanted to know what happened, the answer was, "He was learning
why it is not a good idea to pull the kitty's tail." This kitty
got pulled and then kicked by big adult feet. Maybe the kitty is
the one that needs rescuing?
-
Or you could look at how cats & dogs teach their offspring to
use stairs (http://www.youtube.com/embed/pgiVPQpI2dI) (youtube popup)
Cats are evil
-
I remember taking a couple of cactus spines out of our cat's paw. She did not try to bite or claw me.
-
Stop trying to get cat lovers to agree with you, Asterix, and we cat
lovers will not try to convert you to our POV. And don't compare a
mama and her puppy in unedited film with 2 adult cats in a greatly
edited clip.
Not a matter of truth here, just advice on
maintaining friendship with good people who disagree. Remember, if
everyone liked (or hated) the same things, it would be a very boring
world. So enjoy the differences.
-
Or
you could look at how cats & dogs teach their offspring to use
stairs (http://www.youtube.com/embed/pgiVPQpI2dI) (youtube popup)
Cats are evil
I just laughed my head off! ;D ;D ;D
-
This should be a fascinating 24 hours in beautiful Niagara Falls, New York. ::)
Sunny with Current Temp 50F (12C). 8)
The
next 24 hours are supposed to bring temps around 30 (-2C) and 12 - 16"
(30-40cms.) snow. It starts with rain tonight and then shifts to snow
near dawn ::)
This winter may never end. ???
Stay tuned!
Take
care out there with all that snow and cold weather, Dean! You're
really getting the brunt of it. By the way, is it true that the
falls froze? Probably the American side, I imagine.
-
The question made me curious, and this is from USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/03/06/niagara-falls-frozen-moving/6122507/
Me
too - and beautiful 50F blue-sky day yesterday, up to 8 inches of white
stuff tonight and tomorrow. I'm really very tired of this winter.
-
The ice DID get pretty thick but with the flow it won't stop!
Got covered over pretty good so people THOUGHT it did.
It hasn't been this 'covered' in several years.
Check it out any time: http://www.earthcam.com/canada/niagarafalls/
-
just checked it whilst you EST-ers are all snoozling in bed - almost
looks like rain is falling on the webcam. Temp is 37F so it might
well be rain. Can't see the falls too well in the dark
-
Stop
trying to get cat lovers to agree with you, Asterix, and we cat lovers
will not try to convert you to our POV. And don't compare a mama
and her puppy in unedited film with 2 adult cats in a greatly edited
clip.
Not a matter of truth here, just advice on maintaining
friendship with good people who disagree. Remember, if everyone
liked (or hated) the same things, it would be a very boring world.
So enjoy the differences.
I second that. If I can keep my opinions on cartoon ponies to myself, you can keep your opinion on cats to yourself, buster.
-
Thanks, Hanibal!
No one has to like cats, cartoon ponies, or
moderators. However, people should either keep their opinions to
themselves or express them with respect for other people's feelings and
opinions.
-
just
checked it whilst you EST-ers are all snoozling in bed - almost looks
like rain is falling on the webcam. Temp is 37F so it might well
be rain. Can't see the falls too well in the dark
Rain
at 7:00am EDT - the snow was just starting. We'll see what develops. At
the moment most of the things in the area have either closed or will.
-
Congratulations everybody!
We have transcribed 1 MILLION WR since July 2012!
Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah!
-
(http://www.desismileys.com/smileys/desismileys_2593.gif)
-
(http://www.smileyvault.com/albums/userpics/10902/congrats.gif)
-
The
question made me curious, and this is from USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/03/06/niagara-falls-frozen-moving/6122507/
Me
too - and beautiful 50F blue-sky day yesterday, up to 8 inches of white
stuff tonight and tomorrow. I'm really very tired of this winter.
We
have been very lucky over the last few days in the UK, with a lot of
sunny, spring-like weather. I hope you get some soon, Janet.
-
Great GIFs, Randi and JJ. Very appropriate for this occasion. 8) 8) 8)
Took
us almost 20 months to get this far. But if we can manage about 20.000
WR per week, we should be able to make 2 million in only 1 year.
Meanwhile,
our sister projects have speeds
(http://daily.zooniverse.org/2014/03/12/stargazing-spikes/) that are
making me go insane with envy!
-
Our sister projects are wimpy and don't need what we do. ;)
-
How many WRs per week have we been doing recently?
-
I don't know totals - Randi does tracking of individuals on
particular ships so she can do her cool announcements of individual WRs,
but we can't read them all and her charts don't give totals
anywhere. The OW interface home page only gives total pages.
-
How many WRs per week have we been doing recently?
Hi Craig, If Randi doesn't have any stats I might do from back in late Jan/early Feb, I think.
-
Thanks, Joan.
-
Might be Friday before I can get to them though... Work is an explosion.. :( :( >:(
-
I haven't been recording it (I only notice because I update my
guestimations every week), but we seem to do between 17.000 and 20.000
WR a week.
Sometimes more than 20.000 if the power transcribers put in a little extra.
-
Since nobody here has any better numbers (we see NOTHING of everyone
under the top 12 on each ship), I'd go with your estimates. Maybe
satisfy your itch by keeping a spreadsheet with your total estimates
every Wednesday (or whatever day is convenient to your schedule); you
can total all the ships for that week and end up in the future with
better estimates. :)
-
Since
nobody here has any better numbers (we see NOTHING of everyone under
the top 12 on each ship), I'd go with your estimates. Maybe
satisfy your itch by keeping a spreadsheet with your total estimates
every Wednesday (or whatever day is convenient to your schedule); you
can total all the ships for that week and end up in the future with
better estimates. :)
Actually, I do it every Saturday - I only made an exception for this Wednesday because of the 1 million milestone.
-
Well, then you are the resident expert on answering your question. 8)
I PMed your "million WR" post to Philip, and look what happened on the OW blog.
-
So I noticed! Getting credit from the PTB like that is AWESOME!!! 8) 8) 8)
-
The ice DID get pretty thick but with the flow it won't stop!
Got covered over pretty good so people THOUGHT it did.
It hasn't been this 'covered' in several years.
Check it out any time: http://www.earthcam.com/canada/niagarafalls/
Quote from Janet Jaquar;
The
question made me curious, and this is from USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/03/06/niagara-falls-frozen-moving/6122507/
Stunning
photos, Dean and Janet! On the upside of all this cold weather:
standing on a still-frozen Hudson River and watching ice-boats!
Here's a link to a local paper:
http://www.registerstar.com/news/article_3c5b7728-a74b-11e3-b851-001a4bcf887a.html?mode=story
How
did you do during this last storm? We escaped most of the
precip., but we're back in the deep freeze off and on for the next
week. Spring has got to be around here somewhere....
-
Has anyone heard from asterix135 lately? The whole cat thing got kinda intense - :(
-
We are TOUGH!! We survived. The winds were 40+MPH (65+Km) which was the worst, I guess.
Ended up with 14" (38cm) snow in the gauge!
Sunny and 9?F (-13?C) today and it's supposed to be in the 40's (5+C) tomorrow!
-
Has anyone heard from asterix135 lately? The whole cat thing got kinda intense - :(
Yes, I was a bit concerned too. (And some of my best friends were cats)
-
Has anyone heard from asterix135 lately? The whole cat thing got kinda intense - :(
I was skiing.
Sorry
if I offended anyone, but it was all intended in light-hearted fun to
me. "Cats are evil" seems quite self-evidently hyperbolic and I
thought that video was quite funny.
Anyways, must get back to enraging OW denizens transcribing the years 1885-1911 for the Patterson
-
I think the video is funny too - we have 2 cats (litter mates) and
sometimes one will stalk the other around a chair or table - if they
could, I think sometimes one would push the other down the stairs.
:P
-
We are TOUGH!! We survived. The winds were 40+MPH (65+Km) which was the worst, I guess.
Ended up with 14" (38cm) snow in the gauge!
Sunny and 9?F (-13?C) today and it's supposed to be in the 40's (5+C) tomorrow!
You are tough, and hopefully have a good snowblower or snowplow service ;D
-
I
think the video is funny too - we have 2 cats (litter mates) and
sometimes one will stalk the other around a chair or table - if they
could, I think sometimes one would push the other down the stairs.
:P
The video was alright, I just didn't like the way Asterix was adding "Cats are evil" to every post.
My
dad has two cats, and they occasionally do play-fighting. Once, I
managed to use a laser pointer to make one of them run into the other.
The resulting argument was a pleasure to watch.
-
I
think the video is funny too - we have 2 cats (litter mates) and
sometimes one will stalk the other around a chair or table - if they
could, I think sometimes one would push the other down the stairs.
:P
The video was alright and funny , I just didn't like the way Asterix was adding "Cats are evil" to every post.
My
dad has two cats, and they occasionally do play-fighting. Once, I
managed to use a laser pointer to make one of them run into the other.
The resulting argument was a pleasure to watch.
I'm
with you Hanibal, and I wasn't particularly bothered by the first
assertion nor by the video which was funny-sweet. The reiteration
of 'evil' got to me. Sorry, Asterix, I'll try to do better; mods
are supposed to have more patience and you weren't breaking any
rules. I hope you enjoyed your ski weekend. :)
-
As those of you in the ROC (Rest of Canada) know, the denizens of
Victoria get especially smug at this time of year. It was annoying when I
lived in the ROC and had to suffer through yet another cold spell or
snow storm even as spring was just an idea or a nearly forgotten memory.
However, now that I am, once again, a citizen of this fair city, let me
glory in my smugness. The snowdrops have bloomed and faded a few weeks
ago. The blooms on the helibores (spelling?) are nearly done. It was 15 C
(59 F) on Sunday and low and behold, two days later, this:
I
need not mention that the daffodils are out, the little daisies are
everywhere, as well as the many crocus booms. I could go on, but even my
smugness has a limit. ;)
-
:D
-
Looks wonderful :D
-
You offer the rest of us (Canada and adjacent states) a glimpse of
hope. Thanks for sharing the glory. (The 6 inches of white
stuff delivered to us yesterday is surviving nicely under today's very
cold bright sun.)
-
Michael: Thanks for the pictures! There IS hope for Spring!!
This was taken Tuesday - the day BEFORE our Blizzard!
-
And what does it look like now?
-
Hard to tell. Since no one lives on our island the roads will not be
plowed. Therefore it's a mile (1.6km) hike into the area and I'm
guessing the snow is 1 - 2 feet (30-60cm) deep. Picture was taken by a
friend last weekend.
Likely the snow is even with or over the ladders cabled to the side of the cradle. :-[
-
Happy Pi Day, all. Enjoy 3.14! :)
(http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/11011.jpg)
-
D=
r=
A=
S=
V=
Answers to be supplied tomorrow when everybody has had time to do the calcs.
(Hint, 100, 50, 7854, 31415.9, 523598) +/- 3.14159
We do not have Pi day downunder as we use the correct date nomenclature.
-
Oops...
HMS Argyll navy torpedo fired into Devonport wharf (http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-26577109)
-
I recall some accidental jettisons in the log of one of the ships I
worked on - can't remember which ::) There was an indication
in the log that there were some excited utterances in response - I'll
there were some on the ship when this happened! ;D
-
Now we know why they always practiced with expensive dummy torpedoes!! Learning curves can be embarrassing.
-
:o Ouch!
It remembers me some of the accidents happened to
one of the most ill-fated ship in history, the USS William D. Porter (or
the Willie Dee as the crew nicknamed her)... how i would like to read
her logbooks! ;D
-
:o ::)
http://www.historynet.com/uss-william-d-porter-the-us-navy-destroyers-service-in-world-war-ii.htm
-
8) It's amazing that the crew on those ships were so inexperienced!
-
They were building ships faster than they could train crew for them.
-
Happy Pi Day, all. Enjoy 3.14! :)
Make mine in the following order of preference:
Apple with cloves
apple
apple and blackberry
rhubarb
gooseberry
blackcurrant
cherry
Mmmmmm pie day
(no wonder I'm so circular...2 pie aaahhhhh! ;) ::) ;D)
-
Now we know why they always practiced with expensive dummy torpedoes!! Learning curves can be embarrassing.
I
remember the Jed coming back into Hong Kong harbour after a little
shooting practice...with 'a junk with a hole in it on tow'. "Can't
imagine how that got there Cap'n!" ::) ::)
-
;D
-
Happy Pi Day, all. Enjoy 3.14! :)
Make mine in the following order of preference:
Apple with cloves
apple
apple and blackberry
rhubarb
gooseberry
blackcurrant
cherry
Mmmmmm pie day
(no wonder I'm so circular...2 pie aaahhhhh! ;) ::) ;D)
Love them all...but it's the PIZZA Pi that gets me!! ;) ;D ::)
-
They have a new Pizza downunder called a Cheeseburger Crust Meal.
(http://www.pizzahut.com.au/images/bottom-tiles/King-LTO-4th-March.jpg)
Yuck.
-
For once, a food monstrosity did not begin in the US. I found a video with this caption.
"P~ H~'s Cheeseburger Pizza originated in the Middle East and is now making its way to the UK. ..."
Mind you, a different chain here found out about it and introduced it here at the Super Bowl. :(
-
Ah Dean..ofcourse we don't call them pizza pies over here - but you are right - pizza pie is so scrummy too. :-*
Stuart - you are right too...that's just abnormal... :o
-
Happy Pi Day, all. Enjoy 3.14! :)
Make mine in the following order of preference:
Apple with cloves
apple
apple and blackberry
rhubarb
gooseberry
blackcurrant
cherry
Mmmmmm pie day
(no wonder I'm so circular...2 pie aaahhhhh! ;) ::) ;D)
Nothing is better than blackberry sour cream. With sufficient inducements I could part with the recipe. ;)
-
Happy Pi Day, all. Enjoy 3.14! :)
Make mine in the following order of preference:
Apple with cloves
apple
apple and blackberry
rhubarb
gooseberry
blackcurrant
cherry
Mmmmmm pie day
(no wonder I'm so circular...2 pie aaahhhhh! ;) ::) ;D)
Nothing is better than blackberry sour cream. With sufficient inducements I could part with the recipe. ;)
'sufficient
inducements'...and they might be ;)? (i can offer recipes for,
crab apple jelly, the family xmas pud, the family flapjack etc etc)
-
I could
threaten offer to sing to him if he doesn't give you the recipe ::)
-
and I could join in with bagpipes ;)
-
I LIKE bagpipes!
AND, they would have the advantage of drowning out my singing ;)
-
One of the most surprising bagpipe experiences I had was in Avignon,
France. There was a touring Celtic musical group performing in the open
air near where my wife and I were having supper. It was not exactly the
French atmosphere we were expecting, but it was enjoyable nonetheless.
They didn't play "Sur le pont ..." ;D
-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_bagpipes ;)
-
Where is the Queen if pies? It is of course, the chocolate
cream pie, followed closely by fudge nut (pecans or almonds). Let
us also not forget the lemon or key lime varieties.
-
My grandmother used to make "milk pie".
I don't know exactly how
she made it, but this
(http://articles.mcall.com/2010-02-10/features/all-online14cqci9jh.7170167feb10_1_pies-lemon-meringue-crust)
sounds close.
She made me lots of lemon meringue pies too, and chess pie - pecan pie without the pecans ;)
-
The milk pie story is delightful. I am not aware of anything of that
ilk in the UK...but I have not visited all four corners of the UK yet.
-
I could threaten offer to sing to him if he doesn't give you the recipe ::)
As I once learned, nothing succeeds like violence! ;D
Robbie's Blackberry Sour Cream Cake
Mix
1 1/2 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
Press into spring form pan with glass bottom
Add 4 cups blackberries
Mix
2 cups sour cream
2 egg yolks
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
Put on top of the berries.
Bake at 350 F for one hour and maybe a bit more.
Although
it is called a cake, we always ate it as a pie. (Robbie was my mother.)
Sorry, but the measurements are imperial. They should be weights, not
measures for those of you down under, and they should be metric for
everyone else. Deal with it. ;)
My sister has masses of blackberry bushes on her farm, so this is a favourite treat on a hot summer's day.
-
;D
-
Then again, there's always Shepherd's Pie!! ;D
Someone did Pi Day with our local Football Team!
-
Teams plural. I'm saving that one for next year. ;)
-
La fheile Padraig sona dhuit! to you all individually and
La fheile Padraig sona dhaoibh! to you as a group.
Ca mbeidh tu ag fliuchadh na seamroige?
FYI
see here
(http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/st-patricks-day-as-google-doodle-marks-irish-national-holiday-here-are-10-things-you-didnt-know-about-him-30097036.html)
Just noticed I had ? marks in place of the ' mark. Changed now
(opps)
-
I could threaten offer to sing to him if he doesn't give you the recipe ::)
As I once learned, nothing succeeds like violence! ;D
Robbie's Blackberry Sour Cream Cake
Mix
1 1/2 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
Press into spring form pan with glass bottom
Add 4 cups blackberries
Mix
2 cups sour cream
2 egg yolks
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
Put on top of the berries.
Bake at 350 F for one hour and maybe a bit more.
Although
it is called a cake, we always ate it as a pie. (Robbie was my mother.)
Sorry, but the measurements are imperial. They should be weights, not
measures for those of you down under, and they should be metric for
everyone else. Deal with it. ;)
My sister has masses of blackberry bushes on her farm, so this is a favourite treat on a hot summer's day.
Oh my!.....it sounds DELICIOUS...thanks! really! :P ;D
-
?L? fh?ile P?draig sona dhuit!? to you all individually and
?L? fh?ile P?draig sona dhaoibh!? to you as a group.
"C? mbeidh t? ag fliuchadh na seamr?ige?"
FYI
see here
(http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/st-patricks-day-as-google-doodle-marks-irish-national-holiday-here-are-10-things-you-didnt-know-about-him-30097036.html)
One of my colleagues is in Dublin for St Patrick's Day...enjoying the craik! ;D
-
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-QI4xEY_TeF4/UyYzK9hsTdI/AAAAAAAADZM/-QaghE_oBP4/w687-h449-no/La+Shona+Fheile+Padraig.JPG)
La Shona Fheile Padraig (Happy St. Patrick's Day)
Saol fada chugat (Long life to you)
Or
so I'm told they mean by Google Translate. Technically I'm early,
my time, posting this. It feels like I'm late - Chicago's big
downtown parade was yesterday and the big south side parade this
afternoon. In this city, everyone is Irish on St. Pat's.
-
Ships of the sky.
NATS, a UK air
traffic control company, decided to compile data from 48 hours worth of
air traffic over Europe. On a typical late July day, there are
approximately 30,000 airplanes in Europe?s airspace; a quarter of which
are over the UK alone.
The video has been sped up to be about
1440 times faster than real life, reducing 48 hours down to 2 minutes.
As you see the blue lights start to blend into one another and show just
how crowded the airspace really is, it begins to make perfect sense
that air traffic controllers and airline pilots are routinely on the
list for most stressful occupations. Each airplane must be
accounted for and its trajectory must be expertly guided in order to
complete its journey safely.
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=88093956 (http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=88093956)
Scary, and our Navigators usually only have to worry about not hitting the wharf. ;)
-
Don't I know it - Oxford is under the flight path for a huge number
of transatlantic flights whether landing at Luton, Stanstead, Heathrow,
Gatwick or London Central :(
-
I found something similar for the lower 48. They are interesting to watch, I'm not sure why.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/d9r3H4iHFZk
-
SNOW AGAIN!
-
Don't
I know it - Oxford is under the flight path for a huge number of
transatlantic flights whether landing at Luton, Stanstead, Heathrow,
Gatwick or London Central :(
How do you think Caro feels?
-
Just occasionally - and I do mean 'occasionally' - a piece of spam
arrives that is actually entertaining reading. The spam reproduced
below, from a 'Rose Johnson', falls into the well-known Nigerian
scamming category, but the spammer put in a huge effort, appealing to my
ethics (please don't laugh!), my heart strings (a husband who died
rapidly, her own cancer and strokes), a bit of religion (Islam and
born-again Christian to make sure the major bases are covered), and my
fiscal gullibility (but it was only 9 million US).
It was such a
major literary effort that I was almost tempted to send them a small sum
for trying; however, I refrained. A bit lengthy, but here it is:
I
apologize if the contents in this mail are contrary to your moral
ethics which I feel may be of great disturbance To your personal life,
but I feel quite safe dealing with you. Though this medium (Internet)
has been greatly abused I choose to reach you through it because it
remains the fastest, surest and most secured medium of
communication.However, this correspondence is purely private, and it
should be treated as such. I am contacting you based on Trust and
confidentiality I have reposed higher confidence in your ability to
handle this matter perfectly for my sake.I am serious minded person. I
am the above named person from Liberia. I am married to Mr. Greg Johnson
who worked with Embassy here in Cambodia for nine years before he died
in the year 2008 We were married for eleven years without a child.He
died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days. Before his
death we were both born again Christian. I married him because is a
Christian why his people are Muslim
Since his
death I decided not to re-marry or get a child outside my matrimonial
home which the Bible is against. When my late husband was alive he
deposited the sum of $9.Million (Nine Million U.S. Dollars) a financial
Bank this money is still in a financial Bank. Recently, my Doctor told
me that I would not last for the next two to three Months due to cancer
problem the one that disturbs me most is my stroke sickness. Having
known my condition I decided To keep this fund in the vault I want an
organization or an individual that will use this fund for orphanages,
widows, Propagating the word of God and to endeavor that the house of
God is maintained The Bible made us to understand that Blessed is the
hand that grieves. I took this decision because I don't have any child
that will inherit this money I will introduce you to my family lawyer
that will prepare an authorization letter of claiming the funds my
happiness is that I lived a life of a worthy Christian . Whoever ! that
wants to serve him in spirit and truth. Please always be prayerful all
through your life. Any delay in your reply will give me Room in sourcing
another person for this same purpose Please assure me that you will act
accordingly as I stated Herein hoping to receive your reply and Remain
blessed in the Lord Please send me your complete information,
-
It is indeed the most masterful version of that scam I think I have ever seen.
-
Don't
I know it - Oxford is under the flight path for a huge number of
transatlantic flights whether landing at Luton, Stanstead, Heathrow,
Gatwick or London Central :(
How do you think Caro feels?
I
lived in West London as a child. We were under one of the main
flight paths for Heathrow (depending on wind direction). I don't
think anyone in the family was at all bothered by it. If we were
out in the garden on a sunny day, we used to enjoy identifying the
planes as they flew overhead. Occasionally the sound would be
drowned out by an express train on the main line between London and the
West Country as the house backed on to the railway. There can be
hardly anywhere in West London where you don't get trains, planes or a
busy road. Maybe that explains why to this day I find total
silence rather disconcerting!
-
For something a bit more 'realtime' try:
http://www.flightradar24.com/
or if you only wish to follow a couple flights - such as a spouse, family member, friend, etc use www.flightaware.com
Have fun! But not TOO much or you'll miss all the fun at OW!!!!!! ;)
-
Actually, I found something more fun than watching planes: Spotting Nightjars. (http://nightjar.exeter.ac.uk/story/games)
My top score, for the egg-hunting one, is attached. I dare you all to beat it!
-
1.79sec
pos 203
First go for an oldie and only 10 min after waking up. :D
Better times to follow (I hope)
-
I can't se a forum board for "How on Earth do I do this in Word?' so I'll ask the coffee/tea drinkers in the Chat room.
I
am trying to format a raw USN ship file from OW3 (the 'Bear',
actually). The position and lat/long information are combined with
the descriptive location in a single line that looks like (for
example):
Position: 40.6 -74.0 Brooklyn Navy Yard
Ideally, I would like to turn this into:
Lat 40.6, Long -74.0
Brooklyn Navy Yard
although I would also settle for:
Lat 40.6, Long -74.0 Brooklyn Navy Yard
which can at least be plotted by Journey Planner.
As a first step, I can easily use 'Replace all' to get to:
Lat 40.6 -74.0 Brooklyn Navy Yard
I
would like the next stage be to replace 'Lat 40.6 ' with 'Lat 40.6,
Long ', which I thought I would be able to do using wildcards. However,
while I can find 'Lat 40.6 ' by searching for 'Lat * ' (the
asterisk is the wild card), I can't work out how to retain the '40.6'
when I carry out the replace.
I do have a way round the problem (which I won't bore you with), but it's a very clunky sort of fix.
Is there a Word guru out there who can save me from impending insanity?
Cheers,
Steeleye
-
Not a Word guru, more a general suggestion.
Have a look at using regular expressions for finding and replacing.
That is, if Word supports it. :-\
Perhaps not easy to understand, but once you get the hang of it, regular expressions are very powerful.
-
Actually, I found something more fun than watching planes: Spotting Nightjars. (http://nightjar.exeter.ac.uk/story/games)
My top score, for the egg-hunting one, is attached. I dare you all to beat it!
Hopeless
- program didn't end properly so no idea of how long I took - but it
was a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooottttttttttttttttttt longer than
you and Stuart! 8)
-
Not a Word guru, more a general suggestion.
Have a look at using regular expressions for finding and replacing.
That is, if Word supports it. :-\
Perhaps not easy to understand, but once you get the hang of it, regular expressions are very powerful.
Word
help doesn't recognise 'regular expression'. The help for wildcard
search and replace doesn't suggest that it will do what I want. It
looks like I'm stuck with the clunky approach unless someone out there
in Chat-land comes up with something inspired.
:'(
-
Ditch Microsoft Word and switch to LibreOffice Writer. ;)
-
Never used it myself but word has 'macros'. I volunteered at the
RNIB transcription centre for many years and one of the girls there had
written a suite of macros to clean up word files before formatting them
for braille. That system seems pretty powerful but I've never felt
the urge to dive into it myself so I can't help with the detail.
-
In Excel, I was able to change "[blank] -" to ", Long [blank]-"
This
assumes there will always be a minus sign in front of the Long. I
haven't seen the Bear cross over the International Date Line but it
might have before I began transcribing it. This operation may also be
possible in Word.
-
I can't se a forum board for "How on Earth do I do this in Word?' so I'll ask the coffee/tea drinkers in the Chat room.
I
am trying to format a raw USN ship file from OW3 (the 'Bear',
actually). The position and lat/long information are combined with
the descriptive location in a single line that looks like (for
example):
Position: 40.6 -74.0 Brooklyn Navy Yard
Ideally, I would like to turn this into:
Lat 40.6, Long -74.0
Brooklyn Navy Yard
although I would also settle for:
Lat 40.6, Long -74.0 Brooklyn Navy Yard
which can at least be plotted by Journey Planner.
As a first step, I can easily use 'Replace all' to get to:
Lat 40.6 -74.0 Brooklyn Navy Yard
I
would like the next stage be to replace 'Lat 40.6 ' with 'Lat 40.6,
Long ', which I thought I would be able to do using wildcards. However,
while I can find 'Lat 40.6 ' by searching for 'Lat * ' (the
asterisk is the wild card), I can't work out how to retain the '40.6'
when I carry out the replace.
I do have a way round the problem (which I won't bore you with), but it's a very clunky sort of fix.
Is there a Word guru out there who can save me from impending insanity?
Cheers,
Steeleye
Steeleye
For something like this, you need;
GAWK (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gawk.htm)
You can run it from a Windows Command prompt, and you would work
on the text file. If the file is a Word file you would save it as text
and then you would use awk to convert that file.
I
don't know if you have anything in the file other than lines with
Position: in them. However, I will assume you do, and your file looks
like this;
Position: 40.6 -74.0 Brooklyn Navy Yard
Someone was promoted.
Someone else was transferred.
Position: -40.6 74.0 Brooklyn Navy Yard
Someone was discharged.
Notice that I put in positive and negative Lats and Longs, and that you want Lats and Longs to be N/S and E/W.
I then run the awk script LatLon.awk on the file data.txt
C:\ gawk -f LatLon.awk data.txt
Lat 40.6N Lon 74W
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Someone was promoted.
Someone else was transferred.
Lat 40.6S Lon 74.0E
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Someone was discharged.
I
made the file and the need for N/S and E/W a little more complex than
your needs to show you how powerful AWK can be. It takes a bit of work
to learn to use it, but it is very powerful and useful. I have been
using it for years.
Here is the AWK script LatLon.awk
#File: LatLon.awk
# This script formats and prints the lines with the ship's Position, and prints the other lines unchanged.
# The position lines have the format;
#Position: 40.6 -74.0 Brooklyn Navy Yard
/^Position:/ { Lat = $2 # Lat is the second word in the line.
Lon = $3 # Lon is the third word in the line.
if (Lat < 0) {
Lat = sprintf("%sS", Lat*-1) #Negative lats are South
} else {
Lat = sprintf("%sN", Lat)
}
if (Lon < 0) {
Lon = sprintf("%sW", Lon*-1) # Negative lons are North
} else {
Lon = sprintf("%sE", Lon)
}
Location =
$4 # The Location is in Words 4 to the end (NF)
for (i=5; i<=NF;i++) {
Location = sprintf("%s %s", Location, $i) # Here we gather all the
position words.
}
printf("Lat %s Lon %s\n", Lat, Lon) # Here we print the Lat
Lon on one line
printf("%s\n", Location) # Here we print the
Location on the following line.
}
!/Position:/ { print $0} # We print lines that aren't a Position
If you don't want the N/S and E/W, the green lines aren't needed.
If your text doesn't have anything other than Position data, then the very last line is irrelevant.
If you have any questions, or need any help, you can send me a PM.
Michael
-
I suspect that it's easiest if I just change the format of the raw ship files. I've changed the dump format to now say:
'Position: Lat 40.7, Lon -74.0, new york new york' or similar
I hope this will be easier to edit (and Journey Plotter compliant).
Janet is testing the new format.
-
I'm sending Philip's new raw data for Bear by email. Let us know if it is easier to format.
-
Does this file include recent transcriptions?
-
I don't know the date of last included transcription. But I do
know it includes everything in Philip's computer, including the page
urls for what isn't yet looked at by transcribers.
You should have it by now email. :)
-
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/hilarious-slow-motion-video-turns-neil-degrasse-tyson-i-1546343331
This made me almost fall out of my chair - ;D ;D
-
Philip's new file for Bear works fine and is definitely much easier
to handle than the previous version. Many thanks to Michael
(mapurves) and Craig (craig!) for their suggestions and Janet and Phil
for coming up with th new, improved file.
Cheers,
Howard (Steeleye)
-
I am curious to know what you will be doing with the Bear file, Howard?
Craig
-
I am curious to know what you will be doing with the Bear file, Howard?
Craig
Formatting the raw text file received from OW so it can be sent out for history editing.
-
A whole other parallel industry that I am only vaguely aware of. ;D
-
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/hilarious-slow-motion-video-turns-neil-degrasse-tyson-i-1546343331
This made me almost fall out of my chair - ;D ;D
I'd
probably laugh Kathy - but - erm - who is he please? (I'm gonna look
such an idiot aren't I - he's probably mayor of New York or something
similar) :-[ :-\
-
He's an astrophysicist and well known science communicator. See Wiki
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson)for details.
He even has his own meme. (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/neil-degrasse-tyson-reaction)
-
He gets VERY enthusiastic when talking about science - in this clip,
he was answering the question "who's the greatest physicist in
history?" His answer is Sir Isaac Newton, and he starts talking very
fast. The clip I posted is his answer slowed down by about 100
percent -
-
I have read - and enjoyed - a book by him but I never heard him speak, so I kind of missed the joke.
-
Ohhhh - right - thanks folks - n o w
I u n d e
r s t a n d (sorry -
didn't want to type so fast you couldn't read my words ;))
-
;D
-
One hundred years after the start of WW1, two people died today in Ieper, Belgium, by a WW1 grenade.
http://www.deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/News/140319_ieper
(http://www.deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/News/140319_ieper)
-
They count among the honored war dead. Rest in Peace.
-
Good evening OW.
Here's something nice: Superman with a GoPro camera (http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=H0Ib9SwC7EI)
-
;D ;D ;D
-
Just to show you how we do forecasts in Canada:
http://www.cbc.ca/player/Shows/Shows/The+Rick+Mercer+Report/ID/2441559696/
Hang in there you people in the cold! :D
-
That's wonderful!! And Canadian forecasters are good - near
the Lakes, anything more than 3 days is guess-work. ::)
-
Rick Mercer is one of the best shows on Television!
He always does something interesting and is willing to try almost anything. Usually VERY educational - and FUNNY!!! ;)
Take some time to wander around the web site.
'(But not Toooooooo much or you'll miss the fun here!! AND not get your shipwork done!! ::) )
-
That is just GREAT!!!
-
Loved it! ;D ;D ;D
It's currently +3 but the high on Sunday will be -7. Next Thursday's forecast high is +2 ;D
-
Tonight we are having 'Sport Relief' day progs on the telly. Lots of
people do sporty things (as they can/are able) and collect donations to
support children around the world to improve their health,
education etc. It is really heartwarming as an event - seeing so
much care and charity, but also terrifying to see what poor people have
to do to cope with life. So far the total is about ?46
million...but Sport Relief lasts all weekend! What a difference we can
make. 8)
-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25051663
This article is
about a crowdsourcing project that's been set up to look at satellite
images to try and identify any traces of the missing Malaysian Airways
plane. (Just looked at over 1000 tiles of blank ocean and cloud!)
-
That's Tomnod; I get their notices of new searches, altho this one
leaves me frustrated - their server keeps getting overwhelmed by the
huge volume of volunteers. And telling them which patches of ocean
are blank saves the search planes and ships a lot of fuel.
-
Yes, it's good to think that even noting tile after tile as blank is of some help!
-
This week's spam effort, along the lines of the Nigerian 'send me
all your bank details' originals, comes from Captain Tom Hall of the US
Army in Afghanistan, and reads:
I am Cpt.Tom Hall, am currently
with 395th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, stationed here at FOB
Salerno Camp in Khowst Afghanistan as part of the troops still remaining
to complete the later part of the war plan.
Please I seek your
urgent help this day to assist me with the safe keeping of two military
trunk boxes and I am assuring you that this project am about to bring to
the table will be of mutual interest for the both of us.I know you do
not know me but i will explain more about this when you reply me.
Kindly get back to me ASAP so I can feed you with more information on how this project would be carried out.
God Bless,
Cpt Hall
US Army
These characters are definitely getting more inventive, although the grammar still needs a bit of work.
-
That's a new one on me! ::) :)
-
One of my favorites is from the FBI.
-
::)
-
I woke this morning to news of a freak train accident
(http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/cta-blue-line-crash-ohare--251990601.html),
the type of thing I thought would never happen. The Blue Line 'L'
arrived at its end-of-the-line station at O'Hare Airport at full speed,
jumped right over the track bumper and up onto the platform and on up
escalator. At 3 am, which is why the escalator was empty and no
one was caught underneath. People waiting on the platform would
not have been standing at the head of the track, but 32 passengers were
injured - none seriously, thank heavens. Speculation is, the
driver fell asleep - but there are trip bars on the track, it still
should have slowed down.
This is the kind of thing I don't want on my public trans system!!
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Kr3a9QnYtyA/UzClQRYbdoI/AAAAAAAADc0/VpoMPLaR1rU/w605-h339-no/L+Ohare+accident+1.JPG)
-
My goodness it is lucky that no-one was killed! That image reminds
me of a scene in Speed with Sandra Bullock. (There are other movies,
too, that have subway trains crashing up through the pavement etc. Maybe
one of the Die Hard movies ??) I image the authorities will be looking
at their various "fail safe" trips etc.
-
Head of the Union says, "safety measures don't always work
right." NO body is going to agree with him, except maybe the
driver. And the PTB called in the NTSB right away, so no one can
bury the evidence to save their own face. That's the best we can
hope for. Injuries were blessedly light - the only one still in
the hospital for an overnight stay was, according to the hospital, kept
for a pre-existing condition they noticed something wrong with.
And an enormously busy station like this has security cams everywhere,
which helps.
-
Phew - glad to hear this was not a major incident - how lucky is
that? 3am and 3pm are the most common times of day for accidents -
our ciurcadian rhythm leaves us at our most weary points in those
hours. It reminds me of the Moorgate disaster in London years and
years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorgate_tube_crash
Sorry to see the dreadful mud slide in Snohomish - that sounds like it may well have claimed lives.
-
Now that is a disaster that is still getting worse - no one is just
relaxing and investigating. Latest count, 14 dead and 176 missing,
and one small river town vanished completely. And the river is
turning into a lake behind the mud dam and threatening all towns down
river with a huge flash flood filled with mud and debris when it finally
breaks thru the dam. I find this article helpful, showing photos
of the town of Oso before and the slide after.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/25/us/search-continues-after-washington-state-landslide.html
A
compiled census of homes and structures in the slide zone, also
released Monday by county officials, identified 49 building or
residential sites, 25 of which are believed to have been occupied full
time.
-
What is this white stuff falling from the sky? :o
-
Wow, Kathy, y'all are really getting socked this winter!
-
This is just getting ridiculous!
-
I don't know, but we also got a new sprinkling of white stuff the
last 2 nights. I will say, the sun comes out in the freezing
daytime to enhance the sparkling beauty. I've just had my fill of
that sparkling beauty by now.
-
It's Here, It's Here!!!
The Tardis we have all wanted!!!!
I know we aren't supposed to 'advertise' so PM me and I'll send details!
-
want one! ;D ;D 8)
-
We have a Tardis cookie jar. When you close the lid after taking
your cookies, you get that familiar Tardis sound (and everyone within
hearing distance knows what you have just done). Sadly, the Tardis isn't
bigger on the inside than the outside; I was hoping to store my
Christmas cakes in it, as well as bushels of cookies and other treats
but, sadly, no such luck. :(
-
You can't just bring back last year's (before you ate it, I mean) ??? ;D
-
After a lovely day on Fort Denison in Sydney Harbour, followed by heavy rain we had this lovely sunset.
I was away from home when the heavy rain fell 60km down the road.
The
highest rainfall recorded by the Bureau of Meteorology overnight was in
Barrengarry in the Southern Highlands with 224 millimetres
-
beauty after tempest. :)
-
Beautiful :-*
-
The calm after the storm. I like it!
-
Fab sunset - the sort you do tend to get after a whopper storm. 224mm is about 9" - that's a lot of agua!
-
224mm! I'll never complain about the British rain again.... well at least not for a day or so ::)
-
Hi Jil
I think the difference is we get 224 mm infrequently and you get 22 point 4 mm frequently.
Speaking of rain it's just started poring down at home. %^(
Looks like more OW tomorrow.
-
Here is a puzzle from NASA that has me very curious. Other
than being of human construction in a river delta or estuary, I have no
idea where in the world it is, and whether it is of fish farms or salt
evaporation ponds.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2014/03/24/march-2014-puzzler/
(http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/files/2014/03/march2014puzzler.jpg)
-
After a lovely day on Fort Denison in Sydney Harbour, followed by heavy rain we had this lovely sunset.
I was away from home when the heavy rain fell 60km down the road.
The
highest rainfall recorded by the Bureau of Meteorology overnight was in
Barrengarry in the Southern Highlands with 224 millimetres
Breathtaking!! 8)
-
I think that is one of the mouths of the Nile
-
... or an unfinished tiling job. ;D
-
The good burghers of Queensland seem to be caught between a rock and a hard place this year.
On the one hand, there is the largest ever drought-declared area, with 80% of the state declared to be in drought:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-07/qld-drought--most-widespread-ever-recorded/5306044
(http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-07/qld-drought--most-widespread-ever-recorded/5306044)
...
and on the other hand, Yeppoon (central Queensland coast) has just had
500mm of rain (20 inches, if you prefer pounds, shillings and pence) in
the last two days:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-27/torrential-rain-fuels-flash-flooding-fears-in-central-queensland/5348290
(http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-27/torrential-rain-fuels-flash-flooding-fears-in-central-queensland/5348290)
Wonderful.
-
Truly feast or famine -
-
Glut or famine more like - feasts are not destructive. Take care of yourself out there.
-
Two techniques to break a drought - appoint a Minister for Drought (
tried in UK), second have a visit by HM Queen Elizabeth (successful in
Africa). Since HM is cutting back on overseas visits (well she is
pushing 90) I would suggest the Minister.
-
But is the function of a Minister for Drought to promote the drought
or to minimise it. I guess it depends where most of his/her
re-election money comes from. Cynic? Me?
Since Caro has
returned to these shores, it's been raining everywhere. Her last
email to me suggested that she should be paid for her drought reduction
services. However, I'm not certain that the citizens of Yeppoon
are entirely grateful for their 500mm of the damp stuff.
-
Two
techniques to break a drought - appoint a Minister for Drought ( tried
in UK), second have a visit by HM Queen Elizabeth (successful in
Africa). Since HM is cutting back on overseas visits (well she is
pushing 90) I would suggest the Minister.
Don't forget the basics: Wash windows / car ;)
-
Here
is a puzzle from NASA that has me very curious. Other than being
of human construction in a river delta or estuary, I have no idea where
in the world it is, and whether it is of fish farms or salt evaporation
ponds.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2014/03/24/march-2014-puzzler/
looks like salt pans to me. Seen similar things on Lanzarote - only most of theirs are pink...
-
Howard's not the only one who gets Engrish spam emails.
Here's one I received today:
Hello!
I
am Mrs. Christine V. Borzakovsky, Diagnose of Cancer and few weeks to
live, I wish to make a donation of Twelve Million Pounds (12,000,000.00
GBP) to you concerning my LAST WILL to setup a Charity Organization to
help the poor children and cancer patients in your local community.
Advocacy is all about helping children get their voices heard, and
having their rights and basic needs met. Treatment is simple and cheap,
but millions of children have died through lack of it. One of the
gravest effects of war is the way it disrupts and destroys children?s
education; it?s really bewildering and scary time for many children who
remain the most vulnerable victims and subjects of war crimes.
-
Howard's not the only one who gets Engrish spam emails.
Here's one I received today:
Hello!
I
am Mrs. Christine V. Borzakovsky, Diagnose of Cancer and few weeks to
live, I wish to make a donation of Twelve Million Pounds (12,000,000.00
GBP) to you concerning my LAST WILL to setup a Charity Organization to
help the poor children and cancer patients in your local community.
Advocacy is all about helping children get their voices heard, and
having their rights and basic needs met. Treatment is simple and cheap,
but millions of children have died through lack of it. One of the
gravest effects of war is the way it disrupts and destroys children?s
education; it?s really bewildering and scary time for many children who
remain the most vulnerable victims and subjects of war crimes.
Hannibal: If, for some reason, you are unable to help this poor woman, let me know and I am sure I would be willing. ;D
-
Howard's not the only one who gets Engrish spam emails.
Here's one I received today:
Hello!
I
am Mrs. Christine V. Borzakovsky, Diagnose of Cancer and few weeks to
live, I wish to make a donation of Twelve Million Pounds (12,000,000.00
GBP) to you concerning my LAST WILL to setup a Charity Organization to
help the poor children and cancer patients in your local community.
Advocacy is all about helping children get their voices heard, and
having their rights and basic needs met. Treatment is simple and cheap,
but millions of children have died through lack of it. One of the
gravest effects of war is the way it disrupts and destroys children?s
education; it?s really bewildering and scary time for many children who
remain the most vulnerable victims and subjects of war crimes.
That's
a good one! She can't even make up her mind whether she's trying
to help children who are victims of war crimes or cancer! ;D
-
Howard's not the only one who gets Engrish spam emails.
Here's one I received today:
Hello!
I
am Mrs. Christine V. Borzakovsky, Diagnose of Cancer and few weeks to
live, I wish to make a donation of Twelve Million Pounds (12,000,000.00
GBP) to you concerning my LAST WILL to setup a Charity Organization to
help the poor children and cancer patients in your local community.
Advocacy is all about helping children get their voices heard, and
having their rights and basic needs met. Treatment is simple and cheap,
but millions of children have died through lack of it. One of the
gravest effects of war is the way it disrupts and destroys children's
education; it's really bewildering and scary time for many children who
remain the most vulnerable victims and subjects of war crimes.
That's
a good one! She can't even make up her mind whether she's trying
to help children who are victims of war crimes or cancer! ;D
One
thing I just realized: Why can't she just donate the 12 million pounds
herself? There's already loads of great nonprofits fighting cancer and
helping war crime victims.
-
Scroll down to: This Day in History - Permanent United States Navy Established (1794) (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/)
-
Interestingly, the Department of the Navy doesn't agree with the Free Dictionary.
They
have an internal holiday called 'Navy Birthday' celebrating the forming
the Continental Navy on 13 October 1775, all of those ships sold and
the officers and crews dismissed after the Revolutionary War.
"The
Constitution of the United States, ratified in 1789, empowered Congress
"to provide and maintain a navy." Acting on this authority, Congress
ordered the construction and manning of six frigates in 1794, and the
War Department administered naval affairs from that year until Congress
established the Department of the Navy on 30 April 1798."
http://www.history.navy.mil/birthday.htm
-
::)
OK, it looks like we can celebrate again next month ;)
-
::)
OK, it looks like we can celebrate again next month ;)
I think you have spotted an ulterior motive, Randi. ;)
-
;D
-
Could I suggest to the PTB that the default for post listings be latest post at the top of the list. (ie the box checked)
I have been told it in not checked by default.
(Ulterior motive, it makes my Concord crew list look sensible)
-
And wrecks havoc with almost everyone else's lists ::)
-
Do you seriously mean most people have to scroll down the list to find the latest post, or have I misunderstood something?
-
If I am in a board (like Dockside Cafe), I click on the Last post
icon to go directly to the last post / last unread post in a topic.
If I am at the top level, I click on the topic name to go directly to the last post / last unread post in a topic.
No scrolling needed.
-
I would also support keeping it the way it is. I think Stuart is the
only one who does reverse order for his lists - and as an Aspie, I do
NOT want any unnecessary changes to the way things work. If it ain't
broke, don't fix it!
-
Yup, I do what Randi does and it works fine - the other way looks
rather confusing to me (I'm probably easily confused .... ???)
-
I tried that a long while ago and the 'problem' I had was I had to go 'backwards' to follow the thread of the postings!
Now
I click on the 'last page number' for 'new replies to your posts' which
allows me to easily read the last several posts to 'catch up' in the
discussion. ;)
-
I do it the same way, Dean! Great minds etc etc ... :)
-
Being lazy I just open the topic and read down from the top like a book.
To much effort to click this then scroll down and then scroll back up.
My posts go backwards in time DOWNwards and yours go backwards in time UPwards.
OK I will re-order my Concord Crew list to suit the upward readers.
:P
-
I do it the same way, Dean! Great minds etc etc ... :)
There is another saying based on this one but I will not say it. ;)
-
Actually, because I always click the last post icon for the topic I
want to read, I get to read all the current posts on that last page from
the top down in correct order of posting. ;)
-
OK, so in a nutshell: There is more than one way of doing it, and different people have different preferences.
I
suggest we keep things the way they are. No need to change something if
it's always worked fine and never caused any problems, right?
-
Perfect, Hanibal. :)
-
(https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTqlYwTO-7F4E3zGDSFGTVETjER9DR0-Ue1B3vBr5jV-5kUJ-xu)
-
Sure enough - Hu's on first. ;D
-
;D
-
I do it the same way, Dean! Great minds etc etc ... :)
You betcha, ma'am!! ;)
-
OK, so in a nutshell: There is more than one way of doing it, and different people have different preferences.
I
suggest we keep things the way they are. No need to change something if
it's always worked fine and never caused any problems, right?
I
reckon the differences are hemispheric-dependent. Either us
Antipodeans are upside-down or you anti-Antipodeans are. It surely
means that what one of us reads as top-down the other must read as
bottom-up. Right?
This reminds me (I don't know why) of a quote I
read in a Deep Sea Drilling Project volume about East Antarctica and
West Antarctica (see http://peakbagger.com/map/premade/r82.gif
(http://peakbagger.com/map/premade/r82.gif) for a map). If I
recall correctly, the ditty went:
In east East Antarctica, West Antarctica is east, while in west East Antarctica, West Antarctica is west.
Conversely, in west West Antarctica, East Antarctica is west, while in east West Antarctica, East Antarctica is east.
No wonder we didn't know where we were!
-
As my friend John Carpenter says:
A Sailor's Definition of Latitude and Longitude:
Latitude is Where We Are Lost,
and Longitude is How Long We've
Been Lost There! ::)
BTW - John is a Marine mechanic extraodinaire & sailor around here and has been for MANY years!! ;)
-
;D
-
;D
-
;D
-
And presumably recording a Longitude of 6 25 N (as the Changuinola has just done) just means they need to take more water with the rum ration ... ::)
-
Is a Lack of Water to Blame for the Conflict in Syria?
(http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/is-a-lack-of-water-to-blame-for-the-conflict-in-syria-72513729/#TWE8Px520t3LqRMV.99)
-
Good article, Randi. 8)
-
Yes, very interesting indeed, Randi.
Here's something I found: How to not park a ship. (http://www.youtube.com/embed/QYltdonj2iE)
-
Yes, very interesting indeed, Randi.
Here's something I found: How to not park a ship. (http://www.youtube.com/embed/QYltdonj2iE)
Looks like someone else needs to take more water with their rum ration! :o
-
Very neat.
Spoiler alert ;)
Quote this post to read the text.
Here's what it looks like when you crash a massive ship on purpose.
It
might seem like the person steering this ferry doesn't know what
they're doing, but then you don't need to take much care with a vessel
no longer fit for purpose.
The M/F Ostend Spirit, also known as
the MS Pride of Calais, met a rather undignified end when it was
intentionally run aground at a European breakers yard.
For more
than 20 years the ferry went back and forth across the English Channel
before its final journey to a scrap yard in Aliaga, Turkey.
The ship will now be taken apart and recycled.
-
Yet another reason for doing this stuff.
http://www.iflscience.com/environment/ipcc-reports-we-must-manage-risk-widespread-climate-change-effects
(http://www.iflscience.com/environment/ipcc-reports-we-must-manage-risk-widespread-climate-change-effects)
-
Yes, this is the strongest warning yet by the IPCC. Old weather data
is still important to improve climate models, which can be used not
only to make more accurate predictions but to simulate the effects of
geoengineering proposals designed to slow down warming. Unfortunately,
it has come to that.
-
Myles wrote part of that report - perhaps I'm glad I'm sick and at
home - my phone at work must be exploding with calls! :o ::) :-X
-
Sorry you're sick, Joan - I hope work has quietened down by the time you're better ....
-
Get well soon, Joan.
Here's a bit of good news for you and everyone else:
http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/business/study-shows-we-work-harder-if-our-boss-gives-us-chocolate.html
-
;D ;D ;D
-
Get well soon, Joan.
Here's a bit of good news for you and everyone else:
http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/business/study-shows-we-work-harder-if-our-boss-gives-us-chocolate.html
So, when is my chocolate arriving, Captain? ::)
-
Here you go ma'am! ;D
-
;D ;D ;D
-
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
This all cheered me up! Thanks for good wishes, chocolate (with or without mutts) etc
I
have to say that I could have saved Warwick Uni a lot of work. Had they
sent me 700 packs of chocolate I'd have written their report for them
and sent it back liberally covered in brown finger prints and cocoa
dusting blooms. ::) ::) 8)
-
Good evening everyone.
There is a new Zooniverse minigame available here:
http://games.usvsth3m.com/2048/zooniverse-edition-3/
I
dare you all to beat my high score (see attachment). It's better than
some! (http://daily.zooniverse.org/2014/04/01/2048-zooniverse-game/)
-
I got 4764 do I win?
-
Love the mutts - very sweet (and calorie free too!)
And 720
on the game - I don't think I'm cut out for these sorts of games. I
usually can't work out what I'm meant to be doing ....
-
OK Stuart, you seem to have won. Any chance you can use the Windows Snipping Tool to capture evidence?
The best I could manage is down below.
-
I trashed the game as I thought it was the lowest moves that won and I had the highest %^)
Trust me, would this face lie to you?
-
In case you need more chocolate...........
-
Just lost the signal and got a screen on my sat tv (Foxtel) saying
'Solar Interference to the satellite is affecting our signal'.
Does this mean there may be solar storm tonight and if so there may be a good Aurora.
-
Yep.
http://nvonews.com/solar-flare-2014-x1-class-storm-worst-this-year/
-
I trashed the game as I thought it was the lowest moves that won and I had the highest %^)
Trust me, would this face lie to you?
I'll take your word for it, Stuart.
If nobody breaks your score by Sunday, you win the contest.
-
In case you need more chocolate...........
Hey Dean - fab - where did you find this picture of me? ;) ;) ;D
-
What fine antlers you have, Joan 8) 8) 8)
-
Not for long! *NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM*
-
Thanks Craig - it's nice to know that they are appreciated - because they sure do make hat-buying difficult! :o
Then
again, once Hanibal's finished chomping on them they well fit nicely
into a small baseball cap.......ouch, mind the white bits, they are very
sensitive! ;D
-
;D
-
Good afternoon Old Weather.
Ever seen a train laying its own track (http://www.wimp.com/traintrack/)?
This
is what is happening from Chicago to St. Louis for the high-speed rail.
People were stopping along the highway taking pictures. For those who
live in the Springfield area and have seen all the machines running up
and down the tracks, here is a link to a video that shows you how the
concrete ties and rail are put in place. The road bed was raised 13
inches to accommodate the new high-speed rail line between St. Louis ,
MO and Chicago , IL . There are only two of these track-laying machines
in the world, one here and one in Europe .
-
8) 8) 8)
-
What size batteries does it use - and can you pre-book one for Christmas?
WHAT a toy!
Here's
the West Country line being repaired at Dawlish (it ended up like
a bizarre necklace after the winter storms):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-26874503 can't find a
safe version in 'pop-out' - apologies everyone who can't get into the
bbc.
-
Wow! What a cool machine!
-
Both videos are fascinating to watch. Thank you. :)
-
Nice find the two of you.
-
Did anybody take part in 'World Pillow Fight Day' yesterday or did you do like me and sleep through it. ::)
-
Slept through it. ;)
-
Never even heard of it. Sounds like fun, who started it?
-
I know the URL says 2013 but it is 2014
http://2013.pillowfightday.com/ (http://2013.pillowfightday.com/)
There was one in Oxford, I wonder if Joan went?
Anybody notice they have changed the URL entry for the posts to a box input.
-
Just
lost the signal and got a screen on my sat tv (Foxtel) saying 'Solar
Interference to the satellite is affecting our signal'.
Does this mean there may be solar storm tonight and if so there may be a good Aurora.
See NASA video here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_8yPQEE2Dnk
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_8yPQEE2Dnk)
-
Sadly missed the pillow fight Stuart. :( Nothing notable on
you tube either...sounds like it might not have flash mobbed too
well ::) - which is not surprising given that the students are
down for the Easter Vac just now.
-
Good evening everyone.
There is a new Zooniverse minigame available here:
http://games.usvsth3m.com/2048/zooniverse-edition-3/
I
dare you all to beat my high score (see attachment). It's better than
some! (http://daily.zooniverse.org/2014/04/01/2048-zooniverse-game/)
I got 4764 do I win?
Since nobody else has beaten Stuart's record (not even me - see below), I hereby declare him the winner!
Congrats Stuart - I will send you your prize by PM.
However,
you are not the best of all. That honor goes to another Zooite who I
believe is not on OW. His score is attached as well.
-
Good evening OW.
I just heard about the existence of a scary SSL bug called Heartbleed (http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26954540).
I
have now changed all my passwords for sites that have my financial info
(like Amazon), and I recommend you all to do the same! Better safe than
sorry - especially when it comes to identity theft.
-
Oh, my. Thanks for the warning.
-
Thanks Hanibal. I was wondering why our Canada Revenue Agency suspended online services the other day.
-
There is more about this on the BBC website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26954540
Towards
the end of the article, one of the "experts" describes it as a low to
medium risk and says there is no need to rush - this is rather at odds
with the beginning part of the article. I really would like a
realistic assessment of how serious this threat is. Passwords are
the bane of my life. Finding six strong, unique passwords that I can remember without writing them down is not going to be easy. :'(
-
I have an extension called LastPass that does most of the work for
me - it saves every password with the corresponding website, can
generate tricky passwords like ertu413zjuio2132, and can even detect
when I've changed a password and update itself.
-
Problem is, I look at something like LastPass and I start to wonder if someone can't hack into that and get all my passwords in one go ...
-
I found several articles that suggest ways that boil down to
creating a base password used everywhere and then how to alter it for
every site that can be deduced by you just looking at the site name.
Creating strong passwords is easier than you think (http://www.infoworld.com/print/206865)
Passwords: Creating and Maintaining a Strong Password System (http://antivirus.about.com/od/securitytips/a/passwords.htm)
Passwords: Creating and Maintaining a Strong Password System (http://antivirus.about.com/od/securitytips/a/passwords.htm)
5 Steps to a Good Password (http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/antivirusantispyware/tp/5-steps-to-a-strong-password.htm)
Mind
you, when their instructions start to confuse me, I simplify the
process some. It is still a way of being able to remember unique
passwords when looking at the login page for each site. Without
leaving a written record to be hacked.
-
This one is important: http://blog.zooniverse.org/2014/04/09/the-heartbleed-bug-and-the-zooniverse/
Change your Zooniverse password now, people.
-
Problem is, I look at something like LastPass and I start to wonder if someone can't hack into that and get all my passwords in one go ...
I've
had that thought for a LONG time! Also why I won't put data 'on the
cloud' ESPECIALLY password files!!! ;) I'll stick with 3 or 4
that I can remember. I keep 1 'hard one' for ONLY financial things
(Banks, credit cards, etc, ) and use the other 2 for everything else.
It's worked so far. Hope to continue. :)
-
Whilst doing some research for my next holiday I came across this article from 2011.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2045708/Staggering-Arctic-map-shows-impassable-Northwest-Passage-opening-polar-ice-caps-melt.html
(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2045708/Staggering-Arctic-map-shows-impassable-Northwest-Passage-opening-polar-ice-caps-melt.html)
Now if I could just find a ship that would take me along that route then I would be best pleased.
Iqaluit
to Cambridge Bay is no problem but Cambridge Bay to Unalaska is
creating a problem, no one seems to go that way and it would probably be
a bit cold on the edge of the ice with my thumb out looking for a
lift. ;)
-
See if you can get certain Great Lakes sailing ships (maybe from a member?) to do it on a dare. :o
-
Problem is, I look at something like LastPass and I start to wonder if someone can't hack into that and get all my passwords in one go ...
I've
had that thought for a LONG time! Also why I won't put data 'on the
cloud' ESPECIALLY password files!!! ;) I'll stick with 3 or 4
that I can remember. I keep 1 'hard one' for ONLY financial things
(Banks, credit cards, etc, ) and use the other 2 for everything else.
It's worked so far. Hope to continue. :)
Good point, both of you.
Very
well. I will delete LastPass and make do without. Better to not have
anything on the cloud, like you said, and Dean's method works fine for
me. Having an Aspie brain does make it a lot easier to remember
gibberish if said gibberish is important to me in some way.
-
Wait till you get older. A friend and I were complaining in Greek
class that we could remember the french vocab we learned at school
better than the greek vocab we learned last term. A classmate of
about 80 said 'Wait and see girls, you ain't seen nothing yet'. As
I age still further I fear he was right.
-
Yeah, but given how fast technology changes, who can say what passwords will be like in 30 years?
Perhaps there won't even be passwords - just fingerprint and iris scanners.
-
Wait
till you get older. A friend and I were complaining in Greek class that
we could remember the french vocab we learned at school better than the
greek vocab we learned last term. A classmate of about 80 said
'Wait and see girls, you ain't seen nothing yet'. As I age still
further I fear he was right.
Of all the things I miss in life, I miss my mind the most! ::)
Although
as my friend says ' The 'benefits' of Alzheimer's is that you meet new
people all the time and you can hide your own Easter eggs!'
;)
-
A friend of mine shared this on Facebook recently (the orignal contains expletives which I have modified):
Creating a password
cabbage
Sorry, the password must be more than 8 characters
boiled cabbage
Sorry, the password must contain 1 numerical character
1 boiled cabbage
Sorry, the password cannot have blank spaces
50flippingboiledcabbages
Sorry, the password must contain at least one upper case character
50FLIPPINGboiledcabbages
Sorry, the password cannot use more than one upper case character consecutively
50FlippingBoiledCabbagesShovedUpYourFundament,IfYouDon'tGiveMeAccessImmediately
Sorry, the password cannot contain punctuation
NowIAmGettingReallyHackedOff50FlippingBoiledCabbagesShovedUpYourFundamentIfYouDontGiveMeAccessImmediately
Sorry, that password is already in use!
-
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D 8)
-
Yes, I've been there (though no cabbages were involved ....) :D
-
It does have the ring of truth, doesn't it.
;) ;)
-
What particularly maddened me was they only told you each rule when
you hadn't complied with it - why not give the whole lot at the
beginning, you could spend a while creating something which 'passed' and
then get on with life? Grrrrrr......
-
It was written by a teenage geek who 'knew' that only idiots did not
know the rules. Probably the same geek that wrote the
instructions for my new mobile phone or else his twin brother.
-
Wonderful ;D
-
I've heard of that problem too.
Back when I had my first
practical phase in the computer science course I'm taking, the main
project was designing a log in/register page and a database for storing
the information (The company I'm with wasn't planning to actually use it
- the task was only for training purposes).
I made sure the register page states all the conditions for your password before you enter anything at all.
Oh,
and the project was a success. Took me weeks of trial and error (mostly
error!), but I finally managed to root out all the bugs, and get it to
work just fine.
I used the following programming languages/tools: HTML, JavaScript, NodeJS, MongoDB.
-
Latest advice on the Heartbleed bug is not to rush to change your
passwords immediately because you need to be sure the site in question
has first applied the patch to OpenSSL.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/09/heartbleed-dont-rush-to-update-passwords-security-experts-warn
There's also quite a useful list at Mashable of which sites are and aren't affected:
http://mashable.com/2014/04/09/heartbleed-bug-websites-affected/
Just
wondering if it is safe to assume that if a US website is not affected,
then the UK website will also be OK ... or should I change my passwords
anyway to be on the safe side? ??? I have done Zooniverse
as I presume they have applied the patch, or they wouldn't have told us
all to change our passwords!
Hanibal, I'm sorry if I put you off
LastPass - I've now read a lot more about this Heartbleed bug, and
LastPass come across as having a pretty good reputation.
-
You are forgiven, Su. I didn't delete it totally - just removed all
my sensitive websites, and they weren't permanently deleted, they were
in the "trash can".
So I was able to restore them all. I did make
sure to change my master password though - and it's quite a long and
tricky one that I am not using for ANYTHING else.
-
Just on a totally different note: I was talking to a friend working
in the Arctic Weather Centre (Environment Canada). Last fall, a high
mucky-muck had them on a conference call and told them that they were
not to mention Arctic warming and if asked about it not to respond. I
was appalled, but quickly realized this should be expected from a
government that pulled out of Kyoto, the Treaty on Desertification and a
host of other environmental treaties. They seem to believe that the
faster you get the carbon out of the ground and into the air, the sooner
everyone will be rich. I suppose in their "reality" no other
possibility exists.
-
:o :o :o :o :o :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
-
sad
-
Looks like it could get a tad wet and windy in Cooktown QLD tonight.
Cyclone Cat 5 due about midnight tonight. :o Just been downgraded to a cat4, phew
During its peak, destructive winds of up to 300km/h were expected to hit communities in the area. Will now be less.
-
Looks like it could get a tad wet and windy in Cooktown QLD tonight.
Cyclone Cat 5 due about midnight tonight. :o Just been downgraded to a cat4, phew
During its peak, destructive winds of up to 300km/h were expected to hit communities in the area. Will now be less.
I suppose it's all a bit relative, isn't it? "Oh whoopee! I was only hit by an 8kg sledgehammer instead of a 10kg job!"
The
cyclone (typhoon/hurricane) season down here extends to the end of
April, although they aren't that common in April, partiularly the big
ones. The residents of Cooktown are well and truly battened down
tonight.
:(
-
::)
-
Keep safe
-
Keep safe
No
problems for Stuart and me - we're 2000+km from the 'action'. The
advantage that Oz has is that the cyclone activity is usually
concentrated in the less populated areas in the north - unlike the Gulf
Coast or the Philippines. However, that's not much consolation if
you're sitting through it.
-
It
was written by a teenage geek who 'knew' that only idiots did not know
the rules. Probably the same geek that wrote the instructions for
my new mobile phone or else his twin brother.
I believe the 'progression' is:
Them that can...do.
Them that can't ...teach. (Actually them of us that teach DO IT ALL!!!!!! 8))
Them that can't teach...Administrate.
Them that can't Administrate...write Instruction Manuals!!!!! ::)
-
It
was written by a teenage geek who 'knew' that only idiots did not know
the rules. Probably the same geek that wrote the instructions for
my new mobile phone or else his twin brother.
I believe the 'progression' is:
Them that can...do.
Them that can't ...teach. (Actually them of us that teach DO IT ALL!!!!!! 8))
Them that can't teach...Administrate.
Them that can't Administrate...write Instruction Manuals!!!!! ::)
I think you left out a point between your 2 and 3:
'Those who can't teach, teach teachers'
-
I KNEW I missed something!!! ;)
;D ;D ;D ;D
-
I need some help setting my new $10 watch, can anybody help me sort out this manual.
-
"You get what you pay for." ::)
-
There doesn't seem to be any directions for disposing of it safely after you have given up in frustration. ;D
-
Where is a 10yr old when you needed them. ::)
-
That's what happens when you cheapskate, Stuart. I, however,
go for the more upmarket $15 timepieces. The extra $5 is used to
emply a translator who can interface between the meaningless gibberish
for your watch and the decypherable gibberish for mine. It's
really worth the extra expense. When you amortise the extra $5
over the average 2 year life of one of these watches, it averages out at
less than 1 cent a day, which even us ex-Poms can afford.
::)
-
I had a watch broken when a chisel from an air gun fell on it from a
great height, back when I was building the W.A.C. Bennett dam in 1967.
Even though the watch saved me from any injury more than a bruise, I
never replaced it. The interesting things is that even though I haven't
worn a watch for 47 years, I also know what time it is within a few
minutes; I never have to wind it; I never have to buy batteries; I don't
have to worry about changing the time when I cross timezones, or
timezones cross me (i.e. daylight savings). Throw your watches away and
let your internal clock take over. It will take only a couple of days...
-
Being a Millenial, I don't have a watch - I just use my cell phone.
-
I need some help setting my new $10 watch, can anybody help me sort out this manual.
See above....... ::)
-
Hi Steeleye.
I have an approx $2500 Bulova Accutron Spaceface watch and am to scared to wear it as it costs a fortune to fix.
Runs of a tuning fort action with one of cogs being 2.8mm dia and having 300 teeth on it. It revolves once a second.
Hence looking for a cheap knock around, WITH a calendar as I have no idea what the real date is after doing heeps of OW entries.
-
You actually read the instructions? I'm always far
too impatient for that! I think the random button-pressing method I
usually employ would have worked just as well in this instance.
-
Hi Su
After three months of random button pushing I gave up. :-[
I thought some of the logs were hard to read but at least they are in English not Chinglish.
;D
-
An interesting TV series about Climate Change has just started. The first episode is available on Youtube.
Years of Living Dangerously: Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=brvhCnYvxQQ)
If that video link doesn't work, here is:
Years of Living Dangerously: Homepage (http://yearsoflivingdangerously.com/)
And the article that pointed me there:
News
article
(http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/23038-years-of-living-dangerously-james-cameron-matt-damon-harrison-ford-in-tv-climate-change-series/)
And a very scary article:
Evidence
of Acceleration
(http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/22999-evidence-of-acceleration-on-all-fronts-of-anthropogenic-climate-disruption)
-
That is interesting - I'll watch it on YouTube. It will be on
the premium cable channel Showtime tomorrow evening in the US, 10pm EDT.
-
If you have cable... which I don't. No cell phone, no watch and no cable. ;D
-
I need cable because my apartment building has so much steel in its
walls, aerial antennas indoors don't work. I have Basic
Broadcasting Cable (only broadcast over the air channels with some
shopping networks thrown in), basic cell phone (not smart at all) is my
only phone, and no watch. I do indulge in a Kindle reader, again
most basic model. Carrying a library around in my purse is true
luxury.
That's why I was pleased to see it available on YouTube. :)
-
Nothing to do with OW but some lovely pics.
If you have the time look at the lot.
http://amazinglytimedphotos.com (http://amazinglytimedphotos.com)
Now it is back to work.
-
Thank you for that many smiles. :)
-
Fun pics, Stuart.
Thanks to the link to Years of Living Dangerously by
Thomas Friedman, Michael. It will wake a lot of people up, or scare
them so much they'll turn it off. It's enough to give you nightmares. I
was happy to see a evangelical climate scientists who believes
warming is real. We need more like that.
-
Our prime minister might want pipelines, but:
Kitimat,
B.C., votes 'no' to Northern Gateway in plebiscite
(http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kitimat-b-c-votes-no-to-northern-gateway-in-plebiscite-1.2607877)
Already the Enbridge Pipeline people are spinning the story.
-
A friend of mine shared this on Facebook recently (the orignal contains expletives which I have modified):
Creating a password
cabbage
Hi
folks -- just spotted this one and had to laugh. One of my old
colleagues kept making a mess of her passwords, the IT officer always
reset them and told her to set a new one as soon as possible. But she
always chickened out and kept what he had set up. One day she was
moaning bitterly at how unmemorable the latest offering was. JOhn had a
way of replacing letters with symbols and numbers. So what Doris
saw O#?0no[@ga1n! , what I saw was: Oh no not again!
When I translated it, John got into an awful lot of
trouble...oopsie! :D :D 8)
-
For those of you living in the US and Canada:
Total Solar Eclipse on Tuesday morning (http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27026339)
-
Public service message: Smartphone overuse may 'damage' eyes, say opticians (http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/26780069)
-
I don't like the things for other reasons - nice to have an excuse to not buy a smart phone. :)
I
will not be watching the lunar eclipse. Aside from the timing
(1am to 4am Chicago time) we have spring SNOW tonight - I'm assuming
also with clouds, and too cold to be welcoming. ::)
-
Yup!! Same here in western New York only coming a few hours later.
This
morning (Mon) it was sunny and 70?F (21?C) when we launched my friend's
sailboat for the season. Tomorrow looks like snow and 32?? (0?C). Ain't
weather WONDERFUL??!! ::)
-
We had that gorgeous 70F yesterday - today is cold rain in the 30s. :P
-
Snow and sleet for us this afternoon ack!!!
-
Snow and sleet in the Hudson River Valley tonight!
-
Sunny and temperatures between 10 and 15 C for Saxony for the next few days.
My apologies for any feelings of envy/wrath I have just caused.
-
:D Fortunately, Hanibal, we just had a lovely weekend, so no hard feelings!
-
I was sitting reading my kindle on the banks of the Clyde this afternoon so no feelings of envy (for once!).
-
Nice weather here too ;)
-
Good morning OW.
The sun is shining and the birds are tweeting here.
-
Good evening OW.
Sun setting, birds tweeting.
-
Cockatoos screeching? ;)
-
Yep.
-
Happy Public Holiday to everybody.
-
It's hard to get excited about a "Public Holiday" but thanks for the thought, Stuart.
-
OK Craig.
How about "Happy 'Official Chocolate Eating day' "
;D
-
Sounds good to me!
I just celebrated 'Un-Official Chocolate Eating day' with a large, very chocolaty cookie ;D
-
Well I'm a traditionalist
HAPPY EASTER
-
Buona Pasqua, Old Weather
Happy Easter
:) :) :)
-
Buona Pasqua, Silvia. :)
Enjoy the day everyone, in whatever way your choose.
-
Buona Pasqua!
Vrolijk Pasen!
Frohe Ostern!
Joyeuses Paques!
Wesołych Świąt!
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pZXU2mXGSnA/U1ODKLbP1yI/AAAAAAAADrk/XbcKbnLaBS8/w630-h460-no/Happy+Easter+OW.JPG)
-
Happy
Chocolate Eating Easter, Old Weather!
-
Happy Easter, and happy chocolate eating Old Weather (I'm combining both ....)
-
My wife ate one of the chocolate bunnies that she bought for our
grandchildren. I went back to the store but I couldn't get the same one.
So now she has to confess her sin has she tries to divide what we have
equally ;D
-
You should have bought enough of another type to hide what she did -
then you could both eat the remainder of the evidence later ;)
-
My
wife ate one of the chocolate bunnies that she bought for our
grandchildren. I went back to the store but I couldn't get the same one.
So now she has to confess her sin has she tries to divide what we have
equally ;D
What about breeding like rabbits? Surely if you'd left them together for a bit, more rabbits might have arrived?
-
I should have consulted you both about this dilemma. ;D
But
it was funny because we were having breakfast at a restaurant and
my wife wasn't saying anything about the chocolate so I whispered to
Emilie to ask her grandmother if she had forgotten her Easter bunny. My
wife, of course, tried to tell them that it was my fault for not getting
the same type of bunny but everyone knew the real story. We (I) had a
good laugh. ;D
-
;D
-
;D ;D
Happy Easter all!!
Luckily I'm not much of a
choco fiend - however I confess that, when my godchildren were wee
nippers, i used to buy a spare bunny or two. One in case they trotted a
friend along with them when visiting, and one in case of moral
weakness on my behalf. I don't recall ever ending up with a homeless
choc rabbit at the end of Easter Monday. :P :D
-
;D
-
Happy birthday Janet
... and happy Earth Day. :)
-
Have a very happy birthday Janet!
Joan
:-* :-* :-*
-
Happy birthday Janet!!! :) :) :)
-
Happy birthday Janet
... and happy Earth Day !
;D ;D ;D
-
All the best, Janet!
Craig
-
Thank you all. :)
-
Happy Birthday, Janet!!!
Buon Compleanno!!!
:) :) :)
-
Janet:
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear Jaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnneeeetttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt,
Happy Birthday to you!
Hope it's a happy one and that you get lots of neat presents!
Hope also you get to share with family! ;D
-
Janet, have a great Earth day! And an even better birthday :)
-
Have a great birthday, Janet - it's one celebration after another!
-
Happy Birthday, Janet!
-
Happy Birthday, Janet! and many MMMMOOOORRRRREEEEE!!!
-
Gorgeous - thanks to all of you.
-
Many Happy Returns, Janet!
-
To Janet on her 111th Birthday
So this is the date of your birth -
we all hope it is filled with great mirth,
celebration and song,
all the day long,
until you come home to your berth.
-
Thanks Kathy - still striving for that age, got a long way still to go. :D
-
Mystery of 'ocean quack sound' solved (http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27117669)
-
;D ;D ;D
-
:) If it quacks like a duck ...
I like this story too:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25441-longest-experiment-sees-pitch-drop-after-84year-wait.html#.U1dhvld3Jfg
And happy St George's Day to English persons everywhere.
-
Oh, my - they are even offering a streaming video to watch it for them. http://www.theninthwatch.com/feed/
-
It being St George's Day it is also the day upon which one picks fresh dandelion heads for making wine. ;D
-
It seems to me that I've heard that dandelion wine can be pretty powerful? ;) ;D
-
I can say that, having imbibed it, I have little memory of how
strong it was...I have no memory of most of the rest of those days
::), just a sort of warm pleasant haze.
Yep - it is strong..very
nice too. During brewing it can quickly go bad so you need to watch it
like a hawk AND keep taking it off the lees. 8) ;D
-
Hi Joan.
Save a bottle for Sept.
Ta. ;D
-
Morning OW.
(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/74433000/jpg/_74433805_hi022025887.jpg)
Lest we forget.
-
Latin tall ships arrive in Peru for nautical festival (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-27130609)
-
Everything is very slow this morning. I now just have a white screen
for OW - saved several minutes ago. The Forum is slow too.
It's
been 15 minutes now and my page hasn't been saved. "Transferring
data from Old Weather.org..." message in the lower left corner.
-
Friend just sent this.
Here's for us as we age! 8)
-
;D ;D ;D
The system seems to be working OK for me :-\
-
Cool walker! :)
The system works fine in Chicago, no problems at all. Maybe it was a momentary slowdown, or the problem is local?
-
;D ;D ;D
The system seems to be working OK for me :-\
It
seems to have been my modem or my router. I first rebooted my computer
but that didn't help so then I shut down everything and started them up
one at a time. That appears to have fixed the problem.
-
;D ;D Great walker!
-
I had been through this routine some time ago at the suggestion of the ISP technician.
-
Craig.
Seems you were on the right Route(r) to fix your problem. ::)
I
did have a similar problem on the morning of the 26th (My time) posting
to the forum. I was the only one on at the time. (Late PM UK time)
when sending a post up, I got messages that the page was not available.
It fixed it self after about 30 min.
I find if my system has no obvious reason for going slow I run the following commands and they usually work.
netsh winsock reset catalog
netsh int ip reset reset.log hit
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /registerdns
If you don't know how to run them then maybe it's best you don't.
-
Welcome Home, Hanibal !
-
Good to "see" you again, Hanibal. Hope you had a good vacation.
I
do know how to run those commands, Stuart, and I will keep them in mind
in case all else fails (Is that in Elfish script? ;D). I have
rarely experienced a slow-down like this. My guess is our computers were
just taking a break. Can you blame them with all the work we are
loading on them? ;D
-
Welcome Home, Hanibal !
Actually, I was still on the Autobahn, a couple hundred kilometers away from home when you wrote that.
But thanks anyway. I been catching up on stuff.
For
example, I found two more spam messages from Cloudcuckoolanders
(http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Cloudcuckoolander) in my
inbox:
Hara
3 and Tammer Henneh. During the early 20th century, many Olympic
athletes discovered ways to chemically improve their athletic abilities.
Both structures indicate the presence of powerful muscles and ligaments
for the extension of the neck.
One
of them tries to fire back with his Remington 870 shotgun, but misses.
As per Amity's website, campuses exist in London and Singapore too. God
about his patriotic feelings and personal misfortune.
-
Something very cool: First-person footage of Felix Baumgartner's
Space Jump
(http://www.flixxy.com/first-person-view-of-felix-baumgartners-space-jump.htm#.Uu5KxEhDi7Q)
EDIT: And another: Chinese Gymnasts (https://www.youtube.com/embed/7-UTRIln9Pk)
-
Friend just sent this.
Here's for us as we age! 8)
I WANT ONE!! ;D ;D ;D
-
Hanibal, the strength and control of both those gymnasts are amazing - performance art of the most difficult kind. :)
-
It may be a good idea not to use Internet Explorer until Microsoft fixes this latest bug.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/microsoft-rushes-fix-browser-attacks-no-fix-xp-213303666--sector.html
-
Those Chinese gymnasts are super. Very elegant and incredible strength and balance.
-
Two amazing things:
Old - timey parkour (https://www.youtube.com/embed/M5nIskDdYM8)
Old - timey building climbers (https://www.youtube.com/embed/JQbsKoUjrKo)
Don't try this at home!
-
Don't worry, I won't! ;D
-
There is a new search challenge online this evening, helping
responders know where all the damage and blocked roads are from the over
100 tornadoes that tore across the south yesterday, leaving at least 34
dead. It helps the first responders to know which roads are
blocked and where the worst damage is.
Tomnod's satellite images are at http://www.tomnod.com/nod/challenge/okartornado012014
-
Oh dear - how dreadful. Very sorry to hear that so many lost
their lives to a force of nature. And all those homes destroyed too.
Grim. I'm sure it helps having Tomnod there though - the Services must
find it very useful.
My thoughts are with those left injured and homeless and bereaved.
-
Just to cheer things up a bit.
Happy Tuba Day. (when it rolls round to your location)
http://www.tubaday.com/homepage.php (http://www.tubaday.com/homepage.php)
-
Thank you for caring, Joan. This has been a terrible storm.
-
Just to cheer things up a bit.
Happy Tuba Day. (when it rolls round to your location)
http://www.tubaday.com/homepage.php (http://www.tubaday.com/homepage.php)
Is this like Tuba Christmas? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k96LzS63yu8)
-
Nice find.
Would loved to have heard the Official recording, minus the background singer.
Did you hear the player third from the left was slightly out of tune. ::)
-
Just to cheer things up a bit.
Happy Tuba Day. (when it rolls round to your location)
http://www.tubaday.com/homepage.php (http://www.tubaday.com/homepage.php)
How about this one:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/VRKlLKnXt-g
-
:-\
-
HAPPY 75TH BIRTHDAY, BATMAN!
(http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11112/111123678/3503035-3468468-2718720139-batma.jpg)
(http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/screen_kubrick/0/40/1284030-old_batman_robin_1434449i.jpg)
-
;D
-
:o ;D 8)
-
8)
But I would have expected a more sophisticated wheel chair ;D
-
8)
But I would have expected a more sophisticated wheel chair ;D
Good point ;D
-
Sweden fire turns cans of rotten fish into exploding missiles (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27258303) :o :o :o
-
:o
Just thinking of the aroma coming from that fire!
-
;D
Just to cheer things up a bit.
Happy Tuba Day. (when it rolls round to your location)
http://www.tubaday.com/homepage.php (http://www.tubaday.com/homepage.php)
How about this one:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/VRKlLKnXt-g
I can hear why they sent him out into the woods, :o although, he sounds better than I would. ;)
-
Weather has turned here and winter is approaching.
Not as bad though as in the show I am watching.
Deadliest Catch.
My god it looks cold in Dutch harbor at the end of the crab season.
I have heaps of respect to those who sail in those seas "By Choice"
-
Good morning/evening Stuart and all.
Sunny here but not exactly warm: 6C at the moment.
-
5c all day.
Lit the fire for the first time this year.
-
We've been topping off at about 4-6 C (a.k.a. in the 40sF) all week
with rain. So far, May is looking to be the 7th consecutive month
with below average temperatures.
Supposedly going to get up
around 60 next week - double digits in C. Hoping the forecasters
know what they are talking about.
-
Well after the occasional day of sandals and T-shirts we are back to
central heating and no sun. I knew that buying the sun-block was a
mistake!
-
Ah, it's your fault! Though we do have sun here, but it certainly isn't warm.
-
We had 24 on Thursday last, with temperatures 15-17C for the next
ten days (Right on normal). Cherry and plum blossoms done,
rhododendrons, lilac, magnolia and chestnuts in full bloom. Too many
varieties of flower to count. :) :) :) :)
-
The flowers are looking quite good, the cool weather preserves them. All we need is the sunlight to set off the colours.
-
I might get more OW records done if someone would tell my boss that
my OW job is more important than the jobs she gives me like cleaning up
the garden, building a shed, washing old wine bottles, etc etc. ;D
-
Maybe trade jobs with her and cook dinner while she gardens? ;)
-
I
might get more OW records done if someone would tell my boss that my OW
job is more important than the jobs she gives me like cleaning up the
garden, building a shed, washing old wine bottles, etc etc. ;D
Easy.
If you drink the wine then you don't have to wash the bottles.
Some people just have nooo idea. :o
-
Maybe trade jobs with her and cook dinner while she gardens? ;)
I
cook dinners and do some housework, depending on her schedule. (She
doesn't like dusting and vacuums and won't let me near laundry.)
-
Sounds like fair division of labor then. :)
-
Happy Star Wars Day, everyone!
(http://travelcuts.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/star-wars-day1.jpg)
(http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/happy+star+wars+day.+may+the+4th+be+with+you_f03760_3661429.jpg)
-
;D ;D ;D
I like the comment on the second picture!
-
Ah - perhaps that's why they showed SW Ep1 yesterday night on ITV (I'm sure they played it over Easter as well).
Hey - can you imagine Joda transcribing? ;D ;D ;D
-
Weird but awesome, that would be.
P.S. Yoda his name is, with Y and not J.
-
Students retain information better with pens than laptops
(https://www.sciencenews.org/article/students-retain-information-better-pens-laptops)
;D
-
Students
retain information better with pens than laptops
(https://www.sciencenews.org/article/students-retain-information-better-pens-laptops)
;D
;D ;D ;D ;D
-
I knew it! From now on I am going to transcribe using my pen ;D
-
As today is Star Wars Day, I have gathered three awesome lightsaber
fights and one old but great cartoon for you all to enjoy:
Concrete Hustle (https://www.youtube.com/embed/-ZM4Hkw5CPk)
Ryan VS Dorkman 1 (https://www.youtube.com/embed/8NE5elL30w4)
Ryan VS Dorkman 2 (https://www.youtube.com/embed/RATMJ8JH1qo)
Cartoon: Mace Windu VS Battle Droids (https://www.youtube.com/embed/cF3ocZu4cZo)
-
Hello OW - Bank Holiday here in the UK today = more time to
transcribe! Though unfortunately (from that point of view if not
others) the weather is uncharacteristically good, at least where I
am. :D
-
Don't waste the chance for a pretty pleasant walk on transcription, Helen - make time for both. :)
-
Thanks Janet - I've had the walk, now for the transcription/editing!
-
88-year old grandmother goes race car driving as part of her bucket
list
(http://www.wmur.com/news/88yearold-works-to-fulfill-bucket-list/25799882)
-
I knew it! From now on I am going to transcribe using my pen ;D
2000 Posts, Nice one Craig.
-
I didn't know anyone was counting, Stuart. ;D
-
The forum software is always counting, Craig. :)
Greetings all.
-
Craig.
Now you have spoiled it with 2001. :'(
-
Has anyone else noticed that the forum clock is now about 10 minutes
behind the rest of the world? Is this a cunning plan to gradually
timeshift us all back to the times when our ships were sailing - an
alternative to the Tardis we're always wanting perhaps?
-
It seems to me that it has been behind for quite awhile - although maybe not quite 10 minutes.
-
I noticed it a while ago. But since it's not serious, I didn't think it was worth reporting.
-
I've noticed they have to change it manually every time Britain
switches to summer time and back again, and they stopped being precise
about the minutes it is set at years ago. This is just the biggest
gap yet. I don't really understand why they don't use UTC with
this global a community, but again it wasn't important enough to
complain about.
-
Thanks, Janet, that explains why it's become more dramatically
behind recently. I wasn't complaining, honest, just noticing
... ;D
-
Anybody know what is so exciting in Sitka that would cause 22 crew to be missing AWOL for some days?
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USS%20Concord/vol022of040/vol022of040_108_1.jpg
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USS%20Concord/vol022of040/vol022of040_108_1.jpg)
And a :P to anybody that says it is because of me.
-
Anybody know what is so exciting in Sitka that would cause 22 crew to be missing AWOL for some days?
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USS%20Concord/vol022of040/vol022of040_108_1.jpg
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USS%20Concord/vol022of040/vol022of040_108_1.jpg)
And a :P to anybody that says it is because of me.
It didn't seem hugely exciting the last time I was there. Pretty, though. They had bars.
Michael
-
Makes you wonder what kind of game was going on in one of those bars. :)
-
Anybody know what is so exciting in Sitka that would cause 22 crew to be missing AWOL for some days?
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USS%20Concord/vol022of040/vol022of040_108_1.jpg
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USS%20Concord/vol022of040/vol022of040_108_1.jpg)
And a :P to anybody that says it is because of me.
It didn't seem hugely exciting the last time I was there. Pretty, though. They had bars.
Michael
OOPs we are 'At anchor Juneau, Alaska.' :-[
Next day we go to Sitka.
-
So, more bars and more ladies. :)
-
There are not many left to patronize them. %^(
-
I got this one from my nephew. :)
https://www.youtube.com/embed/wighvyxg5d8
-
I got this one from my nephew. :)
https://www.youtube.com/embed/wighvyxg5d8
Would
I be right out of line (or betraying my origins) to say that is the
most exciting thing that I have ever seen at a baseball game?
-
Cricket could benefit immensely from a diversion like this, Steeleye - that and a good book to read 8)
At first I though this was one of those experiments like the gorilla at a basketball that few people noticed.
-
That was great. They should do something that during the upcoming
FIFA World Cup - have all the players wear Velociraptor suits.
Then it wouldn't be so boring.
-
I had an aunt who loved going to baseball games, and did needlepoint
during all the boring spots ending up with a very large complex
fireplace screen. Hundreds of hours of needlework with breaks for
exciting action. ;D
-
One could take a laptop and transcribe OW - almost as good as needlepoint ;D
-
It is clear that two things have been demonstrated here:
1) People have not really, really watched a baseball game - ;D
2) People have not really, really watched a soccer (football ;D ) game ;D
I
too used to be among those that thought both were boring, but then I
married someone who was a tremendous soccer fan (and found out that my
dad had been offered a scholarship to the University of Oklahoma as a
goalie - who knew!) and discovered that soccer is quite action
packed. Also, the Nationals came to town, and I discovered
baseball can be a very tense game. What will the next pitch be?
Will this guy be able to foul off the pitch to stay alive, or will he,
against all odds, swing for the fences? AAAHHHH!
-
Actually I used to love watching baseball as a kid. I rooted for the
local team but at first I didn't understand it was a farm team. I
became so disappointed when our best players were picked up by the
majors that I gave it up all together.
I used to love the "World"
Series when the Yankees played the Dodgers but that glow wore off too
as the number of teams expanded.
Soccer is fun to watch, and so is hockey when it's my grandchildren who are playing (or the Canadian woman's Olympic team!)
-
I
had an aunt who loved going to baseball games, and did needlepoint
during all the boring spots ending up with a very large complex
fireplace screen. Hundreds of hours of needlework with breaks for
exciting action. ;D
Needlepoint and baseball sound like an analogy for a well-known description of war (I can't remember the source):
'Long periods of boredom punctuated by brief moments of terror.'
-
It is clear that two things have been demonstrated here:
1) People have not really, really watched a baseball game - ;D
Kathy,
I have tried, I really have. I have watched entire games of baseball on
TV. However, it just doesn't do anything for me, and I enjoy most
sports ... even curling!
-
I love baseball AND I love cricket. So there. :)
-
At least you tried - ;)
Curling is not a sport, it is a vocation!
-
Baseball is a psychological game more than a ball game - either you
really like watching how the teams psych each other out - something that
is very subtle but never missing - or because you enjoy crowds that
almost never are in a frenzy, you bring a book or needlework or
crossword puzzles to fill in the blanks and sit back to enjoy yourself.
-
asterix135 hasn't been around for quite awhile. Does anyone know if he is OK?
-
The only thing I enjoy about soccer is watching the players fall flat on their faces.
That, and the things they do when they finally score a goal (like doing backflips or ripping their shirts off!).
-
asterix135 hasn't been around for quite awhile. Does anyone know if he is OK?
Prehaps he's watching a cricket game?
-
asterix135 hasn't been around for quite awhile. Does anyone know if he is OK?
Prehaps he's watching a cricket game?
Must be quite a long game! He's been gone for over a month.
-
Greetings OW.
Damp, gloomy Sunday morning here.
Anybody admit to watching Eurovision? ;) I missed it.
-
Sunny and 51?F (10?C) here in western New York State.
I'm about to head north and hopefully get the S/V Viking Too out for her first run of the season in Lake Ontario.
Lake temp is 40?F (4?C) so it will be a bit 'chilly.' ;)
-
I'm in Calgary, Alberta, visiting a relative who had a stroke some
years ago. He has difficulty speaking so we mainly sit around in a very
hot room watching sports. I watched a complete soccer/football game
yesterday. No men doing backflips or ripping off shirts: sorry
Hanibal :'(. Then a hockey game: sorry Craig if you're a fan of
the Habs :'( :'( :'(. First complete NHL hockey game I've watched
since Toronto won the Stanley cup (1967 for those of you unable to
answer that skill testing clue). Also first soccer/football game I've
seen since sitting at Arsenal's stadium with my cousin in 1972. (All I
remember was that the tea was really bad.)
As for the weather: we
had mixed rain and snow with winds north gusting to 50 kmh and a
temperature of 3C (37F) yesterday afternoon. :'( :'( :'( :'(
:'( :'( :'(
-
It is 70 F and sunny here - our only Spring day before Summer hits - :P
-
Greetings OW.
Damp, gloomy Sunday morning here.
Anybody admit to watching Eurovision? ;) I missed it.
Nope -missed it too - and it sounds like we did relatively well this year - 17th place was it? ;)
I
stayed up til 3 am playing cards with my friends (biannual event). Even
did quite well over a couple of games in Bridge, but otherwise had
horrid hands -nothing much more than 3 points per deal for those that
understand this weird game. Didn't win Black Maria - should have but was
too busy yacking to concentrate properly...oopsie! Did win twice
at cribbage ('29s') though, but I tend to think of that as mostly luck
rather than skill. ANYWAY - this all needs paying for so I'm off
to transcribe for a short while! ;D ;D ;D
-
Greetings OW.
Damp, gloomy Sunday morning here.
Anybody admit to watching Eurovision? ;) I missed it.
Yes,
I confess - I watched it! I even voted. Every year I try to
resist the temptation, but I always seem to give in. The
Netherlands entry was excellent - if only they'd thought of getting a bearded drag artiste to perform it!
-
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
-
An unusual tale: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-27344976
:o
-
Classic changeable British weather - after a day of blue skies and
sunshine, we've suddenly had torrential rain, with thunder and lightning
....
-
An unusual tale: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-27344976
:o
As recent events have sadly shown, the cargo and how it is stored are vital.
-
Another weird story - Cruise ship plays White Stripes anthem Seven
Nation Army using horns
(http://metro.co.uk/2014/05/11/cruise-ship-plays-white-stripes-anthem-seven-nation-army-using-horns-4724140/)
-
Other than me not knowing anything about "white stripes" or "seven
nation army", that's a cool way to participate in a festival. :)
-
Another
weird story - Cruise ship plays White Stripes anthem Seven Nation Army
using horns
(http://metro.co.uk/2014/05/11/cruise-ship-plays-white-stripes-anthem-seven-nation-army-using-horns-4724140/)
I
heard that on the radio this morning. Now I'm wondering if it
just so happens that the particular range of notes on that ship's
foghorn mean they can play Seven Nation Army and nothing else. Or
do they have a keyboard and could play anything they chose?
-
Other
than me not knowing anything about "white stripes" or "seven nation
army", that's a cool way to participate in a festival. :)
I had to look those up!
-
So me and jil are the cool kidz around here then? 8) ;D
-
I love a place where I appear to be cool. ;D
-
Unfortunately I probably wrecked any chance I might have had to be
cool when I admitted to watching the Eurovision Song Contest!
-
That does take a lot of living down!
I had heard of White Stripes, but not of Seven Nation Army - which probably makes me lukewarm .... 8)
-
Good night OW. I'm off to bed.
Here's an interesting bit of naval trivia I found today:
(http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/photoshop/9/5/3/271953.jpg?v=1)
-
Good night Hanibal.
I'm off to bed soon myself.
-
Now that interesting tidbit uncovers just how little research Hollywood does into what is written in screen plays. :)
When
I double checked that, it seems that unless the couple have Japanese
passports on a Japanese ship, the only way to pull that marriage at sea
off is on a Bermuda liner
(http://marriage.about.com/cs/marriagelicenses/ht/marriedatsea.htm).
Thanks for setting me right on this, Hanibal. :)
-
There's a neat Google Doodle today - I like learning this way about outstanding women. :)
http://time.com/95873/dorothy-hodgkin-google-doodle/
-
Another
weird story - Cruise ship plays White Stripes anthem Seven Nation Army
using horns
(http://metro.co.uk/2014/05/11/cruise-ship-plays-white-stripes-anthem-seven-nation-army-using-horns-4724140/)
That is hilarious and, yes, a little bit scary. ;D
Technology news: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27378834
-
I liked this one. Search for
Atari Breakout images or click
Here
(https://www.google.com.au/search?q=Atari+Breakout&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=8tVxU4ScLcbskgW_54D4DQ&ved=0CDAQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=667#imgdii=_)
It brings up a basic game.
Only scored 198 so should be easy for hanibal to bet me. %^)
-
I did indeed "bet" you, Stuart - and on my first try, too!
My right hand is really tense from all that rushing and blocking.
-
That is hilarious and, yes, a little bit scary. ;D
Technology news: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27378834
Wow!
What would your top 300 books be (OK - let's think about the top 10)?
I'd
probably have to have an edition of 'Hornblower', 'Around the World in
80 Days', '20,000 Leagues Beneath the Sea', 'Treasure Island', 'The
Tempest', 'Tide and bread and juice' (a recently discovered book by Jane
Austen)...that'll do me for now.
;) ;D
-
I don't think I could name 300.
I would like Use of Weapons, Hamlet, Catch 22, The Shock of the New, Solaris ...
;)
-
I just finished Middlemarch by George Eliot. The best novel I have
read in a long time! It is a bit hard to get into, though - perhaps not
the best choice for sailors.
-
I don't think I could name 300.
I would like Use of Weapons, Hamlet, Catch 22, The Shock of the New, Solaris ...
;)
Spookily, I'm currently reading Use of Weapons!
-
Sounds interesting - but maybe confusing too?
-
Christopher Columbus's Santa Maria wreck 'found' (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27397579)
Hum, quite a claim :-\
Still, it should be an interesting find if it really dates from that period.
-
Don't even think about asking me to transcribe THOSE logs!!
-
I suspect they might be rather soggy by now ....
Interested
you found that info about captains not being able to marry anyone - I've
just got a booklet about Marriage Law for Clergy (I know, I have an
exciting life!) - and noticed it had an entry in the list of contents
about just that, so of course I turned straight to it, and found a nice
straightforward sentence saying captains of ships (also of aircrafts)
can't solemnize Anglican marriages. Given all the regulations, and
a myriad of ways of getting it wrong, they ought to be jolly glad they
don't have the responsibility. I'm having nightmares already about
the first wedding I'm taking, which isn't until August!
-
Have three priests do it independently and go with the majority...
;D
-
Be very traditional about filling in all the paperwork, and parish
records. That probably puts you right down the middle of the road
to legality without any additional work on your part. :)
-
"When in doubt," I say, "have a drink!" My son sent me this list of
countries coloured by consumption of alcohol. Surprisingly, we in Canada
seem to out-drink those in the country just to the south of us, even
though, in some states, they give out free wine samples in grocery
stores! Go figure... ;)
-
Sorry to say I have also contributed to Australia being up there with you Canadians.
And this year I intend to ensure we stay there. ;D
-
... even though, in some states, they give out free wine samples in grocery stores! Go figure...
The thing is, they are tiny
samples and then you walk away to finish shopping. You feel like
you've had a drink and don't go looking for more later! :)
I
admit to being surprised that we are less drinkers than Canada,
Australia and western Europe - including Britain. Stories always
make you guys sound more sober than us.
-
A poem from a friend:
Starkle, starkle, little twink
Who the heck am you I think
Although I not under the affluence of incohol
Many thinkels peep I are. ::)
-
So much ice for drinks in Greenland - and no one drinks there - hmmmm ;) ;) ;)
-
So much ice for drinks in Greenland - and no one drinks there - hmmmm
Hi Joan.
Wait till Aug 2105 2015 then there will be. ;D
-
??? :-[
There may not be so much ice then though :(
Do you mean 2105 or 2015?
-
Looks like it will be just Scotch and WATER then. ::)
-
Maikel has posted on YouTube animations of two planned updates to Journey Plotter.
Hide future positions: https://www.youtube.com/embed/f8jYvVc7EQc
Truncated trail: https://www.youtube.com/embed/M7VOFeLOFMI
Clever and lovely work, making good use of all those transcribed lat/longs and, in their absence, place names.
-
bibidibibidibbibidibibidibbibidibibidibbibidibibidib
BREAKING NEWS FROM YOUR REPORTER IN THE FIELD
Washington, DC...
This
reporter had the pleasure of attending a talk by Dr. Kevin Wood, NOAA,
at the National Archives, regarding the work of Old Weather. The
talk was extremely interesting, with highlights regarding the use of the
data transcribed by Old Weather volunteers. Dr. Wood had cool
videos and graphics, based on data from the project. Dr. Wood had
only good things to say about transcribers. In fact, this reporter
found the talk a very nice reminder of why we work on this project in
the first place. KUDOS DR. WOOD!
-
Thanks for the news, Reporter Kathy, and thank you Dr Wood. :)
-
8) ;D 8) ;D 8)
-
Thanks, Reporter Kathy. Thanks, Dr. Wood. Thanks,
transcriber community - we couldn't do it without you. :)
-
How about that game 7!!!! Was it :D or :'(?
-
bibidibibidibbibidibibidibbibidibibidibbibidibibidib
BREAKING NEWS FROM YOUR REPORTER IN THE FIELD
Washington, DC...
This
reporter had the pleasure of attending a talk by Dr. Kevin Wood, NOAA,
at the National Archives, regarding the work of Old Weather. The
talk was extremely interesting, with highlights regarding the use of the
data transcribed by Old Weather volunteers. Dr. Wood had cool
videos and graphics, based on data from the project. Dr. Wood had
only good things to say about transcribers. In fact, this reporter
found the talk a very nice reminder of why we work on this project in
the first place. KUDOS DR. WOOD!
This transcriber is very pleased to hear all this!
Can we please get video of the talk? This transcriber very much wishes to see it!
-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-27407932
Sorry, I know I'm posting about cats again, but I thought this video of a cat saving a child from a dog attack was amazing.
-
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
-
Wow!
When I was young we had a cat (actually that's not quite
right - the cat adopted us) who used to chase the neighbour's German
Shepherd. Admittedly it was quite a gentle dog and the cat was a
battle-scarred old tom cat.
-
I've had an email in connection with Operation War Diary which I
thought might interest some of you - I don't think it's gone out to all
Zooniverse members, but apologies if you have all already seen it:
We
thought you'd be interested to know that the Imperial War Museum has
launched its Lives of the First World War project and needs your help to
uncover the stories of the millions of men and women who worked on the
home front.
The project will serve as a memorial to those brave
people. It will also allow you to discover more about your WW1
connections and share memories of them with people online. Get involved
in the effort now at www.livesofthefirstworldwar.org
Don't
forget, Operation War Diary is still running and needs you help! So far,
you and your fellow volunteers have classified almost one third of the
diary pages, but there is still plenty to be done. Pick up where you
left off at www.operationwardiary.org
Thanks,
Grant & the Operation War Diary Team
PS:
Allison Mishkin is a researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute
working on a project on participation in different forms of
crowdsourcing activities. She'd like to interview Zooniverse volunteers
to learn about your experiences on this and other sites. If this sounds
like something you might be interested in, please fill out this simple
form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1RBC49HaXvEloTuO-nDdc37Iqx00cTLR24M7sPwbJWQU/viewform.
I've
taken a quick look, though did not have time to really go into how it
works. However, contrary to what it says in the email, this
project appears to have a much broader base than the home front and it
may be an opportunity for some of us to commemorate some of the crew
members of our Phase 1 and 2 ships.
-
There was a camera there, but I don't know how to go about getting a video -
-
Kathy - maybe ask Kevin if there will be a recording of that presentation online for the public?
Su
- that went out in a Daily Zooniverse, so everyone signed up for that
newsletter in all Zoos got it. I looked at it, and tried searching
for the names of a couple of our ship captains. Bottom line, even
with a common name like 'Fisher', very few naval personnel are in their
data base. Good news is, it is set up to collect Navy names and
histories. So yes, we would be able to add some of our crew
names. It is not in the Zooniverse but clearly closely related to
both OW and War Diaries.
-
Something amusing I found today...
Frane Selak: The luckiest unlucky man in the world. (https://www.youtube.com/embed/dZyUWLW7kEI)
-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-27407932
Sorry, I know I'm posting about cats again, but I thought this video of a cat saving a child from a dog attack was amazing.
Tara the cat rescues boy from attack by dog (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27428819)
Nice followup, aside from one glaring factual error: "The family adopted the stray cat" ::) ::) ::)
-
That kind of love and loyalty happens often if you adopt a rescue
adult animal. They remember being abandoned and then given a new
home and love. And they value it highly.
-
An interesting short video showing a Time History of Atmospheric
Carbon Dioxide (https://www.youtube.com/embed/UatUDnFmNTY). It is very
worthwhile to get an idea of how far we've come in changing the
atmosphere.
changed YouTube link to popup (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=536.0) - JJ
-
Something amusing I found today...
Frane Selak: The luckiest unlucky man in the world. (https://www.youtube.com/embed/dZyUWLW7kEI)
Oh
boy....I'm surprised he bothered to get out of bed - then again if he'd
done THAT he'd never have won the lottery...nice one :D
-
An
interesting short video showing a Time History of Atmospheric Carbon
Dioxide (https://www.youtube.com/embed/UatUDnFmNTY). It is very
worthwhile to get an idea of how far we've come in changing the
atmosphere.
Now that is scary.
-
Nice followup, aside from one glaring factual error: "The family adopted the stray cat" ::) ::) ::)
Soooooooooooooo
true! I say, remembering wistfully back to the balmy summer's evening
when I was adopted by a stray cat with a taste for Chinese food... ;D
-
Humm, you and Chinese food - a stray cat with excellent taste! ;D
-
Aah, a Chinese stray cat, excellent tasting. ::)
-
Victorian Strangeness: The man who fired a torpedo down a High Street (http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-27440191)
-
Happy Birthday, DJ
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-8wMYIOxMRlg/U3csKEWY3dI/AAAAAAAAD3s/4Tg864vonLQ/w790-h496-no/Happy+Birthday.JPG)
-
Happy Birthday, DJ !
-
To DJ on his 111 birthday -
To our beloved moderator DJ,
we all would just like to say,
here are our wishes - the best,
for you in the Pacific Northwest,
on this, your 111th birthday.
-
Kathy - maybe ask Kevin if there will be a recording of that presentation online for the public?
Su
- that went out in a Daily Zooniverse, so everyone signed up for that
newsletter in all Zoos got it. I looked at it, and tried searching
for the names of a couple of our ship captains. Bottom line, even
with a common name like 'Fisher', very few naval personnel are in their
data base. Good news is, it is set up to collect Navy names and
histories. So yes, we would be able to add some of our crew
names. It is not in the Zooniverse but clearly closely related to
both OW and War Diaries.
Yes
- National Archives is making a YouTube video with interleaved ppt
slides which will be available soon. And thanks to Kathy for coming!
-
A very happy one-day belated birthday DJ!!! Hope you had a good day ;D ;D ;D
-
Has anyone seen the Google Doodle for today, celebrating the rubik's cube birthday? :)
https://www.google.com/webhp?source=search_app
-
Couldn't do it then, can't do it now. %^(
-
Hello OW. Sunny, mid 20s C today. Lovely. :)
Clever use of technology for citizen science in California:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bn4T-CgCEAAZcvy.jpg:large)
-
Cool!!! 8)
-
Is anyone other us in Canada celebrating Queen Victoria's birthday?
As you can imagine, it's especially a big event here in Victoria, B. C.
Parades, fireworks, the whole shebang.
-
Not only that, we have Charles and Camilla visiting.
-
The Glasgow area takes a local holiday in her honour next Monday -
locally still known as 'The Queen's Birthday' even though it isn't on
the exact date.
-
Edinburgh too - though it's Victoria Day there.
-
Hello OW. Sunny, mid 20s C today. Lovely. :)
Clever use of technology for citizen science in California:
What a smart idea! 8) 8)
-
Mostly sunny and 15C here. Got the S/V Viking Too out for a short
sail in Lake Ontario. Only needed the ski jacket for part of the time!
Water temp still around 5C.
Got close to the shipping though.....
-
An interesting history for that ship you passed on the lake - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_B._Roman_%28ship%29
A shaky start for what turned out to be a very reliable lady.
Fixed link ;)
-
Mid-20s in Moscow today, Comrades! We've just had our first 24 hours without rain in the last two weeks. Woo-hoo!
-
An interesting history for that ship you passed on the lake - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_B._Roman_%28ship%29
A shaky start for what turned out to be a very reliable lady.
Fixed link ;)
Here
is some more data on her! The Boatnerd.com site is a great treasure
trove of ship data for 'current' ships. They also publish a yearly
directory of ships we are likely to see in the Great Lakes including the
'salties' with lots of info about each. I keep a copy on board!
http://www.boatnerd.com/pictures/fleet/roman.htm
-
8)
-
Boatnerd. Great name, great site. :)
Hoping you're enjoying your dry day in Moscow, Howard.
-
Just when I'd thought I'd seen every crime imaginable on the
Concord, we have the following punishment assigned by the Captain:
Lagerholm, F. (Cox), Using officers' bathroom for blacking his shoes;
reduced to 2nd class.
-
he really chases the trivia!!
-
::) ::) ::)
-
Just
when I'd thought I'd seen every crime imaginable on the Concord, we
have the following punishment assigned by the Captain: Lagerholm, F.
(Cox), Using officers' bathroom for blacking his shoes; reduced to 2nd
class.
;D ;D ;D
Was this a dare for an extra swig of rum? Or perhaps being a Cox 1st Cl was horrid? ;D ::) ;D
-
More unusual punishments for the crew on the Concord:
The captain awarded the following punishments:- H. Lawrence (Ap. 2. C.), Brats in lucky bag, 2 hours extra duty;
I had to look up brats, obviously lots of references to misbehaving children, but I think this is it:
Middle English cloak of coarse cloth ; from Old English bratt ; from Gaelic mantle, cloth, rag:
A day or two ago, Concord time, someone was given 2 hours extra duty for having his Ditty Box in his Lucky Bag.
I think our captain is bored and, as a result, spends most of his time thinking up new and different offenses.
-
Remember what happened when I was nice on the last voyage, everybody left. :o
This time I am keeping them on their toes and they may stay.
After all only 36 have deserted in the last 6 months, must be doing something right. 8)
See how nice I am, it's started snowing in Sitka so I am taking 'the boys' back down south to Frisco. ;D
-
Lucky Bag (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=3209.msg52131#msg52131)
Will add brats ;)
-
Stuart just asked me a joiner tool, fully showing the two pages instead of central area only...
Same usage as the old one (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=3489.msg62862#msg62862)
Here it is - Customized Pommy Stuart version :)
-
Added!
http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=3489.msg62862#msg62862
-
Stuart just asked me a joiner tool, fully showing the two pages instead of central area only...
Same usage as the old one (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=3489.msg62862#msg62862)
Here it is - Customized Pommy Stuart version :)
Thank you. 8)
-
Arctic melting may help parasites infect new hosts
Grey
seals are encountering a killer microbe as they move north
(https://www.sciencenews.org/article/arctic-melting-may-help-parasites-infect-new-hosts)
Sharks could serve as ocean watchdogs
Tagged with sensors, toothy fish gather weather and climate data in remote Pacific
(https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sharks-could-serve-ocean-watchdogs)
-
Very, verry left field from OW but came across this when culling my photo albums.
It may help any OW tourists to the English lake Districts.
Enjoy ::)
-
What's the milage on those roads - do they really have a pub every block? :D
-
Approx distances for each route line inc out and back on some legs.
Number of Pubs include intersections and wrong turns.
130 miles on the Green line and white . 45 pubs
40 miles on the Black line. 28 pubs
70 miles on the top red line. 24 pubs
40 miles on the bottom red line (via Hardnott Pass which is a killer for Bicycle riding). 19 pubs
60 miles on the Grey line. 22 pubs
9 miles on the joined yellowish lines at the bottom. 11 pubs
and a few short routes with about 8 pubs.
But who is counting. 8)
That is only the ones on the map, there are a lot of great pubs not shown.
See also http://blog.golakes.co.uk/top-ten-lake-district-pubs/ (http://blog.golakes.co.uk/top-ten-lake-district-pubs/)
If I had the money I would seriously have a pint in every one.
It
is a lovely part of the country to see (when the weather is good) and
has an atmosphere even when not good as that is an excuse for another
pint. ;D
-
Sounds absolutely beautiful. Short hike, rest break, repeat 100 times. :)
-
In some parts of England you can get your luggage transported from
one overnight Pub stop to the next whilst you enjoy the walking over the
fells and moors etc and enjoy a beer without worrying about driving.
See
the likes of http://www.innway.co.uk/ (http://www.innway.co.uk/) and
http://foottrails.co.uk/inn-to-inn-walking/
(http://foottrails.co.uk/inn-to-inn-walking/)
-
No where in the US will they do that! Nice. :)
-
Hi Janet.
If you keep it quiet, there has to be a business opportunity there for you. ;)
-
Sydney weather records.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/climate-angst-rises-with-record-temperatures-20140523-38uek.html
(http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/climate-angst-rises-with-record-temperatures-20140523-38uek.html)
Bring on the cool weather.
-
You can have some of ours, Stuart! Bank Holiday monday, grey
and damp, not especially warm .... Which means I have two visiting
cats, one on the bed, and one on my only comfortable chair, and
therefore no option but to get on with transcribing or editing! ;D
-
You could always persuade a cat to double as a hot water bottle or do they only do that in heatwaves.
-
The problem with cat as hot water bottle is that they tend to demand
total attention as the price for their presence, which makes
transcribing impossible - choices, choices!
-
The
problem with cat as hot water bottle is that they tend to demand total
attention as the price for their presence, which makes transcribing
impossible - choices, choices!
I don't know about that. I've been taught by my two cats to transcribe OW with them on my lap (only one at a time, though).
-
Well, either your cats are less demanding than my visitors, or I'm
less trainable .... could be either, or a mixture of both.
-
Silvia transcribes with cats http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=1240.msg30815#msg30815 ;)
-
It was knitting that freaked my mother's cat - he just HAD to sit on it.
-
Just had to put my cat on the floor; he was hogging up the keyboard and the mousepad!
-
Obviously he wanted to play with the same digital toys as mistress.
-
I had a cat in pre-computer days. I was a greater paper
correspondent in those days. Tocksie used to lay on the table just
beyond the writing zone - happy to wait for the odd extra stroke of his
head as I paused for thought. Sweetie. :-) :-* :-* :-*
-
When I was still living in the family home, the cat would often come up and sit next to my laptop, but never on top of it.
Usually she would lie down behind it, but once she positioned herself right where my mouse usually is.
So I simply put the mouse pad on top of her and kept going.
To my surprise she was actually quite cool with it.
-
(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/75069000/jpg/_75069135_whistlers_mother_fatcatart.jpg)
Arrangement in Grey, Black and Ginger. Whistler's Mother and the Cat,
based on James Abbott McNeill Whistler's Arrangement in Grey and Black No 1
-
(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/75069000/jpg/_75069139_vasnetsov_viktor_heroes_bog.jpg)
Heroes (Bogatyri), based on Viktor Vasnetsov
-
;D
-
Trust your doctor, not Wikipedia, say scientists (http://www.bbc.com/news/health-27586356)
-
Now that I totally believe. They weren't noting that the info
was "all wrong" but rather "out of date" - which can be very much the
same thing and much more dangerous in that it can be "confirmed".
I'd rather go to a totally controlled medical source like
http://www.webmd.com/ - they explain symptoms but the most frequent
recommended treatment for something like elbow pain is, "that totally
depends on the cause of the pain; please ask your doctor." It
makes me trust them more.
-
Nahhh! I believe in the healing powers of crystals... ;D
-
The Romans believed in cabbage - not so pretty as crystals and quite
lumpy when hung in the window - but not so likely to focus the sun and
set your house on fire. ;D
-
I need help with translation! Is Toby just stretching his back, or is he telling me he wants me to take him for a walk?
-
"Iz wantz out to explore BY MYSELF NOW!"
'I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.' -Kipling
-
paws on the front of the knob = stretching my back: paws on the side
of the knob = crossing legs is too undignified for a cat so let me out
for a trip round the flower patch NOW! ;D ::)
-
Our Siamese cat used to jump up and attempt to twist the knob with
two paws on either side of it. I don't think she ever succeeded but we
certainly knew what she wanted.
-
Definitely outside time.
-
OK, I heard you all; more importantly Toby heard you all..
;) There we are... (Actually, it's an old picture. Right now
it's 18 C and sunny.)
-
:D Toby has his eye on something...
-
Yep - that's what he wanted. ;D
-
Toby looks like a mini black panther...bet that tail was swishing.... :D
-
I'm impressed by anyone who can get a cat to go for a walk on a lead!
On
another note entirely, there's a series about the British Navy in the
twentieth century starting on BBC Radio 4 next Monday at 1.45pm - could
be worth looking out for. I'm not sure whether it's just for that
week, Monday to Friday, or whether it might extend into future weeks too
- the programmes in that slot vary.
Just checked it out - 15 episodes!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0457rmz
-
And there is an omnibus edition at 9pm on Fridays.
There is
an accompanying article in BBC History magazine: "What the modern navy
did for us". The first thing on the list is "...won the First
World War". Admiral Lord West asserts that as well as preventing
an invasion, the navy chalked up three further achievements: defeated
the German submarine fleet; transported millions of troops and their
supplies to and from the battlefields; and: "Its third triumph was a
little-heralded war-winner: the blockade of Germany." 8)
-
Well, we knew all that already - but it's good that it's being
shared with others! I wonder whether there's any way of sneaking
some advertising of OW into this?
-
Its fourth triumph - weather records! ;D
-
Yes, of course! ;D
-
Well,
we knew all that already - but it's good that it's being shared with
others! I wonder whether there's any way of sneaking some
advertising of OW into this?
I
would imagine it is too late for that - I suspect all episodes would
have been recorded a while back. But so many people seem to think
the navy didn't really do anything in WW1 so it's good that someone is
trying to set the record straight.
-
Does anyone need cheering up?
https://www.youtube.com/embed/DePFiF-nNoE#t=95
-
Toby looks like a mini black panther...bet that tail was swishing.... :D
Toby
says you're his most favourite-ist person in the whole world because
you have truly understood his inner self and true nature.
-
Another benefit from transcribing OW:
I occasionally wake up
about 3 or 4AM and can't get back to sleep because my mind is too busy.
But rather than lie there wasting time, I get up and transcribe OW.
After an hour I get sleepy, go back to bed and fall asleep immediately.
So
we should advertise the soporific effects of OW for insomniacs
;D (Of course, for the best effect you should chose a ship
with full weather pages and boring remarks)
.... the clincher to this ad - I woke up so refreshed that I did another 300 WRs ;D
-
Toby looks like a mini black panther...bet that tail was swishing.... :D
Toby
says you're his most favourite-ist person in the whole world because
you have truly understood his inner self and true nature.
Thanks Toby - I try to stay in contact with my inner cat.
Head butts,
Joan
-
For maximum soporific effect I recommend the ship in dry dock - that can make me feel sleepy at 9am!
-
Pioneer should probably be on the 'soporific' list - WRs vary from 6
to 24, but there's little of note on the remarks page .... May
not sound like much of a sales pitch, but for insomniacs it's just what
the doctor ordered. :D
-
Pioneer should probably be on the 'soporific' list - WRs vary from 6
to 24, but there's little of note on the remarks page .... May
not sound like much of a sales pitch, but for insomniacs it's just what
the doctor ordered. :D
-
You do seem to be suffering from sleep problems, Helen - why else would you post the exact same thing twice?
-
For maximum soporific effect I recommend the ship in dry dock - that can make me feel sleepy at 9am!
Only
if the ship isn't the Concord. When she's in drydock, or an American
port, the number of desertions skyrockets. Then, too, are the people
over leave, or returning drunk and disorderly and, of course, the
captain punishing a long list of offenders every other day. Not that I
want to deter you from helping us out!
-
You do seem to be suffering from sleep problems, Helen - why else would you post the exact same thing twice?
Whole thing was doing strange things yesterday - it looked as though my comment hadn't posted, so I did it again - hence repeat!
-
You didn't look sleepy to me, Helen. I knew there must be another explanation ;D
-
Another benefit from transcribing OW:
I
occasionally wake up about 3 or 4AM and can't get back to sleep because
my mind is too busy. But rather than lie there wasting time, I get up
and transcribe OW. After an hour I get sleepy, go back to bed and fall
asleep immediately.
So we should advertise the soporific effects
of OW for insomniacs ;D (Of course, for the best
effect you should chose a ship with full weather pages and boring
remarks)
.... the clincher to this ad - I woke up so refreshed that I did another 300 WRs ;D
That's
when I did much of the work on Ark Royal! (Always CHECK it the next day
because Janet says we 'insomniac nightowls' sometimes miss
things.) ;)
-
Happy Birthday, Helen!
I think?
-
YES ;D
A
good bit further north - but I can remember snow one year on my
birthday - which is June 1st. I don't suppose it's been mentioned
as a notable event though ....
Happy Birthday, Helen!
-
Yes, today's the day! Thank you very much. As you can
see, I'm doing one of my favourite things to celebrate another year ....
-
Happy Birthday, Helen!
Have a Star Wars cake:
-
To Helen on her 111th Birthday
Another year before the mast,
A year of change and growth is past,
We raise a glass, and raise a cheer -
Happy Birthday to Helen, from far and near!
-
Just getting in before the witching hour -
Happy Birthday
Helen
-
Happy birthday, Helen.
:)
-
Happy Birthday, Helen!
(http://www.smileyvault.com/albums/userpics/13911/0003~4.gif)
-
Helen
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear Heeeeellllllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn,
Happy Birthday to you!
Hope it's a happy one and that you get lots of neat presents!
Hope also you get to share with family! ;D ;D
-
Happy Birthday, Helen!
-
My we are an old lot with DJ and Helen at 111 Yo (By the way Happy Birthday Helen)
I feel positively young as my next is only 42h (or as we say down under 60 + GST)
-
We are all 111 - ;D
Can you tell me where that age came from? :P
-
No idea. :-[
maybe it's a feel good age as you feel better being younger than that age. :-\
-
I recommend for your reading pleasure, the masterwork of Mr. J.R.R. Tolkien -
-
Aaaah, eleventy-one. But ?? ::)
-
Happy Birthday, Helen!
Have a Star Wars cake:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY HELENJ
Just
signed in for 2 minutes - only to find that I nearly missed your
birthday, Helen. Picking up on Hannibal's lead - may the force be with
you! (Well - we know it is - but perhaps an extra allowance today eh?)
-
Happy birthday, Helen. I am guessing Kathy is using base 7 so that you are really only 57 today.
Does
anyone know the Tom Leher? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer. He
wrote a song in the 60's called The New Math. He said base 8 is just
like base 10 ... if you're missing two fingers. ;D Base 8
would make you an septuagenarian and it would be indelicate on my part
to suggest it - not that there's anything wrong with that. I kind of
enjoy it. I will be 131 7 in a few days. ;D
-
or 0x6f, (but that just does not roll of the tongue well.) (Hex)
-
Happy birthday, Helen! May you enjoy many more!!!! (We need
you to live long and transcribe! ;D) Toby sends his love,
Michael
-
Cloudy forecast - The biggest source of climate uncertainty is white and fluffy (https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cloudy-forecast)
-
That's an excellent article, Randi. It provides a very nuanced view
of the problems facing modelers (and without any jargon). At first, when
reading it, I thought the cloud information we are transcribing might
be useful but it seems that it takes very sophisticated satellites to
understand the complexity of clouds and the information they have been
collecting only since 2006 may not continue unless governments launch
new satellites after 2018 (when the existing and planned ones will no
longer be useful). And it will take a time series of about 30 years to
establish a reliable relationship between clouds and warming. The
article mentions the stall in warming since 1998 and how this has
increased the uncertainty in the relationship between CO2 and warming.
But that brings up another uncertainty, which is the role of the oceans.
Although the surface temperature has not increased significantly since
1998, the earth as a whole has, with most of the heat going into the
oceans. It is expected that much of this heat will eventually be
transferred into the atmosphere. When this will happen depend on decadal
and longer ocean currents such as El Nino, which could be very strong
this year.
-
Happy birthday, Helen. I am guessing Kathy is using base 7 so that you are really only 57 today.
Does
anyone know the Tom Leher? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer. He
wrote a song in the 60's called The New Math. He said base 8 is just
like base 10 ... if you're missing two fingers. ;D Base 8
would make you an septuagenarian and it would be indelicate on my part
to suggest it - not that there's anything wrong with that. I kind of
enjoy it. I will be 131 7 in a few days. ;D
In 11 days, I will be 10100, 24, 20 and 14 all at the same time ;) ;D
-
base 2, base 8, base 10 and base 16 ;D
We have lots of June birthdays.
-
or 0x6f, (but that just does not roll of the tongue well.) (Hex)
We
used to have to deal with Hex a long time ago with IBM. The "core
dumps" came out in hexadecimal. If I remember correctly this was because
a "word" was 16 bits (or 2 bytes). This is something well worth
forgetting ;D
-
Yes, I too remember dealing with binary, octel and hex, Of
course we still use the Babylonian base 60 system (time, geometry
& navigation) although we now write it in ordinary decimal.
Then of course there is the scientific stuff using base e as in 'natural
logs'. Keeps the grey cells active, I suppose.
-
Because of the US we still get plans for various projects in
imperial measures, even though Canada is supposedly on metric. I was
following a plan to make a pine artists table for my wife and working in
inches is a pain in the foot. How's this for instructions:
To
make the notch: At the right-angled end of the leg, starting precisely
from one of the corners, draw a line at a 22? angle parallel to the cut
at the other end. Then draw a line at 90? to the 22? line. This
(right-angled) notch measures 1 3/4" x 3/4".
Well,
this didn't work because a nominal 2x4 is supposed to be 1 1/2 inches
on the narrow side but it was only 1 and 7/16, which means I had a 1/8"
gap in the notch to receive a 2 x 4 >:(
Are these things easier in Europe or Australia?
-
...
The article mentions the stall in warming since 1998 and how this has
increased the uncertainty in the relationship between CO2 and warming.
But that brings up another uncertainty, which is the role of the oceans.
...
Strong winds may have waylaid global warming - Gusts over the Pacific may have stashed heat underwater since 2001
(https://www.sciencenews.org/article/strong-winds-may-have-waylaid-global-warming)
;D
-
Thank you for all your birthday wishes - hanibal, that cake looked
amazing, just a pity it's not possible to actually send such delights
via the forum! (though probably a good thing for our collective
waistlines ....)
All the bases counting is gobbleydook to me, so I
don't think I can manage any clever comment! Thanks, Kathy for
the birthday poem, and Michael, please thank Toby for his greeting.
It's
going to be quite a month, with my ordination to the priesthood,
preceded by a retreat, (ordination on 22nd); and then my first eucharist
a week later. So I may not be around quite as much as usual - but
don't worry, I'll be back!
-
Enjoy it all!
-
wait, what, I thought you were already an ordained priest - cough up the dets sister ;D
-
If CofE is like the American Episcopal church, she was ordained
deacon first and then had to put in training time under a parish priest
before the real thing makes her a priest herself. :)
-
I know, I thought she was a deacon already - :o
-
So did I, until this last post - but for sure she was a Fransciscan nun who decided to become a priest. :)
-
To answer Kathy and Janet's questions - until last year I was
(simply) a Franciscan sister, and still am; then I was ordained a
deacon. I've been doing my year of that, and having not done
anything terrible (!) am now going to be ordained as a priest.
This should really be the final palaver - the only further ordination
after that is as a bishop, and there is no chance at all that I'm going
to be asked to do that! I do however have to carry on as a curate
in training for a further two years - it's all a very long process ....
-
Is this ordination also at Hilfield? and when?
Nosy Parkers erp, Inquiring minds want to know!
;D
-
No, this one is at Dorchester Abbey (in Oxfordshire) - with four
other people, so I haven't had to do as much organising this time!
It's one of five ordinations of priests which happen that weekend, in
different places all around this (very big) diocese. 'My' service
is on 22nd June at 10.30am. Then my first eucharist is on 29th
June at one of the local churches in which I've been doing my curacy -
St Peter and St Paul, Church Hanborough.
Inquiring minds always welcome!
-
I think Bishop Helen J has a very nice ring to it!!! ;)
-
;D
-
No,
this one is at Dorchester Abbey (in Oxfordshire) - with four other
people, so I haven't had to do as much organising this time! It's
one of five ordinations of priests which happen that weekend, in
different places all around this (very big) diocese. 'My' service
is on 22nd June at 10.30am. Then my first eucharist is on 29th
June at one of the local churches in which I've been doing my curacy -
St Peter and St Paul, Church Hanborough.
Inquiring minds always welcome!
Hurrah
for you, Helen. A big step. I looked up your church on the internet -
what a lovely building. I trust your ordination will be a wonderful
ceremony.
Michael
-
Congratulations and good wishes. A wonderful journey you are on.
-
Best wishes for your next big day and the first time you celebrate
the Eucharist. I hope you, your friends and family and your new
parishioners have many good memories of these next few days.
-
A no-gobbledygook sincere congratulations from me too, Helen.
Craig
-
"
Stuart.
-
Congratulations, Helen!
-
It may or may not be Craig's birthday, so I will say it anyway. :)
Happy birthday Craig!
-
*********************
Craig
Happy 21'st Birthday
*********************
(Although I may be a day or so off... :-[)
Birthday Celebrations.Net
Traditions from Around the World:
Birthday Celebrations from Canada
In Canada at birthday parties they serve homemade birthday cakes
decorated with colored sugar sprinkles. Between the layers of the cake a
wrapped coin might be found. Whomever finds it is the first to get a
turn at all the party games.
At the parties
children receive colorful party favors called crackers. These are tubes
wrapped in crepe paper. They pop when you pull a paper strip. Inside
there is a small prize, your fortune or a hat.
The official language in most parts is English, but, in Quebec the language is French.
In Atlantic Canada such as Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and
Newfoundland, the birthday child is ambushed and their nose is greased
for good luck. The greased nose makes the child too slippery for bad
luck to catch them. This tradition is reputed to be of Scottish decent.
In Canada the sweet sixteen party is held for the girls. The symbol for the sweet sixteen party is sugar.
Caro just beat me to it ;D
-
Thank you both! Were you peeking back into last-years Chat
messages to find my birth date (which was yesterday but I am being feted
today)?
Twenty-one is a good age. That makes me five years older than my oldest grandson ;D
-
All of that information has been duly noted. ;)
Hope you had a good day, Craig.
-
Thank
you both! Were you peeking back into last-years Chat messages to
find my birth date (which was yesterday but I am being feted today)?
Twenty-one is a good age. That makes me five years older than my oldest grandson ;D
Yes:
Thanks
Jill and Kathy! I am being coy about the precise date for security
reasons, although it's probably too late for that ;D
When
I was in junior high school we did "new math". As a result I have
always been comfortable with different bases, sets, and things like
that, but I'm not very good at math in my head and I never quite
memorized my times tables :-[
-
As Tom Leher's song about new math goes, "the important thing
understanding the problem, not getting the right answer" ;D
-
Happy Birthday, Craig!!
-
Happy Birthday to you, Craig! Keep transcribing hard, buddy.
Here's a present for you: Cat plays Jenga (https://www.youtube.com/embed/rOyZojbYUEA)
-
Best wishes Craig, from Canada's most western capital city, and no
it's not Victoria! Did you get the wrapped coin in your cake?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CRAIG!!!
-
HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR YESTERDAY CRAIG
I WISH YOU MANY MORE....
Joan :D :D :D
-
To Craig in his 111 birthday =
Lets all raise a glass of good cheer -
but wait, doesn't he like to drink beer?
Oh well, from all of us here,
Best wishes to you, my dear!
-
Thanks to you all for your good wishes!
A fine frosty glass of Heineken
Was indeed a pleasure of mine again
But your toast of good cheer
Surpassed the best beer
And called for the finest of wine a' ken.
(I have no idea what the last line means but at least it rhymes ;D)
-
;D ;D
-
;D Craig, maybe you meant 'ye ken', in the Scottish way.
Good day, sunshine.
-
There's just been an excellent piece on BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting
House (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b045xz2f) by Emma Jane Kirby
about her Grandfather William who served as a boy on HMS Vengeance. I'm
not sure of the exact dates he was on board but they mention 1916 and
1918.
It starts about 30 minutes into the program.
-
;D Craig, maybe you meant 'ye ken', in the Scottish way.
Good day, sunshine.
That's exactly what I meant, Caro. Thanks! ;D
-
Could be Glaswegian when 'a' ken' could be 'I know'.
There is a book titled 'Parliamo Glasgow' which aims to decode the
Glasgow vernacular [There was a TV series Parliamo Italy or
similar on at the time].
-
I have an ancestor with my surname who got his degree at the U. of
Glasgow. That probably explains my Scottish ken. ;D
-
The things you learn on this forum. ;D
-
;D ;D ;D
-
Craig
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear Crrrrrraaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiggggggggggggggggggggggg,
Happy Birthday to you!
Hope it's a happy one and that you got lots of neat presents!
Hope also you got to share with family!
-
A belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Craig!
-
Ditto from Stuart.
-
Thanks everyone!
Time to move on now. I am working on my next year (or rather, it's working on me) ;D
-
;D
-
Sunday, June 8, 2014 U. S. M. V. LeConte
Moored to Alaska Marine Highway Wharf, Haines, Alaska
1 PM | SE | 9 | 29.84 | 54 | 48 | - | ocr | STR CUM-STR NIM | 0 |
or, as the official report had it:
METAR PAHN 082054Z AUTO 12009KT 9SM -RA SCT013 BKN021 OVC060 12/09
A2984 RMK AO2 RAB35 SLP106 P0000 60000 T01170089 51008 TSNO=
or, as we would say,
spent 24 hours in Haines, Alaska visiting friends. It was cold and raining the entire time.
:)
-
Haines, Alaska.
While we were having tea in the morning, I
could see an eagle going after something in the water. We thought it was
a fish - our view was obscured by low bushes. The eagle would hover
over the water and swoop down, over and over. We went outside to watch,
and we could see the eagle was after a small duck. The duck was watching
the eagle, and whenever the eagle came down, the duck would dive under
the water. The eagle tried for about 10 or 15 minutes, but it finally
gave up. At that point, the duck flew off to live another day.
-
;D
-
Welcome back Michael.
Haines looks lovely on the Gold Rush show.
Did you visit Parker?
Weather at home
SPECI YGLB 091800Z AUTO 18006KT //// // SCT009 OVC018 06/06 Q1030
RMK RF00.0/001.0
Or as we would say.
Dark outside (as it is only 4am) and I am going back to bed.
%^)
-
Still in Canada's most westerly city and, no, it's not Victoria.
We're just lining up visits with friends so as to maximise our chances
to cadge free meals. ;D
Back to Victoria on Thursday. In the meantime:
Observed at: Whitehorse Airport
Date: 12:00 PM PDT Monday 9 June 2014
Condition: Mostly Cloudy
Pressure: 101.5 kPa
Tendency: rising
Visibility: 64 km
Temperature: 13.2?C
Dewpoint: 0.3?C
Humidity: 41%
Wind: ESE 5 km/h
-
Brilliant picture, Michael. As a lover of both eagles and
ducks, I don't know who I'd have been rooting for if I'd been
watching. Probably the duck in the end - hopefully the eagle found
another meal of something less attractive!
-
Go duck! :)
Today is Donald Duck's 80th birthday.
-
I wonder if the froze him like they did Walt Disney?
-
Nope - cartoon characters are immortal, they never die. :)
-
I haven't seen him for a duck's age. ;D
-
I heard he went Kwakers and they put him away. %^)
-
Retired isn't the same as dead - as a great many of us OWers know. ;)
-
Retired isn't the same as dead - as a great many of us OWers know. ;)
RETIRED??!! I'm so busy I don't know if I just found a rope or lost my horse! ;)
-
Good morning/afternoon/evening Old Weather.
I heard a rumour that the World Cup kicks off today. ::)
-
Retired isn't the same as dead - as a great many of us OWers know. ;)
RETIRED??!! I'm so busy I don't know if I just found a rope or lost my horse! ;)
I sure hope it is not a mooring rope!
-
Between the referendum and World Cup I feel like going into a retreat!
-
Retired isn't the same as dead - as a great many of us OWers know. ;)
RETIRED??!! I'm so busy I don't know if I just found a rope or lost my horse! ;)
I sure hope it is not a mooring rope!
;D ;D ;D ;D
-
ole, ole, ole, ole!
;D
-
... ole, ole! ;)
-
Between the referendum and World Cup I feel like going into a retreat!
Just make sure you take your computer and keep transcribing/editing!
-
Hanibal94
Happy 202'nd Birthday
to You
(http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140425223643/mlp/images/d/d7/FANMADE_RD_Birthday_Cake_by_gezawatt-d750v4g.png)
-
Happy birthday Hanibal!
-
alles Gute zum Geburtstag Hanibal.
-
A very happy birthday to you Hanibal!
All the best,
Joan
(http://imageshack.com/a/img850/8346/oz6n.jpg)
-
Happy Birthday, Hanibal!!!
(http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111008164557/mlpfanart/images/d/da/Happy_Birthday._yay.jpg)
-
We interrupt the tributes to a dazzling personality to bring you:
World War One 'Dazzle Ship' recreated in Liverpool (http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-27824910)
;)
-
Isn't she a beauty? ;D
-
Well, she's colorful... ;D
-
Indeed.
Picking up the tribute ...
Happy Birthday, Hanibal!
-
Happy birthday, Hanibal! Another June birthday - it's obviously a good month for recruiting for OW.
-
To Hanibal on his 111th birthday -
To a valuable part of this crew,
Tried, tested and true -
We all want to say,
Hope you have a great day -
and extend our best wishes to you!
-
For those of us in the UK, Front Row on Radio 4 (started 7.15pm) has
just trailed that they will be featuring the dazzle ships story later
in the programme.
-
Happy Birthday, Hanibal!!!
From the southern tip of Vancouver Island where the weather is so much more pleasant than it was North of 60.
Michael
-
Hanibal
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear Haaaaaaannnnnnnniiiiiiiiibbbbbbbbbbbbbaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllllllllllllllll,
Happy Birthday to you!
Hope it's a happy one and that you get lots of neat presents!
Hope also you get to share with family!
-
For
those of us in the UK, Front Row on Radio 4 (started 7.15pm) has just
trailed that they will be featuring the dazzle ships story later in the
programme.
Thanks! I's missed that. I really must get round to going to the Liverpool Maritime Museum.
-
For UK listeners who missed the story of the dazzle ships : http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0460znc
It's about 14 minutes in.
-
The Met Office is 150 years old - and the Royal Navy was closely
connected to its birth. This is an interesting short article from
today's Guardian which educated me about yet another way in which the
Navy has influenced our understanding of weather.
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2014/jun/13/weatherwatch-meteorological-office
(http://www.theguardian.com/news/2014/jun/13/weatherwatch-meteorological-office)
-
Sorry, this is another one applicable only to the UK. While
trawling through next week's TV listings in a desperate search for an
alternative to football, I discovered that on Thursday (19 June) there
is a documentary on BBC4 about HMS Hood, as the final part of
"Clydebuilt: the Ships that made the Commonwealth". It looks as if
it is going to concentrate on her WW2 service rather than the period we
have log books for on OW, but one of "our" ships all the same.
-
The previous program about blockade runner, Robert E Lee, was very good too.
It's still available on the BBC iPlayer and would make a fine antidote to the World Cup. ;)
-
Hi everyone,
Thanks a bunch for all your warm wishes
regarding my birthday - such a nice reminder of this community's
friendliness! I did indeed have a good time with family and co.
I
didn't get many actual presents, but I did get a bunch of money so I can
buy the stuff myself (That's how we tend to do it in my family).
I
also rewatched several of my favorite My Little Pony episodes -
including Season 4 No. 12, which just happens to be about the birthday
of Rainbow Dash, my favorite pony! (It's where Randi got that cake from)
Gotta
admit, that episode's definitely my favorite from Season 4 - not just
because of the birthday, but because it's completely crazy, with loads
of cartoon physics and inexplicable random nonsense.
For example,
here's one of the songs: The Goof-Off
(https://www.youtube.com/embed/6G77Z9g1_mk) (with celebrity guest voice
Weird Al Yankovic!)
Well, better get back to the Bear. I wanna finish off 1908 ASAP.
Forwards and onwards,
Hanibal94
-
http://www.thelocal.de/20120729/44037
Wha?
Not our war but still.....
-
Interesting side bar on Top Ten weird German laws.
-
Those are strange - especially the piano tuning at night one - they aren't that loud :o
-
The one on no shops being open on Sundays is very annoying - especially when Saturday is a public holiday! >:(
-
Morning all. Happy father's day to all the dads. :)
-
A very belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Hanibal!
-
Sorry,
this is another one applicable only to the UK. While trawling
through next week's TV listings in a desperate search for an alternative
to football, I discovered that on Thursday (19 June) there is a
documentary on BBC4 about HMS Hood, as the final part of "Clydebuilt:
the Ships that made the Commonwealth". It looks as if it is going
to concentrate on her WW2 service rather than the period we have log
books for on OW, but one of "our" ships all the same.
Please let me know if it becomes available over here! I have HOOD right now - July 1923. ;D
-
If you feel like reading some depressing news about the changing
climate, click here:
(http://truth-out.org/news/item/24370-atmospheric-co2-crosses-ominous-threshold)
:( :'(
-
That is scary, Michael. I thought at first that he may be going a
bit too far in attributing all these events to climate change but his
references look credible.
-
Very scary. As a member of the younger generation, I am very very worried about all this.
This is my future that's at stake, after all!
-
I have decided to support another good cause and help the brewers provide plenty of byproducts.
I cannot provide the URL as it contains a common but maybe offensive word.
Beer Waste Used To Make Bones
If
you thought that beer?s potential was limited to encouraging
drunk-dialing your ex or inspiring some sweet dance moves, think again. A
team of researchers from the Centre for Biomedical Technology of
Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid (UPM) and the Institute of Materials
Science and the Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry of Consejo
Superior de Investigaciones Cient?ficas (CSIC) in Spain have discovered
that byproducts of the brewing process could be used to create
scaffolding for bone grafts.
The results of the study have been
published in the journal RSC Advances.
(http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2014/ra/c3ra47534d#!divAbstract)
-
That is a noble, selfless act, Stuart. I'm proud of you for supporting this cause ;D
-
Forum rules prevent me from expressing my opinion :-X
;D
-
;D
-
I have decided to support another good cause and help the brewers provide plenty of byproducts.
I cannot provide the URL as it contains a common but maybe offensive word.
Beer Waste Used To Make Bones
If you thought that...
Sorry, but I can't take part. I'm a teetotaler due to an extreme dislike of the taste of alcohol of ANY kind.
-
I'm also a teetotaler. In my case, I dislike the taste and the smell.
-
Thunderstorm with pouring rain and hail!!!!!
Some hail stones on the terrace almost 1 cm in diameter.
(Hope the skylight in my bathroom is really well made! ::))
One very LOUD thunderclap was truly scary, but no obvious damage.
-
I have decided to support another good cause and help the brewers provide plenty of byproducts.
I cannot provide the URL as it contains a common but maybe offensive word.
Beer Waste Used To Make Bones
If
you thought that beer?s potential was limited to encouraging
drunk-dialing your ex or inspiring some sweet dance moves, think again. A
team of researchers from the Centre for Biomedical Technology of
Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid (UPM) and the Institute of Materials
Science and the Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry of Consejo
Superior de Investigaciones Cient?ficas (CSIC) in Spain have discovered
that byproducts of the brewing process could be used to create
scaffolding for bone grafts.
The results of the study have been
published in the journal RSC Advances.
(http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2014/ra/c3ra47534d#!divAbstract)
I'll help support the cause!!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
In moderation, of course! ;)
-
Ok Dean, save a tipple for me/us in Aug 2015.
-
Good morning OW.
Anybody else following the World Cup? I am, and I was quite pleased to see the US win against Ghana yesterday.
-
Good morning ;D
Not me, but I hope you enjoy it.
-
Good morning.
I don't watch sports much, but I'm extremely pleased and proud that we won that game. :)
-
Good morning OW. I'm probably the sporting equivalent of a
teetotaller, so am usually oblivious of all that's going on in that
world.
I believe England have another game tomorrow, but as I'll
be in retreat I have a very good excuse to ignore it! I'm not sure
whether I'll have an internet connection or not while I'm on retreat,
and even if I do I probably won't do much online - so if I'm not around
for a few days, that's what is going on. See you all on Saturday,
when I emerge for a few hours before the actual ordination service on
Sunday morning.
-
Our prayers are with you, Helen. The church will be better with you. :)
-
Best wishes for Sunday. May you find fulfillment in your new role.
-
Enjoy it all, Helen!
-
My thoughts will be with you on Sunday Helen. Have a wonderful day! :D
-
My house is following the World Cup - the Brazil/Mexico game was one of the best games I can remember!
I am soooo happy we finally beat Ghana - maybe we will get out of the Group of Death... ;D
My
dad was a goalie in high school in the 50s and my husband is 1st
generation American - Polish and German parents who met in New York
after WWII.
We follow the sports listed below:
Football: Cowboys (me) / Redskins (him) - this makes some Sundays very interesting in our house
Baseball: Go Nationals!
Soccer: DC United all the way
AND every four years - Curling (I just love it!)
-
My house is following the World Cup - the Brazil/Mexico game was one of the best games I can remember!
I am soooo happy we finally beat Ghana - maybe we will get out of the Group of Death... ;D
Nice to see I'm not the only World Cup watcher here!
I'd
better stay away from all public viewings of the US - Germany match
when that one comes. If I express my opinion on that one in public, I
will get tarred, feathered and banished by angry Germans.
-
A little bit like wearing a White Sox t-shirt in the Cubs' Wrigley
Stadium in Chicago? Highly not recommended. 8) ;D
-
Good
morning OW. I'm probably the sporting equivalent of a
teetotaller, so am usually oblivious of all that's going on in that
world.
I believe England have another game tomorrow, but as I'll
be in retreat I have a very good excuse to ignore it! I'm not sure
whether I'll have an internet connection or not while I'm on retreat,
and even if I do I probably won't do much online - so if I'm not around
for a few days, that's what is going on. See you all on Saturday,
when I emerge for a few hours before the actual ordination service on
Sunday morning.
Very best wishes for Sunday, Helen!
-
Best wishes from me, too, Helen. I hope it is a beautiful service:
you deserve it. Will you get OW into your first sermon? :D
Michael
-
;D
-
Our prayers are with you, Helen. The church will be better with you. :)
Best
wishes from me, too, Helen. I hope it is a beautiful service: you
deserve it. Will you get OW into your first sermon? :D
God's Blessings as you go onward and upward! ;D
-
Helen. can you put it on UTube?
-
Best wishes, Helen. :)
-
Thank you all for your good wishes, prayers and blessings for
tomorrow. I've just got home from the retreat and am getting a
little caught up with communication with the outside world!
I
don't think the bishop would be very amused if I whipped out a camera to
capture it all for Youtube, so I'm afraid the answer to Stuart's
question is no. I'll try to get hold of some photos though, and
put any good ones here.
Michael - because I'm already a
Franciscan sister I've actually been preaching for years (nearly 30 -
aargh!) However it might be a challenge to try to work OW into my
first sermon as a priest, in a couple of week's time ....
I'll be
thinking of you all, a very real virtual community (if that's not a
contradiction in terms :D) alongside the physical communities I'm
part of.
-
We'll look forward to the photos, Helen.
Enjoy the day.
And happy solstice, everyone.
-
We'll be thinking of you, Helen!
-
Prayers with you, Helen! :-*
-
My stepbrother sent me this link - a commute to make everyone else's look easy. :)
http://www.maniacworld.com/flv/Changing-Shifts-at-Lighthouse.mp4
-
Maybe I wouldn't have wanted to be a lighthouse-keeper after all!
-
Makes missing the bus look like not such a drama after all! :o :o
-
I wonder what the attrition rate is in that job?
Perhaps that's what Woody Allen was thinking of when he said that 90% of
success is just showing up. ;D
-
There seemed to be 2 men at the house, so if you like being a hermit
with one companion and love the sea, it would be heaven. I can't
see anyone doing very long at all.
-
Whatever any of those guys is paid is not enough. :o
-
By the wonders of modern technology I already have a few photos from
my ordination to the priesthood today, so here are a couple for anyone
who's interested. One shows me with the bishop and the others
being priested (I'm third from the left - the ridiculously small one);
and the other is the bishop and me with all the Franciscans who came to
support me.
It was a brilliant day - everything went right, it was both profound and relaxed, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
-
Great!
-
Thanks for these Helen. Congratulations. I'm glad to hear that your day was memorable and relaxed. :)
-
So glad that you had a good day Helen...a great first flight into
the priesthood. You certainly look very happy and content.
With best wishes,
Joan
-
The vestments look good on you! :-*
-
Congratulations, Helen!
-
Thanks for sharing these. I hope your first communion, so to speak, goes well tomorrow.
-
Congratulations, Helen! Glad everything went well.
-
Congratulations, Helen, it looks like a wonderful day for you. I'm glad.
-
Thanks for sharing these. I hope your first communion, so to speak, goes well tomorrow.
Thank
you - it's actually on June 29th (next Sunday) so I have a bit of time
to gather myself and catch my breath. I'm off this afternoon for a
practice with an experienced priest, which I'm glad of. Even
though I've been to umpteen communion services, it's going to be really
different being responsible for it all. I'm probably about to find
out all the details I haven't been paying attention to all these years!
And thank you all for your greetings - as we've all said before, this is an amazing community. ;D
-
Don't worry Helen. If you have an experienced server then if they
are like my brother they'll keep you right. But I'm sure if you
think why you are doing things and keep that in mind then you'll be
fine. I hope it goes well and that you find it fulfilling.
-
God has surely Blessed you in your work thus far, and I'm sure He
will continue to watch over you as you go forward! May He richly Bless
you and those you serve. ;D
-
I remember from way back when our pastor's instruction to middle-school aged acolytes:
"No matter how badly you mess up, always walk slowly and look like you own the building."
-
Janet, that's very good advice. If you do whatever you do with
confidence, most people will think that's what is meant to happen.
But a good practice was also helpful - just useful to know that what I was doing looked OK from the pews!
-
Congratulations, Helen!
-
Confidence is good, but it seems to me that there is nothing wrong
with telling your congregation that this is the first time you are
performing the communion service and asking for their understanding.
-
Oh, most of them will be very much aware that it's my first
time. The ordination and this service have been 'advertised' in
the weekly notices for quite a while now. So I think there'll be
plenty of understanding - they're a lovely lot.
-
I remember from way back when our pastor's instruction to middle-school aged acolytes:
"No matter how badly you mess up, always walk slowly and look like you own the building."
;D ;D ;D
When
the kids would catch me in a 'mess up' in the classroom I'd tell them I
do that every so often on purpose just to see if they are paying
attention.
-
The bishop at the ordination yesterday had a different take on this -
in what he said at the beginning of the service, trying to get people
relaxed and able to enter into it, he said, 'just remember, whatever
happens up here is right.' And, it was!
-
Helen, ( oh small but mighty one)
I've been out of town for a
couple of days, but I did remember your big day, and I offered up a
silent prayer for you at what I thought might be the appropriate time,
though it was Pacific Daylight Savings, not British time.
Congratulations once again!!
I'm sure you'll be a blessing to your congregation, just as you are to us!
Michael
-
...
And after ordination I'll be attached to a parish to do my curacy - but
unpaid and part time, so I'll be travelling around too, with my
Franciscan sister hat on!
... I do however have to carry on as a curate in training for a further two years - it's all a very long process ....
Will you be full time now? Any more traveling (or other work) as a Franciscan sister?
-
...
And after ordination I'll be attached to a parish to do my curacy - but
unpaid and part time, so I'll be travelling around too, with my
Franciscan sister hat on!
... I do however have to carry on as a curate in training for a further two years - it's all a very long process ....
Will you be full time now? Any more traveling (or other work) as a Franciscan sister?
No,
I'll be carrying on much as I am now - part time and unpaid and
juggling it all with Franciscan travelling, just able to do more of the
work in the parish. I'll also be moving some time in the autumn,
but more of that later!
-
Helen, ( oh small but mighty one)
I've
been out of town for a couple of days, but I did remember your big day,
and I offered up a silent prayer for you at what I thought might be the
appropriate time, though it was Pacific Daylight Savings, not British
time. Congratulations once again!!
I'm sure you'll be a blessing to your congregation, just as you are to us!
Michael
Mmm,
small but mighty - I rather like that! I wonder whether I could
get other people to address me like that? :D Thank you for
your prayers, and I'm sure the heavenly redirection department made sure
they reached me at the right time - they're very good at that.
-
Greetings OW.
The sun is shining, the birds are tweeting.
Better make the most of it; the 'usual' Wimbledon weather is approaching.
-
It's arrived up here - cooler, cloudy and intermittent drizzly
rain. Make the most of it down south, I think summer may be over
up here!
-
Several days of hot weather.
Thunderstorms during the night.
Now cloudy and reasonably cool but humid.
-
This is one of those weeks where lake breezes split Chicago into 2
climate zones. This is the third day in a row where there in no
overlap between what most people experience from living inland and what
I'm experiencing near the lake. Fog this morning was an F3-4.
P.S.
One of those storms this week dumped an inch of rain on a suburb in
less than 20 minutes. They aren't kidding when they say 'strong'.
:o
-
Greetings OW.
The sun is shining, the birds are tweeting.
Better make the most of it; the 'usual' Wimbledon weather is approaching.
Or even the usual Glastonbury weather!
-
NSW forecast
Weather Situation
A deep low, well to the south
of Tasmania is moving slowly to the southeast. A ridge of high pressure
extends across the far north of New South Wales from a high centered
over South Australia. The high should move to the Tasman Sea on Friday.
The next major cold front is expected to reach the far west of the state
Friday night, before bringing another vigorous and colder west to
southwesterly airstream over the weekend.
Snow line creeping down to 900mtrs over the next few days. I am at 700 so rarely see snow.
Picture
from Tuesday and comment on the weather at The Snowy Mountasins - 'So
far today, Thredbo Top Station has recorded top wind gusts of 106kph
with an apparent temperature of -21 degrees Celsius.'
(http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/5546494-3x2-700x467.jpg)
Not so bad where I am. Glad the 80kmph winds gusting to 100kmph are going to subside to about 40-60kmph gusting to 80kmph.
-
Or even the usual Glastonbury weather!
Yeah. Looks like a classic weekend weather-wise for Glastonbury. ;D
And a good ski season at Thredbo!
-
Nice photography (although probably a bit close to be legal)
Pity about the reality of the message.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/hYM4ndcV4Uo
-
Who need pictures of snow? How about some summer weather: here's a
picture of mammatus clouds I saw over Edmonton. They form on the
underside of cumulo-nimbus (CB) clouds when cooler air inside the CB
descends slightly.
-
Beautiful.
-
Another interesting TV programme coming up in the UK next
week. 9pm Tuesday 1 July on the Yesterday Channel: Submarine
Mission Impossible. This is about the Australian submarine AE2
which took part in the Gallipoli campaign.
-
Sounds good Su.
Morning all. Grey and drizzly here. Just in time for the weekend. :P :)
-
The Glastonbury weather is setting in well ....
-
Sunny and 70F (20C) at 7:30am. Should be 80's (28+C) this afternoon.
Think we'll try for a sail.
This is the camera view North out of the Niagara River toward Lake Ontario screen captured a few minutes ago.
-
Beautiful. By all means give into temptation and go for a sail. :)
-
I just read a most interesting article about the reanalysis of old
weather to examine the weather and the forecasts for the D-Day invasion
of France. It is most interesting, and it mentions Old Weather at the
end of the Conclusions. The article is fairly technical and parts of it
will be a challenge to those of you who haven't spent 40 years
forecasting the weather.
D-Day Analyses (http://www.ecmwf.int/en/research/projects/era-clim/d-day-analyses)
-
I don't know if this has been posted before - it is from a 2007 storm off the coast of Brittany, if I got the French right.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/m7RSryuJAwE
-
Yes you did :).
Impressive images, the noise and shaking of those light houses must have been terrifying for the light house keeper.
-
Sunny and 70F (20C) at 7:30am. Should be 80's (28+C) this afternoon.
Think we'll try for a sail.
This is the camera view North out of the Niagara River toward Lake Ontario screen captured a few minutes ago.
Hope you got out for a sail Dean - that's so beautiful - tooo good to miss!
-
I don't know if this has been posted before - it is from a 2007 storm off the coast of Brittany, if I got the French right.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/m7RSryuJAwE
Marvellous images Janet, thanks for sharing :) :)
Looking at them I feel the need to visit Brittany again... it was one of the best summer holidays (August 2007) i've ever had.
I
didn't know a part of the Phare of La Vieille has collapsed in 2008 :'(
I can remember seeing it in the distance from the Pointe du Raz.
-
DID manage to get out for a wonderful sail! Now back to reality! (AND OW!)
BTW - Here's a shot from the same spot just before sunset last evening.
-
Gorgeous picture, Dean - how lucky you are to live in such a beautiful place.
-
100 Years ago today 28 June 1914 the incident that started WW I
occurred the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife. For
further reading:
A Mad castrophe Geoffery Wawro
Assassination in Sarajero Alex Wollf
The Assassination of the Archduke Greg King
Online
the Axishistoryforum.com has a section on Austria-Hungary which
includes "Austria-Hungary's last war 1914-1918" the 8 volume Austrian
official history in English and German
-
Oddly enough, the BBC here in the UK are making surprisingly little
of the actual anniversary of Franz Ferdinand's assassination. We
have had lots of programmes on TV and radio about the lead up to the
Great War, but all I can find actually today is a 5 minute radio
programme which is part 2 of "1914: Day by Day". I have missed it,
and I missed yesterday's as well, so I shall have to find them on the
i-Player. I presume they have no room on the TV schedules for a
programme about this event, what with all the football, tennis and music
festivals - nice to see they have their priorities right! ::)
-
They could have at least got Franz Ferdinand
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Ferdinand_(band)) to play
Glastonbury. ;)
-
At least today there is no tennis.
How's your old weather everyone?
Here it's mild, some sun, some cloud, threat of heavy rain later ... at about Netherlands v Mexico time. ;)
-
Here occasional rain with thunderstorm, a usual week-end weather ;D
-
Hot and sunny here. A perfect summer's day :)
-
I'll be right over. :)
-
You'd enjoy it, Caro. We will be up in the 90s today. ;D
-
They could have at least got Franz Ferdinand (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Ferdinand_(band)) to play Glastonbury. ;)
;D
-
Recent weather statistics for Victoria
Date Max Min Precip
21 Jun 2014 21.2 6.1 0
22 Jun 2014 24.5 7.7 0
23 Jun 2014 22.2 10.8 0.8
24 Jun 2014 21.8 12.0 0
25 Jun 2014 23.8 11.3 0
26 Jun 2014 23.2 10.8 0
27 Jun 2014 20.2 11.5 2.0
28 Jun 2014 20.9 10.5 0.2
------------------------------
Extremes 24.5 6.1 3.0
Degrees
C. and precipitation in mm for those who still suffer under the
imperial system of measurements. Most days sunny, and the temperatures
just right, for me at least. We had to buy a shade umbrella the other
day so we could enjoy sitting on the patio drinking Long Island Ice
Tea. :) :) :) :)
-
That does sound just about perfect - lucky you!
-
Hi Helen - How did YOUR day go? ;)
-
Yes, Helen - how did your day go? :) Well, I hope!
-
Thanks Randi and Su - it went well I think. It was certainly a
very powerful experience and has given me a lot to think about. I
didn't drop anything or forget to say anything vital, which was a good
start!
I've got some photos and could post one or two here, but
they're bigger than is allowed. Can anyone tell me a way of making
them smaller (in words of one syllable)?
-
If you have photo software you can resize them, Helen. Some of the
applications have an e-mail option that resizes them automatically. You
can then just copy them from the e-mail message to the Forum.
There are probably other ways I don't know about :D
-
If you have screen cap software, capture the photo on your screen and save as JPG.
If
you have Google+, Google Drive, or Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/) or
some similar storage online, put them there and then use the image icon
on the far left in the post tool bar to convert it to a picture from an
online site - no size limit on those at all.
-
If you have PREVIEW or something like it that opens the jpg when you
click on it - Try looking for a 'tools' drop down and click on resize.
And for those struggling with an 'issue' at the moment -- try this....
-
;D
-
Thanks
Randi and Su - it went well I think. It was certainly a very
powerful experience and has given me a lot to think about. I
didn't drop anything or forget to say anything vital, which was a good
start!
I've got some photos and could post one or two here, but
they're bigger than is allowed. Can anyone tell me a way of making
them smaller (in words of one syllable)?
Wonderful, Helen!!! (Did you get to mention OW in your sermon? ;D)
Michael
-
In response to your Victoria weather report, Michael:
Victoria
in summer is wonderful. I spent the month of August there many years
ago. We rented a house in the James Bay area and I walked to and from
the statistical office on Douglas St. I don't remember getting wet
once. The pears on their tree were ripe and so were the raspberries in
their garden. We didn't have a TV, which was a blessing because we
played had fun playing games with my daughter and nephew, who were about
10 at the time. My wife took the kids around sight seeing while I was
at work.
But Sierra Club found, John Muir, expressed another opinion in a letter to his wife dated August 3rd, 1880:
Victoria
seems a dry, dignified, half-idle town, supported in great part by
government fees. Every erect, or more than erect, backleaning, man has
an office, and carries himself with that peculiar aplomb that all the
Hail Britannia people are noted for. The wharf and water stir is very
mild. The steamer Princess Louise alongside ours [the Corwin] getting
ready for the trip to New Westminster on the Fraser River. The
Hudson Bay Company's steamer Otter, a queer old tubby craft, left for
the North last night. A few sloops, plungers and boats are crawling
about the harbor or lying at anchor, doing or dreaming a business nobody
knows ... Though clearer than the waters of most harbours, it is not
without the ordinary drift of old bottles, straw, and defunct domestic
animals. How rotten the piles of the wharf are, and how they smell, even
in this cool climate!
-
Thanks
Randi and Su - it went well I think. It was certainly a very
powerful experience and has given me a lot to think about. I
didn't drop anything or forget to say anything vital, which was a good
start!
I've got some photos and could post one or two here, but
they're bigger than is allowed. Can anyone tell me a way of making
them smaller (in words of one syllable)?
Wonderful, Helen!!! (Did you get to mention OW in your sermon? ;D)
I
didn't have to preach this time, Michael - coming up next Sunday.
As it's developing at the moment, I can't quite see how OW is going to
get in ....
Michael
-
OK, here are a few photos from my first eucharist - thanks to Caro
for doing the magic required to make it possible to post them here!
The first two are of me at the altar, and the third enjoying some cake and sparkling wine after it was all over.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jaT4MChHMBo/U7GTw-ZqxBI/AAAAAAAAP28/adxPZFuRHgU/s512/presiding.JPG?gl=GB)
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-nHT1h-hp5Hc/U7GTqFQI92I/AAAAAAAAP20/Zn___0ZVkvg/s512/DSCF7010.JPG?gl=GB)
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-utFyszm7oHQ/U7GTXgqcf4I/AAAAAAAAP2o/e0nG6PRCaWE/s512/after%2520bread%2520and%2520wine%252C%2520cake%2520and%2520fizz.JPG?gl=GB)
-
Very nice!
-
Great photos, Helen - thanks for sharing them with us!
-
Wonderful!!~ Thanks for sharing! May God Bless richly you and your work for His people. :D
-
How exciting Helen! I hope you will have a chance to re-group
yourself after all the changes...before the onward journey... ;)
:D
-
I certainly hope that cake was chocolate!
-
Just an interesting tidbit on the way past...I was looking up
Twigg's boat builders in San Fran and noticed this article on the
opposite page:
http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19130326.2.142
Amundsen visiting his old NW passage boat in 1913....
(The
transcription date on the Patterson is Feb 1911...Amundsen was on his
epic South Pole journey at that time. It never ceases to amaze me how
bits of history keep adding together during this OW project) 8)
-
I certainly hope that cake was chocolate!
No,
this one was an excellent fruit cake, but at the bring and share lunch
later there was a delicious chocolate cake and I made sure that I had
some!
-
Glad it all went well and you were able to lead your congregation in
this most important service. The pictures are lovely, thank you for
sharing them. Now you have truly embarked on the next phase of your life
- may it be as rewarding as you hope.
-
Lovely photos, Helen, thank you! And, of course, my congratulations as well.
Michael
PS I would celebrate with fruit cake, too! It's simply the best!!!
-
Hello OW.
And happy Canada Day to Canadians everywhere.
-
Thanks, Caro. It's hot and humid here today with possible showers
this afternoon, but that shouldn't stop people from going out and having
fun. Last week was Quebec's "national" holiday (St. Jean Baptiste) and
it was pouring rain but there were crowds out celebrating just the same.
-
Happy Canada Day!!!
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luxknxCWO31qlsiq8o1_500.gif)
-
And the question my 5th & 6 graders always asked...'Do they have a 4th of July in Canada?!' ???
-
Of course ;D
-
Germany has one too. It's right after the 3rd of July, and just before the 5th of July ;)
-
In Canada it's 04/07 - not 07/04 ;D
-
In Canada it's 04/07 - not 07/04 ;D
And that's good enough to excuse the lack of fireworks that day. ;D
-
Hello OW.
And happy Canada Day to Canadians everywhere.
Do I get paid double time for working on a statutory holiday for my OW data entry today? ;D
-
Hello OW.
And happy Canada Day to Canadians everywhere.
Do I get paid double time for working on a statutory holiday for my OW data entry today? ;D
Of course!!! All Canadians get double OW wages today!!! ;D
-
At least if we had one of those old Empress ships to transcribe for
the day. It seems to me I did one when we transcribing the UK ships. It
must have been lent to the UK for the war effort.
-
At
least if we had one of those old Empress ships to transcribe for the
day. It seems to me I did one when we transcribing the UK ships. It must
have been lent to the UK for the war effort.
I
asked Canadian Pacific if they had any of the old Empress ship's
logbooks. I keep seeing references in the Concord's logs about the
various Empress ships coming and going from various ports in Japan and
China. Thy spend very little time in port, and I thought they might be a
valuable source of weather data, sailing the Pacific, Atlantic and
Indian Oceans on a regular basis for years. Apparently the headquarters
for Canadian Pacific were in London, and the person who wrote back was
pretty sure that the logbooks were destroyed in a bombing raid in WW II.
He wasn't positive, though, and I didn't ask him to pursue it any
further. If observations taken at sea are of more value than those taken
while in port, the log books from the various liners might be very
useful. And maybe we wouldn't have to do the Events pages, if any.
-
aaahhhh........ :'( :'(
Go Costa Rica!
much wailing and gnashing of teeth in my house
-
Lovely idea - unfortunately you also have to arrange funding to get
them scanned. All of our current funding, past and present, is
very particular about which ship logs they are paying to scan.
:'(
-
Morning all.
Cheer up Kathy. USA nearly made it. Ditto Switzerland. ;)
-
aaahhhh........ :'( :'(
Go Costa Rica!
much wailing and gnashing of teeth in my house
Same here. :'(
My hope now lies with Brazil. It's about time they got another victory.
-
aaahhhh........ :'( :'(
Go Costa Rica!
much wailing and gnashing of teeth in my house
Sorry?
Hup Holland! ;D
-
Go Eng-er-land, Go Eng-er-land!!! ;D ;D ;D
I'm thinking onwards to 2018.... ;) ;)
-
You've got the Euros in 2016 first!
-
Look Kathy. A new hero is born! ;D
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-28122254
-
I know! Tim Howard put on a master class yesterday!
-
At least England and USA made it to the World Cup - Scotland hasn't
got there in I can't remember how long. And now Andy Murray's been
knocked out of Wimbledon. If I cared about sport more than
slightly I could be really depressed .... :'(
-
Not to worry Helen.
Tour de France kicks off in Leeds on Saturday.
England v India cricket test on July 9.
21 days until the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
How much more sport can we take? :o :)
-
Snooker: Australian Goldfields Open from June 30 to July 6 in Bendigo, Victoria. ;)
-
-2C in misty Bowral this morning.
First thermometer minus for the winter, (plenty of minus temps with wind factors over the last few weeks.)
Bendigo is the place to go. %^)
-
There is always baseball
-
Snooker and baseball, then. ;D
Hello all. Sunny and 24C here today. It must be summer!
-
30 Apr 1898.
Concord, Manila Bay.
Seem to be a lot of Spanish around today. :o
-
Want
to multiply 11 by 23? Just take the two digits 2 and 3, add them
together (makes 5) and put that number in the middle - 253. What about
36 x 11? Again, split the 3 and the 6 and put their sum (9) in the
middle - 396. Lovely - though take care, if the two digits add to more
than 9, this nifty trick doesn't work so neatly. 58 x 11... well 5+8 =
13, but the answer isn't 5138, that "1" actually represents a 100, and
needs to be added to the 5 to give the answer 638.
There's a
pattern that begins with 11 x 11, too. Multiply those two numbers
together and you get 121. How about 111 x 111? The answer is 12321. Care
to guess what 1111 x 1111 is? Yes, 1234321.
-
OK Randi I will have to find a use for that Gem of info. ::)
By the way happy Holiday to whoever celebrates it on the 4th July when it rolls round your way. ;)
-
Very strong Union Rep on the Concord during the skermish at Manilla Bay.
"OK guys it's 8AM time to knock off for Breakfast."
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USS%20Concord/vol023of040/vol023of040_158_1.jpg
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USS%20Concord/vol023of040/vol023of040_158_1.jpg)
Commenced
to until 4AM. ..... At 12:15 a shot was fired from Fraile rock which
was answered by Boston, Raleigh and Concord. Concord fired 3 shots; the
battery was silenced.
4AM to 8AM. ........... 5.05
commenced firing from Manilla and Kaoite, ships and forts. The fleet
steamed around in column of vessels, firing at fleet and shore batteries
at Kaoite. A launch started for (resure?) and was forced to ~ ashore,
fired until 7:40, expending 182 rounds 6in. "B.L.R.", 220, 6pdr; 120,
3pdr; 60 1pdr; when fleet steamed out of action. There was no casualties
among the crew. Several Spanish men of war were disabled and on fire
when fleet left. Fleet steamed around 3 times. Fleet went to breakfast
at 8:00. The reserve division kept off to Westward. Several shots were
fired from fleet at Battery in Manilla.
8am to Meridian.
Commenced shelling forts, and ships at Kaoite and 11:00. went to destroy
transport on port bow at 11:33. Fleet shelling forts and ships at
end of watch. "Reina Christina" and "Castilla" were burning and
"Autruie de Ulloa" was sunk. signal made to Concord "Go in and see what
ships are burning" then "Annul" then 11:30 "Go in and destroy transport
on port bow" E~~~laded forts as ships steamed in.
Meridian
to 4PM. .......... At 12:25 the Spanish flag was hauled down at
Navy Yard at Kaoite. The white flag was hoisted at Navy Yard. Stood in
and destroyed a spanish transport Isla de Mindanas which was ashore near
Kaoite. Eight spanish vessels were found scuttled and abandoned, they
were destroyed by crew of 'Petrel", which vessel was sent in towards
Kaoite.
I do think it was a bit unsporting to go in and destroy more things after the white flag was hoisted.
If
anybody can correct the text I would appreciate it. I am sure this must
be recorded elsewhere but I would like to have my text correct. TIA
-
Very strong Union Rep on the Concord during the skermish at Manilla Bay.
"OK guys it's 8AM time to knock off for Breakfast."
http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USS%20Concord/vol023of040/vol023of040_158_1.jpg
(http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USS%20Concord/vol023of040/vol023of040_158_1.jpg)
Commenced
to until 4AM. ..... At 12:15 a shot was fired from Fraile rock which
was answered by Boston, Raleigh and Concord. Concord fired 3 shots; the
battery was silenced.
4AM to 8AM. ........... 5.05
commenced firing from Manilla and Kaoite, ships and forts. The fleet
steamed around in column of vessels, firing at fleet and shore batteries
at Kaoite. A launch started for (resure?) and was forced to ~ ashore,
fired until 7:40, expending 182 rounds 6in. "B.L.R.", 220, 6pdr; 120,
3pdr; 60 1pdr; when fleet steamed out of action. There was no casualties
among the crew. Several Spanish men of war were disabled and on fire
when fleet left. Fleet steamed around 3 times. Fleet went to breakfast
at 8:00. The reserve division kept off to Westward. Several shots were
fired from fleet at Battery in Manilla.
8am to Meridian.
Commenced shelling forts, and ships at Kaoite and 11:00. went to destroy
transport on port bow at 11:33. Fleet shelling forts and ships at
end of watch. "Reina Christina" and "Castilla" were burning and
"Autruie de Ulloa" was sunk. signal made to Concord "Go in and see what
ships are burning" then "Annul" then 11:30 "Go in and destroy transport
on port bow" E~~~laded forts as ships steamed in.
Meridian
to 4PM. .......... At 12:25 the Spanish flag was hauled down at
Navy Yard at Kaoite. The white flag was hoisted at Navy Yard. Stood in
and destroyed a spanish transport Isla de Mindanas which was ashore near
Kaoite. Eight spanish vessels were found scuttled and abandoned, they
were destroyed by crew of 'Petrel", which vessel was sent in towards
Kaoite.
I do think it was a bit unsporting to go in and destroy more things after the white flag was hoisted.
If
anybody can correct the text I would appreciate it. I am sure this must
be recorded elsewhere but I would like to have my text correct. TIA
Commences and until 4 A.M.
Fleet
steaminginto Manilla Bay. At 12:15 a shot was fired from Fraile rock
which was answered by Boston, Raleight and Concord. Concord firing 3
shots; the battery was silenced. Fleet came in trhough Boca Grande.
4 to 8 A.M.
Steaming
into Manilla Bay. 5:05 comenced firing from Manilla and Kavite, ships
and forts. The fleet steamed around in column of vessels, firing at
fleet and shore batteries at Kavite. A launch started for reserve and
was forced to run ahsore, fired until 7:40, expending 182 rounds 6 in.
"B. L. R.", 220, 6 pdr; 120, 3 pdr; 60, 1 pdr; when fleet steamed out of
actions. There was no casualities among the crew. Several Spanish
men-of-war were disabled and on fire when fleet left. Fleet steamed
around 3 times. Fleet went to breadfast at 8:00. The Reserve
division kept off to Westward. Several shots were fired from fleet at
Battery in Manilla.
8 AM. to Meridian.
Commenced shelling forts,
and ships at Kavite at 11:10. Went to destroy transport on port bow at
11:33. Fleet shelling forts and ships at end of watch. "Reina Christina"
and "Castilla" were burning and "Antonio de Ulloa" was sunk. Signal
made to Concord "Go in and see what ships are burning" then "Annul" then
11.30 "Go in & destroy transport on port bow" enfiladed forts as
ship steered in.
Meridian to 4 P.M.
At 12:25 the Spanish flag was
hauled down at Navy Yard at Kavite. The white flag was hoisted at Navy
Yard. Stood in and destroyed a spanish transport Isla de Mindanao,which
was ashore near Kavite. Eight spanish vessels were found scuttled and
abandoned, they were destroyed by crew of "Petrel", which vessel was
sent in towards Kavite.
4 to 6 P.M.
Signal from flagship to this vessel at 10:00. Tact. sig. 180. Stood down to Cavite.
8 P. M. to Midnight
Beat
to general quarters at 8:00 and cast loose battery, leaving 6" loaded.
Stationed crew to quarters to remain there overnight; establishing a
watch of three hands from each Division as lookouts. At 9:30 Boston
signalled "Send boat"; boat brought two Spanish Officers from Boston. At
10:00 got underway and stood down to communicate with flag. Captain
with Spanish Officers went aboard "Olympia" and on their return stood
towards anchorage off Kavite.
The writer uses Kavite and Cavite. The latter is the correct spelling.
Battle of Manila Bay - Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Manila_Bay)
-
I'm being pulled off Concord for a few days so we can steam around
Desolation Sound with a friend on his yacht. "When choosing friends, see
what kind of stuff they have first," is my motto. ;D
Perhaps, Helen, you could make a sermon out of that. ;D ;D ;D Like
George W. once said, "My kind of people: the haves and have mores."
I'll send photos when we return...
-
Thanks Michael.
Enjoy your leave and leave me to clear up the mess, Thanks.
-
"breadfast", Michael? ;D
-
Morning all.
Happy 4th of July to our friends on the other side of the pond. :)
-
I'm
being pulled off Concord for a few days so we can steam around
Desolation Sound with a friend on his yacht. "When choosing friends, see
what kind of stuff they have first," is my motto. ;D
Perhaps, Helen, you could make a sermon out of that. ;D ;D ;D Like
George W. once said, "My kind of people: the haves and have mores."
I'll send photos when we return...
I'll keep it in mind as an example of what not to do .... ;D Hope you have a great time anyway!
-
I made firework cakes to celebrate July 4th at work today!
They
are just individual lemon flavoured sponge cakes with lemon icing
(small cup cakes if you like) with FizzWizz sprinkled over just before
serving. FizzWizz is an explosive type of sherbert granule - so they go
bang inside your head as you eat them...fun!
Have a great Independence Day.... ;D ;D
-
"breadfast", Michael? ;D
Sorry, Randi, old eyes and I was in a typing in a hurry because I had to pack... It was, though, casualities.
Michael
-
Michael.
I was not expecting you to type the lot, just what I could not read. Job well done (ish). ;)
-
Happy 4th of July to all you living south of the 49th!!! Remember to claim double time for all your OW work today. :)
-
I made firework cakes to celebrate July 4th at work today!
They
are just individual lemon flavoured sponge cakes with lemon icing
(small cup cakes if you like) with FizzWizz sprinkled over just before
serving. FizzWizz is an explosive type of sherbert granule - so they go
bang inside your head as you eat them...fun!
Have a great Independence Day.... ;D ;D
Those sound good fun - how about some more for November 5th?
-
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!
(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8244357632/h06FB333F/)
-
-
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t1.0-9/10471426_777704965593271_7636653904083293576_n.jpg)
-
Nice cloud formation.
Asperatus Clouds Over New Zealand
Asperatus
Clouds
(http://cdn.all-that-is-interesting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/interesting-pictures-asperatus-clouds.jpg)
(http://cdn.all-that-is-interesting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/interesting-pictures-asperatus-clouds.jpg)
-
Is the Earth preparing to flip? (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2889127.stm)
-
We may be living in interesting times indeed.
-
Here's a rather surprising article about a flip-flop (rather than just a flip ;D).
Global
warming may lead to global cooling. The author is William H. Calvin, a
theoretical neurophysiologist at the University of Washington at
Seattle. The 2-part article was published in The Atlantic (not the most
scientific of journals). I would like to hear what climatologists have
to say about this (Kevin?, Philip?). There was a lot of concern about a
flip in the "Atlantic conveyor" about 10 years ago (leading to colder
temperatures in Europe) but I had the impression that the experts had
concluded that this was not a pressing concern. Now there is new
evidence, it seems ...
https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/98jan/climate.htm
-
Hi all -
I have had a question regarding weather and ships'
operations during WWI - along the lines of did the weather cause any
changes to operations a la D-Day...
Does anyone remember anything along these lines happening with the WWI ships?
Thanks -
-
Here's a rather surprising article about a flip-flop (rather than just a flip ;D).
Global
warming may lead to global cooling. The author is William H. Calvin, a
theoretical neurophysiologist at the University of Washington at
Seattle. The 2-part article was published in The Atlantic (not the most
scientific of journals). I would like to hear what climatologists have
to say about this (Kevin?, Philip?). There was a lot of concern about a
flip in the "Atlantic conveyor" about 10 years ago (leading to colder
temperatures in Europe) but I had the impression that the experts had
concluded that this was not a pressing concern. Now there is new
evidence, it seems ...
https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/98jan/climate.htm
Isn't the article from 1998, meaning it's not really "new evidence"?
It does sound rather scary, though. Sounds like either way, overheating or overcooling, Homo sapiens will be in huge trouble.
And I will most likely live long enough to witness it all.
-
neurophysiologist? - I'd say he is rather far from his specialty :-\
-
Ha, I didn't even notice the date. :-[ A friend sent it to me
and he usually sends recent articles so I didn't think to check. That
may have been the article that got the discussion about the Atlantic
Conveyor going back then. I think the discussion gradually fizzled out
as more information became available.
Yes, he is a bit out of his domain - a good writer though ;D
-
Hi Kathy.
Do you mean along these lines?
http://www.wxedge.com/articles/20120523how_did_the_weather_affect_d-day
(http://www.wxedge.com/articles/20120523how_did_the_weather_affect_d-day)
and
http://www.datasync.com/~bouchard/rich/brand2.html (http://www.datasync.com/~bouchard/rich/brand2.html)
-
Enjoy Today (7 July) as it is:
International Chocolate Day,
Global Forgiveness Day,
and
Tell the Truth day
For those who are still in Yesterday, enjoy,
Umbrella Cover day.
By Birthday was Bikini day (but I chose not to wear one.)
-
Belated
Happy Birthday
to
Pommy Stuart
5 July
:-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[
-
::)
-
Enjoy Today (7 July) as it is: Global Forgiveness Day
;)
-
Forgiveness is important, and it does not include forgetting
anything, or letting myself accept repeated abuse. It simply means
letting go of my own anger. The world needs more of this.
(http://www.guideposts.org/sites/guideposts.com/files/quotes/desmond_tutu_3_2.jpg)
-
To Stuart on his 111th birthday
Happy Birthday to Stuart, down under ?
A pommy from way over yonder.
A transcriber bar none,
With whom we have fun,
May your days be filled with great wonder!
-
Stuart -
yes, exactly like that -
-
Happy Birthday, Stuart!!!
(http://www.smileyvault.com/albums/userpics/13911/0003~4.gif)
-
You don't look a day older than 100, Stuart. Happy Birthday!
-
Ah, gee fanks folks. :D
-
Woha, almost missed this one!
Happy birthday Stuart!!
-
Stuart
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear Stuuuuuuuuaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrtttttttttttttttttttttttttttt,
Happy Birthday to you!
Hope it's a happy one and that you got lots of neat presents!
Hope also you got to share with family! :D :D
-
Happy Birthday, Stuart!
(http://www.sugarliciousonline.com/cakes/birthday/animals/images/fullsize/australia.jpg)
-
Happy birthday wishes from me too, Stuart.
(http://www.flagsrfun.com/images/imagesAussie%20Thongs%20Garden%20Flag%20-%20FlagsRFun.jpg)
-
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaappy birthday to you
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaappy birthday to you
Happppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppy birthday dear Stuart,
Happyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy birthday to you
Isn't it good to be 21 again, and again, and again, and again........
;D ;D ;D
-
Main result of Facebook emotion study: less trust in Facebook (https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/scicurious/main-result-facebook-emotion-study-less-trust-facebook)
-
Main result of Facebook emotion study: less trust in Facebook (https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/scicurious/main-result-facebook-emotion-study-less-trust-facebook)
You mean somebody EVER trusted them??!!
They
had a 'game' they called it which supposedly showed how many times
someone looked at your Profile Page. Someone sent me a screen shot
saying I looked at theirs 17 times in 7 days! I didn't even know the
person exactly - we shared membership in a boating 'Group.' I questioned
FaceBook and explained that as an Educator working with young children
their 'game' could cost me my family, my career, and my life! I gave
them 36 hours to 'clean' my file or they would be hearing from my
Solicitor. I stayed off Fb for a year but have recently rejoined because
of requests from the Boat Group and a Weather Group I consult for.
My files are VERY locked down and I watch it VERY closely! These people scare me!
-
Main result of Facebook emotion study: less trust in Facebook (https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/scicurious/main-result-facebook-emotion-study-less-trust-facebook)
You mean somebody EVER trusted them??!!
They
had a 'game' they called it which supposedly showed how many times
someone looked at your Profile Page. Someone sent me a screen shot
saying I looked at theirs 17 times in 7 days! I didn't even know the
person exactly - we shared membership in a boating 'Group.' I questioned
FaceBook and explained that as an Educator working with young children
their 'game' could cost me my family, my career, and my life! I gave
them 36 hours to 'clean' my file or they would be hearing from my
Solicitor. I stayed off Fb for a year but have recently rejoined because
of requests from the Boat Group and a Weather Group I consult for.
My files are VERY locked down and I watch it VERY closely! These people scare me!
well
said...had lots of trouble with silly facebook sites being very rude to
me and my colleague a few years back - it nearly cost a dozen oxford
students their degrees. They all had to see the Proctor just a week
before their exams...crazy.
-
On the USS Concord replies 8358 & 8359 "BLR" stand for Breech Loading Rifled (gun).
-
Thanks!
-
Thanks James.
Long time no hear.
What dates are you currently doing on the Concord?
I wish we could find out what the rest of the numbers mean.
Someone did mention a code book but the number in it did not make sense to me.
-
Main result of Facebook emotion study: less trust in Facebook (https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/scicurious/main-result-facebook-emotion-study-less-trust-facebook)
You mean somebody EVER trusted them??!!
They
had a 'game' they called it which supposedly showed how many times
someone looked at your Profile Page. Someone sent me a screen shot
saying I looked at theirs 17 times in 7 days! I didn't even know the
person exactly - we shared membership in a boating 'Group.' I questioned
FaceBook and explained that as an Educator working with young children
their 'game' could cost me my family, my career, and my life! I gave
them 36 hours to 'clean' my file or they would be hearing from my
Solicitor. I stayed off Fb for a year but have recently rejoined because
of requests from the Boat Group and a Weather Group I consult for.
My files are VERY locked down and I watch it VERY closely! These people scare me!
well
said...had lots of trouble with silly facebook sites being very rude to
me and my colleague a few years back - it nearly cost a dozen oxford
students their degrees. They all had to see the Proctor just a week
before their exams...crazy.
I
am not surprised. This is just the latest in a long list of bad things
Facebook has done with people's data. They just don't respect your
privacy at all!
I have a Facebook account, but only so I can
communicate with other people in my course when we're doing group
presentations or similar. Call me crazy, but I don't understand the
appeal at all.
If you want to talk to somebody, just send them an email or use Skype!
-
Call me crazy, but I don't understand the appeal at all.
If you want to talk to somebody, just send them an email or use Skype!
Ditto!
I only got a Facebook account when I became a moderator, and even now I almost never look at it.
-
e-mail is good enough for me, too. I try to keep a low profile on the Web.
-
I use FB to post things on outside subjects that interest me -
things like kitty cams, my nephew's publishing date for his next novel
or Old Weather stuff. My personal life happens in more private
venues. :)
-
Hi all -
I
have had a question regarding weather and ships' operations during WWI -
along the lines of did the weather cause any changes to operations a la
D-Day...
Does anyone remember anything along these lines happening with the WWI ships?
Thanks -
Hi Kathy,
Slightly
delayed response due to shore leave! Don't know if this was what you
were after but HMS Attentive
(http://www.naval-history.net/OWShips-WW1-06Attentive.htm) was involved
in the Zeebrugge raid which eventually took place on 22nd/23rd April
1918 but had originally been scheduled for 11th/12th. The wind changed
direction after they had set out the first time which meant that the
planned smoke screens would have blown in the wrong direction so it was
abandoned.
And very belated Happy Birthday to Stuart!
-
Thanks Jil -
That is what the person posing the question wants - I'll pass this along -
Ta -
Kathy
-
Greater protection for ships lost in World War One (http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28056244)
-
Hi everyone!
Not exactly weather, and not old at all, but i would like to share with all of you the birth of a brand new OW baby!
My first child Alessandro has born this afternoon at 3:46pm (gmt+1). 50cm for 3.510kg.
He'll
hopefully join OW around phase XXI or so (when we'll be transcribing
viking runes). He's just beside me at the moment, and he seems pretty
happy about the idea ;D
-
Congratulations Matteo and Valentina and welcome Alessandro!
Great news.
-
Congratulations Matteo!
Pictures!!!!
:-*
-
Well done Matteo and Valentina.
First one, how many more in the planning, a crew full? ;D
-
Congratulations, Matteo and Valentina!!!
I am looking forward to Phase XXI. Allessandro will hopefully not have to transcribe the Unalga ;D
-
Congratulations Matteo and Valentina!
Welcome Alessandro!
(funny, I don't remember a ship by that name ;))
An
Officer in the Fleet has informed me that when his grandfather was
commanding a brig off the Spanish coast in about 1835 he made the
following entry in his diary: "This day the Surgeon informed me that a
woman onboard had been labouring in child for twelve hours and if I
could see my way to permit the firing of a broadside to leeward nature
would be assisted by the shock. I complied with the request and
she was delivered of fine male child."
I think I may say that
this is one of the few occasions on which Gunnery Officers of the Navy
can truthfully claimed to have achieved a satisfactory result without
hitting the target.
;D
-
Congratulations and best wishes to you all. :) I
suspect Alessandro will acquire a vocabulary which will confuse his
classmates. After all he'll be chatting away by the centenary of
the Armistice.
;D
-
Congratulations Matteo and Valentina!
Welcome Alessandro!
(funny, I don't remember a ship by that name ;))
An
Officer in the Fleet has informed me that when his grandfather was
commanding a brig off the Spanish coast in about 1835 he made the
following entry in his diary: "This day the Surgeon informed me that a
woman onboard had been labouring in child for twelve hours and if I
could see my way to permit the firing of a broadside to leeward nature
would be assisted by the shock. I complied with the request and
she was delivered of fine male child."
I think I may say that
this is one of the few occasions on which Gunnery Officers of the Navy
can truthfully claimed to have achieved a satisfactory result without
hitting the target.
Well Son of a Gun!!!! ;)
Congratulations to the newest member of the crew and his obviously proud parents. May God richly Bless all.
;D
-
Congratulations, and welcome to our newest crew member!
-
Congratulations and best wishes Matteo and family. :D
-
A baby like ships needs some tending -
cleaning (poop deck!) and occasionally mending.
But, with a eager, fine crew,
and a good supply base or two -
the voyage will be quite mind bending!
-
Vivissimi rallegramenti e i pi? affettuosi auguri a Matteo, Valentina ed al piccolo Alessandro :) :) :)
-
I've been away for only a week and so much has happened to people in
the Chat room. Congratulations Matteo and Valentina. Belated Happy
Birthday, Captain! We had a lovely time steaming around Desolation
Sound. The first three days were ocr STR NIM. The next, and final days were b None.
When I get caught up on a gazillion emails, I may send a photo or two.
In the meantime, our yacht... ;D At least, this would be the
only yacht I could afford, should I ever be in the market...
-
Ooooo, she's lovely. In need of a little work maybe ....
-
Get started scraping and painting!
-
Big congrats and best wishes to Matteo and family!
-
Congratulations Matteo and Valentina!
-
Our navigator - a Pentium III Intel chip. The USS Concord should have been so lucky...
-
Congratulations to Matteo and Valentina!
Hello to Alessandro :)
-
Morning all.
Here is today's sports news: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/horse-racing/28244486 :)
-
;D
-
:D :D :D
..and it came second by a short beak...oh no - no jockey so it is disqualified....shame!
-
Hello all, just to let you know I'm heading off tomorrow on some
shore leave - a whole fortnight! I might drop into the forum from
time to time (that is just about possible on my tablet) but won't be
doing any transcribing/editing.
I'll look forward to seeing what's
been going in my absence when I get back - new babies, outrageous
events, improbable transcriptions and all.
-
Have a good shore leave, Helen! I know from experience how nice a break can be every now and then.
-
Have fun, Helen!
Just be sure you get back on time and sober ;D
-
Hello
all, just to let you know I'm heading off tomorrow on some shore leave -
a whole fortnight! I might drop into the forum from time to time
(that is just about possible on my tablet) but won't be doing any
transcribing/editing.
I'll look forward to seeing what's been going
in my absence when I get back - new babies, outrageous events,
improbable transcriptions and all.
Enjoy
your break Helen! I had a break once... :'( :'( :'( I think
it was in June, 1964 and it lasted about 2 1/2 hours.
-
have some chocolate and read a good mystery!
-
Tell us about it when you get back - the logs will be waiting!
Enjoy yourself.
-
Sounds like a wonderful idea, Helen, enjoy! :)
-
Have a great time, Helen. :)
Good morning all.
-
Enjoy Helen and good night from down under
-
Have an enjoyable and restful break. You deserve it! :-*
-
Have a good holiday, Helen!
-
I hope Helen has picked a warmer place than here at the moment. 2 days of waking up to -3c and only 10c IN the house.
What ever happened to sunny (and warm) Australia?
-
I hope Helen has picked a warmer place than here at the moment. 2 days of waking up to -3c and only 10c IN the house.
What ever happened to sunny (and warm) Australia?
It
just proves that climate change, just as Rupert Murdoch sort of said in
the Sydney Morning Herald, is a joke and nothing to worry about.
-
I hope Helen has picked a warmer place than here at the moment. 2 days of waking up to -3c and only 10c IN the house.
What ever happened to sunny (and warm) Australia?
Winter?
-
Sure is but a lovely day came after the cold start.
-
:)
-
I guess that USS Concord isn't the only ship with morale and discipline issues:
Navy
Vessel Ordered Home
(https://ca.news.yahoo.com/canadian-navy-vessel-ordered-home-following-unacceptable-actions-162248996.html)
-
If you're able to watch BBC2, tonight at 8 o'clock (UK time) the
first part of "Operation Cloud Lab: Secrets of the Skies" will air.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01hn0n9 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01hn0n9)
-
Looks interesting!
Morning all. Summer time in the UK. Mid 20sC, rising to around 30C by Friday, allegedly. :o
-
Caro, please save me some of those 30's for September.
-
Will do. ;)
-
"Here kitty kitty kitty!".....see front cover of Oxford Uni's web
page for a very striking photo all you ardent cat lovers.... ;)
Can't get the attachment to work and must dash, so try this:
www.ox.ac.uk
-
8) although I feel a bit like I'm about to be dinner!
-
Did that come from Snapshot Serengeti? Not at all sure that I want to take her home with me. ;D
-
I think it was Serengeti - and it does give you that 'what would the
world look like if I were a cat treat nibble' feeling - :o ;) :D
-
If
you're able to watch BBC2, tonight at 8 o'clock (UK time) the first
part of "Operation Cloud Lab: Secrets of the Skies" will air.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01hn0n9 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01hn0n9)
I'm
beginning to think the Programme Controller for BBC2 is a member of
this forum - documentaries this week on clouds (today), Britain's
extreme weather (tomorrow), and bees (yesterday). Surely this
cannot be coincidence?
-
It makes a nice change from all that sport but is distracting from OW!
I've
been resisting for a while but have finally succumbed and bought some
RN related postcards. The final straw was a photo of a memorial for some
of the crew for HMS Hermione (which I'll post in the RN burials
thread), but there was also one of a weather station. In pencil on the
back it says 'Weather station - unknown HM ship between 1913/1919'.
Unfortunately the original is a bit blurred (it's not my camera!) so I'm
not totally sure what it is. :-\
And thanks to Caro for beating the photo into submission so I could load it.
-
8)
-
Really cool. :)
-
The quality is not great but that is such an interesting pic. Thanks for posting, Janet L.
Humid 27C forecast today. There will be a thunderstorm sooner or later. :)
-
The Bear sighted the USRC Tahoma (1909) near St. Paul Island. 03/09/1910
The first part of her USRC service looks interesting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USRC_Tahoma_%281909%29
The last part too :o
I fixed the link ;)
-
I see that "our" Patterson to came to her rescue! ;D
-
If
you're able to watch BBC2, tonight at 8 o'clock (UK time) the first
part of "Operation Cloud Lab: Secrets of the Skies" will air.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01hn0n9 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01hn0n9)
I'm
beginning to think the Programme Controller for BBC2 is a member of
this forum - documentaries this week on clouds (today), Britain's
extreme weather (tomorrow), and bees (yesterday). Surely this
cannot be coincidence?
I noticed this programming as well...spooky..or, as you say, one of us? :D :D :D
-
My feelings go out to the family's of the passengers on flight MH17.
-
May they all rest in peace.
This is a terrible day in the world, both in Ukraine and Gaza.
-
Yes, so many innocent victims.
-
Words fail me. It's a sad, sad day for the world.
-
I've been listening to a program about bots on the internet. Some of
these bots imitate people and visit chat rooms, blogs and forums in an
attempt to connect to people to steal information, influence the ranking
of a site in terms of internet searches, spread false information etc.
etc. etc. My question is, "How do I know I'm not really just a bot, a
clever algorithm that thinks it has a cat and likes Christmas
cakes?" ;D
-
Because you're doing OW. No bot would do that - too difficult ;D
-
It is extremely unlikely that a bot would be able to ingest
Christmas cakes - and even more unlikely that it would feel happiness
while doing it.
So you're fine, Michael. No need to worry.
-
The bots that try to get in here are not capable of holding a rational conversation. :P ;)
-
Seems like I did not fool you then. :o
-
Nope - we are all smarter than bots. ;)
-
It
is extremely unlikely that a bot would be able to ingest Christmas
cakes - and even more unlikely that it would feel happiness while doing
it.
So you're fine, Michael. No need to worry.
Great!
I feel much better, now. I was worried because I've seen Windows go
from Windows 3 to Windows 8.1 and I seem to be stuck at Michael 1.0,
which would be a problem, had I been a bot. :)
-
;D
-
Happy Ice Cream Day to all our American friends when Sunday rolls around.
All you can eat (https://docburnsteins.com/all-you-can-eat/)
I have no affiliation with the company mentioned above it just looked delicious.
-
It looks wonderful - if we lived in San Luis Obispo,
California!!! But thanks for the information, I will be sure to
celebrate at my local ice cream parlor. Not the kind of holiday to
be ignored. :)
-
As my uncle used to recite:
I scream
You scream
We all scream
For ice cream
;D
-
I can't log on to OW. Both Firefox and IE say:
We're sorry, but something went wrong.
We've been notified about this issue and we'll take a look at it shortly.
It's a beautiful morning here. I guess I'll just have to read the paper and have a cup of tea.
-
Yep same here from almost a couple hours...
Here we have
ocrrtl Nim 10 (was above 34o C till yesterday with absolute clear
sky)... it seems i'll have to find a dinghy if i want to reach some
place where to have my lunch :P
-
I was on earlier today, but now I get the same message.
-
Well then I am going to bed.
Goodnight.
-
Me too - it is still down. :(
-
(http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Sad/crying-022.gif)
-
Solar Stormwatch is down too. We're waiting for news....
..... and we're back. :)
-
We are indeed back! Alright!
Out of curiosity, does anybody know what went wrong?
-
All I can tell you is that the problem was caused by 'database issues'.
Shout loudly if it happens again please.
-
The weather here has been ridiculously sunny and warm for several
days now - British people were not built to handle this sort of heat :(
Had
an interesting bit of weather on Friday night - ocl, but no t. I
thought I was going mad at first, but on looking online, it seems the
flashes were coming from a good 30 miles away, but the sound wasn't
carrying.
-
Yes indeed, there has been some spectacular lightning recently.
I must say I have been enjoying the warmth very much. ;)
-
The
weather here has been ridiculously sunny and warm for several days now -
British people were not built to handle this sort of heat :(
Had
an interesting bit of weather on Friday night - ocl, but no t. I
thought I was going mad at first, but on looking online, it seems the
flashes were coming from a good 30 miles away, but the sound wasn't
carrying.
That
is somewhat common around this end of Lake Ontario (West) n the summer.
The lightning flashes but sound does not carry. We call it
'summer lightning' or 'heat lightning
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_lightning).'
-
Hi Danny.
Do you want to be on the OW Map? @ http://goo.gl/maps/Z2IsJ
If so PM me with your town and occupation if you want.
Stuart.
-
I must say I have been enjoying the warmth very much. ;)
Well, at least that's one of us!
-
I must say I have been enjoying the warmth very much. ;)
Well, at least that's one of us!
Ex-pat
Ozzies and Mid-West Americans all consider 80sF in July "normal".
Everything is relative. I'm uncomfortable, today in Chicagoland
is only the 3rd day this year that will hit 90 - and tomorrow a cold
front is coming thru dropping us back into the 70s. Downrigth
chilly for July, that is.
(http://www.picgifs.com/smileys/smileys-and-emoticons/summer/smileys-summer-374559.gif)
-
Morning all.
More warm, sunny weather to enjoy. ;)
-
Morning all.
More warm, sunny weather to enjoy. ;)
Raining
here for the fourth time this month!!!! Up until this morning we've had
a total 2.4 mm (1/10 of an inch) so far this July. I could have
drowned!!!
-
After a week or so of minus mornings (temps that is, we did have a
morning) it is nice to have a +6c to wake up to and heading for 12c.
Rainfall
so far this month 5.6mm, average 46.5, max 154mm, min 1.5mm and with an
El Nino on it's way we are going to get less rain.
-
The Concord reported bclrt, so I thought bacon, cheese, lettuce, radish and tomato. That's what happens when you skip lunch... :D
-
8401 & 8402 glad to be of help. I would do more but my internet
access has been cut down and I have other things I have to do but, I'll
be back. Correction BLR breech loading rifle. If you have other
questions like this post them here and I or somebody else may be able to
answer them.
8465 to 8468 sort of O/T but it looks like the
Ukraine is in a state of civil war like the former Yugoslavia in the
1990s and it could be this way for the next 5-10+ years.
-
Thunderstorm!
Hopefully we will have a good rain and cool off a bit - with no damage ;)
-
Thank heavens! Someone out there is alive.
It has been 28
hours and 36 minutes without anyone on the chat line; 24 July was a day
with no posts at all. Is this some kind of record? I note that the chat
posts have been running for 1382 days, with 8,500 posts in that time for
an average of just over six posts per day, so I suppose there must have
been other days, too, without a post. Interesting, though irrelevant,
as the question is, I must get back to the Concord.
-
We're in the summer doldrums, Michael. No wind in our sails (except for transcribing ;D)
-
A cracking thunderstorm passed through here this afternoon too, bringing prolonged and heavy rain. :o
My garden said thank you.
-
Saxony has been getting lots of sun. Temperature is typically between 25 and 30 C, although there are occasional showers.
I've
been swimming in some local lakes - great place to cool off, just wish
there weren't so many old people [sun]bathing in the nude (this is legal
where I live).
-
Just remember, someday you will be old ;D
-
just wish there weren't so many old people
One day you will join the 'Oldies' :P (You just beat me in with that one Randi as I was typing it.
Come down to Bamberg on the 26th of Aug and see an Oldie (with clothes on) as I sail into town.
-
Sounds like perfect summer. And never for one minute forget
"old people" have sharp minds and wicked senses of humor. Do you
really want to be this blunt? :)
(http://www.picgifs.com/smileys/smileys-and-emoticons/summer/smileys-summer-374559.gif)
-
Even though I am old enough to get an Old Age Pension, I agree with Hanibal. The thought of
so many old people [sun]bathing in the nude
is rather off-putting. There comes a time when aging bodies are better clothed than not.
This
reminds me of a time many years ago when I was working up in the Peace
River country in north east BC. Two of the local farm families and I
went for a picnic on the banks of the Peace River just east of Fort St.
John. It was a hot day, and I said how wonderful it would be to go for a
swim in the river. The matriarch of one of the families asked, "Why
don't you?"
"No bathing suit," I replied.
"Our family is Danish and this other family is Swedish; we always swim in the nude," she said.
"Great!"
I said, and I stripped off my clothes and went for a lovely swim in the
river. Only later did her son, a fellow student in my classes at
university, how shocked and appalled both families were. Apparently it
was a joke and, not being swimmers, they couldn't believe that anyone
would ever do such a thing.
-
Saxony has been getting lots of sun. Temperature is typically between 25 and 30 C, although there are occasional showers.
I've
been swimming in some local lakes - great place to cool off, just wish
there weren't so many old people [sun]bathing in the nude (this is legal
where I live).
I
recall a funny story that started just like this one from another forum
(music-related), where someone railed against old people being nude on a
beach. The fun part was when he said he was asked to leave
because he was none too attractive in his Emperor Clothing,
either. He chalked that up to nearsightedness brought on by the
sun bathers being 1,000 years old. The rest of us just figured he
cut a disgusting figure in his birthday suit.
I think anyone who
isn't comfortable with seeing people of all ages laying about nekked
should carefully avoid nude beaches. You'd never see me flopped
out there, though. There are some things mankind was never meant
to see.
-
Greetings all, young and old and in-between.
Sunny and 27C is the forecast for this neck of the woods. I like. ;D
-
We had a nice bit of rain and it is a bit cooler for the moment :)
-
My last three days have been spent working in signal boxes
(https://www.flickr.com/photos/58735253@N03/7228734888/in/gallery-47071837@N02-72157630398964318/)
- which are essentially large greenhouses and involve rather a bit of
elbow grease to . On all three days, the interior temperature has been
above 32C. Tomorrow is more of the same - plenty of water required,
methinks.
-
That sounds like hard work, Danny. Keep drinking lots of water.
-
Don't you worry - the railway runs on tea, and I am now at the stage
where I can't work without at least some tea in my cup. It would be
much easier if only some git didn't keep drinking it all the time! ;)
-
What do you do in the signal boxes?
-
Essentially, it's the mysterious art of steering trains - sadly,
nobody thought to include a steering wheel on the engine, so people like
me have to decide where to send the trains instead.
We get lots
of levers
(https://www.flickr.com/photos/llangollen_signalman/5848545171/),
because this is proper Victorian/Edwardian technology, and everything is
controlled manually via iron rods or steel wires. Of course, being
old-style technology, it also means that we get lots of (very shiny!)
brass (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mugsandb/13725572024). To indicate
what levers do what, diagrams are also provided
(https://www.flickr.com/photos/llangollen_signalman/5849102768), with
lights to indicate where trains are (you'd be surprised by how sneaky
they can be!).
We use lots of strangely coloured and shaped
signals (https://www.flickr.com/photos/martincreese/10176905686) to
communicate with drivers as they fly past - although all the ones in
that photo apply to trains going the other way... So here's how
it looks for trains going in the right direction
(https://www.flickr.com/photos/g8led/9970489014/)! Of course, there are
lights in them so they can be seen at night, to allow for moody night-time photoshoots let drivers see them in the dark (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tom_clarke/6874699287).
Signal
Boxes come in all sizes, from ones that fit in your pocket
(https://www.flickr.com/photos/llangollen_signalman/5848537995) to XXXL
sized ones (https://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisbell50000/5067410829)
(although none of that size are used on heritage railways!).
And,
naturally, the aforementioned tea
(https://www.flickr.com/photos/llangollen_signalman/5848542779) is
forefront in all activities.
(Credit to the relevant photographers whose work I have linked!)
-
Excellent descriptions and pictures there Danny.
Nice staff and token boxes in the last one.
-
Neat!
Thanks, Danny.
(you must have larger pockets than I do ;) ;D)
-
I second what Stuart said. Thanks for sharing this!
-
It's good to see that some practices resist computerization, Danny.
You will be largely unaffected by the next solar storm that will bring
down the power grids
http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/25/tech/2012-solar-storm/index.html
After viewing your pictures I had a strong urge to pour myself a cup of tea ;D
-
I'm drinking my tea ;D
-
We'll survive solar storms, but that doesn't mean you don't have to
plead with, shout at, and occasionally hit the equipment to make it
work.
(Although the same might be said about getting engine crews to make them work...)
-
But if the engine crews did not have to hit them us fitters would have nothing to fix. %^)
-
The Last Days of Blackbeard
An exclusive account of the final raid and political maneuvers of history's most notorious pirate (http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/last-days-blackbeard-180949440/?page=1)
Excerpts:
For
the 18 men aboard the French merchant ship Rose Emelye, the evening of
August 23, 1718, was shaping up to be as routine as the 167 that had
preceded it since they'd left Nantes. They'd spent the spring following
the winds and currents across the Atlantic to tropical Martinique, and
much of the summer unloading French cargo and taking on bags of cocoa and barrels of freshly refined sugar.
Now they were following the Gulf Stream home in the company of another
French merchant ship, La Toison d'Or, sailing just a stone's throw
behind and to leeward. The American mainland had disappeared behind the
horizon days before. The next day would raise Bermuda above the horizon,
the final waypoint before making landfall in Europe.
Then, as the sun sank low in the sky, someone spotted sails bearing down on their stern.
Over
the next three hours the sky grew dark and the vessel drew ever closer.
To the Frenchmen's relief, it was a tiny vessel: a sloop with Spanish
lines better suited to shuttling cargo between Caribbean islands than to
crossing an ocean. Still, something wasn't right. What was it doing out
here in the open ocean, and why was it on an intercept course with the
Frenchmen's much larger oceangoing merchant ships? As the mysterious
sloop overtook them and pulled alongside, they knew they would have
answers soon enough.
In the last moments, Capt. Jan Goupil would
have seen three cannon muzzles rolled out of gun ports on the tiny
sloop's sides and dozens of armed men crowded on its decks. He ordered
his crew of 17 to prepare for action, getting Rose Emelye's four cannons
to the ready. Remove yourselves, Goupil's mate cried out to the men on
the sloop, or we will fire!
On the tiny sloop, a tall, slim man
with a long black beard barked out an order. His helmsman threw the
tiller hard to lee, men released ropes, and, sails briefly flapping, the
strange vessel suddenly swung hard about, shooting by in the opposite
direction.
Goupil's skin may have turned cold. The sloop - the
pirate sloop - swept down to the unarmed Toison d'Or. Minutes later the
vessels' wooden hulls came together with a moan. Pirates swarmed over
the gunwales and onto the ship's decks, seizing the crew, perhaps as
human shields. The bearded man had fooled him. Now he found himself
facing not one attacker but two.
Soon the bearded man was
alongside again and his men discharged their cannons. Musket balls flew
over Goupil's head. There was nothing to be done. He turned Rose Emelye
into the wind, drifted to a halt and surrendered his command.
Blackbeard,
the notorious pirate, had captured two vessels more than twice the size
of his own - a feat described here for the first time. He could not
have known that these would be the last prizes of his career and that in
just three months he and most of his crew would be dead.
Out of
all the pirates who've trolled the seas over the past 3,000 years,
Blackbeard is the most famous. His nearest rivals - Capt. William Kidd
and Sir Henry Morgan - weren't really pirates at all, but privateers,
mercenaries given permission by their sovereign to attack enemy shipping
in time of war. Blackbeard and his contemporaries in the early
18th-century Caribbean had nobody's permission to do what they were
doing; they were outlaws. But unlike the aristocrats who controlled the
British, French and Spanish colonial empires, many ordinary people in
Britain and British America saw Blackbeard and his fellow pirates as
heroes, Robin Hood figures fighting a rear-guard action against a
corrupt, unaccountable and increasingly tyrannical ruling class.
...
The
Bahamian pirates were unlike most other pirates before or since in that
they engaged in more than simple banditry. Most of them - Blackbeard
included - were former merchant and naval sailors who thought themselves
engaged in a social revolt against shipowners and captains who'd made
their prior lives miserable. Bellamy's crew members referred to
themselves as Robin Hood's men. "They vilify us, the scoundrels do, when
there is only this difference," Bellamy once told a captive. "They rob
the poor under the cover of law...and we plunder the rich under the
cover of our own courage."
There was also a democratic spirit
aboard the pirates' ships, an unusual development six decades before
Lexington and Yorktown, more than seven ahead of the storming of the
Bastille. Upon seizing a vessel, the pirates turned its government
upside down. Instead of using whips and beatings to enforce a rigid,
top-down hierarchy, they elected and deposed their captains by popular
vote. They shared their treasure almost equally and on most ships didn't
allow the captain his own cabin. "They were very shrewd in the way they
reorganized their ships to limit the captain's power," says maritime
historian Marcus Rediker of the University of Pittsburgh. "There was a
real social consciousness at work there."
...
Despite his
infamous reputation, Blackbeard was remarkably judicious in his use of
force. In the dozens of eyewitness accounts of his victims, there is not
a single instance in which he killed anyone prior to his final, fatal
battle with the Royal Navy. "I haven't seen one single piece of evidence
that Blackbeard ever used violence against anyone," says Trent
University historian Arne Bialuschewski, who unearthed several forgotten
accounts by captives and others in the archives of Jamaica in 2008.
Imperial authorities and allied newspapers, Bialuschewski says, "created
this image of Blackbeard as a monster."
...
Pirate
vessels were among the few places in European America where slaves could
free themselves. A remarkable number of pirates were of African origin,
according to accounts of captives and pirates brought to trial. There
were more than 30 Africans in Bellamy's crew, and in the months after
capturing the Concorde, witnesses would report as many as 70 serving
with Blackbeard. "Most of these black sailors on pirate ships were not
slaves," Rediker, who has studied both the pirates and life aboard slave
ships, told me recently. "We have an account of a group of rebellious
slaves on one of the islands rowing offshore to join a pirate ship. And
the pirates knew they could count on them to be totally committed and to
fight to the end, because their only other option was a life of
plantation slavery."
But not everyone was seen as a potential
recruit. Of the 455 slaves who were still alive when Blackbeard
intercepted Concorde, all but 61 were given back to Captain Dosset,
along with a small sloop, which he used to ferry them back to Martinique
to be sold at auction. How it was decided which people were crew and
which were cargo remains a mystery, beyond the lucky minority being
able-bodied males. What is known is that a substantial number of black
people would remain within Blackbeard's inner circle until the day he
died.
...
The papers'handwritten and stitched into a
leather-bound folio by 19th-century archivists' include depositions from
merchant captains describing how Blackbeard
had cleverly captured their vessels in the Bay Islands off Honduras by
anchoring innocently nearby and seizing officers after they naively
rowed over to say hello.
-
That's very interesting, Randi. 8)
-
In these days of internet trolling, I had almost forgotten that meaning of 'trolling (the seas)'.
:)
-
I didn't even know there was such a thing as "trolling the seas" - made me very confused when I read that sentence!
-
I think trolling is a contraction of patrolling
:P
-
Tolling is a fishing term. We used to troll for fish in moving boat, letting our line play out behind.
-
Another large day, to use an east coast expression, here on the
southern tip of Vancouver Island. 27 yesterday, probably even warmer
today, and not a cloud in the sky... :) :) :)
-
I don't know how you stand it, Michael. ???
-
Just been watching an excellent program on BBC Four - Timeshift:
Killer Storms and Cruel Winters
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04c36md). The history of how we
reacted to extreme weather events - by improved defences and better
recording :). Including brief shots of various weather logs (not
ship ones but still made me go 'oooo!' and made my fingers twitch) and
showed a wet/dry thermometer and how it works.
-
I don't know how you stand it, Michael. ???
It's
because of my strong constitution and heroic nature that allows me to
thrive in adversity and stare hardship in the face with a laugh and even
a taunt, daring Mother Nature to do her worst. :)
-
Brave man. :o
Good morning/afternoon/evening all.
The Killer Storms and Cruel Winters program that Janet L mentioned is available for six days on the iPlayer (for UK viewers).
-
quote michael.
It's because of my strong constitution and heroic
nature that allows me to thrive in adversity and stare hardship in the
face with a laugh and even a taunt, daring Mother Nature to do her
worst. :)
Let us see how he handles the Concord crew when I am away, them we will see what his constitution is like. %^)
-
Good morning/afternoon/evening all.
The Killer Storms and Cruel Winters program that Janet L mentioned is available for six days on the iPlayer (for UK viewers).
I
noticed it in the TV listings and have recorded it on my digibox to
watch later - I chose to watch "Children of Syria" yesterday which was
on at the same time. I hope "Killer Storms and Cruel Winters" will
be less harrowing viewing.
-
Not quite so harrowing I hope, Su.
'... as solar scientist Dr
Lucie Green reminds us, we've had far worse in the past, including a
hurricane that finished off a fifth of Britain's navy ...'
Calm, sunny weather today, I'm glad to say.
-
Very quiet in here.
Hello OW and hello August. :o
-
Hello OW
Today on the National Day one hundred years ago,
Switzerland mobilized and three days later declared neutrality. Although
the sympathies were different if one was German speaking or French
speaking.
-
(http://lh3.ggpht.com/HRGBi6ogvlpD1ubbZIXFyqP3u9SKjIzyQdUdRsM0qBMDcxZHi4KapNFvr9Z3Vw2mldw8Uk6BVjBOMVhCe53QSS6vJVfz2b6dM6Nf9216=s660)
And a happy August 1 to you, Hansjorg. :)
-
Happy August 1st, Hansjorg!
-
Thank you both, am I the only member of the Swiss navy around here? ;)
-
I do believe so - and you sail over the Alps very nicely. ;)
-
Ai Sprooch isch nie gnueg. ;D
-
;D ;D ;D
-
Thursday evening and the first of the blackberry harvest of the
season. While I was wandering the back roads in the rural parts of
Victoria, I was meditating on the lessons of life taught by harvesting
wild blackberries:
- "What
clothes should I wear?" Some people wear heavy rubber rain gear so they
can force their why deep into the bushes without getting snagged or
pricked. This is very hot business, and it breaks the vines and causes
riper berries to fall to the ground. Others wear heavy clothes but
these, too, are hot and they snag badly. People doing this still get
scratched. I wear a tight fitting short sleeved T-shirt with bare arms
so I don't get snagged, and I move slowly and carefully. The trick is
not to make any sudden moves and, if you feel a prickle against your
arm, stop moving and then slowly move away from the prickle;
- Even
if a bush seems to have nothing but green berries, there will be some
that are ripe if you look carefully - important on the first blackberry
harvest of the season;
- Even though you think you have cleaned
off a branch, if you move slightly to get a different viewpoint you will
see more berries that you have missed;
- Don't just drop berries
into your bucket without looking; a vine or leaf may be in the way and
will deflect your berries onto the ground;
- Pick the ripest berries first, otherwise they will fall to the ground when the vine is moved;
- Don't pick just the ripest berries, those that are just barely ripe give the rest a wonderful tart flavour; and,
- Without
the time, effort and few scratches, you'll never enjoy a good
blackberry sour cream cake, nor fresh blackberries and French Vanilla
ice cream!
-
Good advice, Michael. I have some wild blackberries growing in my
back yard. They ripen at the same time as my raspberries, which makes a
nice contrast. I see that squirrels like the blackberries too, but they
are not greedy like me.
-
Thursday evening and the first of the blackberry harvest of the season. ...
- Without
the time, effort and few scratches, you'll never enjoy a good
blackberry sour cream cake, nor fresh blackberries and French Vanilla
ice cream!
This
is a vision of heaven...forget the clouds, angels and harps
malarkey...the only white fluffy things you need here are sweet
dumplings and a small sea of proper egg custard.
My new friend in
life is mum's old 'grabber' that she used for fetching things around. A
rubber glove finger rubber-banded onto each prong - and you can reach
those elusive berries more than a metre away. And don't worry about the
lost ones - many little mice will love you for them. ;)
-
Thursday
evening and the first of the blackberry harvest of the season. While I
was wandering the back roads in the rural parts of Victoria, I was
meditating on the lessons of life taught by harvesting wild
blackberries:
- "What
clothes should I wear?" Some people wear heavy rubber rain gear so they
can force their why deep into the bushes without getting snagged or
pricked. This is very hot business, and it breaks the vines and causes
riper berries to fall to the ground. Others wear heavy clothes but
these, too, are hot and they snag badly. People doing this still get
scratched. I wear a tight fitting short sleeved T-shirt with bare arms
so I don't get snagged, and I move slowly and carefully. The trick is
not to make any sudden moves and, if you feel a prickle against your
arm, stop moving and then slowly move away from the prickle;
- Even
if a bush seems to have nothing but green berries, there will be some
that are ripe if you look carefully - important on the first blackberry
harvest of the season;
- Even though you think you have cleaned
off a branch, if you move slightly to get a different viewpoint you will
see more berries that you have missed;
- Don't just drop berries
into your bucket without looking; a vine or leaf may be in the way and
will deflect your berries onto the ground;
- Pick the ripest berries first, otherwise they will fall to the ground when the vine is moved;
- Don't pick just the ripest berries, those that are just barely ripe give the rest a wonderful tart flavour; and,
- Without
the time, effort and few scratches, you'll never enjoy a good
blackberry sour cream cake, nor fresh blackberries and French Vanilla
ice cream!
Sorry, I was interrupted by a cat and forgot to list the life lessons learned in the blackberry patch:
- Being sensitive, allowing yourself to be vulnerable and moving carefully may be the most effective way;
- Don't let stereotypes lead you astray;
- Looking at a problem from different angles leads to a better solution;
- The last step is the most important and needs to be done carefully;
- Don't limit yourself to just one choice; and,
- Before starting, ensure that the reward will justify the effort.
-
This has the makings of a good book, Michael. You could call it The Compleat Berry Picker. Izaak Walton would be pleased.
-
Any Canadians heard of this idea.
HitchBot ? (http://www.hitchbot.me/)
Seems a cool idea to me.
-
Stuart,
Yes,we have. He was in the news quite a bit at the
start of his journey, though I hadn't heard much since. I suppose I'll
hear more when he reaches B. C. It's a fun project. It looks like he's
on Manitoulin Island now - the largest island in a fresh water lake, and
it has three lakes on the island, and there are islands in those lakes.
Treasure Island is an island in a lake on an island in a lake. Can't
remember if Treasure Island has a lake on it.
-
Really neat!
-
My cousin in BC just mentioned it to me. I have soft spot in my
heart for hitchhikers - even Hitchbots - since I hitchhiked from
Vancouver to Quebec City (and back) many years ago.
-
Pretty cool! I wonder where he will end up.
-
Pretty cool! I wonder where he will end up.
And in how many pieces!
-
Pretty cool! I wonder where he will end up.
And in how many pieces!
Probably 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716
93993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253
42117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725
35940812848111745028410270193852110555964462294895
49303819644288109756659334461284756
48233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326
64821339360726024914127372458700660631558817488152
092096282925409171536436789259036
00113305305488204665213841469519415116094330572703
65759591953092186117381932611793105118548074462379
96274956735188575272489122793818301194912983367336
24406566430860213949463952247371907021798609437027
70539217176293176752384674818467669405132000568127
14526356082778577134275778960917363717872146844090
12249534301465495853710507922796892589235420199561
12129021960
86403441815981362977477130996051870721134999999837297804995105973173281609631... pieces. :)
-
That sounds like Peggy's Cove ;D
-
I think he was thinking of Michael's blackberries ;)
-
Ah, pi(e). That's not very rational ;D
-
:P :P :P :P :P
-
Ah, pi(e). That's not very rational ;D
No but it is delicious. :)
-
Ah, pi(e). That's not very rational ;D
No but it is delicious. :)
In any case, blackberry (and apple) pie is Number 1, not 3.141...
-
Good morning pi(e) fans.
Cool 14C here this morning. Warming up later. :)
-
Happy birthday Mr Venn.
Venn (http://www.officialmarkdavidson.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/venn_diagram_example.gif)
Images may be subject to copyright
-
Good morning pi(e) fans.
Cool 14C here this morning. Warming up later. :)
Was
confused for a second but then remembered "Oh yeah, different
continent." 3AM for me in America (the 2nd timezone from the right).
Edit: edited because apparently I can't spell at 3:30 in the morning...
-
Uugh just a note to anyone thinking of buying any video off Amazon
thinking they can download it to watch offline because it says so
online: don't, they just removed that option and haven't removed the
text (unless it's certain things like Kindle Fire, but not PCs). Just
had to deal with getting a refund on something that I thought would
entertain me on my flight, which was annoying, especially at 5 in the
morning...
Thought I'd warn you guys and girls just in case.
-
Thanks for the warning, I haven't tried downloading video yet, but I
am not surprised. They strictly limit the software that can
play/read anything other than music, and their PC Kindle is primitive.
Travel safe. :)
-
Good morning/ afternoon/evening OW.
(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/76742000/jpg/_76742258_76742254.jpg)
The Houses of Parliament in London during last night's 'lights out', marking 100 years since the start of WWI.
Great pic.
-
Indeed.
-
Not to be nitpicky but isn't Elizabeth Tower's light still on when
there aren't supposed to be any lights on? Dumb American here...
-
The light in the clock ('Big Ben', which is the name of the bell) is on, yes.
It wasn't a complete lights out event. We were asked to leave one light or candle burning.
-
The light in the clock ('Big Ben', which is the name of the bell) is on, yes.
It wasn't a complete lights out event. We were asked to leave one light or candle burning.
Dang I remembered the difference and still didn't get it right. :-[
Oh ok, never mind. Like I said, dumb American here... ;D
-
Not dumb! A lot of people would not know it is the Elizabeth Tower.
http://www.parliament.uk/bigben
-
Not dumb! A lot of people would not know it is the Elizabeth Tower.
http://www.parliament.uk/bigben
:D
I can't seem to remember the original name though (I remember the
controversy when they changed the name for Elizabeth's jumbilee).
-
I always used to call it Westminster tower.
Goes to show how time (PUN intended) changes things.
-
I always used to call it Westminster tower.
Goes to show how time (PUN intended) changes things.
Like how I still call the Willis Tower the Sears Tower (in Chicago). ;D
-
Elizabeth Tower was known as Clock Tower until 2012.
I had to look that up. :)
-
Not dumb! A lot of people would not know it is the Elizabeth Tower.
http://www.parliament.uk/bigben
I didn't ;)
-
I somehow always thought of it as "Clock Tower" but had no idea they
had named it for Elizabeth. Things still out there to learn.
-
My area is the coldest in Australia today. (so says the local radio) -6c in one area and -4c in mine.
I'm migrating north tomorrow for warmer weather.
-
Come up to Canada, it's nice and warm here (45.47 N, 75.69 W) ;D
-
My area is the coldest in Australia today. (so says the local radio) -6c in one area and -4c in mine.
I'm migrating north tomorrow for warmer weather.
Stuart - is it you that put the mockers on the hot sunny weather we had a week ago??? ::) ::) :-[
Hope we get some back before you hit Blighty! ;D
-
Come up to Canada, it's nice and warm here (45.47 N, 75.69 W) ;D
Canada
land component is next year (Toronto 16 - 19 Aug & West coast 6
Sept - 13 Sept, North West Passage in between those dates)
-
Kitchener: The most famous pointing finger (http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28642846)
(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/76729000/jpg/_76729310_newcomp.jpg)
-
Kitchener: The most famous pointing finger (http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28642846)
(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/76729000/jpg/_76729310_newcomp.jpg)
Why did they want 50 pictures of one person?
Edit: And who was first, this guy or this guy: http://contraryperspective.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/uncle-sam.jpg
-
Morning all. Rain!
As for Uncle Sam, the article that Randi has provided a link to says:
"Leete's
design has been copied by military recruitment campaigns from India to
Canada to Germany. Four million copies of James Montgomery Flagg's Uncle
Sam poster were printed by the US during WW1. Indeed, the image still
features in the country's recruitment drives today."
Montgomery Flagg created his poster in 1917.
-
Morning all. Rain!
As for Uncle Sam, the article that Randi has provided a link to says:
"Leete's
design has been copied by military recruitment campaigns from India to
Canada to Germany. Four million copies of James Montgomery Flagg's Uncle
Sam poster were printed by the US during WW1. Indeed, the image still
features in the country's recruitment drives today."
Montgomery Flagg created his poster in 1917.
Oh ok. Didn't notice the article link. :-[ Thanks.
-
BBC Radio 4 Today (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04cf5ps) program
just been talking about why WW1 naval history not better known and
specifically about the Koenigin Luise and the sinking of HMS Amphion.
It started about 2 hours 25 mins into the program if you can access it on iplayer.
-
My son sent me a link to pictures of a pyrocumulus from the Oregon
Gulch fire. I had seen some very impressive pyrocumulus when I was in
the Yukon. One of the fires had a pyrocumulus up to 40,000 feet and it
was generating surface winds that were probably up to 50 kmh. None of my
photos can compare to these....
Oregon Gulch Pyrocumulus
(http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/08/05/oregon_gulch_fire_photos_show_pyrocumulus_clouds_and_fighter_jets_over_wildfire.html)
-
Why did they want 50 pictures of one person?
About
the 50 pictures - I am guessing here, and if someone knows better I
would be grateful for the real explanation. From time to time I
have bought photographs on eBay connected with ships I've been
interested in. Even family group photos come as postcards, set out
on the back for a written message and an address. So I think that
at this time it was common to have a photo taken and then have it
printed off as a postcard - so if your son was going off to war you
would get these postcards and send them off to all your family because
you were so proud of your son in his uniform. So this looks to me
like a special offer to get 50 cards for a shilling. I was quite
fascinated to see this, because it has intrigued me how these old
photographs, which are clearly personal rather than commercial, are in
postcard format.
-
Why did they want 50 pictures of one person?
About
the 50 pictures - I am guessing here, and if someone knows better I
would be grateful for the real explanation. From time to time I
have bought photographs on eBay connected with ships I've been
interested in. Even family group photos come as postcards, set out
on the back for a written message and an address. So I think that
at this time it was common to have a photo taken and then have it
printed off as a postcard - so if your son was going off to war you
would get these postcards and send them off to all your family because
you were so proud of your son in his uniform. So this looks to me
like a special offer to get 50 cards for a shilling. I was quite
fascinated to see this, because it has intrigued me how these old
photographs, which are clearly personal rather than commercial, are in
postcard format.
Oh, I thought they were ASKING for 50 photographs for a shilling, I need to use my brain more...
-
Crowdsourcing? (play the video)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-07/trapped-man-amazed-as-commuters-tilted-train/5656302
(http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-07/trapped-man-amazed-as-commuters-tilted-train/5656302)
-
I saw that on the middle-of-the-night insomniac news last night - wonderful neighbors helping out. :)
-
Crowdsourcing? (play the video)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-07/trapped-man-amazed-as-commuters-tilted-train/5656302
(http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-07/trapped-man-amazed-as-commuters-tilted-train/5656302)
I saw that on the middle-of-the-night insomniac news last night - wonderful neighbors helping out. :)
Crowd Sourcing at its best!!
;D ;D ;D ;D
-
Interesting NY Times article about a gentleman who has documented
the weather since he was 14 (more or less). He's 101 now.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/nyregion/long-island-weather-observer-sets-us-record-with-84-year-streak.html?_r=0
-
WOW! Now THAT'S some real dedication!
Don't wanna toot my own
horn here, but I believe I have the best chance of becoming the OW
equivalent of that guy - I was 16 when I started this project back in
October 2010, just two weeks after it launched.
-
WOW! Now THAT'S some real dedication!
Don't
wanna toot my own horn here, but I believe I have the best chance of
becoming the OW equivalent of that guy - I was 16 when I started this
project back in October 2010, just two weeks after it launched.
Toot
your horn, Hanibal. Mr. Hendrickson logged weather twice a day for 84
years, which is about 62,000 hours. I don't know how many OW entries
you've done, but you've probably done more than that. Certainly a number
of transcribers have already done more than 100,000. This is not to
diminish in any way the remarkable achievement of Mr. Hendrickson, but
it puts the work by OW volunteers into perspective.
-
I am sure if anyone breaks Henderson's record, it will be Hanibal
but I hope all our ships will be completed before he gets to 101.
-
Hello OW.
A 'yellow' weather warning is in force in parts of the UK as remnants of Hurricane Bertha move in.
-
Everyone on the other side of the Pond, take cover and take care.
-
I was suposed to be out on a botany field trip today but it's been
postponed due to the weather warning :'( so lots of time for
transcribing and editting :).
I should really be tidying the house but OW is definitely more fun.
-
The house would be untidy again in short order anyway ;)
-
And I'm off out shortly to take my first wedding and hoping the rain
holds off for long enough for us all (and especially the bride) to get
into church dry and not too windblown! It would be nice if we
could all get out again in the same condition, but I'll settle for
getting everyone in OK .... :D
-
Good luck, Helen. Hope it goes well.
-
Hello OW.
A 'yellow' weather warning is in force in parts of the UK as remnants of Hurricane Bertha move in.
That explains the blinking lights and rumbles of thunder. Rather nice and sunny now, however!
-
Just had five minutes of horizontal rain, followed by blue sky. ??? :)
-
We had thunder and lightning and torrential rain at 1pm - but by the
time the wedding began (and more to the point, the bride arrived) it
had pretty much stopped and she was able to walk gently up the church
path rather than trying to sprint!
After that everything
was simple and it all went well - one couple safely married, and one
curate with another 'first' under her belt.
-
I wonder who was more nervous - the groom, the bride, or the priest ;D
-
I think probably the groom, closely followed by the priest. The bride seemed remarkably calm!
-
Well, that's a wonderful first to have. I'm glad the weather cooperated. :)
-
I wonder who was more nervous - the groom, the bride, or the priest ;D
;D
-
I think probably the groom, closely followed by the priest. The bride seemed remarkably calm!
;D ;D
-
Glad to hear the wedding went well, Helen. :)
-
Thank you all - definitely another small landmark! Next up - the first baptism ....
-
Thank you all - definitely another small landmark! Next up - the first baptism ....
Hurrah
for you, Helen!!! I am sure you are as warm and sympathetic as a priest
as you are on these chat rooms! Lucky parishioners to have you in their
midst.
-
Morning all. Lovely Google doodle today.
Astonishing 'super moon' last night too!
-
Thank you all - definitely another small landmark! Next up - the first baptism ....
Great job on your first wedding, Helen!
Here comes the bride,
Fair, fat and wide.
Here comes the groom,
Skinnier than a broom.
Here comes the usher,
The old toilet flusher.
-
Thank you all - definitely another small landmark! Next up - the first baptism ....
Hurrah
for you, Helen!!! I am sure you are as warm and sympathetic as a priest
as you are on these chat rooms! Lucky parishioners to have you in their
midst.
Well put, Michael!
-
Thank you for all your kind words - I'm sitting here blushing!
And
hanibal - they actually had 'here comes the bride' as the entrance
music, so I had to work quite hard not to think of various unsuitable
words .... I hadn't seen yours before though.
-
Morning all. Lovely Google doodle today.
Astonishing 'super moon' last night too!
They
should have put that doodle on everyone's search page!!! Instead,
us foreigners have to go to https://www.google.co.uk/ >:(
-
Just made my flight with less time than i am confortable with. Ill
recant the journey to the airport later. 14 hours of flying/layovers
here I come!!!!
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Wait...
-
Long haul flights eh? :P :) Bon voyage, tastiger.
Morning all. Sunshine again!
-
Just
made my flight with less time than i am confortable with. Ill recant
the journey to the airport later. 14 hours of flying/layovers here I
come!!!!
...
Ugh!
Hope it isn't too bad!
-
Here comes the bride,
Fair, fat and wide.
Here comes the groom,
Skinnier than a broom.
Here comes the usher,
The old toilet flusher.
...and from my long-ago chldhood:
Here comes the bride,
Thirty inches wide,
Here comes the vicar,
Forty inches thicker.
-
Speaking of weddings...
I was told that to ensure Marital Bliss a gentleman needs know only 4 words - 'I do' and 'Yes Dear' ::) ;)
-
Morning all. Sunshine again!
It's
raining here, just over 10 mm in the last 12 hours. The most rain we've
had since April, and it's most welcome. :) :) :) :)
-
Just
made my flight with less time than i am confortable with. Ill recant
the journey to the airport later. 14 hours of flying/layovers here I
come!!!!
...
Wait...
Back
home finally, that was tiring (18+ hours of traveling). And about the
journey to the airport, I'll sum it up with a 2 hour train trip becoming
4-5 hours I think, wrong stations, long waiting times, wrong line I
think, and freaking out about my phone battery. Yuck. Anyway will be
back tomorrow. :)
-
Welcome home!
-
Morning all.
Glad to hear you are home, tastiger. :)
-
Is OW down? I saved a page and nothing happened for a while then the
screen went blank except for the URL. It hasn't responded for more than
5 minutes.
There it is. I just refreshed the screen and got the next page.
-
I believe the techies have been fixing the problem with repeating pages.
-
Like Tastiger I too am "home."
I got back last night after a brief but fascinating holiday in Ethiopia. I can recommend it, even in the rainy season!!
Our only transport problem was due to a washed away bridge.
Now must press on to finish that additional bit of editing of HMS Mantis' history!!
K
-
Welcome home, Keith.
Glad to hear you enjoyed your Ethiopian adventure.
-
Did anyone else hear that the internet is supposed to be crummy for
everyone for the next couple of weeks? Is Old Weather going to be
affected?
Welcome home!
Morning all.
Glad to hear you are home, tastiger. :)
Thanks everyone! :D
-
Yes, I did.
A technical article on the subject:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/08/internet-routers-hitting-512k-limit-some-become-unreliable/
(http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/08/internet-routers-hitting-512k-limit-some-become-unreliable/)
As it's the routers involved, there's no way of predicting who or which sites will be affected.
Most probably it will be different every time it happens.
E.g. last Tuesday it seems Europeans couldn't reach the Naval History website, whilst Australians had no problems at all.
-
A part of WW1 history I certainly knew nothing about ....
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/14/first-world-war-forgotten-chinese-labour-corps-memorial
-
I had never heard of that either.
Far too late for most - especially those who died en-route - but I'm happy to see it finally recognized.
-
The Chinese labour force did receive a passing mention in the first
part of "The World's War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire" on BBC2 last
week. I have recorded the second part but haven't watched it yet -
maybe there will be more coverage. With the recent centenary of
the war in the UK we have been rather swamped with WW1 documentaries,
most of which have been interesting and moving, but I haven't really
learned much I did not already know - most of us on this Forum are bound
to be better informed on this subject than average. But this
documentary was one of the best I have seen so far - it brought out many
things that I did not know, or had not really thought about. It
did not focus exclusively on soldiers from the British Empire and
included the French colonial forces as well.
Edit: The
second documentary did indeed include more on the Chinese Labour
Corps. Clearly using the same sources as the Guardian article
there is not much additional information on this particular topic,
although they had some archive film. Again, I learned a lot from
this programme.
-
Something on WW1 that I found very interesting:
Interactive episode puts viewer in role of a British corporal at the Somme (http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28793435)
(The
actual episode has violent content, so I didn't post a direct link -
click on 'Our World War' in the text and look for 'Interactive Episode')
-
Is anyone else finding the OW response very slow today? It takes between 30 seconds and a minute to get a new page.
-
Bit of a late reply, but no problems for me this evening.
-
It got back to normal about an hour after I posted. They could have been doing maintenance or something.
-
This came from a friend. It was part of a much longer series of old
photos but I thought it may be of some use to our Group. I have no way
to verify it's authenticity except it 'looks good.'
The title stated: A boxing match on board the USS Oregon in 1897
-
It got back to normal about an hour after I posted. They could have been doing maintenance or something.
I
was hoping this was a sign that they had fixed the problem of being
sent back to pages already done. No such luck, I just checked and I'm
still sent back to 01 July 1898 instead of 02 Aug 1898 on the Concord.
So, the Patterson crew have a volunteer for a while. Having fun learning
to read writing from a totally different hand. :'(
-
Nice to have some variety sometimes.
I heard the "best" joke from the Edinburgh festival - "They got rid of their Hoover because it was just collecting dust".
-
;D
How about the sign that says:
You don't have to be crazy to work here, but it helps.
-
;D That certainly applies to us!
-
It got back to normal about an hour after I posted. They could have been doing maintenance or something.
I
was hoping this was a sign that they had fixed the problem of being
sent back to pages already done. No such luck, I just checked and I'm
still sent back to 01 July 1898 instead of 02 Aug 1898 on the Concord.
So, the Patterson crew have a volunteer for a while. Having fun learning
to read writing from a totally different hand. :'(
Are
you being sent back repeatedly? The advice was to just skip pages, and
I've not heard anyone say that they got sent back again after the first
set of issues.
-
It got back to normal about an hour after I posted. They could have been doing maintenance or something.
I
was hoping this was a sign that they had fixed the problem of being
sent back to pages already done. No such luck, I just checked and I'm
still sent back to 01 July 1898 instead of 02 Aug 1898 on the Concord.
So, the Patterson crew have a volunteer for a while. Having fun learning
to read writing from a totally different hand. :'(
Are
you being sent back repeatedly? The advice was to just skip pages, and
I've not heard anyone say that they got sent back again after the first
set of issues.
I haven't skipped pages for two reasons:
- I'm
afraid that Stuart stopped when he did 30 June - I asked him to go that
far before he left on his trip because I wanted to update the crew
lists to the end of June. I worry that if I skip pages, I will be
skipping pages that Stuart needs to do, and those pages will end up not
being done; and,
- I'll be skipping 62 pages, which is quite a
number to be skipped. I thought it was just safer to go to another ship
until the problem was sorted out.
Eventually Stuart will
be back, and I'll know for sure where he is in the logs, and if the
situation hasn't been resolved by then, I'll skip the pages at that
time. In the meantime, I'll work on the Patterson.
-
Sounds good ;)
-
;D
How about the sign that says:
You don't have to be crazy to work here, but it helps.
Restaurant near us has the sign: "You don't have to be crazy to work here, we'll train you!"
-
I take it you didn't apply, Dean? ;D
-
Why do you think he (or any of us) need the training? ::) ;D
-
I have had an interesting evening - the author of In the Kingdom of Ice,
Hampton Sides was at a bookstore in Washington, DC (Politics and Prose)
on his book tour. Went down to hear him speak - he was very
enjoyable. He gave a shout-out to Old Weather. I recommend
the book - I got there way early - allowed too much time for
traffic ;D - so had a chance to browse the book. Mark
Mollan, our National Archives person was there as well, and who also
gave us a mention. I told Mr. Sides about the edited log going up
today - he was quite interested in see it. The talk is available
on the CSPAN web site.
-
They have 2 presentations by him on CSPAN:
AUGUST 20, 2014
Book Discussion on In the Kingdom of Ice (http://www.c-span.org/video/?320996-1/book-discussion-kingdom-ice)
Hampton
Sides talked about his book, In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and
Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette, in which he recounts the
U.S. naval expedition to the North Pole in 1879. The journey, financed
by New York Herald owner James Gordon Bennett, and led by Officer George
Washington De Long, began in San Francisco on July 8, 1879. The 32-man
crew aboard the USS Jeannette sailed for two years before a breach of
the ship?s hull left them abandoned 1,000 miles north of Siberia, and
forced them to trek back to civilization.
also MAY 30, 2014
Book Discussion on In the Kingdom of Ice (http://www.c-span.org/video/?319870-10/book-discussion-kingdom-ice)
Hampton
Sides talked about his book, In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and
Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette. The interview took
place at the 2014 BookExpo America, the publishing industry?s annual
trade show, held at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York
City.
-
Good work, Kathy!
-
;D
How about the sign that says:
You don't have to be crazy to work here, but it helps.
Restaurant near us has the sign: "You don't have to be crazy to work here, we'll train you!"
I take it you didn't apply, Dean? ;D
Why do you think he (or any of us) need the training? ::) ;D
I keep telling people - How would you normal people know you were normal if it weren't for the rest of us??!! ;) 8)
-
Why do you think he (or any of us) need the training? ::) ;D
He or we might want to experience a different type of craziness for a change. ;D
-
And I thought I was the craziest person around here!
I
have Asperger's Syndrome
(http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome), so
I got a whole bunch of quirks and oddities, both good ones and bad
ones!
Plus, there's my strong fondness of colorful cartoon ponies -
something that may be a little too strong...
(http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=4013.msg88437#msg88437)
Is there anybody amongst us who can out-crazy THAT?
-
Won't even try. :D
(http://images.clipartpanda.com/jaguar-clip-art-eTM5R7ATn.jpeg)
-
And I thought I was the craziest person around here!
I
have Asperger's Syndrome
(http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome), so
I got a whole bunch of quirks and oddities, both good ones and bad
ones!
Plus, there's my strong fondness of colorful cartoon ponies -
something that may be a little too strong...
(http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=4013.msg88437#msg88437)
Is there anybody amongst us who can out-crazy THAT?
Becoming a moderator? ;D
-
And I thought I was the craziest person around here!
I
have Asperger's Syndrome
(http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome), so
I got a whole bunch of quirks and oddities, both good ones and bad
ones!
Plus, there's my strong fondness of colorful cartoon ponies -
something that may be a little too strong...
(http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=4013.msg88437#msg88437)
Is there anybody amongst us who can out-crazy THAT?
Becoming a moderator? ;D
SOMEBODY has to monitor us crazies!!!!!! ;) Or as one of my favorite Principals used to say 'It's tough to run the Circus from inside the Third Ring'
-
Don't expect anything from me till mid Sept. Having to much fun on the cruise of the Aegir.
Stuart.
It got back to normal about an hour after I posted. They could have been doing maintenance or something.
I
was hoping this was a sign that they had fixed the problem of being
sent back to pages already done. No such luck, I just checked and I'm
still sent back to 01 July 1898 instead of 02 Aug 1898 on the Concord.
So, the Patterson crew have a volunteer for a while. Having fun learning
to read writing from a totally different hand. :'(
Are
you being sent back repeatedly? The advice was to just skip pages, and
I've not heard anyone say that they got sent back again after the first
set of issues.
I haven't skipped pages for two reasons:
- I'm
afraid that Stuart stopped when he did 30 June - I asked him to go that
far before he left on his trip because I wanted to update the crew
lists to the end of June. I worry that if I skip pages, I will be
skipping pages that Stuart needs to do, and those pages will end up not
being done; and,
- I'll be skipping 62 pages, which is quite a
number to be skipped. I thought it was just safer to go to another ship
until the problem was sorted out.
Eventually Stuart will
be back, and I'll know for sure where he is in the logs, and if the
situation hasn't been resolved by then, I'll skip the pages at that
time. In the meantime, I'll work on the Patterson.
-
Good morning OW and bon voyage Stuart!
Typical 'bank holiday Monday' weather here: we have a yellow weather warning for rain. :P
-
OW is very slow this morning. Up to 30 seconds to refresh a page.
-
No public holiday in Scotland so weather fine & sunny but windy!!
-
The hitch-hiking robot Hitchbot arrived in Victoria a few days ago.
Here is a radio interview on CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp.)
with the robot:
Interview with Hitchbot (https://soundcloud.com/cbcvictoria/a-chat-with-hitchbot)
-
What a very cool national experiment. I'm glad she arrived safely. :)
-
I heard the interview the other day. She's as evasive as a politician. ;D
-
It seems OW has just died. I "Finished with this page" and the page
disappeared and I got the top two inches or so of the next page, and
nothing more. The little spinning circle has been going round and round
for over two minutes now... :'(
-
Try refreshing the screen. OW is still functioning for me.
-
Hmmmm. The last time I tried that, I lost all my work. However,
brave person that I am, I clicked on "I'm finished with this page"
again, and away it went, and there it is in "My Pages." My garden is
happy, though; while waiting I went out and gave it a good drink.
:)
-
Greetings all.
My garden needs no more water after yesterday's rain rain rain.
Dry today, allegedly.
Got to love that Hitchbot. :)
-
I was lulled into complacency with all the rain we had recently to
such an extent that I forgot to water after a few days of sunshine. I
have this one very productive zucchini that has provided for us all
summer. It has huge leaves and needs a lot of water to maintain it. So
when I checked most of the leaves had dropped to the ground and were
begging for water. I watered it abundantly but the drooped leaves
didn't recover. There are still a couple of zucchinis growing on it but I
am afraid this might be the end for this season.
-
For us in Victoria, it's the seventh driest summer comparing records
for the period 1941-2010. (Haven't been bothered to download the data
for years past 2010 yet.) We've had 63 mm since 1 May and half of that
was in May itself, the average is 107 mm, and in 1948 we had 248. In
2003, only 41.6. Watering has been essential.
-
OW is so slow this AM that I have time to record the date and
location before the page is completely visible on the screen. I can't
drag to make a box during this interval but if I just click on the topic
I get the default size box. I also have time for a sip of tea ;D
-
'OW is slow this AM'
I would hazard a guess that most OW'rs are also slow in the AM.
;D
-
Quite so, Stuart. Even with that handicap I can
still finish the date and location before the page finishes
displaying. ;D
-
I am just reeling from shock! Apparently Hello Kitty is not a cat! :o :o :o
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/28963085
I shall need to lie down in a darkened room for quite some time.
-
I like the personal touch! :)
Nice nails! (http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USCS%20Patterson/Book%203/IMG_5173_0.jpg)
-
I like the personal touch! :)
Nice nails! (http://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USCS%20Patterson/Book%203/IMG_5173_0.jpg)
Which made me remember...
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near
your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose
or if your wish be to close me,i and
my life will shut very beautifully,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing
(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands
e. e. cummings
-
Which made me remember ...
all by all and deep by deep
and more by more they dream their sleep
noone and anyone earth by april
wish by spirit and if by yes.
Women and men (both dong and ding)
summer autumn winter spring
reaped their sowing and went their came
sun moon stars rain
:)
-
Thank you both - I really enjoyed coming across this poetry unexpectedly.
-
me too - I really like e.e. cummings
-
Yes, he was a lower-case sort of guy but a capital poet for all that. :D
-
Fifty reasons I like to help my sister work in her garden... ;)
-
You're lucky, Michael. Tomatoes are not ripening in our area because of the cool summer we had.
-
OW is very slow for me this AM.
So it was my
wireless modem after all. The likely cause is interference from
electronic devices in my neighbourhood. Apparently channel 11 on my
modem is less susceptible to interference because most devices don't use
that channel. But microwaves could still be a problem. I may go back to
wired if it happens again.
-
That's interesting to know, Craig - I am still wired but had
wondered if there were benefits to switching to wireless. Maybe
the opposite!
-
In the vast majority of cases, a wired connection will be better
quality than a wireless one (bad quality or excessively long wires being
the main causes of bad wired connections). Of course, wireless has the
advantage that you can be wherever you want!
-
In my case it was to remove the wires that were dangling from the
basement ceiling. Unfortunately, I never anticipated putting in cables
in my house 30 years ago when we finished the basement- at least, not
where I want them now. But the funny thing is that the signal has
been strong for about a month now, since I put in the wireless cards
into my desktops. It's only in the last week that it has given me
trouble. I made a adjustment to where the computer and modem are
situated and this appears to have solved the problem for now, at least
for my new computer. The old Presario doesn't get a strong signal but
it's so slow doing BOINC that it hardly ever needs to connect to the
Internet.
-
In
my case it was to remove the wires that were dangling from the basement
ceiling. Unfortunately, I never anticipated putting in cables in my
house 30 years ago when we finished the basement- at least, not where I
want them now. But the funny thing is that the signal has been
strong for about a month now, since I put in the wireless cards into my
desktops. It's only in the last week that it has given me trouble. I
made a adjustment to where the computer and modem are situated and this
appears to have solved the problem for now, at least for my new
computer. The old Presario doesn't get a strong signal but it's so slow
doing BOINC that it hardly ever needs to connect to the Internet.
Although
my main PC is wired in to the router, I have a second wireless router
downstairs. It picks up and relays the signal so I get a strong signal
everywhere. Without it, my downstairs PC would be deaf and blind, so to
speak. You try a solution like that...
-
OW is very slow for me this AM.
So
it was my wireless modem after all. The likely cause is interference
from electronic devices in my neighbourhood. Apparently channel 11 on my
modem is less susceptible to interference because most devices don't
use that channel. But microwaves could still be a problem. I may go back
to wired if it happens again.
In
my case it was to remove the wires that were dangling from the basement
ceiling. Unfortunately, I never anticipated putting in cables in my
house 30 years ago when we finished the basement- at least, not where I
want them now. But the funny thing is that the signal has been
strong for about a month now, since I put in the wireless cards into my
desktops. It's only in the last week that it has given me trouble. I
made a adjustment to where the computer and modem are situated and this
appears to have solved the problem for now, at least for my new
computer. The old Presario doesn't get a strong signal but it's so slow
doing BOINC that it hardly ever needs to connect to the Internet.
Although
my main PC is wired in to the router, I have a second wireless router
downstairs. It picks up and relays the signal so I get a strong signal
everywhere. Without it, my downstairs PC would be deaf and blind, so to
speak. You try a solution like that...
Sometimes
just the placement of the router makes a difference. Moving it even a
little may solve the problem. My main Mac is 'hard wired' to the router
& DSL modem with the wireless router next to it so my wife can
wander the house with her PC laptop. I've also found it helpful
every month or so to depower and then repower the wireless router to let
it 'reset.'
Good luck!! Hope you can solve the issues.
-
Hi everyone :D
-
Hi, Sean :)
-
Good to have you back, Sean!
-
Hi there Sean. :)
-
Ahoy there me hearties!
Back on duty and happily at home now
(probably for some time ::)). Ended up in hospital having run my
batteries to zero (not wise :(). The recharge worked very well and much
faster than the Doctors thought when I first got there. The hospital was
excellent, and as one of the more alert customers I had some very
entertaining times with the nurses.
It's really nice to be back amongst the OW crew. :D :D
-
Welcome back Joan!
So glad to hear you are home, taking it easy.
Continue to take it easy. That is an order. ;)
-
I'm glad you are feeling better, Joan!
-
Good to have you back!
Now, take care of yourself!
-
Sit back, have a warm cuppa, AND TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF!!!!! ;D ;D ;D
-
Good to see you back. Nothing like your own bed however nice the
nurses. Mind you, I missed the early morning cuppa in bed I got
during convalescence. Take it easy, do what you enjoy and look
forward to the rest of life.
-
Glad your up and at'em.
Good job we did not stay as Janeece picked up a bug on the cruise. %^(
Stuart.
-
Sorry to hear that, Stuart.
I hope you enjoyed the first part of the cruise.
-
Welcome back, Joan. I'm glad you are feeling better. :)
-
Welcome back Joan! :) :)
-
Joan, Co & speed as reqte for getting better!
-
Nice to see you're back, Joan!
Gotta admit, I had noticed your absence by this point and was beginning to wonder where you'd gone...
-
Take care Joan - just be sure to keep up your finger exercises ;D
-
Welcome back, Joan! You've been missed!
-
Welcome back Joan, glad they've let you out. Nothing like home
for proper convalescence. Look after yourself, and don't overdo
it ....
-
Hi Joan, see above. ;D :P
-
Glad you're back on board, Joan. I, too, wondered where you'd
been. How could your batteries run down if you're burning candles
at both ends??? ;D
I'm so happy they've fixed you up and got you back behind the tiller. Remember the tortoise and the hare.
-
The font for the Forum looks just a little different this
evening ??? has something been changed? Or is it my
browser? Or, worse still, is it my eyesight? Or am I just
losing my marbles?
-
Nothing has been changed that I know of.
The font looks the same to me. Doesn't it? Yes. No? ;D
-
Looks the same to me! :D But then I'm one of those
'bleary eyed Transcriber/Editors who has spent way too much time
squinting at old logs (and likely will KEEP ON squinting for a long time
to come!! 8) )
-
It looks the same to me too. Maybe your display change default font?
-
Hi folks -had a busy day today so a bit late logging in. THANK YOU,
THANK YOU, THANK YOU for all your kind words. They are very much
appreciated. I really missed you all whilst I was away. Tried getting
on-line via my tiddly mobile phone but no luck. It's good to be
back in the OW harbour.
xxx
-
The
font for the Forum looks just a little different this evening ???
has something been changed? Or is it my browser? Or, worse
still, is it my eyesight? Or am I just losing my marbles?
I
know it can change when I try using my smartphone (but then the forum
just disappears on it somehow), so are you using two devices?
-
Hi
folks -had a busy day today so a bit late logging in. THANK YOU, THANK
YOU, THANK YOU for all your kind words. They are very much appreciated. I
really missed you all whilst I was away. Tried getting on-line via my
tiddly mobile phone but no luck. It's good to be back in the OW
harbour.
xxx
You are not supposed to be having busy days when you are just out of the hospital!!!
:-*
-
Joan, having just come out of hospital myself the motto is 'listen to your body'.
Believe me, and this is my second time in for elective surgery this
year, if you don't you are asking for trouble. Glad you are home
and at least thinking about doing things but you are
the most important thing. After all if you end up back in hospital then
you won't be able to do them anyway. We'll look forward to your
occasional input and be duly grateful for anything you manage to
complete.
-
The
font for the Forum looks just a little different this evening ???
has something been changed? Or is it my browser? Or, worse
still, is it my eyesight? Or am I just losing my marbles?
I
know it can change when I try using my smartphone (but then the forum
just disappears on it somehow), so are you using two devices?
No,
I'm not using two devices. I've worked out what it is, though -
it is just a tad smaller. It has definitely changed from what it
was a couple of days ago and I haven't knowingly altered any settings
anywhere myself.
-
Did you inadvertently hold down Ctrl and spin your mouse wheel? ;)
-
;D It's not the sort of thing I'd remember doing! But
anything's possible - I am very ham-fisted when I am tired.
Nothing else is affected, just the Forum.
-
Try Ctrl+mouse wheel spin until you get the size of font you like. ;D
-
Well, I've tried that now - but it didn't account for the
change. Just a single "step" on the wheel makes it much bigger
than it was before, so that can't be what happened. Also doing
that with the mouse wheel changes the zoom control - this has happened
with the zoom control at default. It doesn't really matter - it's
just mildly disconcerting!
-
OK. :)
-
I think the font changed for me as well. It happened last week on Wednesday (the 27th of August).
What
browser do you use? I have Chrome, which was updated on the 26th - and
that update includes "DirectWrite support on Windows for improved font
rendering", so maybe that was what changed it.
Oh, and I once
used a school computer with a very old version of Firefox to check the
OW forum, and I noticed the font looked very different - especially some
of the fancier ones Randi uses for announcing achievements in the
Dockyard.
-
I haven't noticed anything and I use Firefox.
-
Same here, FF 32.0
-
Here's an interesting interactive guide to climate change, from the Guardian.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/interactive/2011/aug/15/everything-know-climate-change?CMP=twt_gu
-
That's about the best organized layout I've ever seen. :)
-
I think the font changed for me as well. It happened last week on Wednesday (the 27th of August).
What
browser do you use? I have Chrome, which was updated on the 26th - and
that update includes "DirectWrite support on Windows for improved font
rendering", so maybe that was what changed it.
Oh, and I once
used a school computer with a very old version of Firefox to check the
OW forum, and I noticed the font looked very different - especially some
of the fancier ones Randi uses for announcing achievements in the
Dockyard.
Yes,
I have Chrome as well, so maybe that explains it. I didn't notice
the change as early as last week, but that doesn't mean it wasn't
there. Thanks for that, I now feel slightly less insane!
-
I use Chrome, and the only time I saw a shift was when I was
starting from scratch with my rebuilt hard drive. Everything was
decidedly small until I noticed it was running at 80% zoom - reset it at
100% fixed it.
-
Yes,
I have Chrome as well, so maybe that explains it. I didn't notice
the change as early as last week, but that doesn't mean it wasn't
there. Thanks for that, I now feel slightly less insane!
No
problem at all. As a student of Computer Science, I enjoy searching for
solutions to these kinds of problems - gives me a chance to practice
skills that will come in handy later for my career.
-
Very glad to have you on board for all of us non-geeks. :)
-
Very glad to have you on board for all of us non-geeks. :)
And
geek(s) who don't know much about computer and occasionally forgets how
much +'s there are in C++ but still a geek on other things. :D
-
Yes,
I have Chrome as well, so maybe that explains it. I didn't notice
the change as early as last week, but that doesn't mean it wasn't
there. Thanks for that, I now feel slightly less insane!
No
problem at all. As a student of Computer Science, I enjoy searching for
solutions to these kinds of problems - gives me a chance to practice
skills that will come in handy later for my career.
As
added confirmation, I have just tried opening the Forum in both Chrome
and Firefox side-by-side - in Firefox it looked the same as it always
used to. :)
-
Yes,
I have Chrome as well, so maybe that explains it. I didn't notice
the change as early as last week, but that doesn't mean it wasn't
there. Thanks for that, I now feel slightly less insane!
No
problem at all. As a student of Computer Science, I enjoy searching for
solutions to these kinds of problems - gives me a chance to practice
skills that will come in handy later for my career.
As
added confirmation, I have just tried opening the Forum in both Chrome
and Firefox side-by-side - in Firefox it looked the same as it always
used to. :)
I'm using Safari on a Mac and haven't seen any changes. :D
-
Hello szukacz! Long time no see. :)
-
;D Hi Caro Hi all
-
HI Szukacz! How are you? ;D :-*
-
Hi, Szukacz, great to see you around!! ;D
-
Hi, Szukacz, sorry I missed you!
-
Since some of the ships we are doing the logs of are involved in
artic exploration. I would everyone to know that one of the ships of the
Franklin expedition in the artic has been found. Perhaps we can find
out a little more about the ships fate since there were no survivors. I
hope this is of some interest.
-
Caro noted it: http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=23.msg94148#msg94148
"One of Franklin's ships found: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/lost-franklin-expedition-ship-found-in-the-arctic-1.2760311"
-
Wow, what ever ship it is it's in good nick.
I hope they can positively identify it as it will solve some mystery.
I hope the Captain of my next years cruise to the North West Passage will sail over the spot.
-
Happy Birthday, Randi!!!
-
Thanks, Janet!
-
Bonne Fete, Randi!
-
Thanks, Janet!
Happy birthday! :D
-
Happy Birthday to you,
Schokolade im Schuh,
Aprikose in die Hose,
Happy Birthday to you!
(http://www.cake-decorating-corner.com/images/pirate-ship-cake-21220712.jpg)
-
Thanks, Craig, tastiger, and Hanibal94 (yummy)!
-
(http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Dzub1cjo2yo/VBWlk1FxjrI/AAAAAAAAQVs/7Oj14CCIMcM/690088.gif) (http://www.lunapic.com/editor)
:-* ;D
-
Happy Birthday, Randi!!!
and Best Wishes for many, many more!!!
-
Congratulations on completing another orbit of the Sun - hopefully you'll manage a few more yet!
-
Have a truly happy and wonderful day Randi!
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/661/m5417u.jpg) (https://imageshack.com/i/idm5417uj)
Joan xx :-* :-*
(PS - firefox misbehaving so can't make this fun x font - quel domage!)
-
Happy birthday, Randi! I hope you're going to take a little time off to celebrate?
-
Happy Birthday, Randi!
-
To Randi on her 111th Birthday
Happy Birthday to our dear friend, Randi,
Whom we all think is really quite dandy.
Without further ado,
Our hope here for you,
Is that all your wishes come true!
:-* ;D
-
Thank you: Caro, Michael, Danny, Joan (good to see you!), Helen, jil, and Kathy!
-
Happy Birthday, Randi!
-
Thank you, Su ;D
-
Happy Birthday, etc, etc.
;D
-
My friend ... feet of water under the keel ...
-
Thanks Stuart and szukacz!
-
Randi
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear Raaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnndddddddddddddiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii,
Happy Birthday to you!
Hope it's a happy one and that you get lots of neat presents!
Hope also you get to share with family!
-
Thanks, Dean!
-
Happy birthday Randi!!! :) :) :)
-
Thanks, Matteo! :)
-
Something hilarious I heard about today:
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cXATFIOuYiM/VBbKgtV9PDI/AAAAAAACAzE/tmu_BVzXocc/s1600/10665871_10152757264598760_1482306940897293175_n.jpg)
Over
on the Cincinnati Reds Major League Baseball team, they run a
"Rookie Dress Up Day" where players dress up as the girliest thing they
can find. The above image is the result. I don't know if
Rainbow Dash is the best choice for girliest, but that is totally a pro
baseball player dressed up as a rainbow maned cartoon horse.
You can find it over on their Facebook page, 1.1 million followers and all!
-
;D ;D ;D
-
I'd say he and the guy next to him did a far better job that the three on the right!
-
I love that. :)
Attached picture came to me from my stepbrother.
Select the following line to see the answer.
Look at the picture upside down. :)
-
Artificial sweeteners may tip scales toward metabolic problems
(https://www.sciencenews.org/article/artificial-sweeteners-may-tip-scales-toward-metabolic-problems)
-
And
when seven healthy volunteers ate the Food and Drug Administration?s
maximum acceptable daily dose of saccharin for a week, four of them
developed off-kilter glucose metabolism . Transferring feces from these
four people into mice induced the same problems in the rodents,
suggesting that gut microbes were to blame.
This
is disturbing, Randi. However, I read in today's paper that the 7
people in the above group took for each day of the study the equivalent
amount of saccharin in 40 cans of soft drinks.
-
And
when seven healthy volunteers ate the Food and Drug Administration?s
maximum acceptable daily dose of saccharin for a week, four of them
developed off-kilter glucose metabolism . Transferring feces from these
four people into mice induced the same problems in the rodents,
suggesting that gut microbes were to blame.
This
is disturbing, Randi. However, I read in today's paper that the 7
people in the above group took for each day of the study the equivalent
amount of saccharin in 40 cans of soft drinks.
With
such small studies, they often put them at or over the outer edge of
real-life possible consumption. If nothing interesting turns up in
that high stress situation, the question "Is this safe?" is considered
answered "yes". If something alarming like this turns up, we need
to both do much more realistic tests and seriously question the FDA's
guideline maximums - those for sure have been proven defective.
I
personally find the only way to feel healthy regarding sweets is to try
to eliminate all processed sweeteners - white sugar, corn syrup and
saccharin all count in the category for me - outside of a few deserts
every week. (Gotta have sweets sometimes or I'd go crazy.)
Very hard to do with processed foods in a modern supermarket. I'm
glad I like the taste of honey.
-
For anyone in the UK - on R4s BBC Inside Science they've just
trailed something about the Penguin Project .... Ought to be
available later too.
-
Cool. :)
-
The 2014 Ig Noble Prizes, given for achievements that first make you
laugh and them make you think, have just been announced.
Here are the winners:
PHYSICS:
Kiyoshi Mabuchi, of Kitasato University, Japan, and colleagues, for
measuring the amount of friction between a shoe and a banana skin, and
between a banana skin and the floor, when a person steps on a banana
skin that's on the floor.
NEUROSCIENCE: Kang
Lee, of the University of Toronto, Canada, and colleagues for trying to
understand what happens in the brains of people who see the face of
Jesus in a piece of toast.
PSYCHOLOGY: Peter
Jonason, of the University of Western Sydney, Australia, and colleagues
for amassing evidence that people who habitually stay up late are, on
average, more self-admiring, more manipulative, and more psychopathic
than people who habitually arise early in the morning.
PUBLIC HEALTH:
Jaroslav Flegr, of Charles University, Czech Republic, and colleagues
for investigating whether it is mentally hazardous for a human being to
own a cat.
BIOLOGY: Vlastimil Hart, of the Czech
University of Life Sciences, and colleagues for carefully documenting
that when dogs defecate and urinate, they prefer to align their body
axis with Earth's north-south geomagnetic field lines.
ART:
Marina de Tommaso, of the University of Bari, Italy, and colleagues for
measuring the relative pain people suffer while looking at an ugly
painting, rather than a pretty painting, while being shot [in the hand]
by a powerful laser beam.
ECONOMICS: The Italian
government's National Institute of Statistics, for proudly taking the
lead in fulfilling the European Union mandate for each country to
increase the official size of its national economy by including revenues
from prostitution, illegal drug sales, smuggling, and all other
unlawful financial transactions between willing participants.
MEDICINE:
Ian Humphreys, of Michigan State University, US, and colleagues, for
treating "uncontrollable" nosebleeds, using the method of
nasal-packing-with-strips-of-cured-pork.
ARCTIC SCIENCE:
Eigil Reimers, of the University of Oslo, Norway, and colleagues, for
testing how reindeer react to seeing humans who are disguised as polar
bears.
NUTRITION: Raquel Rubio, of IRTA, Spain,
and colleagues, for their study titled "Characterization of Lactic Acid
Bacteria Isolated from Infant Faeces as Potential Probiotic Starter
Cultures for Fermented Sausages."
-
Whew Hanibal....'PUBLIC HEALTH: Jaroslav Flegr, of Charles
University, Czech Republic, and colleagues for investigating whether it
is mentally hazardous for a human being to own a cat.' that's edgy
science around here! A lot of ship's cats will be acting
super-well for the duration of that one! ;) ;D
-
The biology one is interesting - I've heard about it, and this
research is exciting because other animals use the earth's magnetic
fields for various sorts of orientation -
-
The
biology one is interesting - I've heard about it, and this research is
exciting because other animals use the earth's magnetic fields for
various sorts of orientation -
It
is thought that even cats use it - this is believed to be how some cats
that find themselves miles from home manage to get back weeks or months
later. As far as the Public Health one is concerned, anyone who
thinks they own a cat is delusional anyway. And I am now worried that I might be a psychopath because I am a night-owl!
-
"anyone who thinks they own a cat is delusional anyway"...well said! ::) ;) :D
-
Well said indeed! ;D
-
I especially like the Arctic Science one (although that may reflect
the reindeer obsession I picked up on the Bear!) and as for the
psychology one I'm typing this at 7:40 am local time ;)
-
Hello all, I'll be away for a bit from this evening. I move
house tomorrow, and don't know quite when I'll have internet access at
my new home. But as soon as I do, I'll be back!
-
Hope everything goes smoothly!
-
Have a good move, rest some, and then come and tell us about it? :)
-
Good luck with the move. I hope you have friends who will do the
heavy lifting. Were I there, I'd be glad to help, but... ;)
-
Good luck, Helen!
Greetings all, and a happy autumnal/vernal equinox to you. :)
-
(https://content-na.drive.amazonaws.com/cdproxy//templink/z625th2lSrjNn3A08y8GHdVEHTjjGN929UG3mERo1sgLAYspN?viewBox=1027)
-
Good luck with the move Helen! Hope all goes well and that rural Notts is a fine place to be. :-*
-
Google has a very funny logo today to celebrate autumn.
It's sooo hot outside today that I've come in for a break!
But
my juneberry bush is starting to do that north american wonderful red
leaves thing...and the grapes on the vine are finally ripe. The local
blackbird and robin are finishing them (and all the creepy crawlies in
them) off as a pre-winter feast.
-
Chicago is having what feels perfect for early autumn. The
Michigan orchards have finished with sending us seasonal peaches and
pears, and are now flooding our stores with dozens of different
colors/flavors of apples. Night temps are dropping down into the
40s but coming back up into the 60s and 70s during the day - warning
that the first frosts will be here shortly.
And our rainy
clouds have been blown away and we have bright blue sunny skies.
Perfect. Leaves are all still green though.
-
Just got some bargain peaches at the end of season..so it's peach
pickling tonight. Trying a Delia Smith recipe - never did pickled fruit
before, just chutneys, so I hope it works well. Tomorrow I'm doing
the sloe gin, and Thursday will be damson (bullace) something or
another (any suggestions?).
-
Google has a very funny logo today to celebrate autumn.
It's sooo hot outside today that I've come in for a break!
But
my juneberry bush is starting to do that north american wonderful red
leaves thing...and the grapes on the vine are finally ripe. The local
blackbird and robin are finishing them (and all the creepy crawlies in
them) off as a pre-winter feast.
Thanks
for reminding me about grapes Joan. I have a vine up the front of my
house which has been ignored due to building work. Today I have been
through and there are a few bunches worth bagging to prevent bird damage
as they ripen, so I have done that. Still some left for the birds. It
has been a good year for fruit. We have had loads of figs from the tree
on the other end of the house to the vine and the hedges are still full
of blackberries.
-
Tegwen! Long time no see - nice to hear from you. I'm jealous of
anyone who can get out for fruit (bad back etc etc) as it is a great
year. Glad you managed to salvage some grapes for yourself. I sat out
in the sun eating warm grapes today - heavenly. But real figs from
your own tree - yummmmmy. :P ;D
-
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/an-american-sculptors-masks-restored-french-soldiers-disfigured-in-world-war-i/2014/09/22/4748b8d4-38ec-11e4-9c9f-ebb47272e40e_story.html
A
friend sent me this - there is a link to her papers in the article -
some of the pictures are horrifying, but the work this and other artists
did was awesome!
-
What a wonderful way to help. The kind of thing only a very few people can do - most of us are not artists.
-
Thanks for posting Kathy. Fascinating film.
-
Yes, very impressive, Kathy.
-
Oh gosh - how wonderful Kathy - thanks for finding such a heart-warming and inspirational film.
-
For those of you running Unix or variants thereof (I use cygwin)
there is the Shellshock bash virus. The way to check if you're
vulnerable is:
I ran my "old" bash shell and got the "vulnerable" remark.
$ env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c "echo done running"
vulnerable
done running
$
I went to cygwin and updated my packages and when I ran the new shell and got this:
$ env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c "echo done running"
bash: warning: x: ignoring function definition attempt
bash: error importing function definition for `x'
done running
$
A word to the wise..
Michael
-
Good news, people - I have now finished another batch of exams, and
will be starting the third practical phase of my dual-studies course
tomorrow. It lasts until the end of the year.
While my average day will be longer than during classes, I will not have to do anything at home, so I can devote more time to OW.
Perhaps I can even sneak in a few transcriptions during lunch break if I eat fast enough ;)
I'm
going to focus on finishing my part on the Unalga - then I can think of
2014 as the year I started with unfinished business on three ships
(Bear, Pioneer, Unalga) and finished with all of them done and off my
list.
Not sure where I'll go after that - maybe the Perry? Or the Patterson?
Meh, I'll figure something out when the time comes.
-
Good news indeed!
Sounds like a good system.
-
I like the way you organize, Hanibal. :)
-
Not sure where I'll go after that - maybe the Perry? Or the Patterson?
Meh, I'll figure something out when the time comes.
You
could join Stuart, JMayJ and I on the Concord and help us bring peace,
order and good government to the ungrateful people in the
Philippines. ;)
-
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html)
Not astronomy this time, but flat out gorgeous.
(http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1409/fullrainbow_leonhardt_960.jpg)
-
Ooooooo!
-
Not sure where I'll go after that - maybe the Perry? Or the Patterson?
Meh, I'll figure something out when the time comes.
You
could join Stuart, JMayJ and I on the Concord and help us bring peace,
order and good government to the ungrateful people in the
Philippines. ;)
Well, the Concord is rather large and always has 24 WR/day. Not really my type of ship.
I
like the Arctic better - the data is more useful to the scientists, and
with a bit of luck I might encounter another case of my ship bringing
Siberian reindeer to the grateful people.
-
The Concord does have a lot of log books, that is why we need speedy fingers. %^)
With no split in the logs it is going to take a long time for data to get to the boffins.
Any help appreciated from anybody anytime.
-
The Concord does have a lot of log books, that is why we need speedy fingers. %^)
With no split in the logs it is going to take a long time for data to get to the boffins.
Any help appreciated from anybody anytime.
I'll keep that in mind, Stuart. Thanks.
But as I said, I believe the boffins want Arctic data more than Phillipine data, so I'm gonna focus on giving them Arctic data.
Plus, there's already three active transcribers on the Concord, so I could run into issues with leapfrogging.
And
I also know you and Michael have put a lot of effort into the Concord's
crew lists, and I don't wanna ruin that by causing gaps in your
streams.
-
You are right, we do seem to spend a lot of time in the Philippine Ids.
I skipped ahead looking at a few log books and we are still there with only a few short excursions elsewhere.
This could turn into a long waste of out time.
Can we have a researchers comment on whether the amount of time we spend to report P.I. weather is worth it?
-
I will ask, but since we did RN ships and they weren't in the Arctic I assume that we do want the Philippines.
-
Just in case you didn't get the email: We Need Your Help: Vote for the Zooniverse!
Hello,
The
Zooniverse is part of a competition to receive a grant to fund an
entirely new type of crowdsourcing project, and now we need your help to
make it happen!
Mazda are running the competition on their
?Mazda Rebels?
[https://www.mazdarebels.com/en-gb/content/four-inspiring-ted-fellows-one-mazda-grant/]
website. The Zooniverse is in the running and, if we win, we plan to
use the Mazda grant to create a Zooniverse ?First Responders? program.
The aim is to use the power of the Zooniverse to help during a major
humanitarian crisis, such as a future natural disaster. Together we've
made major contributions to scientific research, from marking bubbles in
the Milky Way to marking giraffes in the Serengeti. We think exploring
and tagging images taken by satellites, and from the air, could provide
similarly useful results in an humanitarian crisis, assisting
organisations and first responders on the ground, who need more accurate
information about where help is needed.
This is something we've
been working on for a while, in an effort led by Galaxy Zoo researcher
Brooke Simmons, and now we're ready to give it a try. As a global
community coming together during a crisis, the Zooniverse could provide
rapid assistance and even, possibly, save lives.
The competition
itself
[https://www.mazdarebels.com/en-gb/content/four-inspiring-ted-fellows-one-mazda-grant/]
features our own Robert Simpson in a short video
[https://www.mazdarebels.com/en-gb/content/the-astronomer/] outlining
what we do at the Zooniverse and highlighting some different projects
(you might also spot Galaxy Zoo scientist Brooke Simmons in her other
capacity as a Zooniverse volunteer!). It?s a great video, and Rob - who
is a TED Fellow this year - is up against four other TED Fellows, who
each have their own projects. There is a public vote to determine who
gets the grant, and there are only two weeks left to vote.
If
you?re interested, go and watch the videos and vote for your favourite
project at
https://www.mazdarebels.com/en-gb/content/four-inspiring-ted-fellows-one-mazda-grant
Thanks,
Grant and the Zooniverse Team
-
I'd be happy to vote, but I can't figure out how, unless you need facebook, which I don't have...
-
https://www.mazdarebels.com/en-gb/content/four-inspiring-ted-fellows-one-mazda-grant/
You
need to sign in with a username and password - or sign in thru facebook
of twitter or a couple of others if you prefer. Though I think I
cannot repeat my vote since I no longer get a chance to support a
project, just see the results to date. (We are winning, but far
from the end still - 47% to 28, 22, 1. Thirteen days still to go.
-
I used my google account.
Be sure you see the results.
I 'voted' last night, but I didn't get the results page.
This morning, just to test, I tried to vote and this time it seems to have registered because I now see the results to date.
I just closed the tab and opened the link again and I see the results to date.
-
Just voted.
Rob has an advantage in that there are a lot of Zooniverse members out there! He is on 49% now.
-
There are precious few places where we don't need more observations
(at least before about 1950). We do need the Philippines please - the
station record for that part of the world is pretty sparse (see
https://vimeo.com/105244037) there are times when Concord was there and
we've got only Manilla or nothing at all - we don't get to the point
where we've got plenty of coverage until about 1954.
You are right, we do seem to spend a lot of time in the Philippine Ids.
I skipped ahead looking at a few log books and we are still there with only a few short excursions elsewhere.
This could turn into a long waste of out time.
Can we have a researchers comment on whether the amount of time we spend to report P.I. weather is worth it?
-
Thanks, Philip. :)
-
Yeah, thanks. Maybe I will join the Concord and visit the Phillipines after all some day - but first, I must finish the Unalga.
-
Finally! Not the easiest website, but after getting an account and
signing out and then back in I got to vote. 51%, 25%, 21% and 1%.
-
;D
-
I have some information some people might find usefull:
While
attending a league of WW I aviation Historians seminar and the dawn
patrol rodevous I attended a lecture by Jenns Robertson who put
theTheater History of Operations Reports THOR on line
see://afri,au.af.mil/thor/ It is a listing of US bombing reports from WW
I and other wars online good news they contain weather data bad news I
can't seem to get to them. May be someone with some better computer
skills can.
reply 8637 besides Chinese laborers the British
brought in laborers from the West Indies and Africa to work in France.
They also brought in large numbers of Indian laborers to work in
Mesopotamia. The French also brought in large numbers of laborers from
Indochina and Africa to work there. The Germans, Austrians, and Russians
all used POWs as laborers on a large scale as did the British and
French to a lessor extent. lets just say WW I was a very labor intense
war the equipment that was around in later wars was not around back then
so a whole lot of work had to be done by hand
-
Just voted.
Rob has an advantage in that there are a lot of Zooniverse members out there! He is on 49% now.
I
was very happy to vote for the Zooniverse project - it's a really
worthwhile cause. But I wish they could support two projects,
because the opthalmology one seemed like it would also be very
beneficial.
-
Hello everyone - at last I'm back! It took a lot longer than
I'd been promised to get my broadband up and running, but this morning
it finally happened. So once I've caught up with the forum (four
pages of unread topics!) I'll be back on Pioneer - where I see Craig is
snapping at my first lieutenant's heels. I suspect I'm doomed to
slide down the ranks ....
-
Welcome back, Helen!
I was just thinking of you this morning!
Are you settled in your new home?
-
Hi Helen. I hope you are happy in your pretty house. :)
-
Thanks Randi and Caro - yes, I'm getting settled in nicely.
Nearly all the boxes are empty (though I still have to get rid of the
boxes themselves) and I've recycled all the bottles left behind by the
previous tenant! Now I need to get to grips with the garden, which
has got rather out of hand. As I know nothing at all about
gardening this is a bit daunting. However today I got out and
swept up leaves which is the gardening equivalent of dusting, and not
beyond my skills.
-
Hi again. Which part of the country are you in now and are you a curate or with other Franciscans.
Apart from the Broadband I hope the rest of the move went well and you enjoy your new home.
-
I'm in Nottinghamshire - still as a curate and not living with other
Franciscans (though rather closer to a couple of our houses than
before).
Yes, the move went pretty well - except for the bed base
which wouldn't go up the stairs. So I spent a week or so sleeping
on the mattress on the floor until I managed to find a flat pack metal
bed base which I got up the stairs in pieces and then put
together. And so far it's doing OK - though I confess I slept a
bit cautiously the first night, just in case I hadn't put it together
right. And I've managed to find a charity who can use the bed base
too, so it's all working out OK.
It's a lovely house, and my
neighbours are friendly. It's also close to a lot of lovely walks -
in Sherwood Forest no less.
-
Welcome back, Helen! Great to hear your move went well, and you finally got your connection set up.
It'll
be nice to have you actively working on the Pioneer again - Craig's
made excellent progress, but the third stream could use a lot more help.
-
Glad the move went well, Helen. Hope you will be very happy in your new home!
-
I have some information some people might find useful:
While
attending a league of WW I aviation Historians seminar and the dawn
patrol rodevous, I attended a lecture by Jenns Robertson who put the
Theater History of Operations Reports THOR on line
see://afri,au.af.mil/thor/ It is a listing of US bombing reports from WW
I and other wars online good news they contain weather data bad news I
can't seem to get to them. May be someone with some better computer
skills can.
This is the link that works: http://afri.au.af.mil/thor/report.asp
I
was trying to see what our seaplanes were doing, but there seems to be a
problem with the site. I can't get a report because their Captcha
is always "incorrect". Maybe someone else will be luckier.
-
I'm glad you are settled in an area you really like. Welcome back!! :)
I'm
in Nottinghamshire - still as a curate and not living with other
Franciscans (though rather closer to a couple of our houses than
before).
Yes, the move went pretty well - except for the bed base
which wouldn't go up the stairs. So I spent a week or so sleeping
on the mattress on the floor until I managed to find a flat pack metal
bed base which I got up the stairs in pieces and then put
together. And so far it's doing OK - though I confess I slept a
bit cautiously the first night, just in case I hadn't put it together
right. And I've managed to find a charity who can use the bed base
too, so it's all working out OK.
It's a lovely house, and my
neighbours are friendly. It's also close to a lot of lovely walks -
in Sherwood Forest no less.
-
Captcha didn't work for me either.
-
Helen J,
Sorry I missed you on my trip.
Seems Joan is back in the land of the living again. %^)
Do you have a village to move you into on the map.
Stuart.
-
Enjoy getting to know your new congregation. It is good to have you back.
-
Enjoy getting to know your new congregation. It is good to have you back.
;D ;D ;D
-
I am glad you're back, Helen. It's been pretty quiet on the Pioneer.
You will be enjoying the nice warm Honolulu weather before long.
;D
-
Helen J,
Sorry I missed you on my trip.
Seems Joan is back in the land of the living again. %^)
Do you have a village to move you into on the map.
Stuart.
Yes,
it was a shame we didn't get to meet up. You could move me to
Edwinstowe if you can find it on the map - it's not quite where I am but
probably the nearest place you'll find. If Edwinstowe can't be
found, you could put me in Ollerton, which isn't far away either.
-
Helen J,
Sorry I missed you on my trip.
Seems Joan is back in the land of the living again. %^)
Do you have a village to move you into on the map.
Stuart.
Yes,
it was a shame we didn't get to meet up. You could move me to
Edwinstowe if you can find it on the map - it's not quite where I am but
probably the nearest place you'll find. If Edwinstowe can't be
found, you could put me in Ollerton, which isn't far away either.
Welcome
to my home part of the world Helen. My parents lived in Edingly for
many years and I know Edwinstowe, Ollerton & surrounds very well.
Now sadly a fair distance away and no direct family ties still in the
area.
-
I'm
in Nottinghamshire - still as a curate and not living with other
Franciscans (though rather closer to a couple of our houses than
before).
Yes, the move went pretty well - except for the bed base
which wouldn't go up the stairs. So I spent a week or so sleeping
on the mattress on the floor until I managed to find a flat pack metal
bed base which I got up the stairs in pieces and then put
together. And so far it's doing OK - though I confess I slept a
bit cautiously the first night, just in case I hadn't put it together
right. And I've managed to find a charity who can use the bed base
too, so it's all working out OK.
It's a lovely house, and my
neighbours are friendly. It's also close to a lot of lovely walks -
in Sherwood Forest no less.
So
glad that you have good neighbours! They make the world go around for
sure. And glad to hear that you conquered making the bed
(literally). I hope you settle in well with the local
congregation. I'm sure you will. :D :D
PS - I see
that Edwinstowe is the 'home' of Robin Hood...don't go buying dodgy
venison from men in green tights...could lead to trouble ;) ;D
-
Thank you everyone. Next Sunday I start in the parish, with a
licensing service and general jollity. I'm looking forward to
getting started and seeing what's the same as in my previous parish, and
what's different.
-
(A bit late but) Welcome home Helen!
-
Thank you jil! It's good to be back on the good ship Pioneer.
-
Yes,
it was a shame we didn't get to meet up. You could move me to
Edwinstowe if you can find it on the map - it's not quite where I am but
probably the nearest place you'll find. If Edwinstowe can't be
found, you could put me in Ollerton, which isn't far away either.
Helen, is that your church in the middle of the roundabout?
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Paulinus_Church_New_Ollerton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_113226.jpg
(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Paulinus_Church_New_Ollerton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_113226.jpg)
-
Yes,
it was a shame we didn't get to meet up. You could move me to
Edwinstowe if you can find it on the map - it's not quite where I am but
probably the nearest place you'll find. If Edwinstowe can't be
found, you could put me in Ollerton, which isn't far away either.
Helen, is that your church in the middle of the roundabout?
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Paulinus_Church_New_Ollerton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_113226.jpg
(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Paulinus_Church_New_Ollerton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_113226.jpg)
Oooo, looks historic! :D
-
No, New Ollerton is the next door parish - the church which is one
of 'mine' which you're most likely to find is St Mary's Edwinstowe -
where (according to legend!) Robin Hood and Maid Marian were
married. Here's a link to a picture:
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/237723
I
suspect St Paulinus isn't especially historic, as New Ollerton isn't a
particularly old place (unlike Old Ollerton which as the name suggests
has some history).
-
That is so cool. ;D
-
That is so cool. ;D
And some what more spectacular.
Well done Helen and good luck.
-
I
suspect St Paulinus isn't especially historic, as New Ollerton isn't a
particularly old place (unlike Old Ollerton which as the name suggests
has some history).
Built 1931, so certainly not that old!
I
think the big hint is that it's made of bricks - I'm not sure I've seen
any UK church over a century old which was brick-built.
-
I
think the big hint is that it's made of bricks - I'm not sure I've seen
any UK church over a century old which was brick-built.
Thanks for that bit of information 8)
I like it. The sign stands out like a sore thumb though :(
-
I like it. The sign stands out like a sore thumb though :(
I suppose if you're in the middle of a roundabout, there's no point being subtle!
-
Yes but you can draw a crowd from all around you.
-
Good morning etc OW. Wild autumnal weather here for the week by the sound of it.
-
Indeed - heavy rain here this morning. And by chance I finally
got back to my Hebrew practice - in the middle of the flood
story! Seemed rather apt as the rain poured down outside.
:D
-
The west of Scotland is much the same, although it has eased now.
Would you believe, Helen, I'm back doing Coptic and the current passage
is Father Macarius and the Devil, not quite so germane but an exposure
to a very different mind set.
-
I
suspect St Paulinus isn't especially historic, as New Ollerton isn't a
particularly old place (unlike Old Ollerton which as the name suggests
has some history).
Built 1931, so certainly not that old!
I
think the big hint is that it's made of bricks - I'm not sure I've seen
any UK church over a century old which was brick-built.
1931
in your area is positively MODERN! ;) Similar to my home church
which was built in 1928. http://www.lockportemmanuelumc.org/
:D
-
Definitely - less than a century old is undoubtedly pretty modern in
this country. Though from a book which I happened to be looking
at this afternoon, there are a lot of them around in this part of the
world. Most were built for new communities - there's one in my
patch built in the late 1920s when a new coal mine opened up (now of
course closed ....) It has a large piece of coal in one of the
aisles, as a reminder of its origins.
-
Here is fun idea: http://mars.nasa.gov/participate/send-your-name/orion-first-flight/index.cfm
Send your name to Mars
With your Boarding Pass,
your name will fly on
ORION'S FLIGHT TEST
~ Dec. 4-6, 2014
Frequent Flyer points earned
for flights taken on NASA's #JourneyToMars.
-
I had flown ;D
-
Frequent flyer points? Erm - do they do upgrades to business class
as well please? My friends has long legs, can we book seats by the exit
doors? ;D
-
And do we get drinks as well? Or in-flight meals? How about a movie or two?
-
Hello OW.
Amazing stuff
(http://petapixel.com/2014/10/10/3d-printed-telescope-takes-lumia-smartphone-astrophotography-citizen-science/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=buffer&utm_content=buffer2072c).
-
Hi Liz. Nice to see you here again. ;)
-
Hi Liz. Nice to see you here again. ;)
;D Thanks!
-
Um..terrible secret, in a few too-tired to do OW moments I decided
to check out the PenguinWatch thing (sorry Hanibal94!). And saw this
photo:
http://zooniverse-static.s3.amazonaws.com/www.penguinwatch.org/subjects/standard/54119d5912fc4d79f30396f1.JPG
(http://zooniverse-static.s3.amazonaws.com/www.penguinwatch.org/subjects/standard/54119d5912fc4d79f30396f1.JPG)
Blew
my mind. Penguin/Human Bean stand off. I can just hear the adult pengs
telling the chicks "OK kids, if you dress like that you can forget
catching fish...they'll spot you a mile off!" :) :)
Back to the sober (well perhaps not so when in port) Patterson.
-
;D
-
Absolutely
;D ;D
-
Very nice photo. Thanks for sharing .... wait just a minute. You were working on a DIFFERENT project!?
BAD JOAN! No dessert for you tonight!
-
;D ;D ;D
-
Sorry! I could spin you some yarn about knowing what the enemy camp is up to...but I'll just sit in the corner and only dream of apple crumble instead. ;)
-
Corners are reserved for eating Christmas pies, Joan ;D
-
Sorry! I could spin you some yarn about knowing what the enemy camp is up to...but I'll just sit in the corner and only dream of apple crumble instead. ;)
Corners are reserved for eating Christmas pies, Joan ;D
;D ;D ;D
-
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-2mWx4dMWaHs/VDo-srgD4OI/AAAAAAAABFo/E4U16wHr_vs/w629-h434-no/Happy%2BBirthday%2BOW.JPG)
We are 4 years old today, which is very nice. :)
-
8) Happy Birthday to us
Another excuse for cake :)
-
Excuses for cake are always very very welcome! :D
Wow ... four whole years already. That's awesome.
I
can't believe it's already been so long since I first signed up (OK,
not quite - I joined between 1 and 2 weeks after OW's first launch)...
and ruined my first transcriptions on HMS Bee by not reading the
tutorial carefully (I later went back and fixed them).
I've come a
very long way since then, and I look forward to the project continuing
for many years. I hope you can all stay too - don't want any more losses
such as Cyzaki, jennfurr, pliget, heb29 or Bunting Tosser. Sure wish
they were here.
-
Well put! ;D
-
Happy 4th birthday
to the good ship Old Weather!
:)
-
;D ;D ;D Well four years HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! You all do good work. Here's to FOUR more!
-
Four more, or FORTY more!
May we all be here, well, and still editing/transcribing and may all your pages be readable! ;)
-
Please get the logs scanned before the ink fades any further - I
don't think my eyes will be up to even the current logs in 40 years time
although I hope to be able to read the congratulations from the
Palace!! But I agree with Hanibal, I miss some of our absent friends and
hope they are well.
-
Happy 'Yorkshire Pudding Day' (13 Oct 2014)
and also
'Native American day'
-
Yorkshire pudding day....bliss! That's dinner sorted out for tomorrow...
-
It's Thanksgiving Day in Canada on Oct 13, and Columbus day in the
US. We're eating our traditional turkey today, though (visitors and
their schedules). Two years ago we discovered, thanks to a demanding
child in her 30s, that Yorkshire Puddings are EVEN MORE FABULOUS when
made with turkey drippings instead of using roast beef. So, as you can
see, we get to celebrate both days at the same time! Turkey,
gravy, mashed potatoes, Yorkshire Puddings!!!:) :) :) :) :)
I'll probably have to see a cardiologist once all the leftovers have been eaten.
-
Since so many Canadians do their Thanksgiving over a couple of days, I'll post this now. Happy Harvest Home, Canada!!
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-8GA5_CC6me0/VDpAYYUfUKI/AAAAAAAABLE/aTFD4JjKcQ0/w714-h478-no/Thanksgiving%2BCanadian.GIF)
-
Thanks, Janet. We have a lot to be thankful for and contributing to OW is one way to give thanks.
-
Thanks, Janet. We have a lot to be thankful for and contributing to OW is one way to give thanks.
;D ;D ;D ;D
Happy Thanksgiving to my Canadian friends!!
For my US friends Happy Columbus day. (My Students used to call it 'Happy Clumsy Day!') ;)
-
For my US friends Happy Columbus day. (My Students used to call it 'Happy Clumsy Day!') ;)
Thanks,
but no thanks. I refuse to celebrate Columbus Day because I believe he
was a greedy scumbag who deserves to be remembered with nothing but
scorn for what he did to the Arawaks.
For more information, google "the oatmeal columbus was awful" and see what pops up.
-
Ok, Hanibal, what do you think of
'Ada Lovelace day' (14 Sept)
Pick the 0's and 1's out of that. :P ;D
-
Harvest Home - I used to really like the harvest home service at church - belting out the words to the hymns. :D
(Even tried making a sheaf loaf - sadly it was awful - blobbed out and hard as a rock :-[ :'()
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/538/2PuNJz.jpg)
-
Happy 4th birthday
to the good ship Old Weather!
:)
oh wow! I just can't picture life without it...sail on for many more years OW.
-
Yes indeed, Joan. As DZM, our new Zooniverse Community Staff member,
says, it's great that 'the Zooniverse can succeed in the humanities as
well as in the scientific realms'. :)
-
Harvest Home - I used to really like the harvest home service at church - belting out the words to the hymns. :D
(Even tried making a sheaf loaf - sadly it was awful - blobbed out and hard as a rock :-[ :'()
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/538/2PuNJz.jpg)
Looks good though. Doesn't look easy to set up pre-oven.
-
Makes a fabulous Thanksgiving decoration - which is not entirely a bad thing.
-
Harvest Home - I used to really like the harvest home service at church - belting out the words to the hymns. :D
(Even tried making a sheaf loaf - sadly it was awful - blobbed out and hard as a rock :-[ :'()
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/538/2PuNJz.jpg)
;D Oh dear! Sorry to here that but I must say it looks awesome. It looks as if was hard work.
-
Ok, Hanibal, what do you think of
'Ada Lovelace day' (14 Sept)
Pick the 0's and 1's out of that. :P ;D
That sounds pretty 0111 1111 1111 0100 ;) (see attachment if you can't work it out)
Definitely a lot better than Columbus Day!
Harvest Home - I used to really like the harvest home service at church - belting out the words to the hymns. :D
(Even tried making a sheaf loaf - sadly it was awful - blobbed out and hard as a rock :-[ :'()
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/538/2PuNJz.jpg)
That's a pity - it does look really well done, especially the bushels.
-
It took me a bit, but I got it ;D
-
"That sounds pretty 0111 1111 1111 0100 ;) (see attachment if you can't work it out)"
54 68 61 6E 73
-
OK Stuart, you win. I tried everything I could think of - binary, octal, decimal - but it was all for naught.
Could you please reveal your secret?
-
PM it to him rather than posting it - I may be crazy enough to try to solve it ::)
-
"That sounds pretty 0111 1111 1111 0100 ;) (see attachment if you can't work it out)"
54 68 61 6E 73
Shouldn't that be 54 68 61 6E 6B 73 3F
-
You are correct, Michael - Stuart did misspell it.
For those
of you who couldn't figure it out: each of those numbers is a
hexadecimal number, and each one represents an ASCII character. Use
Google to find out more - I'm not gonna give everything away.
-
Your correct Michael, I forgot one letter the 6e (Sorry, silly me)
Thanks for picking it up. %^)
-
I'm going to take up sanscrit.....that'll fool you all.....and me too.... ;) ;D
-
Maybe it would help with the log books ;D
-
;D
-
I saw this in the logs, and thought, this is us. Optical Character
Recognition Lite! If it won't do US Navy logs, it will probably have
issues with Sanscrit...
-
I'm going to take up sanscrit.....that'll fool you all.....and me too.... ;) ;D
I'm impressed! :D
-
I'm going to take up sanscrit.....that'll fool you all.....and me too.... ;) ;D
Hi Joan.
You could start here.
http://spokensanskrit.de/index.php
विगम
-
How do you get Sanskrit to print in the forum when it won't print English pound signs?
-
Cut & paste.
? = alt 156 (Hold down Alt and on the numpad type 156, release Alt)
-
Hold down Alt and on the numpad type 156, release Alt - that works
--- until you save it and it is converted to a question mark ::)
-
This is a ? (pound, which is on my keyboard) and this is a ? (euro, also on my keyboard). ;D
-
So it is, I did check on preview not on post. %^(
Not having a good day on the forum, this is the second problem in one day.
:'(
-
Not to worry Stuart. ;)
It happens to all of us: it works in Preview but not in Post.
-
I'm going to take up sanscrit.....that'll fool you all.....and me too.... ;) ;D
Hi Joan.
You could start here.
http://spokensanskrit.de/index.php
विगम
Oh go one then Stuart - I'll take the bite - what does the sanskrit mean? (I think I'm a lesson behind you ;))
J
-
विगम
says something like
farewell, goodbye, end, exit
-
Giant kangaroos 'walked on two feet' (http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29603578)
-
Ancient Greek shipwreck found to be world?s largest
(https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-greek-shipwreck-found-be-world%E2%80%99s-largest)
-
Wow! That's pretty neat - just don't ask me to transcribe those logs! ;D
-
विगम
says something like
farewell, goodbye, end, exit
That's close enough for me...I won't challenge you for it :)
-
I'm on a mailing list for retired Environment Canada meteorologists
and I sent the link to Kathy's interview about Old Weather, and a note
about my experiences on this project along with links to the Old Weather
home page. I hope this might get us a few new converts.
-
Super !
-
Great work, Michael. :)
And in case you missed this tweet from WBEZ Chicago, hidden in one of my posts:
The Afternoon Shift @WBEZafternoon
One of @the_zooniverse projects needs your help to digitize 19th century ships logs: http://www.oldweather.org
-
Great, Michael!! Thanks. :)
-
Hello Liz, Randi, guests. :)
-
Hello Caro!
-
;D Good day Caro
-
Good morning/afternoon everyone.
Yesterday I listened to this
interesting interview http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/2014/10/18/2014-10-18-5/
about an oceanographer who is trying to set up a citizen science
program to gather water samples from the world's oceans. We know, of
course, that there is already a huge amount of information being
gathered but he says there are still large gaps. He is appealing
to amateur sailors to gather these samples.
I don't know if he
is interested in Lake Ontario, Dean, but you may want to follow this
project to find out. He is now working on an inexpensive instrument that
will assist sailors to take the samples. Here is a description of a
voyage he took in the Indian Ocean to test the concept.
http://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/our-research/ithree-institute/news/crowdsourcing-and-citizen-oceanography.
-
Craig:
Took a quick look at the second web site. It looks
like oceans but I WILL follow up and see if they are interested in the
lakes - and at least leave him a name and a contact for OW.
-
The latest ship to be restored - M33, a monitor who took part in the
Gallipoli campaign. An interesting comment "the role of the Navy in WW1
deserves to be better known". Well some of us are doing our bit.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-29680915
-
Hello OW.
Apparently this is CAPS LOCK DAY.
"Caps
Lock Day campaigns for the removal of the caps lock button from standard
QWERTY keyboards (or for the moving of the button), due to people
continually accidently pressing the button when they mean to use other
keys. There's also a tendency for people to 'shout' (either
intentionally or accidently) by using capital letters when typing,
especially online, and Caps Lock Day would remove this minor annoyance."
Just so you know. :)
-
That's a good idea, Caro. I am waiting for Escape day. That offers more possibilities ;D
-
Gotta admit, I don't see the point of CAPS LOCK DAY. I almost never hit it by mistake.
And it wouldn't get rid of SHOUTING online either. People could just use the Shift key to do that.
-
I'm still looking for the 'ANY' key -- as in 'Hit any key to continue.' ;)
-
When I was working for money, so many years ago, (unlike now when
I'm just working for nothing - hint hint) we were told to use "Press any
key to continue" in any code we wrote. I suppose some frustrated user
took the instruction "Hit" too literally. ;D
-
You are maybe too young to remember about typewriters Hanibal?
The
Caps Lock was quite useful indeed in those times, since keeping the
shift pressed would have destroyed your fingers after a few strokes, or
at least hindered a lot your progress.
It has been therefore placed
on electrical typewriters and then on computer keyboards, otherwise
every experienced typist (those who use all 10 fingers to type) would
have had problem getting used to its absence.
There it is nowadays... and it's effectively pretty useless by now.
If
you want to get rid of it and have you no fear of damaging your
keyboard, you can remove screws, carefully take out the plastic jumper
under the caps lock key (normally it is not glued or otherwise attached
to the keyboard, it's just a little rubber cup) and voila'... your caps
lock will cease functioning (remaining off wathever you do on the key).
-
You are maybe too young to remember about typewriters Hanibal?
The
Caps Lock was quite useful indeed in those times, since keeping the
shift pressed would have destroyed your fingers after a few strokes, or
at least hindered a lot your progress.
It has been therefore placed
on electrical typewriters and then on computer keyboards, otherwise
every experienced typist (those who use all 10 fingers to type) would
have had problem getting used to its absence.
There it is nowadays... and it's effectively pretty useless by now.
If
you want to get rid of it and have you no fear of damaging your
keyboard, you can remove screws, carefully take out the plastic jumper
under the caps lock key (normally it is not glued or otherwise attached
to the keyboard, it's just a little rubber cup) and voila'... your caps
lock will cease functioning (remaining off wathever you do on the key).
You could just remap it to something more useful to you.
http://johnhaller.com/useful-stuff/disable-caps-lock
or
http://johnhaller.com/useful-stuff/billy-mays-caps-lock
Enjoy.
-
Shame they couldn't just figure out how to rewire it to be a hot key one-touch ditto mark. :)
I'm
old enough, I still use it as a cap lock and would be irritated if it
wasn't there. Using formatting to convert to all caps feels too
much like work.
-
Shame they couldn't just figure out how to rewire it to be a hot key one-touch ditto mark. :)
I'm
old enough, I still use it as a cap lock and would be irritated if it
wasn't there. Using formatting to convert to all caps feels too
much like work.
This
utility will work (I have just tried it today) I go tab to the
cell then the caps lock to put in " then tab to the next cell etc.
%^)
Download KeyExtender 3.99 (http://download.cnet.com/KeyExtender/3000-2094_4-10639828.html)
There is a trick in getting the " to work, as is it gives the ' mark. You have to click the the button with the two dots in it,
Step 1
in the Set box click down arrow and select Caps lock
Step 2
Click the two dot button and select TypeText, in the box that appears type "
Step 3
Click OK to close box
Step 4
click Reset.
All done. %^)
To reset all keys to normal click Reset all
Maybe
I should re program it to enter 'At anchor Manila, Philippine
Ids.' we are there for the next year of so. :(
-
For those interested in Arctic Ice. This article is from my Cruising World Magazine.
Caro was kind enough to post it on her Google drive as it's too big for me to share here.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_HS6UI83kHzMXpHU3NSOXdsdl9YZXFPLXpNaV9fVXNITXc0/view?usp=sharing
Thanks, Caro!!
-
:o
They had better have the passage open next August or I will be very disappointing.
:'(
-
You are maybe too young to remember about typewriters Hanibal?
The
Caps Lock was quite useful indeed in those times, since keeping the
shift pressed would have destroyed your fingers after a few strokes, or
at least hindered a lot your progress.
It has been therefore placed
on electrical typewriters and then on computer keyboards, otherwise
every experienced typist (those who use all 10 fingers to type) would
have had problem getting used to its absence.
There it is nowadays... and it's effectively pretty useless by now.
If
you want to get rid of it and have you no fear of damaging your
keyboard, you can remove screws, carefully take out the plastic jumper
under the caps lock key (normally it is not glued or otherwise attached
to the keyboard, it's just a little rubber cup) and voila'... your caps
lock will cease functioning (remaining off wathever you do on the key).
Yes, I am too young to remember typewriters - or use them.
But
I wasn't confused about the Caps Lock key. I was confused about why
people don't like it and want to turn it off, because I almost never hit
it by mistake - and even when I do, I notice and correct it
immediately.
And it's not useless either - in some programming
languages, certain variables are supposed to be written entirely in
capitals, and these variables can have ten letters or more.
So I for one would miss it - but given that keyboards are designed and made by geeks, this is extremely unlikely in my opinion.
-
Almost everything about the keyboard layout is designed to suit
manual typewriters that became obsolete decades ago - because
experienced typists won't purchase them if their fingers are trained to
hit what would now be the wrong keys. I suspect that since code
writers also use the cap lock key, all complaints about it will be in
vain. Don't worry too much. :)
-
Almost
everything about the keyboard layout is designed to suit manual
typewriters that became obsolete decades ago - because experienced
typists won't purchase them if their fingers are trained to hit what
would now be the wrong keys. I suspect that since code writers
also use the cap lock key, all complaints about it will be in
vain. Don't worry too much. :)
LOL
Did you say obsolete decades ago? Oh my! I did not know! How many
decades ago? Since I learned to type on a manual. ::)
Years ago! so explain to me in simple easy to understand why the cap
lock key is of no use? I really want to know.
-
Yes, they exist and are used - they don't understand the idea of
planned obsolescence, which makes them awesome machines. But when
was the last manual typewriter manufactured in the US? My mother
insisted I take a typing course in high school 50 years ago, and they
insisted that all students learn both the manual and electric models,
because they'd need the electric working for any business.
Last
Typewriter Factory in the World Shuts Its Doors
(http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/04/last-typewriter-factory-in-the-world-shuts-its-doors/237838/)
And
there is a specialty store that sells new, but it must be googled for -
it is in their "portable electronics" category but not on the catalog
list.
HAMMACHER SCHLEMMER Home Electronics Portable
Electronics
(http://www.hammacher.com/Product/Default.aspx?sku=84295&refsku=82670)
I
must say, if you want a machine that virtually never needs to go to a
repair shop, just learn how to clean and keep a manual typewriter.
They last forever.
-
I still have mine somewhere (a gift from my parents)... I'd maybe
have some difficulties on finding ribbons, but it's still fully
functional ;D
in some programming languages, certain variables are supposed to be written entirely in capitals
Just
if you're referring to naming convention for constants in C/C++, Java
and other modern languages (i think i've never used caps lock for those
however, and i can assure you i've written a lot of lines of code in 20
years or so on a pc keyboard).
If you refer to Fortran and Cobol instead, they're almost as obsolete as typewriters ;D
What
can be annoying if you're experienced and look just the sceen while
typing, is when you're passing from the shift to the tab key (or go a
little long on the left while trying to type an 'a' ) and sUDDENLY yOU
sTART vIEWING yOUR tEXT aS sUCH ;D :P
Giving that force is no
more required to type, to keep the shift key pressed while typing is not
difficult when text is not so long... i think i've used the caps lock
for an Unalga I/II page in which the logkeeper was writing all his
watches capitalized.
Yes it's not an useless key, but far less useful than when the only alternative to handwriting was a typewriter.
-
I
still have mine somewhere (a gift from my parents)... I'd maybe have
some difficulties on finding ribbons, but it's still fully functional ;D
in some programming languages, certain variables are supposed to be written entirely in capitals
Just
if you're referring to naming convention for constants in C/C++, Java
and other modern languages (i think i've never used caps lock for those
however, and i can assure you i've written a lot of lines of code in 20
years or so on a pc keyboard).
If you refer to Fortran and Cobol instead, they're almost as obsolete as typewriters ;D
And I dare say I don't use many constant names over 10 characters long, so typing them is hardly a chore!
As
obsolete as Fortran may be, it is inexplicably still one of the
languages of choice in my line of work, as people still cling onto
whatever tiny speed boost it gives over C. For bonus irony, anything
that we decide doesn't have to be done in Fortran is written in Python,
which is about as slow as you can get.
(I mostly miss my days of using gcc, and hacking in Assembly when that was too slow...)
-
;D
Never had the pleasure to code in Fortran... i started
with Basic on an old ZX Spectrum 16, moved to asm 68000 on Amiga, and
from there to asm x86, C/C++ and (alas :'() mostly, if not only Java
nowadays.
I miss pretty hard the assembly days too :)
-
I noticed when my CPDN tasks abort there is a message from Fortran.
I
began my software programming with it. I started the summer before I
had any access to a computer (they were only in institutions and
businesses in those days) reading the manual. It meant nothing to me at
that time but in a numerical analysis course that fall we had a 3-hour
practical Fortran lab and it all made sense. I loved it and used it for
along time doing mathematical programming, until we decided to adopted
PL-1 at work.
-
There was a lot to be said for starting kids off with BASIC. It got
them into logical thinking and was reasonably intuitive. You could embed
assembler or even machine code into the programs and 'poke' memory
locations which gave you a feel for the way computers worked 'inside'.
You could pick up enough to write simple programs e.g. metres to feet
and inches in a couple of hours and the BBC machines they used in
schools were incredibly robust - lasted for years. We used them as data
loggers in my uni dept. Once you have a framework for computer logic
then changing language or using packages isn't so bad.
I started off
with FORTRAN (oh the horrors of fixed format tape and card input) and
heaved a sigh of relief when I moved on to packages and students who
loved writing programs (I never really enjoyed it). My first mainframe
memory allocation was 0.5meg which was a special favour and I could only
run my program overnight! The joys ;D ;D ;D
-
gave you a feel for the way computers worked 'inside'
I
think it's the main lack of nowaday programmer newbies... we have lived
the time in which one could still have a "full" knowledge of computers,
now the IT world is so vast that a newcomer can lose himself pretty
easily and an experienced programmer has to adjourn himself constantly.
-
My cousin, who was an IT specialist for Agriculture Canada said that
the majority of programs are still (this was about five years ago) were
still written in Fortran or Cobol. It's basically a legacy issue. In
the very late 1980s I was visiting a defense installation on Vancouver
Island. the people there had to make quite complex calculations, and so
they started programming in BASIC on an old Commodore or Tandy computer
when personal computers were first available. As time went on, the
amount of BASIC code increased exponentially even as their computers
were upgraded . When I was there, they were switching to HP-9000
workstations and they were having problems because HP didn't have
upgrades to their BASIC compilers high on their list of priorities. The
amount of BASIC code made the work involved to switch to Fortran or C
prohibitive. I knew a person in the climate section who had to take a
course about Oracle and SQL. The instructor told the students that
knowing Oracle and SQL could get them a job paying $70,000 per year.
When asked for his experience, my friend mentioned IBM, JCL and the
M-109 (I think) database, the instructor told him to forget Oracle. He
said he could get my friend a job at $200,000 at a number of large
companies who still used those old systems and couldn't find anyone who
knew how to use them. Again, the cost to convert them to a newer system
was prohibitive.
Like many of you, I started with Fortran IV-H
back in 1970. I was working on a 32K computer which was, I was told, the
second biggest in BC at the time. I was doing math on a 10x10x30 sized
matrix and the program pretty well used the total memory available.
Quite often programs had to be written so they would run in segments;
segment 1 would run, the intermediate results stored on tape, segment 1
would be dumped, and segment 2 loaded, more conputations would be done,
then segment 2 would be dumped, and so on.
When I did some
programming with the climate section of Environment Canada a few years
later, I had to fight with IBM's JCL (Job Control Language). I was
writing the code in Chatham NB, punching the cards on a manual 12 key
card punch that didn't show the characters, so I had to know that an 'A'
was made by simultaneously pressing the 1, 6, and 8 key (or whatever
the proper sequence was). I mailed the cards to an operator in the
computer centre in Toronto, who ran the program and mailed the results
back. I would then have to fix those cards that had an incorrect
character, mail them back again. It was, to say the least, very
laborious. It took months, but in the end that program was running for
years - it could be still for all I know. I have it on my PC at home,
but I re-wrote it in C.
I have to admit that I never learned
Python, Ruby, Java, C++ or any of the other newer languages. I did a
very little bit in Perl and a fair bit with lex and yacc, but I still
use, and love, AWK or C if the problem is complex.
What a trip
down memory lane. Just imagine, a modern toaster now is more powerful
than the computer I worked in in 1970! :)
-
For those of you to young to know, this was very similar to what I used to punch my Fortran code back in 1973...
-
No caps lock, Michael :P? ;D
-
Just imagine, a modern toaster now is more powerful than the computer I worked in in 1970!
So
true... and still we've memory and capacity problems... with 128k we've
reached the moon (AGC had 64k, there were two for redundancy).
Something
must have broken in between, since my browser is actually occupying
715MB (virtual) memory and i'm still in my living room ::) ;D
-
Not to throw a wrench in this discussion which shows all of you are a
lot smarter than me when it comes to computers with fascinating stories
(and I thought I was advanced when I figured out how to unzip files too
large for zip...), but I think I might have to learn Python on my own
one day. Is it harder or easier than Java or Javascript?
-
I had to learn of bit of very basic Python when I was in 10th grade
at school. I found it quite easy - and as I have experience with both
Java and Javascript, I would say it's about the same in terms of
difficulty.
But it was a long time ago, and I have above-average
talent when it comes to coding, so I may not be the best person to ask
on this matter.
-
Not
to throw a wrench in this discussion which shows all of you are a lot
smarter than me when it comes to computers with fascinating stories (and
I thought I was advanced when I figured out how to unzip files too
large for zip...), but I think I might have to learn Python on my own
one day. Is it harder or easier than Java or Javascript?
When
I was at university in the late 1960s, I asked my math prof if I should
learn computer programming. He said there was no need. I had completed
his fourth year course in mathematical logic, and he said, "You know
logic, learning computer languages is just learning grammar." :)
-
I remember being made to do a week long course on Fortran while in
my second year at university which would have been 1970 - the course was
during the Easter vacation so I wasn't best pleased. And I didn't
really bother that much with it as I was convinced computers would
never catch on! ::)
-
... And I didn't really bother that much with it as I was convinced computers would never catch on! ::)
Don't worry, Su - you got lucky compared to some!
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
But what...is it good for?
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
-
Yes, at least I didn't have to go public with my opinion! ;D
-
Since you are all bragging about how big your first computer was.
Mine was a Casio PB-100. (http://www.rskey.org/CMS/index.php/exhibit-hall/7?manufacturer=Casio&model=PB-100)
Standard with 1/2k of memory, up gradable with an additional 1k module which cost almost as much as the calculator.
It used Basic and you did not program with two char variables.
I could play Paper-rock-scissors with a 22 line program and do simultaneous Linear Equations though not at the same time.
I still have it and the FA-3 cassette interface.
-
Not
to throw a wrench in this discussion which shows all of you are a lot
smarter than me when it comes to computers with fascinating stories (and
I thought I was advanced when I figured out how to unzip files too
large for zip...), but I think I might have to learn Python on my own
one day. Is it harder or easier than Java or Javascript?
I
dare say Python is far easier to grasp than Java (never touched
Javascript), as it keeps a lot of things under the hood - you very
rarely have to worry about variable types, for example.
It's
probably somewhat worse if you've coded in a lower level language, as
I've spent the last week cursing Python's different view on things. I'm
still upset about how it handles for loops.
-
My first computer was one of these babies; the ever popular Amstrad PCW. ;D
512 KB of RAM and two (!) floppy disk drives.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Amstrad_PCW_8512.jpg/260px-Amstrad_PCW_8512.jpg)
-
Janet,
Your idea of programming the caps Lock to give " saves me about 40 key strokes PER PAGE.
Thanks for the idea.
Hanibal,
You can turn the key use On/Off easily (alt 1 or alt 2)
Happy transcriber.
-
I can't remember the specifics of the first computer I ever used because I was three when I got to use it.
All I know is that it had Windows 95, and there were a couple of Sesame Street thingies on it.
Today,
on the other hand, I have a PC with an Intel i7 2.2 GHz processor, 16
GB of RAM, over 650 GB hard drive memory and a Radeon HD 6550M 2 GB
graphics card.
And it's a laptop.
-
Photographer Murray Fredericks braves Greenland's ice sheet (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-29694087)
-
Lovely pics.
From the same site.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-29485974 (http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-29485974)
(My kind of fun.)
Hanibal, you missed all the fun of windows 1,2,3, 3.11 (and all the previous versions of DOS)
HP still offers a DOS based computer for its high end gaming computers
HP 15-g009AX Notebook (APU Quad Core A8/ 4GB/ 1TB/ Free DOS/ 2GB Graph) (G8D85PA)
-
Started my Computer life with a Commodore Vic 20 with 2k memory and a
cassette tape drive! Programmed in Basic or Logo.
Thought it absolutely AMAZING when one of my teaching colleagues showed me how to add and use a disk drive!
Read somewhere that we have more computing power in a current wrist watch than the astronauts had when they went to the moon. :o
-
Maybe
I should re program it to enter 'At anchor Manila, Philippine
Ids.' we are there for the next year of so. :(
I
use the history feature in the dialogue box. Knowing I'm going to be in
the Manila area for a long, long time, I delete all the history entries
that pop up when I go to enter the port name, leaving only those like:
At anchor Manila, Philippine Ids.
Anchored Manila, Philippine Ids.
At anchor Canacoa Bay, Philippine Ids.
Anchored off Cavite, Philippine Ids.
(All
these being the various anchorages in Manila Bay.) Deleting the entries
can take a couple of minutes, but the time saved is worthwhile. I just
enter 'a' in the dialogue box, put my mouse on the first entry and just
hold down the Delete key til everything is gone. Then I do the same with
'b', 'c' and so on.
When I go to enter the port, by just typing
Man, Can or Cav (and you don't even need the upper case) the history
will show the one or two entries for that location. I pick the
appropriate line with the mouse and the work is done.
Deleting
the cache is not a good idea, because I like the list of names for
people and boats that pop up in the history box. (Similarly, if I know
someone has been transferred off the ship, I delete their name from the
history associated with Mentions.)
-
Hanibal, you missed all the fun of windows 1,2,3, 3.11 (and all the previous versions of DOS)
HP still offers a DOS based computer for its high end gaming computers
HP 15-g009AX Notebook (APU Quad Core A8/ 4GB/ 1TB/ Free DOS/ 2GB Graph) (G8D85PA)
No thanks, Grandpa. Old computers are useless - I always recycle 'em when I don't need them anymore.
And
from what I've heard of FreeDOS, it sounds like none of the
applications I like to use (BOINC, VLC, my many games) would work for
it.
I'm gonna stick with my powerful Windows 7 laptop, thank you
very much. I just spent a good bit of cash having the keyboard replaced
and the cooling fan cleaned out - with a bit of luck, it'lll last me
long enough for my next laptop to come with Windows 10 rather than
Windows 8.1. The former is supposed to be better for traditional PCs.
-
Enjoy. ;) and less of the Gramps you cheeky little imp. :P
-
Stuart - Don't forget CP/M ;D
-
This cheeky little imp is the fastest transcriber in the fleet, and
well on his way to becoming the most prolific one too. ;D
-
Stuart - Don't forget CP/M ;D
I do seem to remember CP/M but never used it.
-
Something cool I heard about: The European Space Agency released a
short scifi movie (https://www.youtube.com/embed/H08tGjXNHO4) to promote
their ambitious Rosetta mission.
Called,
suitably, Ambition, it stars Game of Thrones' Aidan Gillen and actress
Aisling Franciosi as master and apprentice on an alien world.
In the seven-minute drama, the pair discuss the presence of water on planets and the origin of life.
These are themes ESA's Rosetta probe hopes to address in its study of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Next month, the spacecraft will drop a small robot on to the surface of the 4km-wide ice body to analyse its chemistry.
Theory
holds that comets may have been responsible for delivering water to the
planets early in the Solar System's history. They could even have
delivered important chemistry that helped to kick-start biology. The
mission intends to test these ideas.
ESA hopes the movie-short
will explain the goals of Rosetta to a wider audience and heighten
excitement ahead of the landing attempt on 12 November.
-
Neat.
-
Very well done.
Lets hope the landing goes well.
-
Very well done - I'll be watching for the landing. :)
-
WOW - 600 pages - Aren't we Chatty!!!!!! 8)
-
It's called being friends for each other. :)
-
Morning/afternoon/evening all.
Sitting on the varanda with a
glass of Red :) after a good days flying picking :)
Burrs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bur) out of my socks :(
Have a good what ever it is.
All burrs out, happy again. ;D
-
Sounds great. :)
-
How do you get burrs in your socks while flying, Stuart? You must have been flying pretty low ;D
-
We have to walk the gliders out to launch and back after landing through the paddocks.
Low flying is advised when landing. %^)
Red almost finished, must be bed time.
-
We have to walk the gliders out to launch and back after landing through the paddocks.
Low flying is advised when landing. %^)
Red almost finished, must be bed time.
And as my old Flight Instructor taught me - Any landing you walk away from is a good one!! ;)
-
And as my old Flight Instructor taught me - Any landing you walk away from is a good one!! ;)
Dean
It's even better when you can use the aircraft again. 8)
-
I thought at first you were talking about fly fishing. Landings take on a whole different meaning ;D
-
Science chief warns on acid oceans (http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29746880)
Also
Reef fish act drunk in carbon dioxide-rich ocean waters
(https://www.sciencenews.org/article/reef-fish-act-drunk-carbon-dioxide%E2%80%93rich-ocean-waters)
-
Greetings from Greenwich Mean Time.
Interesting article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-29761017
Today,
we talk of going "round the bend" to mean going mad. The phrase is of
19th Century naval origin, and one theory says that it refers to the
journey to, or from, the island now known as Telegraph Island - reached
from India by means of a looping, bending route through the Strait of
Hormuz and along a mountain-flanked inlet.
-
I liked the sidebar article on clocks. found from the link on the
BBC first page- You can explore the archive yourself.
(http://www.qdl.qa/en)
-
Check these out, they had a noisy night last night in Adelaide.
lightning
photos Adelaide
(https://www.google.com.au/search?q=lightning+photos+adelaide&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=eFVNVPnUHYnn8AXP-ILACw&ved=0CCkQ7Ak&biw=1366&bih=667)
and
Melbourne also had a noisy night lightning photos Melbourne
(https://www.google.com.au/search?q=lightning+photos+adelaide&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=eFVNVPnUHYnn8AXP-ILACw&ved=0CCkQ7Ak&biw=1366&bih=667#tbm=isch&q=lightning+photos+melbourne&spell=1).
-
Viewpoint: Why are so few WW1 heroines remembered? (http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29706831)
-
9 Extraordinary Moments Captured by Google Street View
(http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/9-extraordinary-moments-captured-google-street-view/)
-
:)
-
Cocoa antioxidants boost the aging brain
(https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/cocoa-antioxidants-boost-aging-brain?tgt=more)
Sadly, the authors note that the result does not imply people should eat more chocolate.
-
A profoundly sad conclusion!
-
Cocoa
antioxidants boost the aging brain
(https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/cocoa-antioxidants-boost-aging-brain?tgt=more)
Sadly, the authors note that the result does not imply people should eat more chocolate.
What do they know?! I say, "Eat chocolate!" Who are you going to believe: me or dome dumb scientist?
-
I say go for dark chocolate - it contains more cocoa, so that means more of the good stuff.
Plus, dark chocolate is supposed to be healthier then milk chocolate anyway.
Or you could try what one of the commenters suggests:
Eat
chocolate with the highest cocoa content you can stand. Who knows, you
may even like 86 percent or higher cocoa content. Or put pure cocoa
powder in various foods. A great many foods would taste better with
some. Try pumpkin or squash bread with a little cocoa powder, for
example, or in your salad dressing if you eat salad with dressing. The
list is endless with a little imagination.
-
I like that commenter. Definitely put the dark kind on your
weekly (daily?) menu!!! Concluding you shouldn't eat more of
something that is now proven to be good for you is an oxymoron.
;D 8)
-
Having just made a batch of chocolate, ginger and orange cookies
with some seriously dark chocolate, I feel perhaps I should eat more of
them at a time, as they're pretty much a medicine - brain food, cold
repellent, and digestive aid, all rolled into one!
-
With that trifecta of goodness, you must, of course, eat more of them!
-
I had a couple with my afternoon coffee, and I have to say, they are
very good! My excuse for making them is that I have friends
visiting tomorrow - I just need to make sure I leave some for them
.... :D
-
Better put them away so you can't see them - I find that always helps.
-
Better put them away so you can't see them - I find that always helps.
Same here.
-
They have just been put in a box in the cupboard in the kitchen -
which should give them a reasonable chance of survival until the morning
...
-
I thought that dark chocolate was supposed to good for your blood
pressure? If that isn't true, I'd really rather not know!
-
Heard on a science show that eating to much Chocolate can be Toxic.
(They did also say you have to eat about 26/28kg to get unwell.)
-
Happy Internet and Cat day (29 Oct)
-
Heard on a science show that eating to much Chocolate can be Toxic.
(They did also say you have to eat about 26/28kg to get unwell.)
I imagine eating 26/28 kg of anything would do you some harm. :)
-
Too much of anything is toxic and will unbalance your system.
Not a reason to avoid regular access to the good stuff. :)
(http://static.freepik.com/free-photo/chocolate--texture--textured--streams_3122652.jpg)
-
You really hit the nail on the head there, Janet. 8)
Now if you excuse me, it's time for my evening snack - dark chocolate! *OM NOM NOM NOM*
-
;D
-
Half listening to Radio 6 Music
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04mq801)and ears prick up when
someone says Dazzle Ships.
OMD (Orchestral Manoeurvres in the
Dark - or as we would know them Overcast, Misty & Drizzle!) produced
an album in 1983 called Dazzle Ships (who knew?) and they are
performing it on Sunday at Museum of Liverpool.
-
Thanks for posting, Janet! The event is sold out, according to the museum's website.
There are free films to see though: http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/mol/events/displayevent.aspx?EventID=21133
-
I heard the piece on 6Music, too. When the album came out in
1983 it was apparently a complete flop. The title would have meant
nothing to me back then! Wikipedia says: "The album is noted for
its highly experimental content, particularly musique concrete sound
collages, utilising shortwave radio recordings to explore Cold War and
Eastern Bloc themes." So I'm not really that tempted to check it
out ... It does include a track called Dazzle Ships (Parts II, III
and VII) - heaven knows what happened to Parts I, IV, V and VI.
But interesting to hear talk about dazzle ships to a non-specialist
audience, I guess. It's on i-player
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04mq801 if anyone's interested,
starting just over an hour and a half in.
Edit: In the end I
had to go and listen to the Dazzle Ships track on Spotify
::) Don't see it becoming an earworm, somehow!
-
Interesting music for having breakfast to. Glad I have to go out now and mow the airstrip. ;D
I have actually heard a lot worse in this Modern Era.
-
The final word on Chocolate, he said!!! ;)
-
;D 8)
-
Don't tell the US Congress - remember what they did with pizza? ;) ;D
-
What did they do with pizza, then?
-
Discussed doing - didn't actually.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/post/did-congress-declare-pizza-as-a-vegetable-not-exactly/2011/11/20/gIQABXgmhN_blog.html
-
Thanks, Janet. I don't know if it is just a UK thing, but we
have a major ongoing public health campaign about eating your 5-a-day,
meaning portions of fresh fruit or vegetables. If you could count
pizza and chocolate that would obviously make it a whole lot
easier!
However, the main problem for people is not
knowing how much constitutes a portion! Then periodically
different "experts" say it needs to be more than five - or that it
should be just vegetables because there's too much sugar in fruit.
And for the purposes of the campaign a potato is not a vegetable.
::)
-
Big thing here too - First Lady Michelle Obama took that on as her
'thing' that the president wouldn't have to worry about. Got all
kinds of gov't agencies cooperating without being given much
authority. And she got the Food Pyramid replaces with the Food
Circle - shows not only food types but size of serving on an average
sized dinner plate. Set up a huge fuss because parents let their
kids bring their own garbage food they wanted to eat instead of
insisting they try the alternative. Some people are allergic to
both change and gov't guidelines I guess.
The School Day Just Got Healthier (http://www.fns.usda.gov/healthierschoolday)
Choose My Plate (http://www.choosemyplate.gov/)
(http://www.choosemyplate.gov/images/MyPlateImages/JPG/myplate_green.jpg)
-
We had the same thing happening in schools. There was a famous
example which made the news; the school meals were changed to make them
healthier, and parents were arriving at lunchtime with distinctly
unhealthy lunches which they were passing through the fence of the
playground to their children.
-
Big
thing here too - First Lady Michelle Obama took that on as her 'thing'
that the president wouldn't have to worry about. Got all kinds of
gov't agencies cooperating without being given much authority. And
she got the Food Pyramid replaces with the Food Circle - shows not only
food types but size of serving on an average sized dinner plate.
Set up a huge fuss because parents let their kids bring their own
garbage food they wanted to eat instead of insisting they try the
alternative. Some people are allergic to both change and gov't
guidelines I guess.
The School Day Just Got Healthier (http://www.fns.usda.gov/healthierschoolday)
Choose My Plate (http://www.choosemyplate.gov/)
(http://www.choosemyplate.gov/images/MyPlateImages/JPG/myplate_green.jpg)
That's
a touchy subject at my old school. One of the things our study body
used to take pride in was on the A La Carte (aka optional and a separate
charge than the regular meals) there were these huge, gooey cookies
that everyone loved, and for some reason those had to be taken away
because kids can't even be given an option I guess...
Most of the
people just throw out the healthy parts of the meals and/or go to the
McDonald's across the road since our school has an open campus policy.
An example of a government policy doing the opposite of what was
intended. :P
-
Happy Samhain when the night comes around.
And for Hanibal
Cu' Chulainn going into battle in the Ta'in Bo' Cu'ailnge, which was said to have begun at Samhain.
-
Hope all the ghosts that come around us are littles asking for candy. :)
(http://melikedesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/the-witches-new-year-samhain-halloween.jpg)
Google has 6 Doodles this time, they come up at random.
-
Already had my first lot of ankle biters looking for treats.
No fancy dress, no treats.
Baa Humbug.
-
if they are too stingy to put on a costume, give them only 1 small piece each. :)
-
Or give them fruit instead. That's what some old people here in Germany used to do when I went candy-hunting with my pals.
They claimed they didn't celebrate Halloween - only Reformation Day. Dinosaurs!
-
Just wondered if anyone had already posted this? GPS back-up: World
War Two technology employed
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29758872)
I did
search and nothing came up. It's quite interesting from an OW point of
view. It's about a backup navigational system using a series of
long-range radio waves for when GPS fails. It's on the BBC site so
apologies if it's blocked for some people.
-
That's very interesting, Jules. A GPS failure now would be a much
greater challenge than the Y2K bug 14 years ago. But you can bet that
most organizations won't react until there's a massive failure.
-
Hi jules,
Very interesting!
Unalga II has transported a
lot of material and men to Alaska during 1946 and 1947 for the building
and maintenance of the first Loran Stations.
There's a lot of material over the internet, starting with:
- the wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LORAN
- the US Coast Guard page: http://www.uscg.mil/history/stations/loran_index.asp
- a dedicated site with a lot of historical background information: http://www.loran-history.info/
Some of these stations were still in use in 2000 even if their usage had declined drastically in favor of GPS.
I
didn't know it has been decided for their re-employ as a backup for the
GPS system, and it's indeed a good idea. I've programmed a little with
gps devices and where there's no fix, well... there's nothing you can do
except waiting for a couple to satellites to become visible...
Thanks for sharing! :)
A GPS failure now would be a much greater challenge than the Y2K bug 14 years ago
And
it could happen soon or later... mantaining those 32 satellites
(leaving apart the russian Glonass and the upcoming European
constellation) is very very expensive. Continuous cuts on budget means
their precision will start degrading (well before the satellite is
brought down or turned off).
-
Hi, szukacz!
-
We've been having gale force northerly winds coming down the whole
300 mile length of Lake Michigan today, and the Lake is indeed
angry. Lake effect snow flurries in places, and very gusty cold
weather (32-38F all day). Parts of Lake Shore Drive and the 18
mile lake front biking trail are shut down due to flooding - we are on
the Lake's ancient bed and sometimes it tries to reclaim the land.
An interesting day for taking kids out in costumes. The pictures
are from online, I personally am not going that near the lake
today. Too wet, cold and angry for me.
-
Brr !
-
Lots of little goblins around Victoria tonight. Sadly, for them, I
don't live up to my neighbour Bruce. When I went trick or treating to
his house, I always got a beer. :) :) :) :) :)
-
:) It seems they have closed downtown Santa Cruz to car
traffic. So people can show off there costumes and party. A couple of
blocks away. :-\ Of course it finally decided to rain. So I think I
will stay in and work on some weather reports and enjoy a glass of
adult refreshment. ::)
-
I'm waiting until all the little people are finished for the night.
Then I'll join you in imbibing. I'm hoping there will be potato chips
left over, which is likely. It's a lovely evening, fairly mild (10C /
50F )and no wind or rain. Even so, after one hour, only five little ones
so far...
-
I'm
waiting until all the little people are finished for the night. Then
I'll join you in imbibing. I'm hoping there will be potato chips left
over, which is likely. It's a lovely evening, fairly mild (10C / 50F
)and no wind or rain. Even so, after one hour, only five little ones so
far...
Did you say potato chips? Oh well ok. Just before it got
dark I zoomed to the store to get some candy just in case some of the
kids would come around. ::) I know from past episodes if I did not
they would come in numbers. LOL ;D (when I had no candy to give
out I would give out Quarters. :o Can not let the little ones go
away without nothing) but so far the only kid I got was my son who did
not even say trick or treat when he grabbed up one the the pieces.
::)
-
I've lived my whole adult life in upper apartments in locked
buildings. Large majority know they are not allowed in AND its
going to take some real work to get in anyway. The minority that
doesn't care about rules or effort knows absolutely no one in those
apartments has stocked up on candy. ::)
-
That's OK. Two hours in and the rush has died down. Got 8 days of OW
done, and I still have 15 bags of potato chips left. I'll man the door
for another hour, but I need to know, is a three year old Livermore
Valley Cab-Sav the appropriate pairing for potato chips? :-\
-
:) When I was a kid ..... yes yes a long time ago. We would
dress up and go out with our pillow cases (holds more candy) and hit the
rich neighborhoods. More candy that way ::)
-
My childhood neighborhood was middle class professional, not
rich. But it was a new subdivision busting with young families
with kids - no one would shame their own younglings by failing to stock
up, and mom always threw a party for our friends and came up with a
spook house that was scary only if you went thru blindfolded. I
mean, tell them "eyeballs" and let them feel a bowl of peeled
grapes. We always had a horde of stranger-kids milking the
abundance. Fun memories.
-
Warmest UK Halloween on record
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29851285) - not quite that warm 'up north'
but it was still 17C at about 9pm (which I think is warmer than several
days in August). But despite that no little visitors - yeah!
I
was sat in the back with no lights showing at the front of the
house. ::) Grumpy, me? Trick or Treating is a fairly recent thing
in the UK, so I may be sulking that I didn't have the opportunity for
the massive intake of sweets when I was little.
-
WWI Coronel: An unlikely naval battle remembered (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-29857302)
-
I worked on several RN ships who sailed in that area and in the
aftermath of the Battle these ships marked the Battle as they passed
Coronel. Sometimes they put a wreath in the water, usually they brought
the colours to half-mast for some minutes. The dead were not forgotten
by their comrades.
-
Today is the longest day of the year, in Canada at least. 25
hours! I may even have two breakfasts to celebrate. Well, maybe
only a 2nd cup of tea ;D
-
It does feel nice, that extra hour of sleep. And now we are
back in balance with Europe. (Poor Australians et al got shortened
instead!) ;)
-
I get mixed up between AU & GB time as it varies from +9 to +11 at different times of the year. :-[
I tend to use UTC when overseas and I am trying to match times up, especially with my camera and GPS. 8)
Hayfever time down under. :'(
-
For those with time issues.......
The first is for 'Eternal youth' the second is Dali.
-
Don't forget the one for beer drinkers:
(http://rlv.zcache.co.uk/always_5_oclock_somewhere_cork_coaster_set_of_6-rf04ba1a2b9214dc0a4b00c721b8e97b7_ambkq_8byvr_512.jpg)
-
Good morning from GMT.
Dark, rainy day ahead, 10C. I think summer has finally gone.
-
HAPPY 60th BIRTHDAY, GODZILLA!
(http://mykaiju.com/images/blog/mykaiju_mini_poster.jpg)
-
Happy Birthday, Godzilla! Enjoy your cake!
(http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/fd/22/90/fd22909947f4d4d95c944fab5ec75501.jpg)
-
Melting ice forces walrus detour (https://www.sciencenews.org/article/melting-ice-forces-walrus-detour)
-
It's hard to know if those making the comments to this article are
just right-wing ideologues but according to them this is not a new
phenomenon.
Regardless, it's quite a sight 8)
-
First batch of Christmas cakes made. Two more batches to go (I have
three different recipes). I've no idea how this new oven will work out,
and I have to wait two years until I will find out. (The cakes are much
better after soaking in rum for two years or more.) Me too! ;)
-
That does sound impressive. :)
-
I hope you made some 2 years ago as well, Michael. ;D
-
Three rum-soaked Christmas cakes and seven Christmas puddings are maturing quietly in my larder. :)
Hi Liz!
-
Three rum-soaked Christmas cakes and seven Christmas puddings are maturing quietly in my larder. :)
Hi Liz!
:o Just how long do they take to mature?? Cakes and puddings oh my! Of
course you will be sharing some with your shipmates ;D ;)
-
None for me, thanks. I don't take any alcohol, not even in cake form.
Besides, I'll be visiting my grandmother for Christmas - and we all know that grannies are the best at making tasty baked goods, right?
-
You bet!
-
:o Just how long do they take to mature?? Cakes and puddings oh my! Of
course you will be sharing some with your shipmates ;D ;)
I keep cakes for three months, puddings for two months. Plenty for all.
Alcohol in the cake/pudding mixture is 'cooked' out, leaving only the flavour.
Adding more alcohol to cakes after cooking is a matter of taste. ;)
-
:o Just how long do they take to mature?? Cakes and puddings oh my! Of
course you will be sharing some with your shipmates ;D ;)
I keep cakes for three months, puddings for two months. Plenty for all.
Alcohol in the cake/pudding mixture is 'cooked' out, leaving only the flavour.
Adding more alcohol to cakes after cooking is a matter of taste. ;)
:) I see my burning question here is when can we get a taste? ::)
-
None for me, thanks. I don't take any alcohol, not even in cake form.
Besides, I'll be visiting my grandmother for Christmas - and we all know that grannies are the best at making tasty baked goods, right?
To me this is a know fact!
-
I hope you made some 2 years ago as well, Michael. ;D
I
have a couple that are four years old, and seven that are three years
old. I am making cakes only every other year now. If more shipmates help
me eat them, I'll go back to making them every year, but my move from
Whitehorse reduced the number of cake fanatics who would regularly
descend upon my house at this time of year demanding cake. :)
-
Michael.
Can we have Xmas in September?
Stuart.
-
I was thinking you could offer a mail-order service for you cakes,
Michael. You could send them to friends and customers by Canada Post.
This would guarantee that they would be well aged when the
arrived. ;D
-
US Postal Service would aid the aging process. ;D
-
So would the French postal service ::)
-
I just finished batch number two. They are still hot from the oven
and the house smells WONDERFUL. In an hour or so, they lucky cakes will
get their half cup of rum each. I will have to wait for eight bells on
the first watch, but the Commanding Officer will not allow me a half cup
of rum :'(
This recipe is from Max Ferguson, whose name
will be familiar only to those of us old enough to have listened to CBC
from the fifties to the mid-seventies.
To answer Stuart's
question, the oldest cakes get unleashed upon the world when the third
and final batch are baked, soaked and stored away waiting for the next
US presidential election.
-
Don't blame our elections for making them or campaign workers will
be coming up there and collecting all their rewards before you can east
them at Christmas. :)
-
...........
To
answer Stuart's question, the oldest cakes get unleashed upon the world
when the third and final batch are baked, soaked and stored away
waiting for the next US presidential election.
Will that be to celebrate (enjoy the cake) or commiserate (enjoy the alcohol in the cake) after the election?
-
That depends on who's doing the eating...
-
It's likely to be a 2 room party, winners and losers. 8)
-
Here it is, waiting for it's slug of rum and a two year
hibernation... Even if you're not here to partake of a three year old
cake in the next two months, enjoy the thought. :)
-
Conditions at Iloilo City, Philippines Now and Then:
5:00 A.M. Nov 6, 2014
Temp: 80 F
Wet bulb: 77 F
Humidity: 88%
Wind: NE 11 mph
Pressure: 29.88"
5:00 A.M. Nov 6, 1898 from USS Concord
Temp: 78 F
Wet bulb: 78 F
Humidity: 100%
Wind: NNE 5 mph
Pressure: 29.89"
I guess this proves there's no such thing as global warming: we've lost two degree Fahrenheit in the last 116 years. ;D
-
Nice one XO
-
You do know what global means, yes Michael? ;)
Stuff like that is why I personally use the term climate change instead.
-
Conditions at Iloilo City, Philippines Now and Then:
5:00 A.M. Nov 6, 2014
Temp: 80 F
Wet bulb: 77 F
Humidity: 88%
Wind: NE 11 mph
Pressure: 29.88"
5:00 A.M. Nov 6, 1898 from USS Concord
Temp: 78 F
Wet bulb: 78 F
Humidity: 100%
Wind: NNE 5 mph
Pressure: 29.89"
I guess this proves there's no such thing as global warming: we've lost two degree Fahrenheit in the last 116 years. ;D
:-[ Lost? - I am lost. Was 78 is 80?
-
You do know what global means, yes Michael? ;)
Stuff like that is why I personally use the term climate change instead.
And, climate change covers the fact that warming (overall) is not the only change occurring.
-
I am sure Michael was just joking ;)
-
I am sure Michael was just joking ;)
Of
course I was just joking! As someone who lived in the Yukon for over
twenty years, climate change was dramatic and obvious. Also, it was 78F
in 1898 and it was 80F in 2014!!! (I was just modelling the kind of
person that completely twists the facts to suit "my" own purpose. too
subtle, I guess!)
-
You did alright - any less subtle, and the mods would have exterminated your post and given you a smack ;)
-
I will ignore that slur on our totally non-violent moderating skills.
Here is a pic I found of last year's Christmas cake. :)
-
Very impressive cake, Caro. And of course all the moderators
are entirely saintly and non-violent (and generous with their cakes?)
-
The New York Magazine just did an amazing article on why adult men like My Little Ponies.
I
am very impressed - the author does a great job of explaining why
bronies like me exist in the first place, and what this whole pony
business is about anyway. And they do it all while maintaining an
objective, insult-free tone, unlike some media.
Here's the link: http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/11/understanding-the-cult-of-my-little-pony.html
-
Very
impressive cake, Caro. And of course all the moderators are
entirely saintly and non-violent (and generous with their cakes?)
Are you trying to say that I am not a moderator?
;D
(You probably wouldn't want me to be generous with my cooking :P)
-
Very
impressive cake, Caro. And of course all the moderators are
entirely saintly and non-violent (and generous with their cakes?)
Are you trying to say that I am not a moderator?
;D
(You probably wouldn't want me to be generous with my cooking :P)
Perish the thought! I'm sure you are saintly and non-violent - even if your cooking is less than wonderful .... ???
-
The New York Magazine just did an amazing article on why adult men like My Little Ponies.
I
am very impressed - the author does a great job of explaining why
bronies like me exist in the first place, and what this whole pony
business is about anyway. And they do it all while maintaining an
objective, insult-free tone, unlike some media.
Here's the link: http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/11/understanding-the-cult-of-my-little-pony.html
Interesting article.
"the idea that a small, committed band of friends can change the world"
It certainly needs changing :(
Well, we OWaholics are trying ;)
-
The New York Magazine just did an amazing article on why adult men like My Little Ponies.
I
am very impressed - the author does a great job of explaining why
bronies like me exist in the first place, and what this whole pony
business is about anyway. And they do it all while maintaining an
objective, insult-free tone, unlike some media.
Here's the link: http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/11/understanding-the-cult-of-my-little-pony.html
Really interesting article, hanibal - thanks for posting the link.
-
Conditions at Iloilo City, Philippines Now and Then:
5:00 A.M. Nov 6, 2014
Temp: 80 F
Wet bulb: 77 F
Humidity: 88%
Wind: NE 11 mph
Pressure: 29.88"
5:00 A.M. Nov 6, 1898 from USS Concord
Temp: 78 F
Wet bulb: 78 F
Humidity: 100%
Wind: NNE 5 mph
Pressure: 29.89"
I guess this proves there's no such thing as global warming: we've lost two degree Fahrenheit in the last 116 years. ;D
:-[ Lost? - I am lost. Was 78 is 80?
Randi
gets ONE HUNDRED POINTS for being the only one to notice that I was
going from Now to Then, which is how we "lost" two degrees. Had I put
them Then to Now, it would have been clear that we have indeed warmed
two degrees. Mind you, using just two weather observations doesn't prove
anything as several of you noted. Still, how one orders the data can
fool some people, though not Randi, and saying going back in time we
lost two degrees is really saying going ahead in time we gained two
degrees.
I was thinking this because we had a visitor for several
days who doesn't believe in climate warming because she read "Clan of
the Cave Bear" and the climate wasn't different in that book from what
it is now - and yes she was serious!
Anyway, on a more meaningful
note, the last batch of cakes is in the oven... (Note: these cakes
contain alcohol, wheat, eggs, nuts, and artificial colours and flavours.
That's why they're so good and so good for you!)
But enough of
cakes and climate change. I've got a ton of mixing bowls, kitchen
implements and counters etc to clean, and then back to Iloilo City in
the Philippines on the Concord.
-
Yummmmmmm
:D
-
Randi
gets ONE HUNDRED POINTS for being the only one to notice that I was
going from Now to Then, which is how we "lost" two degrees. Had I put
them Then to Now, it would have been clear that we have indeed warmed
two degrees. Mind you, using just two weather observations doesn't prove
anything as several of you noted. Still, how one orders the data can
fool some people, though not Randi, and saying going back in time we
lost two degrees is really saying going ahead in time we gained two
degrees.
:-*
Cake looks good - even to a teatotaler ;)
-
Found this Citizen Scientist project
(https://www.facebook.com/NASAEarthObservatory/photos/a.10150660751157139.441503.57242657138/10152852536417139/?type=1)
on Facebook; as volunteer jobs go, it's very short and easy and the
project is likely to be short-lived. They want citizens to find
out exactly when satellites are taking bird's-eye views of clouds and
send them a reciprocal worm's-eye view or description of the same clouds
so they can better their reading of the satellite photos. The
site is specifically set up for classes of K to 12 school children, but
they run a parallel set of reporting for "rover" citizen scientists to
be used by rogue adults that like looking at the sky. I found it
very much easier than I thought. Just know which 5 to 15 minutes
of the day to go cloud gazing and snap a photo with my phone. When
I get home, fill in a report describing the photo and attach the pic to
the report, 3 to 5 minutes tops. Fun. :)
-
In other cloud news, this 'cigar cloud', usually only seen in the
Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of Carpentaria, appeared last weekend in the
Riverina region of NSW, Australia, far from the coast.
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/10444627_846935068660012_3967876125331009593_n.jpg?oh=6337dc48a3f0394a49005eba7f286cfb&oe=54EEB527&__gda__=1425144750_35da0014fc2d1e799b8928611b33c5d2)
-
Woo hoo! That is a stunning cloud, and I absolutely cannot
imagine how nature manages to produce such a thing - isn't she
wonderful?
-
Got a nice bit of news, people - today, I broke my own record for "fastest time to complete a 24 WR page".
The old record was 3 minutes and six seconds, the new one is 3 minutes and two seconds.
Hmm... I wonder if I can get it down to less than 3 minutes?
-
Got a nice bit of news, people - today, I broke my own record for "fastest time to complete a 24 WR page".
The old record was 3 minutes and six seconds, the new one is 3 minutes and two seconds.
Hmm... I wonder if I can get it down to less than 3 minutes?
You can do it, Hanibal. I have faith in you!
-
Let us remember the loss of the SS Edmond Fitzgerald (10 Nov)
-
There's quite a bit of OW transcribing going on here tonight - I'm
quite upset that I seem to have the less interesting logbook, though!
(http://i.imgur.com/IVgjeHEl.jpg)
-
Let us remember the loss of the SS Edmond Fitzgerald (10 Nov)
An interesting collage of that wreck with ballad. https://www.youtube.com/embed/hgI8bta-7aw
-
There's
quite a bit of OW transcribing going on here tonight - I'm quite upset
that I seem to have the less interesting logbook, though!
(http://i.imgur.com/IVgjeHEl.jpg)
Come to the Concord and you will never complain about your current logs again. %^)
-
Let us remember the loss of the SS Edmond Fitzgerald (10 Nov)
An interesting collage of that wreck with ballad. https://www.youtube.com/embed/hgI8bta-7aw
Whilst I like the ballad, I do have trouble picking out some of the words especially around the middle of it.
Video shows ships name underwater the right way up and ends with it upside down ?
RIP
-
Expeditions
(http://www.ssefo.com/info/expeditions.html) determined she broke in
half on the surface and the halves sank separately. I'm guessing
it was the right-side-up and right-side-down difference that gave them
that insight. She was the largest ore freighter on the lakes, and
I'm guessing that after her wreck no one else tried to replicate that
size. The Lakes can be very dangerous.
ADDED: Gordon
Lightfoot has a distinctly Canadian accent - it gives me some
difficulties, but not as much so as British or Australian accents.
Part of a global community, everyone has to guess a bit at
pronunciations.
-
Gordon Lightfoot has a distinctly Canadian accent - it gives me some difficulties
(http://www.ssefo.com/info/expeditions.html)
Interesting. I don't have any trouble at all with his accent; in fact, I didn't think he even had an accent! ;D
-
:P
-
That's because your native accent doesn't come from Chicago. Everyone has an accent!!
-
A short guide to some of the many British and Irish accents (https://www.youtube.com/embed/-8mzWkuOxz8) ... ;D
-
;D ;D ;D
-
Love it. How smooth from one to the other.
You could try some of these if you were really interested.
English spok proper (http://www.dialectsarchive.com/england)
This is closest to mine.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/2WbbZMnc48E
-
Got a nice bit of news, people - today, I broke my own record for "fastest time to complete a 24 WR page".
The old record was 3 minutes and six seconds, the new one is 3 minutes and two seconds.
Hmm... I wonder if I can get it down to less than 3 minutes?
I did it! I broke my record and got it down to less than 3 minutes!
My new record is: 2 minutes and 43 seconds for a 24 WR page.
Oh, and I made a few typos that I had to correct while doing this, so I could do it even faster....
-
Wow! Perhaps this should become an Olympic sport .... :D
-
Wow! Perhaps this should become an Olympic sport .... :D
;D LOL
-
Yes! We need an Olympic sport where all the competitors help each other!
-
And which can be done sitting down and normally dressed!
-
Some great pictures -
http://mentalfloss.com/article/59985/11-dramatic-photos-world-war-i
-
Besides the first picture it looks like the 6th the German Attack at
Verdun and the 7th the French attack were also faked. Note in the last
picture showing the room where Tsar Nicholas II and family were murdered
it looks so torn up because it was taken after the investigators dug
the bullets out of the walls. They didn't bother to take a picture
before they tore the walls up to get the bullets out. Just thought you
would like to know.
-
I gives an idea of the tragic lose when put this way
Poppys (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-12/final-poppy-planted-in-tower-of-london-wwi-memorial/5884080)
On a lighter note.
Good luck to Philae at 1530 GMT today.
-
Morning OW.
Yes indeed; good luck Rosetta and little Philae.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30012854
-
Gosh - wow! Went to the European Space Agency website to look in -
you can see the main control room via live webcam...and you can listen
to the 'song' of the comet. 8) One comment about the song made me laugh -
'Still sounds better than Justin Beber'. There's a short salutation
from William Shatner for those who are covert Trekkies.
-
Anybody else watching this live?
About 30 min to touch down. Not much happening (in fact it's boring) yet but just wait.
http://new.livestream.com/ESA/cometlanding
In
the mean time I am watching the Rosetta #CometLanding webcast
Separation Confirmation Received on Ground video which is to me very
interesting when you get past the tweets bit.
-
EESA, The
eagle Philae has landed. :)
-
Cool!!
-
Wonderful !
-
;D AWESOME!
-
Phew! Great news. ;D
-
Amazing achievement!
-
Woohoo!
-
Breathtaking achievement 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
-
Just mindboggling!
-
Take a look at these pics from earlier in the mission, they will
give you some idea how hard it was to land the craft safely.
Change the last number down by 1 to end up at 1 to see all 10 pics
http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2014/11/NAVCAM_top_10_at_10_km_10
(http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2014/11/NAVCAM_top_10_at_10_km_10)
-
Tweet. :)
Philae Lander @Philae2014
Hello!
An update on life on #67P - Yesterday was exhausting! I actually
performed 3 landings, 15:33, 17:26 & 17:33 UTC. Stay tuned for more
-
Tweet. :)
Philae Lander @Philae2014
Hello!
An update on life on #67P - Yesterday was exhausting! I actually
performed 3 landings, 15:33, 17:26 & 17:33 UTC. Stay tuned for more
Do you mean 'Hang on for more data'?
-
But I wish there were not 10 million displaced Syrian
refugees....exciting as Philae is - should we be spending the cash
elsewhere...educating ourselves into a better world society? :-\
-
If I could be sure that the money would go to alleviate the problem
rather than in the pockets of corrupt officials I would feel happier
about putting the money for big science into aid. But remember, the go
ahead for this project was more than 15 years ago, it's been on its way
for 10 years and unfortunately with big science you have to either find
the money or decide that it will never be done.
As it is, I enjoy
the pics and admire those scientists and engineers who have the
perseverance and patience to embark on a 20 year project and look
forward to hearing from those young researchers who will kick off their
careers working on the data which will come back from both Philae and
Rosetta.
-
It does seem that we need a diversion from the terrible conflicts
that plague the world. As difficult as it was to accomplish the Rosetta
feat, solving human conflicts (or climate change) is infinitely more
difficult. The Middle East conflicts go back at least to the decisions
made after WW 1. Any intervention there seems to be doomed to failure.
In my opinion, the best we can do is to provide humanitarian aid and
even that is getting terribly risky for those on the ground.
-
I agree with both your replies.
It's a real puzzler.
-
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2WU4LVIcAASDWg.jpg:small)
Small circle, the intended landing place.
Large circle, where Philae bounced to... :o
-
They will just have to cope and find a way to keep it there and
broadcasting. Having landed intact is still a marvelous thing.
-
I really do hope they find a solution for Philae...it would be an agony to lose a lot of tests due to the shadow problem.
-
I've heard it mentioned that they might put most of the lander's
functions to sleep for a while, until the comet is closer to the Sun. At
that point, they'll be getting more sunlight on the panels (up to about
7 times more), even if the amount of time spent facing the sun is the
same.
-
But
I wish there were not 10 million displaced Syrian refugees....exciting
as Philae is - should we be spending the cash elsewhere...educating
ourselves into a better world society? :-\
I
just think anyone who is trying to make the world a better place one
way or another should be supported, and we all have different ideas
about what causes are the most "important". What does upset me is
knowing that there are wealthy individuals and corporations who pay
virtually no tax to anybody and are not making the contribution they
ought to be. And also that the world has known about Ebola for 40
years, but almost nothing has been done about developing a vaccine until
now because it had previously only affected a few, very impoverished,
African countries so there was no profit there for the drugs
companies. (Hope the moderators will not think I am not getting
too political!)
-
I've
heard it mentioned that they might put most of the lander's functions
to sleep for a while, until the comet is closer to the Sun. At that
point, they'll be getting more sunlight on the panels (up to about 7
times more), even if the amount of time spent facing the sun is the
same.
Although having said that, the latest news is that they're going "all out"!
-
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush is probably their
thinking. They really do want to drill to get a sample and chances are
that if they wait the lander will be knocked off the comet. Of course,
drilling could send the lander spinning.
-
But
I wish there were not 10 million displaced Syrian refugees....exciting
as Philae is - should we be spending the cash elsewhere...educating
ourselves into a better world society? :-\
I
just think anyone who is trying to make the world a better place one
way or another should be supported, and we all have different ideas
about what causes are the most "important". What does upset me is
knowing that there are wealthy individuals and corporations who pay
virtually no tax to anybody and are not making the contribution they
ought to be. And also that the world has known about Ebola for 40
years, but almost nothing has been done about developing a vaccine until
now because it had previously only affected a few, very impoverished,
African countries so there was no profit there for the drugs
companies. (Hope the moderators will not think I am not getting
too political!)
I think we moderators, not being wealthy individuals, agree with you ;)
-
I was struggling with reading a place name on a log page... Just as I
found it neatly printed further down on the page, I woke up :P
-
A
bird in the hand is worth two in the bush is probably their thinking.
They really do want to drill to get a sample and chances are that if
they wait the lander will be knocked off the comet. Of course, drilling
could send the lander spinning.
Looks like they've decided to take the risk: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30055383
-
Oh Randi, that is so sad ;D :o
As far as landing
on a comet - I am not unmindful of the horrific plight of Africa or the
Middle East. But...I look on Philae as a point of light in the
darkness. Going to Mars, or landing on the moon, costs billions of
dollars, and one could argue that those billions could be spent on the
enormous problems facing us here on this other small point of light in
the darkness. The thing is, there have always been and will always
be enormous problems facing us, but we also need Philae. Philae
lifts us out of the mundane, and while it may be corny, I think these
sorts of things show our better natures, gives us hope for ourselves,
and maybe, just maybe, lead us to a time when we look back on this time
and rejoice that it has passed.
-
That was very profound Kathy. (but I do agree)
;)
-
Beautifully put, Kathy!
It describes my feelings perfectly.
-
Wow - that was really good, Kathy! Thanks!
I wish I was that good with words.
-
Wise words Kathy, wise words :) :) :)
-
Kathy, you put into words exactly why this whole experience fascinates. It feeds a very deep need.
-
Well, Philae has gone to sleep but apparently some raw data from the
drilling has been received. So the scientists are pleased that they
have achieved one of their big objectives - we'll have to wait a bit for
the analysis. They hope that as the comet gets closer to the sun
it may allow Philae to get enough power in its batteries to wake up
again but no-one is sure if that will work.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30058176
Rosetta
is still able to get and send back data though so once the comet starts
to warm up enough to outgas and form its 'tail' we should get some more
fascinating data. All in all it has been a successful mission with lots
more still to come (they hope).
-
Remarkable success. Fascinating to keep track of. :)
-
There was an interesting programme on last night on BBC4, on the
Rosetta project and especially on Philae's landing and what's been
achieved. It was co-presented by Chris Lintott. Available on
the BBC IPlayer for 29 days.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04pkvpq/the-sky-at-night-rosetta-a-sky-at-night-special
-
There
was an interesting programme on last night on BBC4, on the Rosetta
project and especially on Philae's landing and what's been
achieved. It was co-presented by Chris Lintott. Available on
the BBC IPlayer for 29 days.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04pkvpq/the-sky-at-night-rosetta-a-sky-at-night-special
Tried
but found that these programmes are ONLY available in the UK. They
'track' your ISP so everything is 'locked' except to UK Internet Service
Providers. :-[
-
Has anyone ever tried downloading the bbc progs to see if that
allows them to be more available? I suspect this won't work due to the
licensing situation. Just thought to ask though. :(
-
Try and find an UK based fast and free proxy server.
Not always easy to find one though.
(Temporarily) Set this proxy in your browser and Aunty thinks you're based in Britain.
-
I just found a free extension called Hola Better Internet that lets
you use a proxy server to get around these pesky local restrictions.
Took
a couple reloads and retries, but it works - I'm watching the Rosetta
mission right now, and I live nowhere near the UK (INSERT EVIL LAUGHTER
HERE)!
-
Interesting - I've never before even thought about how to do such
things myself. Do I need an extension, or are there ways of
telling my browser what to do?
Just don't try to be doing that
while registering first time on a forum requiring human moderator
authorization - we tend to treat such as spammers in disguise, along
with those who have disposable email addresses, and block them on
principle. 8)
-
My way is to just find a free extension and let it do all the work.
As I said, the one I have is Hola Better Internet, it's working very well for me so far.
-
Sorry to have tantalised those of you beyond these shores with
forbidden fruit - but glad that at least one techie member of the Forum
has managed to find a way round the restrictions!
-
Talk about vagaries of living near the lakes...
I just was
out raking leaves. HOWEVER 10-12 miles (20km) to the south they are
dealing with blizzard conditions, driving bans, and 3 to 6 foot (1 - 2
m) snows. Drifts are reported to be twice that! This one is NOT a
'surprise' as they have been forecasting it for several days.
-
Sorry
to have tantalised those of you beyond these shores with forbidden
fruit - but glad that at least one techie member of the Forum has
managed to find a way round the restrictions!
Yes, it took a bit of fiddling and reloading, but I got it in the end.
It
was a great video - they really explained the science well, managed to
capture the excitement and emotion and all that. Thanks for posting
this, Helen!
I've always had a fondness for exciting space stuff - anybody else seen Interstellar, by Christopher Nolan? I have, and it was awesome!
-
My way is to just find a free extension and let it do all the work.
As I said, the one I have is Hola Better Internet, it's working very well for me so far.
Thanks Hanibal, Hola seems to work for me.
%^)
-
Called in at the Fairfield Heritage Centre yesterday. It is 4
smallish rooms (old offices) of exhibits, mainly posters with photos
plus at least one interactive video in each room, some with sound some
silent. You can also visit the restored boardroom - very much the
ambiance of the powerful Victorian business man. They have a few
artifacts and are hoping to develop it further. There is a picture of
HMS Glasgow - one of our RN ships who was built there and some of the
latest Naval ship to be launched this century. Entrance is free although
donations are very welcome. Currently open with volunteers Monday to
Friday 2-5pm.
If anyone is visiting Glasgow it is worth a visit.
It's quite close to the Science Centre with its IMAX and if you are
going at the SECC you could cross the river on the foot bridge and get
the 23 bus which drops you off across the road.
-
Talk about vagaries of living near the lakes...
I
just was out raking leaves. HOWEVER 10-12 miles (20km) to the south
they are dealing with blizzard conditions, driving bans, and 3 to 6 foot
(1 - 2 m) snows. Drifts are reported to be twice that! This one
is NOT a 'surprise' as they have been forecasting it for several days.
Brrr! Hope you continue to avoid the back breaking misery of snow clearance! :)
Oh no!! The 1 o'clock BBC news just now - every state in the USA has vanished under snow - are you still OK Dean?
We
saw a white out covering W New York State now in a state of
emergency. A basket ball team stuck in their bus for 24 hours.
Families in Ohio camping out in thick snow to get best school places for
their kids. Record rates of snowfall. Florida covered too and more due
tomorrow country-wide.
I'm off to check the surface pressure chart to see if it's coming here :o
-
Not really disappeared. Just the first time since 1976 that all of
the 'lower 48 states' has recorded morning temps below freezing.
'Lake
effect' is common around here when the water temps are above the land
temps and the wind comes in across the 'warmer' waters. Never seen it
this bad. The line usually 'wanders' North and South but this one came
in and SAT! Band is about 10 miles (18k) wide and snow depths are not in
the 5 - 6 foot (2m) range.
Some flakes in my neighborhood and
likely totals in the 3 - 6 inch (7 - 15cm) range. I'm off to sing with
our Retired Men's Chorus in the next town in a couple hours and don't
expect any issues. Just south of us they are still getting 'hammered.'
Thankfully not many deaths (4) - this was WELL predicted.
If you want to follow it - my local National Weather Service Station is
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=North+Tonawanda&state=NY&site=BUF&lat=43.0438&lon=-78.8659
-
Very interesting! Glad you are still safe :)
-
All the states south of the Lakes and north of the gulf coast are
experiencing a genuine blizzard dropping snow much deeper than they are
used to this time of year as it moves thru the area. The Great
Lakes region is experiencing days-long lake-effect snow - as long as the
wind direction doesn't shift, the snow is not moving anywhere, it just
keeps falling. My Chicagoland neighborhood and Dean's neighborhood
get a few flurries, if anything. Those directly leeward of the
wind are being buried. Having both at the same time makes national
news. And Dean and I are both lucky. :)
-
Glad you are both safe, hope all the OWers over the pond are OK too.
-
We are now living in an ice box, but other than that, we are fine - darn you, polar vortex!
-
Hope you get a break from the wintry blast soon, US friends.
Sweltering 7C here.
-
Break out the sun screen and bathing suits - you are having a heat wave! ;D
-
Need I say anything more?
Enjoy the cool, you can always put on clothes, I get told off when I remove mine in the heat.
-
Stuart, you are just trying to make us snow-folk (successfully!) jealous. :D
-
(unsuccessfully!) ;D
-
Stuart, you are just trying to make us snow-folk (successfully!) jealous. :D
No Janet.
I assume you mean about the temperature and not my state of dress. %^)
Why
do you think I have had my holidays in North Norway in winter, the
Antarctic and the next one in the Northwest Passage chasing Franklin.
I
had the choice of Canada or Australia to live, hard choice (seriously)
both great places, Australia won because I was there at the time.
-
I agree, too much at either extreme isn't really good. But
Canada and Australia seem to be offering you wonderful neighbors in
opposite temperature extremes!
-
;D It rain here all day today. ;D Sorry everyone we really need the rain here in California.
-
I'm so glad you finally got some. :)
-
The outcome of the WW1 Naval battles
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30128199
It would have been a mind blowing sight from a satellite.
-
Thanks to Hanibal I can now watch this BBC series about Australia in Australia.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04sm3sj/click-australia-special
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04sm3sj/click-australia-special)
-
;D ;D ;D
But did the beeb get it right?
-
Glad to know I was able to help out an old non-techie man!
-
The outcome of the WW1 Naval battles
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30128199
It would have been a mind blowing sight from a satellite.
It must have been an awesome sight, that many vessels. Thanks for posting this one.
-
The outcome of the WW1 Naval battles
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30128199
It would have been a mind blowing sight from a satellite.
That's
really interesting and the diagram of the fleets is especially useful
as it explains the entry in HMS Caradoc's Log
(http://www.naval-history.net/OWShips-WW1-06-HMS_Caradoc.htm) for that
day 'taking station astern of southern line'. It's added to my
list of things for version 2 of the edit!
-
;D ;D ;D
But did the beeb get it right?
They did, they had to come down under to be sure though.
The part about the bush fires is very relevant as we are about to enter a very high bush fire season.
-
:o Best to ask
Kathy Elizabeth (whoops - sorry!) if she has any rain to spare from California...
-
:o Best to ask Kathy if she has any rain to spare from California...
:) Raining very well here. ::) At the moment. When it rains in
California it POURS. Had to relocate several patients to different rooms
due to the heavy down pour and plug of drainage pipes flooding some of
the rooms. ::) But we need the rain. But not all at
once I might add here. LOL
-
Our neighbors slightly to the south would be glad to send you some snow!!
-
Oh my giddy aunt! That's a lot of snow.
Just got the bbc news
on...very dramatic indeed. Sorry that lives have been lost. But also a
story about a lady that had to give birth in the fire-station. Hope this
isn't the start of a very looooong wild winter. :-\
-
So strange to see that everyone has gotten their driveways shoveled
but the city hasn't gotten around to clearing the street yet. That
is completely miserable.
-
what does that weight of water do to your car?
-
I can't help wondering what clearing the street will do to the driveways...
-
I saw an interview on TV yesterday which said that some people were
unable to get out of their homes because their drives had been blocked
by the clearance of their street. Hard to see what else they could
do - the snow has to go somewhere!
-
I can't help wondering what clearing the street will do to the driveways...
Oh
that is always my downfall. I live on a corner so all that extra
snow from the intersection gets plowed right over the end of my driveway
- sometimes 3 feet worth of heavy plowed snow, more than my snow-blower
can handle. I finish clearing my driveway and while I am
taking my gloves off, I watch the city plow push a couple more tons onto
the end of my driveway. Sigh. I think I shall just stay
home for the next few months.
-
There is no question, the street plows are going to block every
driveway. Midwesterners are used to that, but it is actually
easier to work the plow-bank down after the drive is cleared - at least
you can get to it in the first place! Trust me, it is nobody's
idea of fun.
-
Bad news for you people living on the eastern half of the North
America and in western Europe (if memory serves). I read a paper a
little while ago that said that heavy snow in eastern North America
(and western Europe?) was related to early permanent snow cover in
Siberia. This season saw permanent snow cover in Siberia very early in
October which portends a snowy winter for you. Fortunately for me, the
city of Victoria has banned snow here. I can't remember if western
Europe was included with eastern North America. Not living in either
place made the paper nothing more than academic interest for me.
Sorry for the bad news...
-
Please have your law makers send instructions to ours on how this snow-ban is enforced. I'd love to have it. ;D
-
Please have your law makers send instructions to ours on how this snow-ban is enforced. I'd love to have it. ;D
Don't have a senate to block the legislation. ;)
(Mind you, it's a city ordinance, so I don't imagine that Chicago has a senate for the city.(
-
Starting an effort here might just start another famous "Council
War" - Chicagoans see local politics as a full contact spectator sport.
8)
-
Just to add. In many cases the towns are still trying to dig out for
emergency responders, etc. Most have said that they are aware and will
come back later and try to clear the ends of driveways. The biggest fear
now is that temps over the weekend will be in the 40's and 50's (4 - 10
even 15?C)!!! The risk of flooding increases. Emergency Services have
brought in boats, pumps, and sand bags for the next round.
Stay tuned!!
-
The worst part of thawing out that big a snow is that every single
storm sewer drain is completely blocked - the city is going to be asking
plows and citizens to shovel those clear first, but it is going to take
as much work as dealing with the initial fall. Saw in Chicago
back around 1980 when a record winter put more than 90" of snow on us
with very few thaws.
-
Puts our weather warnings in the shade! All we've got at the
moment is that there may be bits of localised flooding as it's been very
wet in some parts of the country; and it may get down to freezing
overnight so we may want to get up a bit earlier so as to defrost our
cars before setting off for work. Compared to feet of snow and
possibly a rapid thaw, it's nothing at all.
-
I found a very interesting site for getting historic weather for
places in the US. (I'm taking a brief hiatus from the Concord and
entering data for the Pioneer.) At the moment, she's in Oakland,
California in Aug/Sep 1932. On 09 Sep 1932 she recorded a temperature of
90F which was quite a jump from the other days. I didn't think this was
an anomaly, so I checked the actual weather for Oakland for the month
of September using this NOAA website for historical weather
(http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/). Not only did it give me the Oakland
weather for Sept. 1932, but it included Berkeley and San Francisco
without me asking for it. Anyway, what about the 90F?
Berkeley 09 Sept: 94F
Oakland 09 Sept: 93F
San Francisco 09 Sept: 100F
I
guess I just can't stop being a weatherman! The website was easy to
use, and quick. The data were free. You get an email with the link to
download the data.
Enjoy! :)
-
Cool. I bookmarked it. :)
-
If we don't end war, war will end us.
H.G. Wells (1866-1946)
-
Yes. I wish leaders of armies everywhere would think about that a bit.
-
How about this one:
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
(Attributed to Bertrand Russell, but may not actually be from him)
-
Too true.
and
History is written by the winners.
-
A French friend (who is 95) was telling me about her grandmother who
had lived through the Franco-Prussian war (1870-71) and WWI.
Every
night in her prayers, she said "Please don't make me live through
another war." She died just a couple of days before the start of WWII.
-
Too true.
and
History is written by the winners.
Yes all to true.
An
example might be this place that my daughter and I happen to stopped
and visit on the way home from South Dakota. A place I might add that
was never on my must go see list.
When I read your words "History is written by the winners" this place came into mind.
http://www.nps.gov/libi/index.htm
Must
say it was the best stop and visit place on the way home it even
topped Yellowstone IMHO A must *see* if you are ever in the
area.
-
And if you're in London, a visit to Truth and Memory: British Art of
the First World War
(http://www.iwm.org.uk/exhibitions/iwm-london/truth-and-memory-british-art-of-the-first-world-war)
should tell you everything you need to know about the futility of war.
-
Yesterday I saw what I call late autumn at its prettiest. Just sharing Autumn Lace and Autumn Leaves Frosted.
-
Nice! I would share a picture, except it would be of pouring rain... :(
-
Beautiful photos Janet. :D
There's a jolly little robin (well -
he's a thug really - as robin's are) who keeps giving hungry looks
through the window. He was struggling the day before yesterday which was
bitterly cold and crisp with frost. Should he fluff up and keep
warm...or fluff down and look skinny, hungry, a victim of nature's cruel
weather whim? I fell for it anyway - a nice handful of the RSPB's best
fruity nibbles went out. His friend the blackbird helped clear them off
pretty quickly. Now it's soggy again they can get on with eating
the remaining bugs. I hear tell that we will have snow next week or
shortly after... :(
-
If anyone is desperate for Christmas gift ideas, there is a
place in town that offers fish pedicures and teeth whitening (they
don't specify the method) among other things. Note: I haven't tried it
and I don't intend to.
-
For those who have heard about our storm - now called 'SNOWvember' - Here are some pictures taken by the local paper.
http://galleries.buffalonews.com/default.aspx?id=3291#/1
BTW
- the storm was 'Lake Effect' --- I live about 10 miles (15k) north of
the storm area and we had only a couple inches (5cm). Over the last
weekend the temps went to 50's (Teens in ?C) and much of it melted. So
far only some 'nuisance' flooding. We'll be OK. ;)
-
We now have a fluffy blanket of white covering us up ;D
-
Thanks Michael and Joan. I'm glad the robin got fed, just a
bit surprised to hear they stay with for the winter. They migrate
out of the upper midwest in early autumn on this side of the pond.
Nice for you. :)
Dean, those photos are humbling - that
snow was right up over the windows in those homes. I hope it slid
off the roofs before many timbers crack. Mother Nature showing her
strength.
If anyone is desperate
for Christmas gift ideas, there is a place in town that offers fish
pedicures and teeth whitening (they don't specify the method) among
other things. Note: I haven't tried it and I don't intend to.
You'd
have to be desperate to gift that. Whatever is fish pedicures
anyway? It sets up pictures in my head of a fish getting its fins
polished. :D
-
A fish pedicure is where you put your feet in a tank of fish - I
forget which species, and the fish then eat the dead skin from your
feet. A win-win for all concerned - fish get fed (I think they
also get fish food), and you get smooth feet. :P
-
There used to be a place in an Oxford shopping centre where you
could get your feet nibbled - I thought it would be rather tickly and
never gave it a go.
When I read Randi's post I had a vision of the fish being involved in tooth whitening too, which was a very weird picture!
-
I had an image of the fish getting their teeth whitened! ;D
-
;D ;D
-
I had an image of the fish getting their teeth whitened! ;D
(http://kookabura.smugmug.com/photos/i-RNN9QQC/0/M/i-RNN9QQC-M.jpg)
-
Museum switches on historic computer (http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30131447)
-
I did try a fish pedicure about three or four years ago - there was a
real fad for them in the UK at the time. It was quite pleasant,
but most of the establishments closed down in about six months or a
year, so it didn't seem to really catch on. And I think there may
have been animal welfare issues about the conditions the fish were kept
in.
-
OK - I'm going to admit to a fish pedicure. However, it involved the
water-lily house at the famous Oxford Botanic Gardens. Me and a few
friends used to go down there when it was very quiet (in the old days it
was not very visitor friendly so it did get quiet), one friend
would take his shoes and socks off, sit on the side of the raised pool,
and put his feet in for a pedicure. :o The rest of us would stick our
hands in for an obliging tickle. The friend's feet always looked good
after the obliging fish sorted them out - and I never saw a fish
floating on it's back shortly after. Honest! ::) ;D
I am now a fully paid-up Friend of the Botanic Garden - my manicure-at-the-lily-pond-days are now over. ;)
-
I personally think it is a neat idea, given that the fish are
properly housed in clean water in off hours. Wonder if there are
any around Chicagoland? They certainly don't advertize here.
:)
-
I had an image of the fish getting their teeth whitened! ;D
(http://kookabura.smugmug.com/photos/i-RNN9QQC/0/M/i-RNN9QQC-M.jpg)
;D ;D ;D
-
To those of us in the US,
Happy Thanksgiving!
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-9faOf2dWyoY/VHcFU9G1SnI/AAAAAAAABi4/2o-Bwni2-fM/w540-h488-no/Thanksgiving%2BTurkey.JPG)
-
You're late, Janet! We had ours more than a month ago. ;)
But Happy Thanksgiving to all and everyone living south of the border!!!
-
Happy Thanksgiving to all OWers in the US!
-
Happy Thanksgiving y'all!
Best wishes from the old side of the pond...
(https://imageshack.com/i/p4uHWXnVj)
-
To those of us in the US,
Happy Thanksgiving!
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-9faOf2dWyoY/VHcFU9G1SnI/AAAAAAAABi4/2o-Bwni2-fM/w540-h488-no/Thanksgiving%2BTurkey.JPG)
Fab turkey - love it!
From an OW Vegetarian ;)
-
Here's a wonderful essay about Thanksgiving and Thankful Living
(http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/27694-thanksgiving-day-and-the-powerful-play)
that I read today. It's suitable even for those of us who celebrated
Thanksgiving in October, or for those who don't have a thanksgiving
holiday.
-
Thought I'd share this from our local Weather Service Office about
that storm last week. I live just below the 'F' in Niagara Falls and we
had about 1" (2.5cm.) That's what 'Lake Effect' does around here!
USUALLY it 'wanders' a bit north and south - mostly south in the hills
and ski country - but this one just stalled and folks got
clobbered! 60" = 5 feet or 150cm!!
-
Sorry for being a little late with this - I meant to post it earlier, but got distracted and blah blah blah.
(http://s3.amazonaws.com/theoatmeal-img/comics/roasted_dinosaurs/roasted_dinosaurs.png)
-
;D
-
;D ;D ;D
-
Happy Birthday, Caro!!
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-R8Xavmyqwas/VHtVrBkVVEI/AAAAAAAABnk/O7_i7S0YBGU/w754-h501-no/Happy_Birthday_Cake.jpg)
-
(http://cl.jroo.me/z3/5/R/p/e/a.baa-Birthday-Cat.jpg)
Happy Birthday, Caro !
-
I can't match Randi's wonderful picture - but happy birthday Caro anyway!
-
Happy Birthday, Caro!
-
Happy Birthday to you, Caro!
-
To Caro on her 111th birthday:
Once again it is your birthday,
And I would just like to say,
May all your troubles be small,
('Cause you're the belle of the ball)
And everything goes your way!
-
:-* Thanks very much, Janet, Randi, Helen, Su, Hanibal and Kathy.
What fabulous cakes!
-
Happy happy happy birthday Caro :-*
(http://imageshack.com/a/img538/1701/YnyPZv.gif)
-
Ha ha ha! I know that look. Thanks very much, Joan.
-
All the best, Caro! Nice to squeak in a birthday before December :)
-
Thanks, Craig. :)
-
Best wishes to on your birthday and for the coming year, Carol! Michael
-
Caro:
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear Caaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrroooooooooooooooooooooooooooo,
Happy Birthday to you!
Hope it's a happy one and that you get lots of neat presents!
Hope also you get to share with family! ;)
-
;DHAPPY BIRTHDAY! CARO :-*
-
Happy completion-of-a-rotation-around-the-sun day Caro! :D
-
;D
-
Thank you, Michael, Dean, Liz and tastiger. :)
Welcome to December everybody. :o
-
Happy birthday Caro!! :) :)
-
Grazie, Matteo. :)
-
Happy Birthday + 1, Caro!
-
Thanks Janet. ;)
-
:) The new advent Calendar is out !
https://www.zooniverse.org/advent So 8) 8) Way to got
Caro! ;D
-
Yo Caro!!!! Fantastic - on the calendar. And thoroughly deserved if I may say so. :D
-
Very nice pick!! :)
-
Congrats Caro! 8) 8) 8) 8)
-
Thanks all! :)
-
:) Hello everyone must say happy to report that it is raining
here? I know California needs the rain but does it all have to
come down all at once. :o
-
Happy to report that it's not raining here (temporarily).
-
Happy to report that it's not raining here (temporarily) ;D
On the other hand, with all the clouds and rain it has not been too cold, and that is nice for the heating bill ;)
-
Happy to report that it's not raining here (temporarily) ;D
Sunny
skies and Light airs when the sun finally rises, and maybe temps rising
slightly above freezing this afternoon, the current rain and snow going
by south of us.
-
Please note: Holidays in the U.S. Log Books (http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=4300.0) ;)
-
Yesterday, 10 min later the heavens opened with the heaviest rain in a long time.
How would you describe these clouds in the log?
-
"Impressive!!" ;)
-
Awe-inspiring and scary!
-
Very 'JMW Turner' in style, more imposing than Constable I'd say. ;)
-
G'mrning OW. If anyone has seen a good night's sleep I'd be interested to home it.
(http://www.desismileys.com/smileys/desismileys_6647.gif)
-
Cor - check out the serengeti on today's advent calendar:
https://www.zooniverse.org/advent. You HAVE to see the piccies on
http://daily.zooniverse.org/2014/12/04/zooniverse-advent-day-4-your-favourite-snapshots/
stunning/dramatic/funny. 8)
-
Morning Joan, morning all.
True; Snapshot Serengeti comes up with amazing pics.
-
Thought this belonged here with us!
Mods: Feel free to copy and/or move this to a better place. :D
-
Truth. Thanks for a good start for my day. :)
-
Very well said! Thanks Dean.
-
A good perspective Dean - thanks for posting it.
-
Wonderful words Dean!
-
We seem to have a bug in the system.
https://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USS%20Concord/vol025of040/vol025of040_022_1.jpg
(https://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USS%20Concord/vol025of040/vol025of040_022_1.jpg)
:o
-
We seem to have a bug in the system.
https://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USS%20Concord/vol025of040/vol025of040_022_1.jpg
(https://oldweather.s3.amazonaws.com/ow3/final/USS%20Concord/vol025of040/vol025of040_022_1.jpg)
:o
;D LOL
-
;D
-
A archived fossil! Should we send the specimen to Notes From Nature? ;D
-
;D ;D ;D ;D
Another 'well known' bug!! http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/tek1/first_computer_bug.htm ;)
Also - on 'quick read' it looks like 'flog' ship. Not sure i'd want to be crew on THAT one!! :o
-
A archived fossil! Should we send the specimen to Notes From Nature? ;D
The day before, 14 Jan 1899, they noted that there was a pest of flies on the ship.
-
Morning all.
I see the citizen scientist lolcats are back:
http://daily.zooniverse.org/2014/12/07/zooniverse-advent-day-7-the-lolcats-are-back/
(as noted elsewhere by Janet :) )
Good news: http://www.nasa.gov/newhorizons/on-plutos-doorstep-new-horizons-spacecraft-awakens-for-encounter/#.VIPVAWO9aSo
-
Great - interesting stuff coming next year. :)
-
Exciting stuff...Pluto and co. :)
-
If the Rosetta probes do their stuff and New Horizons stays awake,
the next few months should have observational astronomers struggling to
interpret it all. Just think, when I was a kid I thought that we might
reach the moon when I was as old as my Great Grandfather (in his 80s).
There was a radio programme 'Journey into Space' which I followed
breathlessly every week. I'd look up at the moon and it seemed so far
away, and Journey into Space so obviously science fiction even though it
was really exciting at the time. I just hoped I'd live long enough to
see us get there - now I'm wondering if I'll still be around when they
try for a trip to Mars!!
-
now I'm wondering if I'll still be around when they try for a trip to Mars!!
Don't keep wondering - get yourself in the queue now or you'll miss the tickets! ;) ;) ;D
-
Neat!
I can hardly wait till the data starts coming back.
-
If
the Rosetta probes do their stuff and New Horizons stays awake, the
next few months should have observational astronomers struggling to
interpret it all. Just think, when I was a kid I thought that we might
reach the moon when I was as old as my Great Grandfather (in his 80s).
There was a radio programme 'Journey into Space' which I followed
breathlessly every week. I'd look up at the moon and it seemed so far
away, and Journey into Space so obviously science fiction even though it
was really exciting at the time. I just hoped I'd live long enough to
see us get there - now I'm wondering if I'll still be around when they
try for a trip to Mars!!
I
loved Journey Into Space! All the series were repeated on Radio
4Extra a couple of years ago. I thought it stood the test of time
fairly well on the whole. And I loved the way David Jacobs would
be playing about half a dozen different roles by putting on different
regional accents!
-
I want a replay of Quatermass
-
If
the Rosetta probes do their stuff and New Horizons stays awake, the
next few months should have observational astronomers struggling to
interpret it all. Just think, when I was a kid I thought that we might
reach the moon when I was as old as my Great Grandfather (in his 80s).
There was a radio programme 'Journey into Space' which I followed
breathlessly every week. I'd look up at the moon and it seemed so far
away, and Journey into Space so obviously science fiction even though it
was really exciting at the time. I just hoped I'd live long enough to
see us get there - now I'm wondering if I'll still be around when they
try for a trip to Mars!!
Neat!
I can hardly wait till the data starts coming back.
Just think...if we ever run out of ships there will be a whole new data list for us to attack!! ;D ;D
-
No transcribing today, I'm afraid - I've been out all day. As
compensation, if anyone is in London or passing through, there's an
interesting exhibition at the British Library, on the hunt for the
Northwest Passage. It's free, and not too big, so if you're around
King's Cross with some time to spare (which is how I got to see it)
it's well worth making the small detour.
-
Sounds great - but sadly I can't get there. I wonder - did they give
any idea of how the mythical Northwest Passage was ever dreamt up? That
has always intrigued me. :)
-
It seems to have been at least partly that they (the British) really
needed it to exist, as the Spanish and Portuguese had control of other
routes to 'the east'. So getting from the Atlantic to the Pacific
by that route was an attractive proposition. And it's obvious from
some of the early maps they had in the exhibition that the geography of
the area is really complex and it's not surprising that they believed
it must be possible to find a way through.
-
That makes a lot of sense..I hadn't thought about having to
negotiate foreign waters - especially given that they were filled with
rival 'business men' for spices, tea, and silk (I guess).
-
There is a book written about the Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake
(that's the title) that theorizes that Sir Francis drake was ordered by
Queen Elizabeth to sail around Cape Horn and north along the west coast
of the Americas to see if there was an outlet to the Arctic Ocean, or
was it like the Mediterranean and Black Seas with only one way in or
out. Frobisher had discovered the eastern entrance, but without a
western exit the Arctic Ocean would not be too useful for skirting North
America. Queen Elizabeth wanted assurances that there was an exit to
the Arctic Ocean before she would fund money for any more explorations.
It is thought that Drake entered the Bering Sea, and so proved the
existence of the necessary exit. It is surmised that this was why
attempts to find the NorthWest passage continued for so many more years.
When Drake returned, sailing west around Africa, he made his reports
which were buried so the Spanish and Portugese would not be able to
profit from his discovery.
The book was well researched and very interesting. I highly recommend it.
-
Interesting!
-
Curiosity Mars rover 'solves mountain riddle' (http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30390143)
-
Cool!! ;D
-
yes- that really is cool! 8) 8)
-
For those still interested in our 'blizzard' here is a short
video made locally that has some really great pictures of the whole
thing and pokes some fun at us too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=i8NfchMdgpM
-
;D
-
;D 8)
-
Cool! ;D 8)
-
AWESOME ;D
It appears that Northern California is in
for a little rain :o Oh dear I know we need the rain .....here come the
flash floods etc. ::)
-
Will you be safe in the floods Elizabeth? I do hope so! :)
-
There's a bit of weather up north here too: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30407295 :o
-
Will you be safe in the floods Elizabeth? I do hope so! :)
Well it's going to get very wet here, in Santa Cruz I am sure
.... The storm will hit on my days off ::) Always!
Oh
well as long as the power does not go off.................I will sit
inside and maybe do a few WR. If the powers goes off I will catch
up on my reading...........by candle light ;)
-
Looks like Scotland could use one of your candles, Elizabeth. The electrics are still down on the W coast... :o
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/538/9NcTQW.jpg)
-
Morning all.
Here is the property news: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30411069
;D
-
Neat. %^)
-
I dunno - looked quite messy to me ;D
-
Just when you think you know everything there is to know about
clouds.... http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/science/article4292822.ece
The
BBC featured this in its morning news prog - but in looking for this
cloud formation on the web it seems that this is not that new...can't
find the news snippet yet.
8)
-
Any chance you could post the full article text here, Joan?
I can't view it because I'm not a subscriber.
-
Really cool astronomer doodle on the US google search today - Annie
Jump Cannon's 151st birthday
(https://www.google.com/webhp?tab=ww&ei=0LGJVLKfF4iyyQST8IDoDw&ved=0CAkQ1S4#q=Annie+Jump+Cannon&oi=ddle&ct=annie-jump-cannons-151st-birthday-5677811415121920-hp&hl=en).
She studied stuff the male astronomers of the day thought below them,
and showed them all off. :)
-
For one particular cloud, the silver lining has been a long time
coming. It has been 200 years since scientists first classified the
different types of clouds, and 60 since a new one has been named. Now,
thanks to an British amateur enthusiast, the Cloud atlas could soon
receive a new entry ? Undulatus asperatus.
As the founder of the
Cloud Appreciation Society, Gavin Pretor-Pinney has been receiving
photographs of clouds from his 36,000 members for nearly a decade. And
for much of that time, one growing set of images has troubled him.
?When
clouds come in, we classify them according to what type they are,? said
Mr Pretor-Pinney, author of The Cloudspotter?s Guide. ?In 2005 we got
sent some photographs from Cedar Rapids in Iowa, and they struck me as
quite unusual.?
They were a wavy cloud, classified as Undulatus, but
they were also different from the others an as such defied
categorisation. ?It is a little as if you are under water, looking at
the surface of the water when it is a choppy, turbulent day,? he said of
their form.
Mr Pretor-Pinney put the image on the website and forgot
about it ? until a year later another arrived from Australia, then one
from Scotland. ?They were more turbulent, chaotic and confused than
other Undulatus. They rather stumped me.? Then he arrived at the
solution. ?I thought maybe we could do with a new classification.?
He
enlisted the help of scientists from the University of Reading and the
Royal Meteorological Society to understand whether and how the cloud was
scientifically distinct. It also needed a Latin name. He consulted his
cousin, a classics teacher, who suggested asperatus, meaning roughened,
from the line in Virgil?s Aeneid, ?Winter roughens up the waves with
cold north winds?.
After consideration of his submission by the World
Meteorological Organisation, it has now recommended that asperatus
makes its way into their Cloud atlas, in which all types are recorded
and a decision will be made next year.
The precise conditions that
produce the cloud remain elusive, but Dr Liz Bentley, from the Royal
Meteorological Society, knows the broad basics. ?When there are
contrasting temperature layers it gives the atmosphere energy. That
causes turbulence, as the layers start to mix and churn,? she said. ?It
makes for a very dramatic sky. It has that kind of stormy nature as if
you are seeing the surface battered by strong winds.?
Assuming asperatus does gain recognition though, why does it matter? After all, it always existed.
?In
my mind, the naming of nature is intimately linked to paying attention
to it,? said Mr Pretor-Pinney. ?It?s how the human brain works ? we put
things in different compartments, we need to classify them. Clouds are
the part of nature that is most resistant to that urge. Constantly in
change, constantly metamorphosing from one type to another, they are the
embodiment of chaos.
?And yet out of that Victorian desire to
catalogue nature comes this system for naming clouds and I like the idea
of keeping that alive. It helps to engage the public?s attention.
Things that are the most everyday are the things you see the least. We
need to tap people on the shoulder and say, ?Don?t just think of clouds
as so many inches of rain and hail ? they are the most dynamic, poetic
and evocative part of nature?.?
FACT FILE
The tallest clouds can stretch 14 miles into the atmosphere ? more than twice the height of Everest
Cumulonimbus clouds have unpredictable, strong winds. In 1959 a pilot bailed out and spent 30 minutes bouncing around inside one
In China, the practice of seeding clouds to produce rain has led to rows about ?cloud stealing? between drought-stricken regions
Clouds might be more prevalent on weekdays. A study found storms peak in the working week, when air pollution is at its worst
Clouds on Venus are made of sulphuric acid. Those on Jupiter consist of ammonia.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Looks
like a beautiful synergy between enthusiastic amateur cloud watchers
and enthusiastic scientists. What a beazer combination. ;D
-
Truly beautiful - I had to googled for photos. ;D
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1WPZB_enUS596US596&ion=1&espv=2&es_th=1&ie=UTF-8#q=undulatus%20asperatus%20gif
(http://i.imwx.com/web/UndulatusAsperatus320x180.gif)
(https://41.media.tumblr.com/920f95a5c60219ba0c545143d9446008/tumblr_mj7qbzeMBV1qbh26io1_500.jpg)
-
Now that's a sight you don't see every day.
I wonder what weather followed those clouds.
-
Looks like Scotland could use one of your candles, Elizabeth. The electrics are still down on the W coast... :o
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/538/9NcTQW.jpg)
They are still out.
:'(
-
:) I put a empty gallon bucket out on the deck this time
yesterday.....it is now full! Must say just a little wet over here
::)
-
:) I put a empty gallon bucket out on the deck this time
yesterday.....it is now full! Must say just a little wet over here
::)
:o :o :o You're going to need a ship soon! ;)
-
:) I put a empty gallon bucket out on the deck this time
yesterday.....it is now full! Must say just a little wet over here
::)
This
is the time of year I really like the good old USA for their Olympic
Range just south and southwest of us here in Victoria. We are in its
rain shadow!!! Hurrah! West Vancouver, in the past week had 166 mm of
rain. We had barely 40. My sister, 50 km north of here had over 110.
Places on the west coast of Vancouver Island had 300-500 mm. Lots of
power outages, mud slides and flooding, but not here. Thank you, Olympic
Mountains. Long may you stand tall! ;D
-
Joan, they were using kayaks to get around the streets of Los
Angeles last night on the news - on gentleman who had been the only to
leave his car in a parking lot was standing next to it with water up
past his waist. A very serious storm.
-
Wow Janet, that's a bit grim! The water looks exciting - but
there's a lot of different types of water in there (let's not dwell etc)
(yuk)...
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/673/Tn5VLH.png)
scary
story from elderly folks caught in the rainy
mess....http://news.yahoo.com/california-storm-hits-south-drenching-north-084922404.html
-
Geminids meteor shower: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/dec/12/geminids-meteor-shower-britain-hopes-clear-skies
Apparently
visible from almost anywhere on the planet. (And, fingers
crossed, we have clear skies forecast for Devon tonight.)
-
Wowee - thanks - I'll nip outside in a couple of hours time...well wrapped up though.
-
No hope of seeing them in Chicago, dense clouds keeping us above
freezing (in the daytime anyway) without raining on us. December
weather has been worse. :)
-
Hmmm. I'll keep watch from indoors, I think. :)
-
I slipped out and took a look, but there's way too many clouds here.
So I'm heading off to bed now. Good night.
(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8391512064/hD8AD7F7A/)
-
well I braved -4C outside for an hour - good meteors, not exactly
storm force, but quite good - just can't make it 'til 2 a.m. :D (why is
it always 2 am?? :-\) Crystal clear sky - sorry you had cloud
across the Channel Hanibal. :(
I'm just taking my two lumps of ice feet to bed...zzzzzz :)
-
Checked before going to bed and it was cloudy here :'( - but good excuse to not go out in the cold :)
-
Mega volcanism indicted in dinosaur demise
(https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mega-volcanism-indicted-dinosaur-demise?tgt=nr)
If you want the full article, send me a PM :-X
-
Dear oh dear - the dinosaurs really had a bad time of it...just the wrong era to be around.
It did remind me of this Larson cartoon though: ( ;) )
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/633/27GtuM.jpg) :-X
-
I remember that one! ;D
-
Perhaps we can blame the dinosaurs for getting global warming
started. Obviously there was already a tobacco industry ;D
-
That has always been one of my favorite Far Side cartoons -
True story:
My
son, when he was about 7 LOVED The Far Side - one day, when I was
talking to my mom, he came running up to us and said "How do
entomologists die?" and then proceeded to flop over on his back, with
his legs and hands up in the air. I had no idea what he was doing
until I took a look at his Far Side book - he was doing a Far Side
cartoon.
-
Yes, I love the Far Side cartoons!
A lot
were really, really funny, but one of my favorites (book in hand!) is
with two women in a house and a huge insect at the door and visible
through the window and has the text:
"Calm down, Edna... Yes, it's some giant, hideous insect... but it could be some giant, hideous insect in need of help"
-
Here's one of my favourites. (Don't be intimidated by this ugly link).
http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=AwrB8ppA1Y1UfSUAl4WJzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTIyYjExNWpzBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1nBG9pZAMxYzU2YWVhYTlmODhhNjNjZGY5MjJmM2IyOWNjNzQ2YgRncG9zAzUEaXQDYmluZw--?.origin=&back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Dfar%2Bside%2Bcartoon%2Blucy%26fr%3Die8%26fr2%3Dpiv-web%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D5&w=952&h=1256&imgurl=img3.wikia.nocookie.net%2F__cb20130502205454%2Ffarside%2Fimages%2Fd%2Fd2%2F1987-02-03_-_second_lucy.png&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Ffarside.wikia.com%2Fwiki%2FFile%3A1987-02-03_-_second_lucy.png&size=912.8KB&name=File%3A1987-02-03+-+second+%3Cb%3Elucy%3C%2Fb%3E.png&p=far+side+cartoon+lucy&oid=1c56aeaa9f88a63cdf922f3b29cc746b&fr2=piv-web&fr=ie8&tt=File%3A1987-02-03+-+second+%3Cb%3Elucy%3C%2Fb%3E.png&b=0&ni=21&no=5&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=11vqvnq4v&sigb=138fqftif&sigi=12rmfug7u&sigt=118vt5gbp&sign=118vt5gbp&.crumb=cJM84YxIlMr&fr=ie8&fr2=piv-web
-
Those cartoons are guaranteed to make me laugh. I do love them. :)
-
well
I braved -4C outside for an hour - good meteors, not exactly storm
force, but quite good - just can't make it 'til 2 a.m. :D (why is it
always 2 am?? :-\) Crystal clear sky - sorry you had cloud across
the Channel Hanibal. :(
I'm just taking my two lumps of ice feet to bed...zzzzzz :)
I
only managed to stick it for half an hour, in which time I saw three
meteors. The sky was partly covered by thin cloud so that might be
why I didn't see very many. But in many ways I was quite please
to see the cloud as that heralded milder weather! At least I saw
something!
-
Yes, I love the Far Side cartoons!
A
lot were really, really funny, but one of my favorites (book in hand!)
is with two women in a house and a huge insect at the door and visible
through the window and has the text:
"Calm down, Edna... Yes, it's some giant, hideous insect... but it could be some giant, hideous insect in need of help"
Those cartoons are guaranteed to make me laugh. I do love them. :)
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
-
The BBC recently re-released one of their classic documentary series, The Great War, on their iPlayer.
Thought
some of you might be interested in the sixth and final part: It's about
the Royal Navy and the German High Sea Fleet, their strengths and
weaknesses and several early naval battles like the Falkland Islands.
You can find it here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074p1v/the-great-war-6-so-sleep-easy-in-your-beds
Oh, and those of you outside of the UK will need to get Hola Better Internet,
a free browser extension that lets you access websites via proxy
servers in foreign countries. I've used it to trick them into thinking
I'm in the UK, and it works very well.
-
I've seen a few Far Side cartoons here and there. I was a Calvin and
Hobbs fan growing up (although I was so young at the time I thought the
tiger was supposed to be real). They have one posted in one of my dorms
bathroom stalls, but unfortunately I can't find a picture online of
it...
-
The BBC recently re-released one of their classic documentary series, The Great War, on their iPlayer.
Thought
some of you might be interested in the sixth and final part: It's about
the Royal Navy and the German High Sea Fleet, their strengths and
weaknesses and several early naval battles like the Falkland Islands.
You can find it here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074p1v/the-great-war-6-so-sleep-easy-in-your-beds
It's a fascinating program in many ways. Thanks for posting, Hanibal.
-
Microbes discovered by deepest marine drill analysed (http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30489814)
-
Quite a number of our ships have visited San Francisco, some for quite long periods of time.
I
came across a link to this photograph of SF in 1906
(http://imgur.com/5N6NU35). It was taken six weeks after the 1906
earthquake, and shows quite a number of docked ships, plus some in the
bay - perhaps someone will spot their own ship!
-
I've
seen a few Far Side cartoons here and there. I was a Calvin and Hobbs
fan growing up (although I was so young at the time I thought the tiger
was supposed to be real). They have one posted in one of my dorms
bathroom stalls, but unfortunately I can't find a picture online of
it...
Love them both AND add Charles Schultz and Snoopy!! ;)
-
I liked Calvin and Hobbs too ;D
I haven't seen any for a long time.
-
Calvin and Hobbes is great. I recall Calvin getting up one day and
his clothes drawer attacked him, so he appeared in checks on top, with
stripes on his jacket, and paisley trousers. ;D
-
Calvin and Hobbes was my favorite when I was a kid!
I liked it so much, my parents were able to force me to be good by threatening to take the books away if I was bad.
-
;D ;D ;D
-
Volume of world's oldest water estimated (http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30527357)
-
The volume of water is staggering. Likewise its estimated age.
Ice pancakes, anyone? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30528194
-
Both articles very interesting. :)
-
Yes - fascinating. Can't wait to find out if my friends living next to Aberdeen saw them 'in the flesh'...or in the 'foam'.
-
Hello OW.
Interesting stuff: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30471542
-
Morning Caro - fascinating article indeed!
-
:o Oh my Just got off work....Driving down my street. A
Big tree down...No apparent injuries. I do not know if any cars got
crushed. Was able to get to my parking spot. I do not known
if if I will be able to get out tomorrow. A bit of wet weather at
the moment. ::)
-
Just be careful, Elizabeth.
First reaction I had to that article is, when are they going to launch Glacier Zoo? 8)
-
Good morning OW.
Something for everybody: Santa's Jigsaw (http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=ER13610552)
-
Thank you, Hanibal94!
I love jigsaw puzzles ;D
-
Thank's hanibal - that was fun .... :D
-
I like that one. :)
-
Thanks Hanibal!
-
I had to wait 'til the last piece went in to work it out. Lots of fun. ;) ;) ;D
-
Belated
Happy Birthday
to
tastiger!
-
And from me, Tastiger! Happy belated birthday!!
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/661/gUOc4x.jpg) ;D
-
Belated birthday greetings Tastiger!
Good morning all and happy winter/summer solstice. :)
-
Hope you had a good birthday Tastiger.
Happy Solstice!
-
Why do mornings still get darker after the winter solstice? (http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30549149)
-
Nothing is perfect under the sun ;D
-
Fascinating article! I did know that the shortest day didn't
neccessarily mean that the mornings would start get lighter but I never
knew why. It doesn't help that the standard winter weather for northern
England is 'od', so it's not always easy to tell when the sun has risen.
-
Why do mornings still get darker after the winter solstice? (http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30549149)
As my good friend often says....."Don't worry. It's always darkest just before it goes to pitch black!!" ;)
-
... And, the light at the end of the tunnel is probably an oncoming train ;D
-
... And, the light at the end of the tunnel is probably an oncoming train ;D
You betcha!!!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
-
If our very accurate GMT clocks that say it is noon are out of sync
with the sun, do sailors wanting to use noon to determine location by
sextant still needing to ignore the clock and go by AST?
(Approximate Ship Time)
-
Belated
Happy Birthday
to
tastiger
And from me, Tastiger! Happy belated birthday!!
;D
Belated birthday greetings Tastiger!
Good morning all and happy winter/summer solstice. :)
Hope you had a good birthday Tastiger.
Happy Solstice!
Thanks everyone! :D
-
An early Happy Christmas to everyone!
I'm away for a week -
there is WiFi where I'm going but they say it's not available everywhere
in the building. I'm hoping I don't get too many withdrawal
symptoms ;)
-
An early Happy Christmas to you too,
and a safe and happy vacation!
-
Happy hols, Janet. :)
-
Happy holidays and Merry Christmas jil! :)
-
I hope you can get just as much of OW as you need ....
-
Thanks all - the WiFi works!!
-
Yes, I can tell you've been transcribing .... ;)
-
;D
-
Great to hear you're still with us, Jil!
I'm also on vacation - staying with relatives in New Jersey -, but I'm still transcribing.
-
Hanibal94: Enjoy your vacation - and your grandmother's cooking!
-
Have a great holiday, hanibal (or even vacation).
-
Happy holidays jil and Hanibal!!! I'm also away at a friend's
but keeping, just, in touch. Not that I'm addicted in any way shape or
form to OW ( ::) ::) ::) ) :D
-
:o Oh my you did it! Thank you Caro! Look at my
Foxy all deck out for the season. ;D :-* :-* :-* Best
Christmas Present! Thank you.
-
... Not that I'm addicted in any way shape or form to OW ( ::) ::) ::) ) :D
Me neither.
-
... Not that I'm addicted in any way shape or form to OW ( ::) ::) ::) ) :D
Me neither.
Addicted??!! :o Nah!!!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year all! ;D ;D
-
:o Oh my you did it! Thank you Caro! Look at my Foxy all
deck out for the season. ;D :-* :-* :-* Best Christmas
Present! Thank you.
You look fabulous Elizabeth - very foxy indeed ;D
-
You're welcome Liz. I avoided the temptation to give Foxy a big red nose.
This year's cake theme is adult, sophisticated ... pfffffff. :)
The lights are not quite as subtle as they appear in the photo.
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Oae3B7HNs5w/VJmap_OnqpI/AAAAAAAAQh4/np4BdYflseQ/s800/IMG_1232.JPG?gl=GB)
-
;D
-
Santa looks great in his supporting role ;D
-
Googles Santa Tracker.
https://santatracker.google.com/#village (https://santatracker.google.com/#village)
For the Cat lovers, check out Iceland by clicking traditions (the Yellow pointer). %^)
First half hearted attempt at getting presents (Blue pointer) 1200 points
No idea what the green one is supposed to do.
3400 on Boatload.
Airport - no scores
1780 on racer
4328 on Matching
1320 on presentdrop
9300 on gumball
6385 on jetpack
Codelab starts OK then goes somewhere, no idea what to do.
1950 on mercator
Jamband do your own thing
santaselfie no idea
#commandcentre no idea.
Enjoy, gives you beatable tasks to do.
For the less age challenged there is the calendar to learn from, click the RED icon on top right.
-
Victorian Strangeness: Four Christmas incidents (http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30514644)
Turks celebrate Father Christmas as local hero (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30577800)
-
I tried the Santa Village, here's how I did:
10300 on Boatload
4730 on Racer
16032 on Matching (made it all the way to the end on this one!)
8600 on Presentdrop
21750 on Gumball
33046 on Jetpack
With
Codelab, you have to put together a set on instructions using building
blocks so the elf can get to the present. I solved everything on this
one (no score).
7150 on Mercator (beat this one too!)
I checked the other things, but none of them are beatable tasks.
So in a nutshell, I totally beat Stuart's highscore in every event. Mwa ha ha ha ha ha ha!
-
I'm not even going to try ;D
-
I'm with you, Randi! I think this may be a generational thing ....
-
No point in me even starting....I still need to get the last of my
xmas cards written (oh the guilt!) - well - given I've been bad it saves
Santa a trip to my stocking - and I see that as a charity to someone
that old. ;)
(exits muttering 'must try harder next year' etc etc)
-
No
point in me even starting....I still need to get the last of my xmas
cards written (oh the guilt!) - well - given I've been bad it saves
Santa a trip to my stocking - and I see that as a charity to someone
that old. ;)
(exits muttering 'must try harder next year' etc etc)
Make them Epiphany cards, and then you'll be in good time ....
-
Nothing like having a highly qualified adviser on hand! ;D ;D ;D
-
Oh Helen - THANK YOU! Epiphany it is then..and perhaps I will have an epiphanic moment and be on time next year. :D
I wonder is Santa has been to Stuart yet? :)
-
I guess Santa came but he either forgot to stop or could not fit down the 8 in wood fire flue.
Looks like I will have to drink the scotch and eat the mince pie.
Oh, the thing we have to do for tradition.
Yours suffering.
Stuart
-
:D :D :D
-
So hard on you, Stuart. How many friends are you sharing your suffering with? ;D
-
Maybe Helen can give you some spirituous advice ;)
-
That would be neat advice ;D
-
So hard on you, Stuart. How many friends are you sharing your suffering with? ;D
What are friends? :(
I have the wife with me if she counts? ::)
-
Hanibal.
It would have taken you some time to get those scores.
What I showed was my FIRST run scores.
I showed you mine, show me yours. ;)
Like I said, "Enjoy, gives you beatable tasks to do."
-
I tried one: Mercator.
Second go (after I worked out what I was supposed to be doing) I got 6600.
The end. ;D
-
Wishing everyone a Cool Yule!
-
Happy Christmas OW ;D
-
Happy Christmas OW
;D
-
Any advice I could give you would land you on the rocks -
-
So if Santa is bringing nothing for Joan, and he brought nothing for
Stuart, does that mean I can get even MORE STUFF? I may have
already got my metaphoric lump of coal - possible bronchitis!
:'( I'll cough into my sleeve so I don't infect you all...
Merry Christmas, one and all!
(I still don't think it's possible to have Christmas without snow.)
-
Hanibal.
It would have taken you some time to get those scores.
What I showed was my FIRST run scores.
I showed you mine, show me yours. ;)
Like I said, "Enjoy, gives you beatable tasks to do."
Those ARE my first run scores! ;D
-
Yah, Sure they were. ::)
Where did you find the instructions, I could not. :-[
-
There are no instructions. You just have to use the arrow keys, the space bar and sometimes the mouse.
-
(I still don't think it's possible to have Christmas without snow.)
We are having liquid snow here at the moment.
16c Rtl cum nim 0
-
Here's a Christmas wish.
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/history/features/apollo_8.html#.VJumMV4A8
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ZBpi2Pzi4oE/VJuoI4FVy2I/AAAAAAAABr4/vte9rVOpv68/w496-h397-no/Earth%2Bfrom%2BMoon.jpg)
-
Happy Christmas to all!
-
Happy Christmas ! !
-
Merry Christmas to you all.
Follow this link to see a corny animation of my self made Christmas card:
http://youtu.be/RWwqiXriGmI (http://youtu.be/RWwqiXriGmI)
-
Merry Christmas Old Weather!!!
Nice animated Christmas card, Maikel :) :)
Thank you :)
-
Merry Christmas Old Weather !
-
Merry Christmas to everyone and everybody!!!
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GA3uYAaFJJU/U1sF6vAblTI/AAAAAAAAHho/9Uhhz1brULE/s1600/W19.jpg)
(Not from Unalga, but still a 1918 Merry Xmas card from an USS ship :)))
-
Merry Christmas everyone!
-
:) Merry Christmas everyone :-*
-
Neat map, Craig!
-
Definitely a cool map. Merry Christmas, everyone.
-
Frohe Weihnachten, Kumpels!
-
Merry Christmas all (and to all a good night!)
-
Merry Christmas all (and to all a good night!)
But I just woke up...
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!! (Or Happy Holidays for those who prefer the more secular wording.)
-
Merry Christmas everyone - wherever you are in the festivities!
-
Ahoy there dear shipmates - a very very merry Christmas to you and yours, and my heartfelt best wishes for the year ahead.
(http://imageshack.com/a/img661/3961/orvKAz.jpg)
-
8) ship, Joan!
-
Wonderful picture, Joan!
-
Love that ship, Joan. 8)
-
Love that ship, Joan. 8)
Definitely!
-
Great ship!
-
Tomorrow (the 26th), I'm leaving on a short trip and will be back on the 30th.
I
don't know if I'll have Internet access during this time - if yes, I
will transcribe a bit, and if not, I won't be transcribing at all!
-
Tomorrow (the 26th), I'm leaving on a short trip and will be back on the 30th.
I
don't know if I'll have Internet access during this time - if yes, I
will transcribe a bit, and if not, I won't be transcribing at all!
:D Well in that case enjoy your short trip and have a good time.
-
Enjoy and have a good time!!! :)
-
Huzzah! I have Internet access, and it works well!
But since I'm on vacation, I shall do no more than the daily 5 date contribution to the Concord.
-
Glad you're pitching in a bit, but concentrate on having a good vacation, Hanibal. Tis the season. :)
-
Back home for the night and then back out tomorrow for a couple of
days (28th and the next night) and will be out of touch. I feel 'cold
turkey' coming on (and I'm not talking about left over xmas dinner
::) ;D )
-
Hope you can hang on until you're safely back .... ;D
-
Morning all. Wrong side of zero here this morning. Sunny though. ;)
-
Sunny here in Cheshire as well (visiting family - with Internet!).
Pavements pretty treacherous with half melted snow & ice so I'm not
walking out at the moment but it lifts the spirits anyway.
:) :)
-
Morning all.
Saw this interesting pic on Twitter.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B6FNsxCCEAA0Ra3.jpg:small)
Darling Harbour, Sydney.
-
:o 8)
-
darling ;)
-
Very sweet - makes me feel warm just looking at it. :)
-
Haven't got my reading glasses on - is that Stuart on that boat then
- looks like he needs a sun tan - he's a bit pale pink. ;D
-
The search for Australia's lost hospital ship (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-29569135)
-
Saw this interesting pic on Twitter.
I sure hope this is an inflatable, or else our view of the world is about to change dramatically. ;D
-
Haven't
got my reading glasses on - is that Stuart on that boat then - looks
like he needs a sun tan - he's a bit pale pink. ;D
Joan, which boat?
no links on my pc ???
(I did do 6 months on a ship called Centaur but not the hospital one.)
-
I saved Joan's photo and attach it here. She's thinking you are the sunbather. ;D
-
Nice one, Thanks Joan. :P (and Janet)
-
Just think how fast Stuart could transcribe with 8 arms. ;D
-
But he would only have one 'finger' per arm, so it would actually be worse!
-
Ah, but I can always find plenty of suckers to do my work %^)
-
:o ;D
-
::) ;D
-
An explanation has appeared. The octopus is part of an exhibition:
@ANMMuseum
Kraken attack! This giant octopus has taken over our sub at @darlingharbour, all part of #VoyagetotheDeep.
Mapping
the ocean floor at Fernando de Noronha (a name familiar to anyone who
has transcribed or edited logs of RN ships on South American duty):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30571259
... in 15 seconds! :)
-
Mapping
the ocean floor at Fernando de Noronha (a name familiar to anyone who
has transcribed or edited logs of RN ships on South American duty):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30571259
... in 15 seconds! :)
Must
have a street wander along the reef sometime! Nice one. And just to say
(to keep records straight) - thanks for putting up the octopus
photo...great fun :D
-
I think there is something wrong with the temperature display in our
car. This morning there was a small horizontal line in front of the
temperature. It looked like: -2C. It was the same thing yesterday
morning, but it seemed to fix itself in the afternoon when the little
horizontal line disappeared. I don't like these intermittent
faults! ;D
-
We had a corker on Monday night; -5 in Oxford - looked very crisp
outside...beautiful frost by the a.m. Funny how that little bar makes
such a difference! ;) :D
-
;D
-
We had snow on Boxing Day - and it's still very white and icy.
It has looked beautiful, but I have to say I'm rather looking forward
to a thaw - getting out of the lane where I have to park has proved
rather trying, although the road at the front of the house is absolutely
fine.
-
We had a long thaw before Christmas and almost all our snow melted.
Now it's cold again (lots of little bars as far out as the eye can see)
but no snow. At least it's cold enough now that the ski operators can
make snow for the hills. They're threating us with a -24 C sometime next
week so I may have to put on mitts to transcribe ;D
-
They're threatening us with a -24 C sometime next week so I may have to put on mitts to transcribe ;D
-24C? -hotwater bottles to the ready!
(http://imageshack.com/a/img673/4715/MG4dnh.gif)
-
Happy new year everyone!
See you in 2015. ;D
-
Wishing all of OW crew a happy sailing into the new horizon of 2015
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x480q90/673/fzHAGh.jpg)
-
(http://vipexclusives.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Playboy-News-Header-950.jpg)
-
Happy New Year, everyone!
I sure am missing
transcribing and all of you in this community! All is well
here. Home renovation projects have been commandeering my non-work
time since the summer, with a few months to go.
Wishing you a wonderful 2015!
Carolyn
-
Happy New Year
-
I am glad to hear from you again, Carolyn - I wondered what had
become of you. All the best to you and all our old fair- and
foul-weather friends. In short, to all our OW friends!
Happy New Year everybody!