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[Randi]

Happy Birthday
Gordon

[pommystuart]

Have a great Birthday Gordon.

[Michael]

Happy Birthday, Gordon!!!

[Hanibal94]

Happy Birthday, Gordon!

[jil]

Gordon, hope you're having/had a good birthday!

[ggordon]

Thank you everyone!

That cake looks a lot like the German Chocolate Cake I got and the ale looks similar to the special one I purchased a while back and have been saving for a special occasion.

[Randi]

Yup, it is indeed German Chocolate Cake
It's a favorite of mine.

German chocolate cake, originally German's chocolate cake, is a layered chocolate cake filled and topped with a coconut-pecan frosting. Originating in the United States, it owes its name to an English-American chocolate maker named Samuel German, who developed a formulation of dark baking chocolate that came to be used in the cake recipe. It is not German by nationality.

[Morgan]

Happy Birthday. And with that cake and and Dark Matter, a speedy recovery! The very best to you for the next year.
Morgan

[arboggs]

Happy (Belated) Birthday Gordon!

[Randi]

Beautiful teapot!

[pommystuart]

One for Captain Morgan.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-13/ ... /101760436

[Randi]

[Morgan]

Thanks Stuart! I wondered why a Pirate would advertise, but yes, when you think of it in economic terms, It makes sense to scare your foe into a bargain instead of fighting. Funny, in all my younger years a good swipe at a Morgan in grade school included horses and horse thieves (I guess we were too young to know about spiced rum.) Truth be known, the couple generations before me were Quakers.
Thanks for the article. Morgan.

[studentforever]

If you had asked me for a word connected with 'Morgan' I would have said 'car'. A quick google suggested they are still trading

https://www.morgan-motor.com/

[pommystuart]

When I lived in England I would have loved to have a Morgan Super 3 with the twin cylinder v engine mounted out front.
Like this one. Price way above my head at that time. Looking at the drivers head it was probably above his as well (thing bald)



This one is selling for only £25,950

[studentforever]

I don't think you would have enjoyed it this morning. The view from the bedroom window is beautiful - hoar frost frames all the branches on the trees and bushes. It hasn't been above freezing for several days but at least today we have lovely sunshine. Those 'boys toys' are great for sunny, warm summer days BUT..... Even the teenager next door bought a rigid (2nd hand) convertible rather than the traditional canvas one when an indulgent absent father treated him for his 18th.

[Michael]

I was curious about what we have achieved in this phase of the Old Weather project. Here's a summary of the weather data we've collected from 160 ships to date:

Element	Count
DirT	585,036
Kts	584,500
Baro	602,555
Attd	191,232
Dry	597,019
Wet	532,637
Water	245,610
TSI	2,757
SeaT	2,340
Weather	587,986
Clouds	497,089
Low	40,217
Mid	10,454
High	4,498
Hgt	2,514
Ceil	50,329
From	154,904
Amount	353,231
Clear	193,811
VisM	271,998
Total	5,510,717

[pommystuart]

How long has this phase been running?

[Michael]

Maybe 2017. I'm not sure. I was working on it while everyone else was still on Phase III.

[Michael]

And here's the count for ice data:

Element	Total
Ice_Log	9,643
Ice_1	20,762
Ice_2	1,991
Total	32,396

We have 12 files with positions only. These were used by Kevin so he could better place some OW Phase III ice data.
We have 47 files with just ice data, 84 files with just weather data and 76 files with both ice and weather data.

For those of you who haven't see them, the Ice_1 and Ice_2 columns usually had data about ice coverage and/or thickness.