It's is almost summer here now. Not quite warm enough that I need to change to shorts, but not far off. Very sunny. (Oddly, according to the weather service, it's only twelve degrees C, but it really feels very summery.)
I had a delivery by a pleasant Indian fella, and he told me that he is actually more uncomfortable in weather like this than he'd been in India in fifty degrees Celcius! (About a hundred and twenty Fahrenheit.) I'm pretty stunned by that. His idea was that it has something to do with the angle of the sun, but I suspect it has to do with humidity. Any ideas? Experience?
Weather is an odd thing. I'm told that many consider Denmark a very cold country, for instance, but I never experienced it as such. It doesn't often get real frost. Maybe it's the humidity again?
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That durn weather. Last week started in the low 60's for daytime high. Then we had three severe heat days, mid 80's, if not 90's, then slam back down to 50's for a couple of days.
Looks like we may get some rain this weekend. Traditionally May is the start of the dry season.
Last week 94FThis week 60F
Hey, there was a blank line between those two links, even on preview
I'm so f***ing fed up with blogger recently. I have problems every damn time I post.
... just tested using firefox instead of mozilla, it seems that works better.
I am using Firefox v3.0.10 for Windows.
If only there were an edit button.
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I'm not sure (any biologist around here?), but I think that everybody gets kind of "imprinted" during early childhood according to the weather conditions where he is living. ("Imprinting" means, there is a certain time window when your body is sensitive for some special learning - after that the window is closed.)
So, after that you are accustomed to "your" weather, and if you try to live in another country with very different weather conditions, you will be in some trouble ...
When I was in India, even after some months I was not accustomed to 40-50 deg Celsius in shadow and some high humidity (=> at high humidity the cooling mechanism by sweating doesn't work very good). It was kind of hell - I had to drink 4-5 liter per day, which is not so easy to manage, and had to take regularly electrolytes in order to balance the cell metabolism ...
Concerning blogger software:
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Mostly I'm using Opera (OS: Windows XP). When I switch on the built-in bug tracking (Tools/Advanced/Error Console) then really MANY CSS bugs are showing up - nearly unbelievably many :-(
I have found out a trick in Opera when using this blogger software: If something doesn't show up as I expect / as it should be, then I click on the "Refresh site"-button of the browser - quite often it works perfectly after that :-) I don't know why.
Maybe it works with other browsers, too.
I don't think it has to be childhood imprinting, but it has to be many seasons.
I was always wilting when I first moved to CA, but after about 3 years I could cope, and now I do quite well.
Maybe part of the aging process is kicking in. 68F never used to feel cold. Now it does.
Oh, Neeraj, I owe you a response to your Brikcfilm comment. I'd better find that post again.
... it has to be many seasons.
Yes, maybe.
68 F = 20 C - aha ... for me it depends mainly on whether the wind blows or not.
I'd better find that post again.
My links were
www.tourl.de/89 and www.tourl.de/8a
That's great. We've yet to add FX on ours, but will do sometime.
One of the links led to a page where there was an Eclipse FX demo page, it seems that you film the minifigs and then add CG behind it. The buildings looked like LDD at first, but I suspect this somehow ties in with LDraw/Leocad stuff.
Now I know what to do in my evenings.
It's all done by my nephew - I don't know in detail how he is doing it, and I'm not involved at all. If you appreciate his work, or if you have questions, why not contact him?
I'm told that many consider Denmark a very cold country, for instance, but I never experienced it as such. It doesn't often get real frost.
It depends on what you're used to. The winters here would be quite a shock to many Europeans I think. Denmark's winters are probably fairly tame by comparison.
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