Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-10 (Sunday)

On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 13:23:30 -0700, Arthur Lipscomb
<arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 3/11/2024 12:46 PM, shawn wrote:

On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 09:23:23 -0700, Arthur Lipscomb
<arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
 

On 3/11/2024 8:43 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
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The time change through me for a loop.  I knew it was happening but
wasn't sure which day it was happening or if I was gaining or losing an
hour.

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Spring ahead! Fall back! Since daylight is being "saved", think about
the time of sunset being moved back an hour from standard time. That's
how I remember that the clock gets set ahead.
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I never got how daylight is being "saved" by the switch but have
always remembered the "Spring Forward, Fall Back" mantra.
 

I'm way too old for that!  If I haven't learned it by now I'm never
going to learn it.  Plus, I never figured out which months are spring,
fall, etc.  I've got winter down but that's it!  I grew up in the San
Francisco Bay area.  We don't have seasons here.  We only have is it
raining today or not.  I guess rain is a season, but I think that's what
you non-Californians call winter.  Consequently growing up I never
needed to know which season was which because no one ever talked about
it.  Besides I'm pretty sure this whole "seasons" nonsense was made up
by East coasters. ;-)

 
Ah, how fortunate you are. I've lived all over the USA but never out
west and so have always experienced all four seasons. Sometimes heavy
on the seasons (like in Illinois and Indiana) and other times very
light (as in Florida) or where we can go from winter (sub freezing
temps)

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The temperature here sometimes drops to almost 40 degrees!  I don't
think humans can survive in temperatures lower than that.  I know for
myself anything under 70 requires a jacket.

Yeah, I've heard that. For me, I find that at 50s I'm either putting
on a light jacket or long sleeves. In the 40s it's definitely time for
a jacket and 30s are when I go for the heavier coats. Though none of
my coats would work well in those sub zero temps that can happen way
up north.

I'm still amazed by these videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj5GXZaE7qs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUclO26WTrw

Amazing that people willingly live in such conditions

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to spring/early summer temps (70s/low 80s) in a single day as

we do in Georgia. So I'm quite familiar with the seasons and have
always wondered how the people in Los Angeles maintain their sanity
when every day is the same. Well, except for those few days when it
rains and everyone panics if they have to go near a road.
 
 

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When I was a kid if it rained too hard sometimes they'd modify the
school schedule and even let us all out early. When I tell people who
come from places where it snows about this it's like their brains melt.
But from my perspective it was like of course they had to close the
school, it was *raining* really, really hard!  No one questioned this.
I never questioned it either until I started to talking to people who
came from places where this didn't happen.

I could see it if the buildings were leaking from the rain but
otherwise the only thing I can see is the teachers were scared of
having to drive in the rain at night. They might not even make it
home!

But from my perspective it was like, So you're telling me if it rained
really hard you just stayed in school all day?  Even if it rained
really, really, hard?!?  What kind of sick twisted schools were they
running?

Hell, I've been at work listening to the rain when it was coming down
in buckets, which it does quite often around here. Luckily it's just
the rain. The buckets remain up in the sky. I was really surprised
when I found out that our average yearly rainfall is about the same as
Hawaii's, around 52 inches a year. Luckily it's spread out through
much of the year so we don't have a monsoon season.