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

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)

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.
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.
 

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.
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?