Things Heard: e145v3
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010 at
10:24 am
Good morning.
- A response to a liberal badly missing the point.
- Someone who lives in a land without winter.
- East and West and Halloween (or All Souls Day).
- Fatwas and the Stewart/Colbert rally.
- In case you haven’t seen this and need a laugh.
- Poking GM.
- I’m unclear on why the adjective “GOP” is needed. It’s a certainty that both parties ‘establishments’ have a close relationship with sleaze.
- The plural of octopus.
- Damage?
- An interesting statistic.
- Theodicy humor.
- An post-election interpretation. I’d be willing to be that the percentage of Democrats who take that lesson will be less than 1 in 20.
- Another post election prediction of sorts.
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Actually, we have a very obvious winter, when it comes (with snow, and everything!). It’s just not here yet.
Thank you for linking, though! 🙂
Rana,
Hmm, I’d have thought that ice and 10 below would have precluded that way of testing the day … not to speak of freezing rain and whatnot.
Oh, no, I do that when it’s cold and snowy, too. Not for very long, true, but, yes, I do walk in the snow in my bare feet. 🙂
But, in any case, neither freezing rain nor snow has showed up yet, and it doesn’t usually go below 20F here, even in January.
Rana,
I too have on occasion walked barefoot in the snow. But … in northern Illinois here we usually get two or three weeks of sub zero (F) days.
A few years ago I went to a conference at which the speaker (from the East Coast) remarked that they had a saying that “below 32 is all the same” which was true in places where it doesn’t normally get below 20. However … when he was saying that it was -10 out … and he observed that that saying about below 32 was quite wrong and that 25 and -5 are qualitatively noticeably different.
I also remember talking with a friend from the Twin Cities who in a cold snap was recounting that their radio stations were no longer recounting wind chill, but “seconds to frostbite” … when the mercury was around -35 (F).
Anyhow, my “from a place where there is no winter” was really just a way of saying that your practice of stepping out every morning barefoot to take stock of the day … is a practice made possible by your climate locale.