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.