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Post by Dréu on Nov 18, 2008 7:39:18 GMT -5
It is under 40 degrees here in New York... winter has begun... GAHHHH! (Yes I know Ián... you live in Sweden, don't go there ) On a lighter note, in my Spanish class we've been reading a story by Cortázar called "El Brujo Postergado" (The Pushed-back Wizard, or something to that accord), and in this story "The Bishop" goes to a city which is called "Tolosa" in France . Cool no? (It's Toulouse). Dréu
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Post by C. M. Siervicül on Nov 18, 2008 12:21:37 GMT -5
It is under 40 degrees here in New York... winter has begun... GAHHHH! (Yes I know Ián... you live in Sweden, don't go there ) Sunny and 84F (29C) here in SoCal, with light breezes and 20% humidity. Darn near perfect. On a lighter note, in my Spanish class we've been reading a story by Cortázar called "El Brujo Postergado" (The Pushed-back Wizard, or something to that accord), and in this story "The Bishop" goes to a city which is called "Tolosa" in France . Cool no? (It's Toulouse). Dréu Yep. Tolosa is also the local name for the city, for speakers of Occitan. Occitan is one of the early models for the Talossan language, and at one point Ben identified Toulouse as the "ancestral homeland" of Talossans. Originally he had a Celtic hypothesis regarding Talossa's roots, and when he switched to the Berber Hypothesis he fortuitously discovered some turn of the (19th>20th) century linguist who claimed a link between Toulouse and North Africa.
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Post by Ián Anglatzarâ on Nov 19, 2008 5:11:57 GMT -5
It is under 40 degrees here in New York... winter has begun... GAHHHH! (Yes I know Ián... you live in Sweden, don't go there ) Hehe. Today it's just below 30 F here, and 20 F is predicted for the weekend. Brrrr.
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Post by eispetz on Nov 19, 2008 16:37:17 GMT -5
As for the weather, it's supposed to be winter here next weekend, with temperatures around 0 °C and snowfall.
Btw., the wonderful weather in South California, doesn't it come along with bushfires and worried speeches of Governor Schwarzenegger? At least that's what the telly is telling me. ;-)
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Post by Dréu on Nov 20, 2008 7:43:33 GMT -5
I was sitting here for like 10 minutes trying to figure out how it could be colder in Germany than Sweden. Then I realized you were using celsius. d**n you, you sensical Europeans using an actually good scale for temperature! 32F! 32F 32F!
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Post by eispetz on Nov 20, 2008 15:45:06 GMT -5
Well, the Republic is metric by law, too - like almost the entire world.
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Post by Dréu on Nov 20, 2008 16:16:37 GMT -5
I suddenly have no wish for unification. ;D
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Post by eispetz on Nov 21, 2008 7:36:16 GMT -5
Unification, what is this?
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Post by Dréu on Nov 23, 2008 11:37:37 GMT -5
RoT-RT unification
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Post by eispetz on Nov 23, 2008 11:46:57 GMT -5
Shush, we must not talk politics here. :-)
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Post by Ián Anglatzarâ on Nov 25, 2008 7:43:53 GMT -5
Unificken, was ist das? Over the last three days we've had more than 25 inches of snow. Incredible amounts. Ridiculous amounts! Where does it all come from?
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Post by Ián Anglatzarâ on Nov 25, 2008 7:47:09 GMT -5
And it's about 30 F. Tonight it's supposed to drop to 10 F and then climb to 40 F on Thursday. HELLO WEATHER GODS, MAKE UP YOUR MINDS!
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Post by Danihel on Nov 25, 2008 23:59:56 GMT -5
It's about 20 degrees C (68 of the weird fahrenheit degrees), so it's also pretty cold here. The only problem is that IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE NEARLY SUMMER! WHAT'S UP WITH THAT? It's meant to be WARM in Australia, for goodness' sake!
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Post by Dréu on Nov 26, 2008 7:51:49 GMT -5
68 degrees, cold? Huh?
Yes, it seems to have warmed up a bit here too. Only problem is that there are on and off showers now.
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Post by C. M. Siervicül on Nov 28, 2008 16:15:48 GMT -5
Btw., the wonderful weather in South California, doesn't it come along with bushfires and worried speeches of Governor Schwarzenegger? At least that's what the telly is telling me. ;-) You forgot the earthquakes.
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Post by C. M. Siervicül on Nov 28, 2008 16:19:30 GMT -5
I was sitting here for like 10 minutes trying to figure out how it could be colder in Germany than Sweden. Then I realized you were using celsius. d**n you, you sensical Europeans using an actually good scale for temperature! 32F! 32F 32F! What do you mean good scale? Fahrenheit was originally designed to have 64 degrees between the freezing point of water and the normal temperature of the human body. That's an even 100 degrees in octal (base-8). Seems pretty sensible to me.
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Post by C. M. Siervicül on Nov 28, 2008 16:22:11 GMT -5
Well, the Republic is metric by law, too - like almost the entire world. The Kingdom, by contrast, considers the way the tens of thousands of Cestours actually live their day-to-day lives on Talossan soil to be more important than what most of the NON-Talossan world thinks.
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Post by Ián Anglatzarâ on Dec 2, 2008 4:05:08 GMT -5
Thereby breaking with time-honoured Talossan tradition. Come on, standardise on US spelling too. Why be different from the US? Heck, why have your own country? The Cestoûrs aren't Talossans, why should you be? ;-p
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Post by eispetz on Dec 2, 2008 4:53:41 GMT -5
LOL.Beware the wit of Johnny the Swede.
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Post by Danihel on Dec 2, 2008 23:15:55 GMT -5
For summer, yes. Here it would peak in January around 40 degrees centigrade, which is 104 of the degrees of strangeness. You would expect about 27 real degrees, 80 degrees in the scale of doom, around now.
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