I was surprised to find it not icy this morning (given the forecast). Cycled the short main road in so will have to catch up miles later.
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@amir I was also surprised that I didn't any ice. Should be back on tomorrow for the rest of the (working) week.
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Yes, temp below zero, ice set to return in the morning
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Looking dry tho so might not be too bad (field run-off and puddles notwithstanding)..
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yes sir those are my thoughts also
staying on slicks, rolling the dice
just watch out for those shady microclimate dips
glorious commuting weather this week
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Frosty Pocket in the Calders this morning. Only white ice spotted on my way to work.
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Merely a whisper of a wind, sun out, water frozen in the Rhônes but ground should be ok. Stay vigilant.
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Our house has Saône pipes for obvious reasons. See you all at la confluence.
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Frozen puddles but functional parts of (even back) roads were fine. Edinburgh gritted.
Pretty pre-sunrise pink sky
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@bill
Thanks for acknowledging that it was the sun that rose and not the Earth that 'rotated'.
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Took the studded mtb this morning, not because of the weather but my normal commuter is sick (again) jeez it's slow!
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Cycled home from band practice tonight, was very chilly but stars were out in force
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No surprise given last night’s low temp - frosty out, again dry and nary a breath of wind
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There was a squall last night when I was going through Ratho/Gogar so I was a bit nervous going that way this morning but luckily the road was gritted. Lots of frozen puddles but the was road was fine.
Caught an amazing sunrise in Ratho!
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Sunrise yes, Earth rotation no. The Earth is flat and does not move.
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How can something on top of a giant turtle not be considered to move?
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@IWARTS exactly! I don't believe in anything those people from Torun say.
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Very cold this am (-1 in the sticks). But I didn't see any dangerous ice on my commute along NCN 1 this from Dalkeith.
However it was a good test of this year's solution to the age-old problem for older cyclists of keeping fingers warm. And it is the best solution for me so far. Previously I have tried lots of different gloves, additional merino inners and heat pads.
This year's solution is to wear waterproof overmitts with my normal winter gloves. Really good, since they cut out the wind completely. Chuffed. I got the overmitts for a tenner from Decathlon. They have enough roominess to make operating gears and brakes easy.
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i noticed earlier this week, while wearing my windproof mega gloves, that my whole body seemed warmer because my fingers were warmer.
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It's me toes, this year. Even when the rest of me is toastie. Puzzled.
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@bill, I was asked to name a polish philosopher by a Dutch linguist at our pub salon last night. I went with Copernicus. The linguist was unimpressed.
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Would Karol Wojtyła have been an acceptable answer?
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I'd have gone for Józef Korzeniowski, not really being certain what a philosopher is but finding his stuff well philosophical.
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Lech Kowalski, he's my main man
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@gembo well, I wouldn't know either.
@Frenchy I would accept that.
@IWARTS @bax first and last names are common enough that surely there were 'philosophers' of those names
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@bill, see also Jerzy Balowski (he was the landlord of the flat the Young Ones lived in, played by Alexei Sayle). So not a real person either.
Speaking of 80s telly in the UK, the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy is 42 now (if you count from the first radio series). 42 is of course the answer to the question What is the meaning of life?
I presented my Oulipo project last night and one of the 11 poets involved in that was @wingpig’s pastiche of Paula Jennings. Real name Paul Johnstone who was a school enemy of the writer Douglas Adams. Paul Johnstone objected to being named as the worst poet in the universe in the original radio series (more because Adams also gave out his home address) so the poet transformed into Paula Jennings and the address became more vague.
Radio 4 going nuts celebrating the 42nd anniversary so you might catch some of that.
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"42 is of course the answer to the question What is the meaning of life?"
AFAIK it was never stated as clearly as that in the radio series. It was usually (possibly only ever) described as: "The ultimate question of life, the universe and everything". (And of course we shouldn't forget the possibility that an understanding of the final thought of the bowl of petunias might also allow us to know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.)
Paul Neil Milne Johnstone's name was only changed for the LP and CD audio releases, and in the books (possibly also in the film and TV versions but I'm not familiar with them). It was left unchanged in the rebroadcast of the whole series a couple of years ago and I would expect it to be unchanged in the broadcast of Fit the First on BBC Radio 4 Extra at 8pm tonight (it's at 28:33 in my copy of that episode). Adams didn't actually give Paul's full address - The Book (as played by Peter Jones) just said "of Redbridge" - but in conjunction with his full name that was probably enough for the reference to be regarded as being to an "identified or identifiable living individual" (to borrow the terminology of GDPR).
They also ran in to problems with the scene where the crew of the Heart of Gold first stepped out on to the surface of Magrathea. In the broadcast version this scene used Shine on You Crazy Diamond as background music, and as the basis for a wee joke, but for copyright reasons that had to be cut that from the LP and CD release, shortening the episode by about a minute and a half. Again, it was unchanged from the original in the 2018 rebroadcast, and I'd expect it to be so again when Fit the Third is broadcast at 9:30pm tonight (it's from 16:20 in my copy).
(The BBC has a bit of a history of not getting adequate permissions for the use of music in commercial releases of its drama productions. The release of Tutti Frutti on DVD was delayed for over 20 years because a change to the lyrics of the song "Tutti Frutti" when it was performed as part of the drama meant that it wasn't covered by BBC's usual music license.)
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Douglas Adams was pals with Dave Gilmour and allowed to play 3 songs with the Floyd. Adams died aged 49 of a heart attack in California after his usual gym work out. Paul Johnstone three years later age 52.
Another schoolboy associate said Johnstone was the most pompous 19 year old, close second Douglas Adams.
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@IWRATS, we have Conrad, the pope of old and some made up dudes. I will be back
Hangs head in shame - Rosa Luxemberg
Living polish woman philosopher - Anna Brozek
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Wow, that was a surpringly difficult return. Worst wind I have experienced cycling for a long while, despite all the storms of late.
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