Bazza Posted February 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2008 Re: The Last Word Maybe Cancer should do a reinstall. or update to the latest version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 14, 2008 Report Share Posted February 14, 2008 Re: The Last Word Nah, the update is automatic. And a re-install would be hairy . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2008 Re: The Last Word I reckon he should do it regardless of risk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 14, 2008 Report Share Posted February 14, 2008 Re: The Last Word Dude, my hardware is so old the auto-update feature can't work. Entirely different architecture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Re: The Last Word Heh. I learned the other day that I apparently get my easy-to-frighten, easy-to-get-nightmares nature from my mother. Hunh. I just thought I was a spazz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Re: The Last Word Hmm. Not sure I know anything about my folks' dreaming tendencies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Re: The Last Word Apparently, my mother got nightmares from the Harry Potter books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Re: The Last Word A vivid imagination -- never leave home without it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Re: The Last Word Like I have a choice in the matter. I'm stuck with the stupid thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Re: The Last Word My first experience with a North European winter gave me nightmares. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Re: The Last Word Ha! I grew up in New England! I'm all set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Re: The Last Word Well, I lived the first 6 years of my life in central & southern California. Traumatic it was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Re: The Last Word Heh. I can only imagine what a shock that would be to a Californian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Re: The Last Word "Whoah! What's all this white stuff? And why do I shake . . . ?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Re: The Last Word Oddly, North Carolinians react similarly to snow. In their home state, even. It's like they think the default state of weather is good and warm, or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Re: The Last Word I'm a Californian and while I think I wouldn't want to live in a perpetual white zone, snow doesn't bug me. Maybe it's the years of skiing? So I associate it with fun and I haven't had to shovel very many driveways. And with driving, ice is no worse than a coat of fog on top of eucalyptus oil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Re: The Last Word Well, we moved from San Jose (which was as far north, and just about as high in altitude, as I had ever lived to that point) to West Berlin in the middle of December; I was 6. When we got there, there were 17 centimeters of ice on Tegler See (a lake in the city). So I moved from the Santa Clara Valley quite suddenly into the middle of what was at the time the harshest winter there since WW2. And that is a shock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Re: The Last Word I'm a Californian and while I think I wouldn't want to live in a perpetual white zone, snow doesn't bug me. Maybe it's the years of skiing? So I associate it with fun and I haven't had to shovel very many driveways. And with driving, ice is no worse than a coat of fog on top of eucalyptus oil. Just how often is that a problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Re: The Last Word Depends on where you live, but I have lived (but was too young to drive, so I haven't experienced it) in places where it was that way, oh, 8 months of the year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Re: The Last Word That would of been a shock to me as well. And I grew up just north of you in Marin. Though you moved just before I was born it looks like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Re: The Last Word Just how often is that a problem? I lived on a curvy mountain road with Eucalyptus overhanging it. And since it was coastal, it was either fog or some other wetness and the trees drip the oil constantly. There was probably a tourist off the road every other week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Re: The Last Word That would of been a shock to me as well. And I grew up just north of you in Marin. Though you moved just before I was born it looks like. I realize made a minor error; we lived in Vallejo (on the north side of San Francisco Bay) for a few months in early 1962. That was the northern limit prior to going to Germany. Before that we'd spent most our time in & around San Jose, except for one stretch, the better part of a year, further south (around Camp Pendleton). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Re: The Last Word I lived on a curvy mountain road with Eucalyptus overhanging it. And since it was coastal, it was either fog or some other wetness and the trees drip the oil constantly. There was probably a tourist off the road every other week. Couldn't they put down sand, or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Re: The Last Word In principle, yes, but it's not like they have any sanding equipment in those parts of the country. Probably a better long-term solution would be to cut down the trees, but that's not a real happy alternative either. Aggravating the circumstances is that California tends to "mean" the speeds on the yellow highway warning signs. By that I mean, if the yellow sign says 35 MPH because of a curve in the road, chances are you really do want to be down near 35 MPH in order to negotiate that curve and stay in your lane. By contrast, most of the states I've driven in don't "mean" those speeds; continuing my example, I can typically take a curve posted at 35 MPH at 50 MPH without any problem whatsoever. (This is certainly true here in WA; it isn't until the warning speed gets down to 15 or 20 that you really need to be within 5 mph of that speed in order to negotiate the hazard safely, and since I don't go over 75 ever, a warning speed of 50 is an utterly meaningless sign.) So when he says "tourist off the road", you have that factor worked in too: out-of-staters haven't adjusted to that difference in signage, in the sense that their normal habits will put them at too-high speeds for the roads already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Re: The Last Word I'm rather surprised I don't see that in North Carolina more often. But then, the roads are fine, just curvy. On a curvy road, though, I usually find myself quite content with the speed limit right where it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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