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Basil · « **Reply #22275 on:** 27 February, 2018, 04:27:25 pm »

Quote from: ElyDave on 27 February, 2018, 03:56:04 pm

made my first post on faceache for over a year today.

Bad luck.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #22276 on:** 27 February, 2018, 05:35:08 pm »

Quote from: citoyen on 27 February, 2018, 10:19:52 am

Do not tumble dry this house?

Or as Michelle Shocked said 'get your pussy here' in hobo code

T42 · « **Reply #22277 on:** 28 February, 2018, 09:45:07 am »

Nice surprises today.

- an ex-demo B2C coffee machine I had ordered half-price turned out to have never been used - still had all the protective film in place and not a scratch on it. Manufacturing stamps from last July. The model is still current - just the carton is a bit abraded. I reckon they must have dropped the used one between the showroom and the packing station.

- after making a nice profit on organizing cycling holidays last year, the club is giving us all a buckshee spring jacket.

Chuffed.

Beardy · « **Reply #22278 on:** 01 March, 2018, 09:23:09 am »

I made¹ it into the office today, but I'm not really sure why I bothered. About half the people who are usually here, though I rarely interact with any of them in any meaningful work related way.
My feet are cold and the last job I did at home before leaving was light a fire for SWMBO who is working form home today.

1. Not really very heroic or noteworthy because the only SNO on the road between home and work was on our road and my little 4WD car verily skipped over that. In fact due to the reduced traffic I was at work in a shorter time than usual.

T42 · « **Reply #22279 on:** 01 March, 2018, 01:33:59 pm »

Received a text message from Orange to warn me about the dangers of distraction when driving.

Er...

Tim Hall · « **Reply #22280 on:** 01 March, 2018, 01:51:10 pm »

The nice man on Her Majesty's Home Service was saying today is the first day of spring and look at all the SNO. Shirley the first day of spring is March 21st-ish (consulting the family pagan confirms this). Today is just the first day of march.

clarion · « **Reply #22281 on:** 01 March, 2018, 02:26:14 pm »

If I ruled the world, every day would be the first day of spring

ElyDave · « **Reply #22282 on:** 01 March, 2018, 02:50:50 pm »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 01 March, 2018, 01:51:10 pm

The nice man on Her Majesty's Home Service was saying today is the first day of spring and look at all the SNO. Shirley the first day of spring is March 21st-ish (consulting the family pagan confirms this). Today is just the first day of march.

I think meteorologically, it's a 1st March-31st May deal for spring, June/July/August being summer etc

Basil · « **Reply #22283 on:** 01 March, 2018, 03:30:10 pm »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 01 March, 2018, 01:51:10 pm

The nice man on Her Majesty's Home Service was saying today is the first day of spring and look at all the SNO. Shirley the first day of spring is March 21st-ish (consulting the family pagan confirms this). Today is just the first day of march.

Yes, I heard that too. I've heard weather presenters use the term "meteorological 1st day of season" for a couple of years now and they're always careful to stress the word meteorological. And we know what they mean.

This morning was a journo/presenter being economical with the facts as it made his story sound better. The twat.

BTW be careful saying that today is just the first day of March if there are any Welshians around.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #22284 on:** 01 March, 2018, 06:46:26 pm »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 01 March, 2018, 01:51:10 pm

The nice man on Her Majesty's Home Service was saying today is the first day of spring and look at all the SNO. Shirley the first day of spring is March 21st-ish (consulting the family pagan confirms this). Today is just the first day of march.

Nice weather lady on the distascope just now said that as far as the Met Office is concerned today is indeed the first day of spring, no matter what celestial bodies are up to.

Guy · « **Reply #22285 on:** 02 March, 2018, 08:39:23 am »

The Snow Demons have achieved the impossible. They've made the traffic on Ampthill Road slow down!!!11!!one!!1 This phenomenomenomenon only normally happens at skool-run time when the road is 1/2 blocked with abandoned 4-wheel-drive-shopping-trolleys*

*and not always then

T42 · « **Reply #22286 on:** 02 March, 2018, 11:04:40 am »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 01 March, 2018, 06:46:26 pm

Quote from: Tim Hall on 01 March, 2018, 01:51:10 pm
The nice man on Her Majesty's Home Service was saying today is the first day of spring and look at all the SNO. Shirley the first day of spring is March 21st-ish (consulting the family pagan confirms this). Today is just the first day of march.

Nice weather lady on the distascope just now said that as far as the Met Office is concerned today is indeed the first day of spring, no matter what celestial bodies are up to.

IIRC the solstices and equinoxes are considered to be the mid-points of their respective seasons. C.f midwinter & midsummer.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #22287 on:** 02 March, 2018, 11:56:07 am »

Do you get confused about lux and lumens? Halfords do!

(The question asks "What are lumens?" but the explanation in the light bulbs uses lux.)

Kim · « **Reply #22288 on:** 02 March, 2018, 01:33:37 pm »

That's... incredibly misleading, if not outright wrong.

T42 · « **Reply #22289 on:** 02 March, 2018, 01:41:43 pm »

Why can't they use candlepower like civilized people?

In passing, I note that 1 candlepower = 0.981 candelas. That's about a tenth of the acceleration due to gravity, which is why dynamo lights get brighter when you're going downhill.

ElyDave · « **Reply #22290 on:** 02 March, 2018, 01:49:34 pm »

Quote from: T42 on 02 March, 2018, 01:41:43 pm

Why can't they use candlepower like civilized people?

In passing, I note that 1 candlepower = 0.981 candelas. That's about a tenth of the acceleration due to gravity, which is why dynamo lights get brighter when you're going downhill.

Well, light is a particle, so that stands to reason, chuck em downhill and they must go faster

citoyen · « **Reply #22291 on:** 02 March, 2018, 02:00:10 pm »

Quote from: T42 on 02 March, 2018, 11:04:40 am

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 01 March, 2018, 06:46:26 pm
Quote from: Tim Hall on 01 March, 2018, 01:51:10 pm
The nice man on Her Majesty's Home Service was saying today is the first day of spring and look at all the SNO. Shirley the first day of spring is March 21st-ish (consulting the family pagan confirms this). Today is just the first day of march.

Nice weather lady on the distascope just now said that as far as the Met Office is concerned today is indeed the first day of spring, no matter what celestial bodies are up to.

IIRC the solstices and equinoxes are considered to be the mid-points of their respective seasons. C.f midwinter & midsummer.

I read somewhere* that 'mid' in those examples means 'with' not 'middle', which sounds plausible, especially if you take 1st December to be the start of meteorological winter.

Etymologically the same as in 'midwife' ('with woman') which is why a male midwife is not a midhusband.

*yes, I know - citation needed

ian · « **Reply #22292 on:** 02 March, 2018, 02:00:39 pm »

That's certainly an interesting approach to an infographic.

Manotea · « **Reply #22293 on:** 02 March, 2018, 03:07:09 pm »

Quote from: T42 on 02 March, 2018, 01:41:43 pm

Why can't they use candlepower like civilized people?

In passing, I note that 1 candlepower = 0.981 candelas. That's about a tenth of the acceleration due to gravity, which is why dynamo lights get brighter when you're going downhill.

I thought it was because as I travel faster I catch up with the photons, de-facto concentrating them/squashing them together to provide a more powerful illumination relative to where I am at the time they do the illuminating (as against when the photons were released)...

By the same token, the faster I go, the younger I become. Unfortunately this is offset by riding further, which has a much stronger aging effect.

Next up: How Audax and the Space/Time Continum, i.e., How carrying a Brevet warps space-time, so it's always further/takes longer then you think....

Kim · « **Reply #22294 on:** 02 March, 2018, 03:14:05 pm »

Ah, is it the brevet warping space-time that causes gravitational effects, such at downhill always being the wrong direction at a given junction?

clarion · « **Reply #22295 on:** 02 March, 2018, 04:55:52 pm »

Quote from: Manotea on 02 March, 2018, 03:07:09 pm

Quote from: T42 on 02 March, 2018, 01:41:43 pm
Why can't they use candlepower like civilized people?

In passing, I note that 1 candlepower = 0.981 candelas. That's about a tenth of the acceleration due to gravity, which is why dynamo lights get brighter when you're going downhill.

I thought it was because as I travel faster I catch up with the photons, de-facto concentrating them/squashing them together to provide a more powerful illumination relative to where I am at the time they do the illuminating (as against when the photons were released)...

By the same token, the faster I go, the younger I become. Unfortunately this is offset by riding further, which has a much stronger aging effect.

Next up: How Audax and the Space/Time Continum, i.e., How carrying a Brevet warps space-time, so it's always further/takes longer then you think....

Don't be silly! As you speed up, it changes not the concentration but the wavelength of your light, so you can measure your speed by the colour.

Giraffe · « **Reply #22296 on:** 02 March, 2018, 05:14:23 pm »

If you go too fast it changes from redshift to brownshift.

Beardy · « **Reply #22297 on:** 02 March, 2018, 05:23:55 pm »

I’m surprised that no one has ElyDave on his assertion that wave is a partical. I could have accepted light is ALSO a partical, but to state light IS a partical is quite patently wrong.
Thank you.

ian · « **Reply #22298 on:** 02 March, 2018, 05:47:15 pm »

To be pedantic, light is neither particle nor wave.

ElyDave · « **Reply #22299 on:** 02 March, 2018, 07:45:10 pm »

Quote from: Beardy on 02 March, 2018, 05:23:55 pm

I’m surprised that no one has ElyDave on his assertion that wave is a partical. I could have accepted light is ALSO a partical, but to state light IS a partical is quite patently wrong.
Thank you.

I didn't say light isn't a wave