20th July 2006, 5:41 PM
A Black Falcon Wrote:Those numbers mean something, but I don't know exactly what... :)
They mean it's fairly hot, but not quite up to what we get in the OK. Yes, it's hot, it's "if you are riding in a vehicle that just started, you can count on the air conditioner finally taking noticable hold just as you arrive at your destination" hot. It is the sort of heat that beats down on you, oppressive, makes you tired the very instant you step outside and the trip to get the mail becomes death march like, the sort of thing that is the very reason people didn't really occupy Oklahoma until they learned how to ship ice great distances.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)