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Re: Celebrating the Winter Solstice
« Reply #140 on: December 22, 2014, 09:14:20 am »
Very cool pic, John!!!


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Re: Celebrating the Winter Solstice
« Reply #141 on: December 22, 2014, 10:45:10 am »
Now I'm officially happy today will be longer than yesterday. 8)

This is why I like to buy a local almanac every year. It shows the time of sunrise and sunset for every day in the year, so I can track the increasing length of sunlight hours.  :)
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Re: Celebrating the Winter Solstice
« Reply #142 on: December 23, 2014, 11:15:29 am »
I never thought to do that.  LOL  That's an interesting idea!


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Re: Celebrating the Winter Solstice
« Reply #143 on: December 23, 2014, 12:20:06 pm »
This is why I like to buy a local almanac every year. It shows the time of sunrise and sunset for every day in the year, so I can track the increasing length of sunlight hours.  :)

I can do that on my phone too.

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Re: Celebrating the Winter Solstice
« Reply #144 on: December 23, 2014, 12:42:40 pm »
I can do that on my phone too.

Me too. Plus I can do it on my internet, not only for my city but for for any city in the world. I once did that in a conversation with Mikaela here about which city had worse light in winter, Minneapolis or Oslo. For the record, Oslo is far darker. Today, for example, Oslo's sunrise is at 9:19 AM and sunset is 3:13 PM, for a total of 5 hours, 54 minutes (about three hours less than Minneapolis).



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Re: Celebrating the Winter Solstice
« Reply #145 on: December 23, 2014, 01:36:44 pm »

And where you been, Aloysius J. Gleek?


Oh, here and there.    :)

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Re: Celebrating the Winter Solstice
« Reply #146 on: December 23, 2014, 02:43:31 pm »
Me too. Plus I can do it on my internet, not only for my city but for for any city in the world. I once did that in a conversation with Mikaela here about which city had worse light in winter, Minneapolis or Oslo. For the record, Oslo is far darker. Today, for example, Oslo's sunrise is at 9:19 AM and sunset is 3:13 PM, for a total of 5 hours, 54 minutes (about three hours less than Minneapolis).

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Re: Celebrating the Winter Solstice
« Reply #147 on: December 24, 2014, 09:50:25 am »
Oh, here and there.    :)


Well you come back and see us again soon!


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'Voulez-vous, will you kiss my dick?'
Will you play my record? One-track mind!

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Re: Celebrating the Winter Solstice
« Reply #148 on: December 25, 2014, 03:32:42 pm »
Did that make you feel any better to learn that?

Well, it makes me feel less envious of Scandinavians, though in almost every other way it does seem like it would be a great place to live.

I was talking to a coworker who lived in Iceland for a year. In the middle of winter, daylight was the sun rolling along the horizon for a few hours. In the summer, they'd come out of the bars at 2 a.m. to bright shining sun. I don't think I would like either one.


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Re: Celebrating the Winter Solstice
« Reply #149 on: December 26, 2014, 09:57:19 am »
I'd have to agree, that would drive me nuts!


Tell him when l come up to him and ask to play the record, l'm gonna say: ''Voulez-vous jouer ce disque?''
'Voulez-vous, will you kiss my dick?'
Will you play my record? One-track mind!