Ron's Christmas wish

My appologies, this is not the time for this. As it is just after thirteen-hundred here it should be just past twenty-hundred there, and thus getting dark.

Way off. Sunset was at 15:52.
We’re further north than you think – Rick is roughly(49°00′N 0°00′W) level with NewFoundland Island (49°00′N 56°00′W),
I’m up at 52°24’23.62"N, 1°30’43.81"W

For reference New York is 40.7128° N, 74.0060° W

I’m up at 52°24’23.62"N, 1°30’43.81"W

We are so far north, if the Gulf Stream ever stops we will be frozen solid for months at a time.

Clive is probably like that anyway.

Wow. Where do you live? Around these parts, one can expect to be soaked, frozen, or soaked and then frozen. ;-)

I live in Gothenburg, Sweden (approximately 57°N, 12°E), a city that – according to an onboard magazine I read on the train once – is both top ten for rainy days and top ten for sunny days in Sweden. I assume that they must count a day with both rain and sun as adding to both scores for the sums to add up… This time of year wet and soaked and frozen is definitely on the menu, so we’ll see. If it’s raining I’ll probably give it a miss…

I’m up at 52°24’23.62"N, 1°30’43.81"W

Having looked that up with Street View, I’m now convinced that you live in a blue skip.

A degree lower down and a degree to the west is more like it. But, yeah, sunset was just after ten past five my time.
Sunset at 8pm is “third week of September”. There’s no springtime equivalent as the change to summer time skips from sunset at half seven to half eight.

And yes, if it wasn’t for the warmth of the gulf stream, we’d be screwed.

The deep dark deadly Moors (think Wuthering Heights) are around 53°51’N 2°00′W.

Same latitude, a bit further west… 53°51’N 114°00′W is Edmonton, the the north-northwest metropolitan area in the Americas with a population over a million, and pretty much the only other northernmost place of any note is Anchorage…

Aren’t you going to be anchored forever in summer time soon, Rick?

The deep dark deadly Moors (think Wuthering Heights) are around 53°51’N 2°00′W.

Thank you for making an old man very happy.

/me smiles into his cocoa and dreams of Kate Bush.

I’m now convinced that you live in a blue skip.

Pah, don’t you know anything? That’s a model 1 TARDIS.
They had to make it a police box after people kept removing the bin shaped ones.

Aren’t you going to be anchored forever in summer time soon, Rick?

Oh, I hope so.
But I think the EU has more pressing concerns right now. No, not Brexit, that’s become an annoyance. More thinking of the virus. You know, real problems, not self inflicted stupidity.

and dreams of Kate Bush.

As if singing a song about a nuclear blast from the perspective of an unborn foetus wasn’t strange enough, the video has her in a big clear inflatable ball, looking like she’s wrapped in cling film, complete with a plastic umbilical cord. Trippy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzlofSthVwc

Having looked that up with Street View, I’m now convinced that you live in a blue skip.

You been peeking in bedroom 4?

It is fact central Coventry, that was one of the tourist spots :)
Unless you want to visit all three cathedrals.

Edit Truthfully, I just put in Coventry geoposition as a google query. It seemed near enough.
Just checked a more precise item and the N figure is 52.39 but the E-W is actually -1.4

Aren’t you going to be anchored forever in summer time soon, Rick?

France has been doing that since time standards came in.
The Greenwich Meridian runs down through France East of Paris and the +1 barely scratches any part of France – Alsace makes it, I think Monaco does too.

Pah, don’t you know anything? That’s a model 1 TARDIS.

Now that would be handy, flip a switch and the first part is empty and ready for some more computer kit and probably general “bits”

has her in a big clear inflatable ball, looking like she’s wrapped in cling film

No Rick, that’s a different fantasy and best not discussed outside your farmhouse ;)

Isen’t Paris east of Greenwich?

The Greenwich Meridian runs down through France East of Paris.

Not on my map.

Isn’t Paris east of Greenwich?

2.33 degrees East. And Monaco is so far East, it’s almost in Italy.
Even Barcelona is East of Greenwich.

The Greenwich Meridian runs down through France East of Paris.

Not on my map.

Not on any map, Idiot Boy here is having a directionally challenged session.

It should, as you point out be West (just barely, Paris sprawls like Greater London)

2.33 degrees East

Westminster 51.499624196941085, -0.1248252662298106
QE 2 Bridge 51.46515291426553, 0.2581160596580464

Paris 48.841542321198524, 2.3221418698790246

Strasbourg 48.377456835976645, 7.439247091661167
Monaco 43.73692755620455, 7.420927310909977

And Monaco is so far East, it’s almost in Italy

Not really walking distance, but you can get a bus. Or could, it’s been a while. Hey, F1 fan, gotta be done.

Not on my map.

Not on any map

The 0° line goes through France. The end. ;-)

Paris 48.841542321198524, 2.3221418698790246

Ugh. Why not the traditional degrees, minutes, seconds notation that people can make sense of?
I view that form of computer-friendly co-ordinates to be about as useful to humans as displaying prices in the supermarket in hexadecimal.
Little Bluetooth speaker, great sound, special Xmas offer – only €C,63!

It should, as you point out be West (just barely, Paris sprawls like Greater London)

Not even really. 48°N, 0°W is 15km to the left of Le Mans. Or about 150km to the left of where Paris is. It’s a big place, but it’s not that big!

Even Barcelona is East of Greenwich.

There’s the thing. Most of France is East of Greenwich (if I go straight up for about 350km, I arrive more or less in Southampton).
Most of Spain, on the other hand, is West of Greenwich. And on the same Central European Time. ;-)

Temporarily reverting to topic – we don’t need a forum kill file, but a chill file.

Hope Santa brings you all the ARM-based system of your choice.

only €C,63!

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Thank you. That makes my point.

I said that the computer friendly co-ordinate system (as opposed to degrees,minutes,seconds) is about as useful to me as if my local supermarket priced stuff in hex.

Hence €C,63 which all us geeks ought to know, is the same as €12,99. :-)

Hence €C,63 which all us geeks ought to know, is the same as €12,99. :-)

I’m still confused by the comma.
Either decimal-comma or decimal-point is wrong.

I think in this sort of situation you need to use the format C€63 (and then wonder whether it’s a new Chinese version of the CE mark)

Either decimal-comma or decimal-point is wrong.

Just using the conventional (around here) currency separator.

Maybe we need a new format, like €C!63& (pronounced “euro-see-shriek-six-three-ampersand”)?

:-)

So, I (like, I suspect, many others) read the forum via the “Recent posts” page.

Since 10am (it’s 5pm now), there have been two pages’ worth of recent posts to the forum. That’s 50 posts. Around 60% of those in count (and probably much more in verbiage) are in Aldershot. There’s some interesting stuff in the other 40%, but it’s nigh-on impossible to see amongst the noise. And if I return tomorrow, it’s gone into distant history (page 3 or beyond).

Of the posts in Aldershot, 70% are from three posters.

If we can’t have killfiles, can we at least get the recent posts page fixed so that Aldershot isn’t included?

Or just wait a while for things to quieten down?

I’m going to wander away for a while. I have other things to do…

Or just wait a while for things to quieten down?

It’s now been like this since late November, so how long should we wait? And how many people do we lose as collateral in the meantime?

I’m still confused by the comma

Obviously you do not go shopping enough in E.Leclerc

The sign outside is the last time you will see the fullstop

Those were the days! Will we ever get back to Calvados?