Odd Non-lyme question of the day(rainy clouds fun idea a while ago)we will never have stickies said

I like your post idea! As to the topic of your question, I agree that is NOT NORMAL. I don’t think I have ever seen 10 degrees. Maybe 17 or 19 once. Still, I get the scenario.

I worked downtown where all the tourists came year round. I remember one particular cold and windy day that was pretty brutal for us. I saw this group of idiot teenagers in flip flops and very underdressed. I assumed they were clueless Northerners who didn’t dream it could be cold enough for a coat, sweater, and boots in the South.

What is really disturbing is when I see children underdressed and barefoot when it’s cold outside.

Then, there’s the other really weird phenomenon that has taken hold here in the summer. The kids who run barefoot in shorts with purple legs when it’s cold enough for a jacket will walk around and play in sweatshirts and sweatpants when it’s 90F. They are loony tunes.

Girlie said...
It’s 24 F here and snowing.

It’s about a foot deep now

It hasn’t snowed like this or been this cold for several years

You got it easy lol. Actually I’d very much like the climate you live in - you have seasons but it really doesn’t get very cold.

As long as you’re not driving anywhere in traffic, a foot of snow can be fun. Go to some park or some flat rural area with your boots on and just go for very short jog in the snow, it’s an exercise that you feel muscles like you never thought you had before.

I was doing stuff in the garage today with a hoodie and vest on for a half hour at a time, because it was 22 F in there , which seemed almost warm compared to a windy 10° outside!

But back to the question I wonder if there’s anyone running around with shorts on outside?! (Well, ....maybe not if that’s one of the colder Days your area experiences.)

Post Edited (astroman) : 12/3/2022 8:31:27 PM (GMT-8)

WBF- well remember teens are more concerned about looking cool versus dressing smart. Most of us were there at one time.I remember in the late 70s it was dorky for boys to wear a T-shirt under a longer shirt even in the cold . Some kids thought it was geeky to wear a jacket even if it was snowing at the bus stop lol. I didn’t go that far, I thought that was absolutely stupid! I wore a lot of thick “Lumber jack flannel” way before the early 90s grunge music era made it popular.

I guess I should re-title this post as odd question of the week.

Is this lime related? of course not!

This is kind of like a game show ha ha.

OK this Sunday’s question - (and you’re gonna have to answer this without googling your answer. )Just take a guess. I guessed wrong and I’m guessing most of you will too. So even if you break the rules and Google your answer don’t post it here just post what you guessed right off the top your head.

***OK, when was the first online forum or question / bulletin board for public use. They may have called these chat rooms back then too. ***

They were so rare I don’t think they had an official name. And this wasn’t even called the Internet yet even though it was already going in its infancy. The answer totally blew my mind. I’m in my mid 50s so I thought I would’ve known this. Although the government might have had this even earlier yet, I’m talking about for public use.

Post Edited (astroman) : 12/11/2022 11:08:26 AM (GMT-8)

astroman said...
***OK, when was the first online forum or question / bulletin board? They may have called these chat rooms back then too. ***

Astro was it like gopher or usenet? I'm too young for gopher but I do remember usenet, although I was very late to the party after it was already "over" in its text form. I think the early 90s... If I had to guess maybe like 94 or 93? I'm going to go with 94... Great question.

P.S. This is fun. Good to converse about topics other than Lyme with y’all.

I’ll wait till there are more comments before I post the answer , maybe ....Monday late afternoon?

There’s always more people checking this place on Monday morning vs on weekends.

Despite any possible top-secret stuff by world governments, this is kind of of a two-part answer :

In 1978 Ward Christensen and Randy Suess launched the first public dialup bulletin board system, dubbed CBBS, for computerized bulletin board system. Announced to the world in the November 1978 issue of Byte magazine. (So they developed it but you pretty much had to be a hacker and piece it together yourself. Not average consumer friendly).

Then on September 24, 1979, the first “dial up” online information service (for consumers) was offered by CompuServe. It only worked during daytime hours though. By 1980 they still had only around 1000 customers. For the record Compuserve had been working on this since 1969, but they are still not credited for inventing it, the two guys above are. Maybe they worked there at one time or shared information, who knows.

Then sometime later 1979 RadioShack had something called micronet that worked in the evening hours. Each of these had some type of a main frame that was not on 24/7. Kind of like TV, it actually shut off at a time, nothing but fuzz and distortion.

[Our families first computer, a Commador 64 from around 1983(?), came from RadioShack. It’s funny they didn’t rebadge it as their own “Tandy” brand product.]

Note: I haven’t looked at CompuServe’s news homepage in a long time, I just did. They don’t have a layout for smart phones it looks like it’s really made for PCs only. They were bought by America online and now are owned by yahoo.

Post Edited (astroman) : 12/13/2022 10:00:25 AM (GMT-8)

That was going to be my next guess.😂

I did some snow running last week. I'm not sure how far I went, I got a little lost in the woods and went in a circle. I love snow running! I definitely will wear different gear next time because I got really wet and snowy. It just seems like a lot less stress on your knees.

It was really cool to be in the woods with all the snow coming down. I had to slow down because I am still dealing with a leg injury, but I felt pretty good. I probably need a new pair of shoes, my right boot feels different than my left.

I outran the skiers (it was new snow), or they got tired and turned around, I don't know.

Well we are still having cold weather. It has snowed 3 or 4 times in the past few weeks.

Hubby and I went out and chopped down a Xmas tree.

We decorated it and the cat climbed it and it toppled over.
Now the tree is attached to his heavy cat post and it won’t fall over again.

astroman said...
Sounds like a scene from x-mas vacation.

Lol - it does!