Flag Island is?ÿpart of the continental USA that uniquely is actually north of the 49th. parallel in the Angle Inlet area of Minnesota.
I just checked and their current conditions read more like somewhere near Barrow, AK than the continental US: 18 below zero on the temp, relative humidity near 70%,?ÿ winds 310@17 mph producing a wind chill of 44 below.
I'm not going gripe at all about getting into the single digits around here...no sirree...
Paden,
Point of order;
Inasmuch as Alaska is part of the "continental" USA too (and far above the 49th Parallel), the proper term in this case would be the conterminous USA.
Just say'n
Loyal?ÿ
Paden,
Point of order;
Inasmuch as Alaska is part of the "continental" USA too (and far above the 49th Parallel), the proper term in this case would be the conterminous USA.
Just say'n
Loyal?ÿ
Thanks for the correction.?ÿ Should have said "lower 48" as it was my gut reaction...but when I "write" with my gut reaction I wound up sounding like an uneducated Okie.... ??ÿ
ps - through all the smoke and mirrors I am technically an uneducated Okie!
I am technically an uneducated Okie!
I think you've amply demonstrated the difference between education and knowledge.?ÿ Nothing to be done about the Okie part, though. 😉
What is much worse is when highly educated people can not converse properly.
I recently sent a message to our school superintendent and the high school principal. ?ÿThe response from the principal began with, "Thank you for bringing this matter to the attention of Superintendant Dimwit and I." ?ÿHe should be able to spell the term 'superintendent' correctly as he is currently attempting to gain that title in another school district. ?ÿAlso, the final word in his sentence ?ÿshould have been 'me' instead of 'I'.
A friend with several advanced degrees explained it to me...he said I'm educated but that doesn't mean I know anything.
Calculus III is typically the third course required of those pursuing STEM majors in college. ?ÿIn my case that was 45 years ago. ?ÿLast week one of my helpers returned for a few days of work while on Christmas break. ?ÿHe is too smart for his own good. ?ÿHe learned he had a perfect score on the final exam he had taken a few days earlier in that course. ?ÿThat is insane!
A few days later I was chatting at our family Christmas get-together with my second and third daughters' boyfriends and mentioned the perfect score in Calculus III. ?ÿThe next thing you know all three of us are talking about our own experiences in that class. By the way, none of us have ever had to apply that class to our professional work.
A friend with several advanced degrees explained it to me...he said I'm educated but that doesn't mean I know anything.
Or as I heard about an engineer, "He's educated way beyond his intelligence".
I had a cousin who had about 7 university degrees.?ÿ He was an electrical engineer for Boeing on their missile systems among other things.?ÿ Thankfully his wife had enough common sense for both of them, she kept the family up and going for years.
Andy
What is much worse is when highly educated people can not converse properly.
I recently sent a message to our school superintendent and the high school principal. ?ÿThe response from the principal began with, "Thank you for bringing this matter to the attention of Superintendant Dimwit and I." ?ÿHe should be able to spell the term 'superintendent' correctly as he is currently attempting to gain that title in another school district. ?ÿAlso, the final word in his sentence ?ÿshould have been 'me' instead of 'I'.
To this day I cannot "check" a written sentence without hearing my 4th. grade English/phonics teacher's voice in the back of my head.?ÿ In my memory she occupies a spot filed under "Heinrich Himmler with lipstick".?ÿ I guess she would probably be surprised to find that I, her "hopeless" student, was one of the few that actually remembered her technical admonishments.
ps - I'm still under the impression there is such a thing as punctuation police lurking in the shadows....
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ps - I'm still under the impression there is such a thing as punctuation police lurking in the shadows....
Just don't let any millennials know; there'll be Anarchy!
The high tomorrow when the wife and I leave Punta Cana will be 84F.
Two weeks ago when I booked this 'Honeymoon we never had' I cut it a day short so I could work new years day. Kinda jump start the new year.
The high will be -4F. The jackhammer will not want to start. The touch screen on the data collector will be iffy at best. Worst of all, any imunity I had will be gone, but I will have a mid July tan.
I am a dumb ass. Steve
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