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[Civinator]

Thanks for the info Blue Monkey. I am glad that Ozy is well. He was always a good person! I hope the best for him, and perhaps on occasion if he decides to drop in and say hi would be nice.

I completely second this. All the best for Ozy! Unfortunately I have lost all my old E-mail addresses due to a hacker attack.

 

[Yoda Power]

Is anyone still active here who was already modding in 2002?

I started modding civ2 in 1998 or 1999 and got civ3 upon it's release in 2001. I modded civ3 from the beginning and joined this forum in september 2002 to post some maps.

But I'm not really active any more and now moved on to civ4.

 

[Plotinus]

Thanks for letting us know about Ozy - sorry to hear about his health problems, but I'm glad he's making the best of things!

 

[Jorsalfare]

Thanks, BM for the info on Ozymandias.
You will certainly be missed on CFC, Ozy, but I hope you'll pop in some time in the future to say hello to your many friends here. All the best!

 

[AnthonyBoscia]

Thanks for the update, Blue Monkey, and for passing on our well wishes to Oz. He has been an indispensable part of this forum and is sorely missed, but I am glad to hear he will continue to fight the good fight. I'm looking forward to him popping in to say hello at some point when we least expect it.

 

[Kyriakos]

Kyriakos, that is very exciting. Congratulations on that work.

 

[chickenx4]

Today's my birthday

 

[Blue Monkey]

Happy Birthday !!!!!

 

[chickenx4]

Happy Birthday !!!!!

Thanks

 

[Civinator]

Today's my birthday

 

[Oni Ryuu]

It’s a bit late but, Happy Birthday!
Mine was last Friday

 

[Blue Monkey]

It’s a bit late but, Happy Birthday!
Mine was last Friday

Well you deserve a Happy Birthday as well!

 

[Oni Ryuu]

Thanks Blue Monkey
I’ll be keeping an eye on my hairline

 

[Blue Monkey]

Thanks Blue Monkey
I’ll be keeping an eye on my hairline

"It's not a bald spot, it's a solar panel."

 

[Oni Ryuu]

"It's not a bald spot, it's a solar panel."

Great; now I’m a geriatric transformer.

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I’ve got no hope of working that into a chat-up-line.

 

[Quintillus]

I'm also glad to hear of the update from Ozymandias, and wish him the best. Definitely one of the giants of CFC.

Meanwhile, it's been a couple years since the travel map trend, and I've visited two new states (and didn't remember having visited Michigan at the time I did the last one), so I'll post an update.



The new ones are North Carolina and Tennessee. My sister moved to North Carolina about two years ago, and I traveled to Tennessee to see the eclipse this week, which was pretty cool. I've also re-visited a number of states that I'd already been too the past couple years, mostly in the mid-Atlantic region. I doubt I'll add another state this year, but I will be traveling to Illinois next weekend, for a short vacation.

Congratulations to Kyriakos on the Kafka translations!

 

[WildWeazel]

Let's play "who got rained on the most this week?"

I'll go first: 45.92 inches (1.167 meters)

 

[Blue Monkey]

We're in the middle of sustained days of temperatures at or above 105 F (≈ 40 C) and temperatures above 90 F ( > 30 C) until after 9 PM and up above that again by 9 AM. With humidity below 20% - sometimes closer to 10% - we still see a bit of cloud cover in the morning. All that evaporated water from winter runoff stored in reservoirs has to go somewhere. It's a long drive and a mountain range away, but Furnace Creek* - one of the hottest and driest places in the world - is close enough to affect our local climate.

Long story short: unless some CFCer is living in the Sahara or Rub' al Khali I lose.


* “Would You Enjoy a Trip to Hell?...You Might Enjoy a Trip to Death Valley, Now! It has all the advantages of hell without the inconveniences.” Quipped a local newspaper in 1907

 

[Oni Ryuu]

You don’t have to pay rent in Hell so there’s another group of people to envy.
Manchester’s weather report for the next century: “cloudy with a chance of rain” and you make it sound like a win.

 

[Blue Monkey]

... “cloudy with a chance of rain” ...

It was still 90 F at midnight. Then a descent of the mingled feline & canine variety began. Cloud-seeding by Rocket Cat?* Gene Kelley isn't the only film dancer in the rain & yes, monsoon happens other places than South Asia.



*It's worth noting that the monsoon weather often passes through the Groom Lake area before it gets to us. - model by Delta_Strife & animations by Vuldacon (an extraordinary collaboration)



UPDATE: as is typical, the rain passed and we're back to a forecast of a high later today of 106 F.