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dragonlady7IM quote of the day:
Andreas (5 am Oslo time): I think I'm getting tires
[Andreas: d]
me (11 pm Buffalo time): But you don't have a car.
Andreas: You have to start someplace.
We had been discussing what it's like when the sun never comes up. He had spent only a little time above the arctic circle in Norway, during his mandatory military service. "The sun came up only a little over the horizon, and then only for about an hour a day," he said.
"Ugh," I said.
"Well, it's worse than that," he said. "I was stuck inside a mountain the whole time and only ever saw it on surveillance tapes."
UGH!!!
"I got really good at polishing my boots," he said.
But in the summer, it's fun to go to summer camp up above the Arctic Circle, because the sun never goes down, so you never have to go to bed, and so you spend about two weeks awake, and you come home and you're an absolute zombie.
I asked where Trondheim is and he sent me to this site: kart.norge.no. I think my favorite thing about the site is how the little buttons below the map say "ZOOM INN" and "ZOOM UT". Also, another button says "KOMMUNE", which would be an awesome name for a metal band. (Sadly, that button is a Javascript that doesn't seem to work, more's the pity. I wanted to Kommune!)
Andreas (5 am Oslo time): I think I'm getting tires
[Andreas: d]
me (11 pm Buffalo time): But you don't have a car.
Andreas: You have to start someplace.
We had been discussing what it's like when the sun never comes up. He had spent only a little time above the arctic circle in Norway, during his mandatory military service. "The sun came up only a little over the horizon, and then only for about an hour a day," he said.
"Ugh," I said.
"Well, it's worse than that," he said. "I was stuck inside a mountain the whole time and only ever saw it on surveillance tapes."
UGH!!!
"I got really good at polishing my boots," he said.
But in the summer, it's fun to go to summer camp up above the Arctic Circle, because the sun never goes down, so you never have to go to bed, and so you spend about two weeks awake, and you come home and you're an absolute zombie.
I asked where Trondheim is and he sent me to this site: kart.norge.no. I think my favorite thing about the site is how the little buttons below the map say "ZOOM INN" and "ZOOM UT". Also, another button says "KOMMUNE", which would be an awesome name for a metal band. (Sadly, that button is a Javascript that doesn't seem to work, more's the pity. I wanted to Kommune!)
