Interesting... considering that the highest tempurature every recorded was 136F, and that was in Libya, not Iraq, and was over 80 years ago. The second hottest was 134F in Death Valley over 90 years ago, which is not far from where I live.
Believe what you like about posted records - weather.com hasn't exactly been maintaining recording stations in Baghdad for the last ten years. I've lived through two summers in that heat - top recorded shade temp we had at my company was 62 deg C (143.6 deg F) in August 2003, in Al-Mansur District of Baghdad. It got hotter in the direct sun on the rooftops.
You have clearly never visited Iraq in the summer. I lived there for two years. June-September is consistently over 120 degrees, with the month of August around 140 all the time. 130 at night - no variation.
Secondly, they use standard air conditioning only in homes, and only if they are rich or lucky enough to both afford regular power (a generator) and a good A/C (most are crappy Korean/Chinese window models). Only rich peoples' cars have functional A/C.
How nice. But it is winter right now, so imagine those tests aren't too useful in-theater. Secondly, temperatures in the shade in August reach over 140 degrees. If they think 130 is hot, they don't have a clue what hot really is.
Disclosure: I am not a soldier. I lived as a civilian in Baghdad for two years, 2003-2005.
I live and work in Iraq, and shipped a bunch of games out here for my Iraqi employees and friends. The following games are our favorites, where one of the most important criteria is language-independence.
Bohnanza (Iraqi negotiations - you will lose)
Settlers of Catan
Puerto Rico
Citadels
Carcasonne
Carcasonne: Hunters and Gatherers
Condotierre
I strongly recommend Fun Again Games for any orders you place. They were very helpful when one shipment was lost en route.
> the first Zeppelin to do so since the infamous Hindenburg disaster.
Not true. LZ-130, Graf Zeppelin II, continued to fly for some time after the crash of her sister ship, in both a civilian passenger and military capacity. The original Graf Zeppelin, LZ-127, (decommissioned during the construction of the Graf II) was even recommissioned to fly shorter-range flights.
There is a lot of speculation surrounding the Hindenburg (LZ-129) and the disaster at Lakehurst, New Jersey on May 6, 1937. For a real source of information regarding the ship, read Michael Mooney's, "The Hindenburg." Mr. Mooney flew on LZ-129, helped in it's testing and was involved with the Goodyear-Zeppelin company during the construction and operation of the most famous airships ever flown.
I upgraded my Palm Vx (first off the line) from the OS 3.3 it came with about two weeks ago. Follow the steps:
1. Obtain the OS 3.5 ROM. I signed the NDA to become a Palm developer, then downloaded it from palmos.com. Try it. It's worth it.
2. Backup your Palm with a HotSync, preferrably after running BackupAll or BackUpBitster to set all your backup bits to "on" and tagging every database to "dirty".
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I am the Tyler Wagner from the article. At the risk of exposing myself (further) to the flames of Slashdot, I'd be happy to answer questions.
Pictures:
http://www.tolaris.com/gallery/Iraq
The Mohammed story:
http://giantlaser.livejournal.com/56797.html
http://giantlaser.livejournal.com/56863.html
Interesting... considering that the highest tempurature every recorded was 136F, and that was in Libya, not Iraq, and was over 80 years ago. The second hottest was 134F in Death Valley over 90 years ago, which is not far from where I live.
Believe what you like about posted records - weather.com hasn't exactly been maintaining recording stations in Baghdad for the last ten years. I've lived through two summers in that heat - top recorded shade temp we had at my company was 62 deg C (143.6 deg F) in August 2003, in Al-Mansur District of Baghdad. It got hotter in the direct sun on the rooftops.
You have clearly never visited Iraq in the summer. I lived there for two years. June-September is consistently over 120 degrees, with the month of August around 140 all the time. 130 at night - no variation.
Secondly, they use standard air conditioning only in homes, and only if they are rich or lucky enough to both afford regular power (a generator) and a good A/C (most are crappy Korean/Chinese window models). Only rich peoples' cars have functional A/C.
How nice. But it is winter right now, so imagine those tests aren't too useful in-theater. Secondly, temperatures in the shade in August reach over 140 degrees. If they think 130 is hot, they don't have a clue what hot really is.
Disclosure: I am not a soldier. I lived as a civilian in Baghdad for two years, 2003-2005.
- Bohnanza (Iraqi negotiations - you will lose)
- Settlers of Catan
- Puerto Rico
- Citadels
- Carcasonne
- Carcasonne: Hunters and Gatherers
- Condotierre
I strongly recommend Fun Again Games for any orders you place. They were very helpful when one shipment was lost en route.> the first Zeppelin to do so since the infamous Hindenburg disaster.
Not true. LZ-130, Graf Zeppelin II, continued to fly for some time after the crash of her sister ship, in both a civilian passenger and military capacity. The original Graf Zeppelin, LZ-127, (decommissioned during the construction of the Graf II) was even recommissioned to fly shorter-range flights.
There is a lot of speculation surrounding the Hindenburg (LZ-129) and the disaster at Lakehurst, New Jersey on May 6, 1937. For a real source of information regarding the ship, read Michael Mooney's, "The Hindenburg." Mr. Mooney flew on LZ-129, helped in it's testing and was involved with the Goodyear-Zeppelin company during the construction and operation of the most famous airships ever flown.
Damn, could have sworn I used a "" in there. =]
1. Obtain the OS 3.5 ROM. I signed the NDA to become a Palm developer, then downloaded it from palmos.com. Try it. It's worth it.
2. Backup your Palm with a HotSync, preferrably after running BackupAll or BackUpBitster to set all your backup bits to "on" and tagging every database to "dirty".
3. Use the OS Upgrade Utility tool to update to the new OS.
4. HotSync to restore your old databases.
It's simple, it takes less than an hour, and it's totally free and legal, as long as you legally own the ROM.
That's it! The way to keep the nitrogen flowing is ...
REALLY BIG FANS! OF COURSE!