I will continue to observe gokunming's weather forecast (forwarded from wherever) and know that it sometimes will get or has got cold somewhere in Time. Fortunately, this is Kunming, I no longer have to live according to a schedule (Salvador's closes at 11PM, I remember that), and so it's all rarely much of an issue...
So it was originally forecast to be 4C at 4AM this morning, whether that happened or not; or it's forecast to go down to 4C before midnight tonight; or before sunrise tomorrow? If it's the first, it doesn't really help anybody now, does it? If it's the second, then I guess I better carry my down jacket; if the third, I'll perhaps just come home early.
Curious about gokunming's weather forecasts - right now I read "11AM, 11C", plus humidity etc. All right, but the other numbers for temperature are 15C and 4C - do these represent previous temperatures between midnight and 11AM (i.e. that it went down to 4C this morning, after midnight last night), or predictions (i.e., that it will go up to 15C between now and midnight tonight and down to 4C before midnight tonight? I'm always confused, because the coldest hour is usually around 4AM.
Now THAT is a great idea for a long trip - congratulations!
My understanding is that Xiong Brothers bike shop is a good place, but I'm not really the one to ask.
Thanks for the link, Geezer. Interesting. Still, Ashraf has also been smart enough to talk to the Taliban, and you can't blame problems in Xinjiang on the Afghan state. The thing in Badakhshan, however - well, I don't know, but I really think the Afghans have much bigger problems - as they have had for 40 years now - and that none of them have involved China.
Afghanistan featured - well, yeah, business and government connections, of course, but at least China has never sent troops to 'help out' the Afghans. Best wishes to everybody.
@dolphin: good point about Tanzania etc. But the way science works is this: we go with the best and most comprehensive explanation/theory that we have so far.
Example: Newton on gravity, for a couple centuries; then, Einstein came up with a better and more comprehensive explanation for all the same observation that Newton made - and then some. So if you, or somebody, can falsify the cave bat theory and come up with a better explanation, then do so and give us the superior theory - otherwise we have no choice but to accept the best authority that exists to far.
If you want absolute truth final and forever, don't ask human beings, we know we're fallible.
I'm not a health foody but the few meals I've had here have been really good and, yeah, I'll be happy to go back alone to sample all the rest of them. It's also not a bad place from which to people-watch the street below.
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China-South Asia Expo takes over Kunming
发布者Thanks for the link, Geezer. Interesting. Still, Ashraf has also been smart enough to talk to the Taliban, and you can't blame problems in Xinjiang on the Afghan state. The thing in Badakhshan, however - well, I don't know, but I really think the Afghans have much bigger problems - as they have had for 40 years now - and that none of them have involved China.
China-South Asia Expo takes over Kunming
发布者Afghanistan featured - well, yeah, business and government connections, of course, but at least China has never sent troops to 'help out' the Afghans. Best wishes to everybody.
Bullet train to Dali to begin running July 1
发布者A railroad from British Burma into Yunnan was considered by the Brits up until about 1899 - idea given up as too much trouble.
Exploring the curious world of Yunnan mushrooms
发布者Which ones are those real dangerous psilocybin mushrooms?
Scientists "99 percent" certain SARS originated in Yunnan bats
发布者@dolphin: good point about Tanzania etc. But the way science works is this: we go with the best and most comprehensive explanation/theory that we have so far.
Example: Newton on gravity, for a couple centuries; then, Einstein came up with a better and more comprehensive explanation for all the same observation that Newton made - and then some. So if you, or somebody, can falsify the cave bat theory and come up with a better explanation, then do so and give us the superior theory - otherwise we have no choice but to accept the best authority that exists to far.
If you want absolute truth final and forever, don't ask human beings, we know we're fallible.