I proofread everything. Autocorrect likes to spell "sit" in a whole different way. And the word "six" is a little tricky. 

The site tries to take many things into account. Fat fingers, little itty bitty buttons on phones, and computers thinking they know best, makes for some interesting moments.  

Using Swype too fast and not proofreading can make a conversation take a bad turn real quick 

18 hours ago, Charles R. Stevens said:

.  We already have evidence that it increases accident rates and heart attack risk, wile not doing a xxxx thing to reduce energy consumption.

I would have sworn I read it as saying dang. I looked for the email notification of that post but already deleted it. Accidents happen.

Pnut

I once had a typo when talking about a birch tree and was moderated.   I'm slowly getting my new laptop trained; shoot this morning it didn't know how to spell Mastermyr!

Spell check is a pain in the nether regions at the best of times

How  would you know, you never use it  LOL

Spell check is my worst enema.

Steve

Is that yet another typo, or a Fleeting Innuendo?

It’s worse if I do, Steve. 

14 hours ago, pnut said:

I read it as saying dang.

So did I, don't know how it was changed. I saw it in the unread content.

since we had two members state what they think they saw I just checked the logs, it was NOT dang, so can we now get back to smithing?

We see what we expect to see and here we expect to see “dang”. 

When I got the notification I took it at face value, I screwed up and personally am glad you or one Of the other moderators caught it and called me out. I would expect no less from any of my friends.

 

Well, I'm going to let my contrarian come out and say that I welcome Daylight Savings Time.  I don't particularly mind the shift twice a year and think that the minor inconvenience is a cheap price to pay for having the daylight shifted towards the evening.  For me, I can use it at that time of day rather than in the morning.  I wouldn't mind having the sun come up at 10AM if the light would stay at the end of the day to 7PM or so.  I realize that there are folk who have to be up and about early and for them it is an inconvenience to have a late dawn but for me I prefer a late sunrise and a late sunset.

As the country urbanizes and there are more people working in offices than on the land I think that there are more folk benefited by DST.

If we eliminated the twice annual changes I'd vote for year around Daylight Savings Time.

"By hammer and hand all arts do stand."

If you did not set your clock back, does that mean you now live in a future time?

Only if you remembered the annual battery change in your flux capacitor. Maybe that only applies to forge welding in the future though.

Pnut

You should try living in Alaska George, time changes only effect drive time light for maybe 3 weeks in either case. For about 3 months it's light 24 hrs a day, the sun is only above the horizon for 20 +/- but it's light enough to read 24. Winter the sun is below the horizon almost all day for 3  months but twilight lasts longer at these lats. The sun rises and goes down at a pretty flattish angle it's actually cut by the horizon for close to an hour, sunrise at our place has it peaking in and out of mountain peaks so we get to see multiple rises and sets for a while.

Anyway, all the time changes really do here is increase traffic accidents, suicides and violent crime until the folk adjust. When Sara Palin was Gov. she changed us to 1/2 hr. changes but nobody observed them so they may still be on the books but we're back in sync with the lower 48. Were we on actual meridian time we'd be -2 hrs from Pacific, Anchorage is almost due north of Hawaii. What really made the gvt. take notice was when we got satellites in our sky and could enjoy live programming but the 6 o'clock news came on at 4 pm our time and Carson at 9 pm. I thought it was much better than seeing programming "air fresh", that's flown in air cargo on airliners, passenger jets fly a LOT more frequently than dedicated cargo planes. Air fresh: fruit, veggies, news, etc. often ran next day but often later. The 10 o'clock news often started with the morning news then the evening news.

However, that was a huge improvement from when I first got here when TV, was surface freighted, radio was the only "real time" programming so everybody listened to the news on local stations. Local news was shot here and shown at more normal times of course but TV news was often about a week after the fact. Regular programming came lower priority so Carson's monologue was two weeks late, every night, takes the edge right off topical humor.

Everybody functioned fine, griped about the time changes of course but we got along just fine.

Yeah, I know. Another long Frosty ramble but it's some back story for why I'm more than ambivalent about time changes. 

Frosty The Lucky.

I'm glad you told us that Frosty. I never thought about what the time change is like in the land of the midnight sun. 

George, coming from a hot desert, many businesses have a summer and winter schedual. 5:30 or 6:00 in the summer depending if you had to pick up the company truck to be on the job buy first light. No one in their right mind what a to be out from 3-7: pretty normal to come home, take a long nap and then hang out from 8-10 then go back to bed on a week day. They went so far as to offer big companies tax incentives for  business hours to spread out rush hour.

guess it depends on ones perspective, as we always just started our day about sunup, and that gave us more time in the evening. 

I really miss the daylight when I get home; I can't get dirty in the morning before I go to work; so the light change means I only get to be in the shop on weekends---that are usually over booked anyway.

It's 5:48 PM my time. Been rainy and foggy today. It's nearly dark already.

It's supposed to rain here tonight/tomorrow; up to a 50% chance!  Total might get to 0.12 inches and be the first rain in weeks down here; though the ski areas have already seen some snow. The local farmers always listen to the ski reports as the mountain snowpack will be the irrigation water for the next growing season.

I'd send you some of the rain we've had over the last week and a half if I could. We have been saturated with it. Still have some green grass though and I won't argue with that 

I'm getting ready to burn off the yard.  Grass is something folks spend money/water to have. If I want green I can stroll over and look at my neighbors alfalfa field.

The last couple of years, we've stayed pretty green clear on up till around December. Last fall and winter, it seemed like all it did was rain for months. Not quite as much this year, so the grass is going to be gone sooner I think. Hay time is here for sure