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Ariella
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1/8/2018 10:25:40 AM
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@mhhf1ve Congrats on the winning caption! Great creativity here!

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mhhf1ve
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1/8/2018 12:22:10 PM
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Thanks, Ariella! & Happy new year to everyone here.

Let's hope Santa's not bringing us coal this year....  

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Ariella
Ariella
1/8/2018 12:28:55 PM
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@mhhf1ve Well some people may have been able to use some coal to heat up over the severe cold snap these past couple of weeks! We had to pick up a new space heater because the standard baseboard doesn't get the house warm enough in temperatures in the 20s and below.

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mhhf1ve
mhhf1ve
1/8/2018 12:45:09 PM
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Yikes. The cold spell on the east coast seems strangely timed with the heat wave in Australia.... If only we could transport the warmth where we wanted it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/07/world/australia/heat-wave.html

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Ariella
Ariella
1/8/2018 12:50:57 PM
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@mhhf11ve It actually makes snese that it would be hot at the opposite side of the world when it is really cold here. Unfortunately, we have yet to find a way to transport the heat to mitigate our cold. On the upside for those in the travel industry, people who crave warmer weather will take vacations to get out of the cold.

Of course, they don't then anticipate that airport problems will prevent their return as was the case at JFK. On top of all the extra people waiting around because of the canceled flights, it had a water main break, causing flooding a terminal. Everyone had to be evacuated.  Now this may be somewhere IoT could help. It also should help people get the information they want about how long their flights are delayed. For that matter, train stations should be making use of that -- or just old-fashioned telecommunication phone calls. But it seems that with all our advanced technology, real time information just doesn't get through to those who really want it. 

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Ariella
Ariella
1/8/2018 12:50:57 PM
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@mhhf11ve It actually makes snese that it would be hot at the opposite side of the world when it is really cold here. Unfortunately, we have yet to find a way to transport the heat to mitigate our cold. On the upside for those in the travel industry, people who crave warmer weather will take vacations to get out of the cold.

Of course, they don't then anticipate that airport problems will prevent their return as was the case at JFK. On top of all the extra people waiting around because of the canceled flights, it had a water main break, causing flooding a terminal. Everyone had to be evacuated.  Now this may be somewhere IoT could help. It also should help people get the information they want about how long their flights are delayed. For that matter, train stations should be making use of that -- or just old-fashioned telecommunication phone calls. But it seems that with all our advanced technology, real time information just doesn't get through to those who really want it. 

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mhhf1ve
mhhf1ve
1/8/2018 1:08:44 PM
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Heh. Of course the southern hemisphere always has the opposite season as the northern hemisphere... (but not all opposite sides of the earth act that way!) Santa and his polar opposite hopefully enjoy the cold all year round, and if there were an equatorial equivalent -- he wouldn't see any snow, ever. 

This all reminds me of the polls that show highly educated people sometimes don't know why seasons exist.. and the difficulty of explaining what climate even is.

https://www.aldacenter.org/news/announcements/flame-challenge-launch-2018

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Ariella
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1/8/2018 1:18:19 PM
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@mhhf1ve Though Santa would never experience heat in the north pole, he would experience major contrasts given the seasonal cycle there gives you 6 month long days followed by 6 month long nights. Of course, that is reversed at the south pole.  I have yet to hear of any such figure said to be residing there. But a tropical Santa has some possibilities. He could ditch the red suit for shorts and a Hawaiin shirt and find a better conveyance than a sled. Also coming thorugh where it's warm would mean he could get through open windows rather than down chimneys. Perhaps it's time to reimagine Santa Claus for more temperate climates.

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mhhf1ve
mhhf1ve
1/8/2018 1:52:34 PM
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> "Perhaps it's time to reimagine Santa Claus for more temperate climates."

I've already seen some marketing versions of Santa where he's much thinner and more stylish -- more of a hipster in a red suit. And I assume Santa will shift to become more healthy and fashionable with time.. Especially given his current reputation for cookies and excess weight.

Santa's suit hasn't always been red.. it was once tan or green, and it has changed with time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_suit

And there's this little tidbit of amusement about Santa:

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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2009/12/gladwell-200912

He is grotesquely overweight__. He is childless. He lives in the chilly and undesirable North Pole. He insists on dressing in a bright-red jumpsuit with fur trimmings. He can only ever find employment on one day a year, and, even then, it is night work.

On every accepted level, Santa Claus is a total loser

Yet this is a man who heads up a brand that commands 98 percent global recognition. Furthermore, he is universally adored.

How does he do it?

In a controlled research investigation involving uninterrupted surveillance videotaping, a sustained loop of twinkly music, and state-of-the-art ­merriness-determination equip­ment, a Dutch santologist named Hans Bunquum discovered the secret to Claus's phenomenal success.

"The conclusion is both remarkable and inescapable but also—most importantly—counter-intuitive," Dr. Bunquum told me over a glass of organic lemonade in his stunn­ing waterstulp, or waterside studio, near Rotterdam. "To become the object of universal love, one must first live with a red-nosed rein­deer, and then gain a premier position as the sole registered employer of elves in the Northern Hemisphere. It's as simple as that."

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Ariella
Ariella
1/8/2018 2:15:42 PM
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LOL @mhhf1ve on another site I suggested that a new slimmer, healthier-looking Santa would make sense for branding association. Certainly, icons associated with brands have grown slimmer and younger in the case of Aunt Jemima and the Quaker oats man. Having his less than svelte look, though, is somewhat appropriate for his association with Coca Cola (and the cookies left for him by children) According to this: http://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/coke-lore-santa-claus#TCCC, the company sponsored illustrations fattened him up -- rather like soda does to many of us.

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