On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:10:47PM -0400, Tim Peters wrote: > [Martin Blais] > > I'm still looking for a benchmark that is not amazingly uninformative > > and crappy. I've been looking around all day, I even looked under the > > bed, I cannot find it. I've also been looking around all day as well, > > even looked for it shooting out of the Iceland geysirs, of all > > places--it's always all day out here it seems, day and day-- and I > > still can't find it. (In the process however, I found Thule beer and > > strangely dressed vikings, which makes it all worthwhile.) > > For those who don't know, Martin stayed on in Iceland after the NFS > sprint. He shows clear signs above of developing photon madness. > > http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/astronomy.html?n=211 > > Where that says "sunset", don't read "dark" -- it just means the top > of the sun dips a bit below the horizon for a few hours. It never > gets dark this time of year. > > If you haven't experienced this, no explanation can convey the > other-worldly sense of it.
The CCP Games CEO said they have trouble retaining talent from more moderate latitudes for this reason. 18 hours of daylight makes them a bit goofy and when the Winter Solstice rolls around they are apt to go quite mad. -Jack _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com