Weekend Open Thread: Hottest Day Ever in OC

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The hottest temperature ever recorded in Brea, which is Orange County’s furthest city inland (and which thus has least moderate climate), is apparently 110.7 degrees Farenheit.  That record is likely to be broken in a few hours, with a mid-afternoon high forecast of 113 degrees.

Because this temperature — 45 degrees Celsius, or nearly halfway from freezing to boiling — is laughably inappropriate for electronic equipment, the computer on which this week’s Weekend Open Thread is being composed would like to thank loyal readers for their patronage over the years.  It’s been swell — but all things must pass, sometimes with a sizzling sound.

This computer hopes that some future computer may be used to convey a simple photograph of its smoldering remains on some future Weekend Open Thread, placed there by its owner, who may spend today lounging in a swimming pool that he claims is inappropriate for computers.  (Just like a human to save himself and leave his trusted companion behind to fry.)

This is, as hinted above, your Weekend Open Thread.  This computer no longer cares what you do here, but others involved with this blog may.  May Providence protect our circuits.

P.S.: Global warming is real.


About Greg Diamond

Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that. Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too. He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.) His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)