To make this even more confusing, in Danish a river is called an å, and because Århus had a river named Århus Å, that river is now called Aarhus Å, not Aarhus Aa.

@randahl
Logical I presume.

@randahl When I was there, oh, thirty years or so ago, for a conference, I was struck most sharply by the fact that, being a smoker, I had to stand outside, and your poor benighted people had not actually been told about awnings.

@GeePawHill awnings have always been quite common in Aarhus. Especially on the main shopping street.

@randahl You say that, but I'm standing out there in the freezing rain barely keeping my cigarette lit by bending over and covering it with my head. :)

Cool conference, tho. I met one of Dijkstra's sons, outside, in the freezing rain. We shared a smoke and a hit of whiskey.

(You're not a computer geek, so you might not know who Dijkstra was, but trust me, he was a very major geek.)

@GeePawHill @randahl if the venue was at Uni, definitely no awnings in sight. The architecture is from a time where everyone smoked everywhere indoors. They’re building a new campus just east of the old one, I wonder how much covered outdoors space there will be? Would make sense to have quite a bit of tree cover now to shelter from sun and heat.

@pms @randahl No clue. a) It was 30 years ago, and b) I was mostly just goofin' on Randahl.

@randahl @GeePawHill no worries. There’s plenty of buildings in DK with no covered outdoor space. I was just reminded by my latest conference trip which was Bologna this May. A 35+ heatwave is a lot more pleasant when the buildings overhang the walkways and the streets are too narrow to let the sun reach the tarmac.

@randahl ....why they did that. That makes no sense.

@randahl Wasn’t it the European capital of culture a few years back?