Good golly its cold this morning
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Just keep ignoring the obvious. The bacon didn't do the pig that was wearing any :elephant:ing good, did it?
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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Curious: Why US flag? Can-aid-e-ya is not yet part of the US of A.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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Currently showing -34C (-29F), with a daytime high of -31C (-24F). Fortunately, I don't need to leave the house. I feel for those that need to get out to go to work, or have to work outside in weather like this. Now, I think I'll emulate OriginalGriff and make myself a bacon sandwich for breakfast.
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Curious: Why US flag? Can-aid-e-ya is not yet part of the US of A.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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If I weren't a nice guy I'd say you learned a lot from Jackass movies.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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If I weren't a nice guy I'd say you learned a lot from Jackass movies.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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Johnny J. wrote:
Where the elephant are you situated?
Edmonton, Alberta. Colder here than Resolute Bay up in the high arctic, and they're not expecting sunrise for another 3 weeks or so. As long as its not too windy, and the sun is out and the sky is blue, it can have its perks. But once the lottery gods smile on my supplications, its Tahiti on the next flight out.
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Lousy ambiguous temperatures! Why can't it be -40°? :-D
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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Currently showing -34C (-29F), with a daytime high of -31C (-24F). Fortunately, I don't need to leave the house. I feel for those that need to get out to go to work, or have to work outside in weather like this. Now, I think I'll emulate OriginalGriff and make myself a bacon sandwich for breakfast.
Up in north Norway, some years ago (I think it was 1999), they had a long period of even colder weather; they were down to -51.2°C. People were joking that they didn't need street lights - the power lines were glowing enough to light up the roads. (Lots of Norwegian homes are heated by electricity; from newyear, oil furnances are no longer allowed for heating.) The authorities were seriously afraid that the power system would break down. The sheriff of Kautokeino (a Sami village in the middle of the Finnmark plain) was interviewed on TV, and asked what whould happen in case of a power breakdown. Well, he answered calmly, That would lead to significant reduction in the difference between indoor and outdoor temperature.
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I don't know how people can live in weather like that. It snowed here yesterday and we're complaining. :laugh:
Steve Wozniak is the only thing at Apple that isn't evil.
You wouldn't believe the minimum requirements for building insulation in this country (Norway)! With any normal grade insulation mats, you need 12 in thick mats (I am yet talking about high quality insulation). Of course you must also have a sealed wind shield so that no hot air leaks out of the house. Windows have 3-layer glass (with insulating gases between the glass layers) to fulfill the requirements. Take my living room as an example, covering half of my first floor. It has one long outer wall of about 8 meters, two shorter walls of 4 m. They are 2,5 m tall, making 40 square meter of wall surface. The maximum permitted loss is 0.18 W/sq.m per degree temperature difference, i.e. 7.2 Watt/degree. With -30°C outdoors and I want 20°C indoors, a heater delivering 360 W should be enough to keep my living room warm. Windows are allowed more loss, up to 0.8 W/sq.m per degree. The two 1.2 m square windows, roughly 3 square meters total, are allowed 2.4 W/degree, or 120 W heat loss when it is -30°C outside. So, I may have to raise the pwer of the heater to 500 Watt. Or maybe not - a human in ordinary social activity emits in the order of 100 W, so inviting a few friends in should be enough. The basement floor to the ground is only allowed 0.1 W/sq.m per degree. The ground two meters below the surface doesn't go much below freezing (the ground usually freezes about one meter deep in cold winters). So a 100 sq.m basement heated to 20°C (20 degrees above the ground temperature) should have a maximum heat loss through the floor of 200 W. These are not extreme cases, it is the minimum requirement for new buildings. We will of course save a lot on the heating bill, but it most definitely does help keeping down the cost of putting up a new house! In my opinion, the authorities have gone too far in their eagerness to save energy.
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You wouldn't believe the minimum requirements for building insulation in this country (Norway)! With any normal grade insulation mats, you need 12 in thick mats (I am yet talking about high quality insulation). Of course you must also have a sealed wind shield so that no hot air leaks out of the house. Windows have 3-layer glass (with insulating gases between the glass layers) to fulfill the requirements. Take my living room as an example, covering half of my first floor. It has one long outer wall of about 8 meters, two shorter walls of 4 m. They are 2,5 m tall, making 40 square meter of wall surface. The maximum permitted loss is 0.18 W/sq.m per degree temperature difference, i.e. 7.2 Watt/degree. With -30°C outdoors and I want 20°C indoors, a heater delivering 360 W should be enough to keep my living room warm. Windows are allowed more loss, up to 0.8 W/sq.m per degree. The two 1.2 m square windows, roughly 3 square meters total, are allowed 2.4 W/degree, or 120 W heat loss when it is -30°C outside. So, I may have to raise the pwer of the heater to 500 Watt. Or maybe not - a human in ordinary social activity emits in the order of 100 W, so inviting a few friends in should be enough. The basement floor to the ground is only allowed 0.1 W/sq.m per degree. The ground two meters below the surface doesn't go much below freezing (the ground usually freezes about one meter deep in cold winters). So a 100 sq.m basement heated to 20°C (20 degrees above the ground temperature) should have a maximum heat loss through the floor of 200 W. These are not extreme cases, it is the minimum requirement for new buildings. We will of course save a lot on the heating bill, but it most definitely does help keeping down the cost of putting up a new house! In my opinion, the authorities have gone too far in their eagerness to save energy.
That is pretty stiff. I guess good insulation is important when you live so far north though.
Steve Wozniak is the only thing at Apple that isn't evil.
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There must be a translation to English of the mini-poem ("gruk") of the Danish poet Piet Hein ("Kumbel"), but I fail to find it. The orignial goes: Den, som kun tar spøg for spøg og alvor kun alvorligt, han og hun har faktisk fattet begge dele dårligt. My on-the-fly direct translation (just to give you a rough idea; there must be a quality translation somewhere): The one who consider a joke only as a joke and seriousness only in a serious manner really has understood both of them rather poorly. I read this story about a young girl who suffering from anorexia, thinking that she was a lot fatter than her friends. It turned out that in her bedroom, she had a huge mirror that was slightly curved. Once that mirror was replaced with a perfectly flat one, she begun seeing herself as rather thinner than her friends. That was the turning point in the curing of her anorexia. (I read about this case in a quite serious publication, so I don't think it is just an urban myth.) More directly to your joke: In my childhood, one of the TV shows aired every advent for years was two comedians parodying kids making their own Christmas gifts to their parents. One of them was showing how the kids could use a cardboard for drawing a thermometer, with a scale giving the current temperature, and drawing the column up to a little above 21°C. If mom and dad think the living room is cold, they will look at the thermometer and say "I guess it is just me - it is more than twentyone degrees". Then they will not waste money on heating, and will have the money they save that way to spare, and will become sooo happy! That episode is intended as a joke, though.
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honey the codewitch wrote:
I don't know how people can live in weather like that.
Wrestling with polar bears. Keeps you warm.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke! Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
I think the Mack Brewery is the northenmost brewery in the world (there was another one further north, but they went out of business). For many years, Mack has produced this Polar Beer. Wresting those could be worth the effort. Having enough of them could make you feel warm as well.
