Bugger it is cold.
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Hasnt got above -4 in the day time for the last week, -14 at night. My lips are chapped, the dog shit is frozen to the ground in the garden and the birds are lying dead on the ground. So anyway, have these electric radiators in the house, and they just are juseless in this cold. But we have this 13 kw wood burner. Christ it is hot! It really pumps out the heat, it is amazing. We can heat the whole house on it just on convection alone. Gotta love a good wood burner, when it gets interglacial, you cant beat them! :)
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We call freezing cold a +10 in these parts... :-\
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Hasnt got above -4 in the day time for the last week, -14 at night. My lips are chapped, the dog shit is frozen to the ground in the garden and the birds are lying dead on the ground. So anyway, have these electric radiators in the house, and they just are juseless in this cold. But we have this 13 kw wood burner. Christ it is hot! It really pumps out the heat, it is amazing. We can heat the whole house on it just on convection alone. Gotta love a good wood burner, when it gets interglacial, you cant beat them! :)
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Erudite_Eric wrote:
So anyway, have these electric radiators in the house, and they just are useless in this cold.
I remember that all too well. The first house I rented after college had electric baseboard heat. One winter it reached -22°F; even with the thermostat set to the maximum, the temperature in the house was only in the 50's.
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That's got to be some kind of sick joke right :wtf: I've got a 10 hour wait between connections there on Tuesday and was planning to do some sight seeing (CN Tower looks pretty), but I guess I'll stay in the airport :sigh:
Sam Cragg wrote:
planning to do some sight seeing (CN Tower looks pretty)
Don't forget Active Surplus on Queen St. A geeks paradise (OK, you need to have a hardware bent to truly appreciate the place). And it's walking distance from the CN tower, at least you'll get there quicker than by car.... Crap, just seen it on google street view, it has changed, and looks pretty small to what it was a few years back when I was last there. I guess YMMV.[^]
You've got more chance of peeing on JSOP's porch than you have of understanding why the developer did this. -- Nagy Vilmos
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Toronto has warmed up to a pleasant 1F (-17C). /ravi
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Google weather says 21F. Did you mean wind chill?
Regards, Nish
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Google weather says 21F. Did you mean wind chill?
Regards, Nish
My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
Yes, when I wrote my post it was 1F with the wind chill. Weather.com tells me it's currently 16F (4F with the wind chill) right now (Sun 12-Feb noon). /ravi
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Yes, when I wrote my post it was 1F with the wind chill. Weather.com tells me it's currently 16F (4F with the wind chill) right now (Sun 12-Feb noon). /ravi
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Despite moving to Canada, you still use the F-word, huh? :-D
Regards, Nish
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Despite moving to Canada, you still use the F-word, huh? :-D
Regards, Nish
My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
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Moving to the Great White North has improved my math skills. But I still grimace trying to convert MPG to Litres/km. :) /ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
Moving to the Great White North has improved my math skills. But I still grimace trying to convert MPG to Litres/km. :)
:laugh:
Regards, Nish
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It was so cold the lawyers had their hands in their own pockets....
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
:laugh: ^ 42
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Sam Cragg wrote:
planning to do some sight seeing (CN Tower looks pretty)
Don't forget Active Surplus on Queen St. A geeks paradise (OK, you need to have a hardware bent to truly appreciate the place). And it's walking distance from the CN tower, at least you'll get there quicker than by car.... Crap, just seen it on google street view, it has changed, and looks pretty small to what it was a few years back when I was last there. I guess YMMV.[^]
You've got more chance of peeing on JSOP's porch than you have of understanding why the developer did this. -- Nagy Vilmos
Thanks for the heads up! Google says it's a 15 minute walk, so no doubt I'll be able to get sufficiently lost in that time... I did want to visit the CodeProject HQ to see the hamsters, but it doesn't look very close to the centre/airport so will have to wait for a future visit.
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Thanks for the heads up! Google says it's a 15 minute walk, so no doubt I'll be able to get sufficiently lost in that time... I did want to visit the CodeProject HQ to see the hamsters, but it doesn't look very close to the centre/airport so will have to wait for a future visit.
Well, it's going to be cool tonight, but looking up over the week until Friday. Tuesday, high of 5C, low of -2C with snow flurries. So cold is pretty relative of where your coming from.... Many years ago, my sister lived in Toronto, and my wife and I visited from out west, with one of (my nefarious)intentions to visit the Active mecca. Pre-internet/GPS/etc, We drove back and forth with paper maps (remember those) and never did find it. On the news that night they were reporting a stabbing incident, and in the background....yep, there it was, giant stuffed gorilla guarding the entrance... I was then living in northern Manitoba-population 150 on a good day, and the Toronto driving scared the cr@p out of me, esp downtown, never mind the Hwy 401 crazed drivers doing 120 kmph bumper to bumper. BTW, where is CPHQ?
You've got more chance of peeing on JSOP's porch than you have of understanding why the developer did this. -- Nagy Vilmos
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Well, it's going to be cool tonight, but looking up over the week until Friday. Tuesday, high of 5C, low of -2C with snow flurries. So cold is pretty relative of where your coming from.... Many years ago, my sister lived in Toronto, and my wife and I visited from out west, with one of (my nefarious)intentions to visit the Active mecca. Pre-internet/GPS/etc, We drove back and forth with paper maps (remember those) and never did find it. On the news that night they were reporting a stabbing incident, and in the background....yep, there it was, giant stuffed gorilla guarding the entrance... I was then living in northern Manitoba-population 150 on a good day, and the Toronto driving scared the cr@p out of me, esp downtown, never mind the Hwy 401 crazed drivers doing 120 kmph bumper to bumper. BTW, where is CPHQ?
You've got more chance of peeing on JSOP's porch than you have of understanding why the developer did this. -- Nagy Vilmos
If you take a look at the bottom of Help! -> About Us it says it's at 503-250 Ferrand Drive, which Google says will take me an hour to get to from the CN Tower by public transport (but only 16mins in car!?)
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If you take a look at the bottom of Help! -> About Us it says it's at 503-250 Ferrand Drive, which Google says will take me an hour to get to from the CN Tower by public transport (but only 16mins in car!?)
Didn't know that. hmm, Don Valley and Eglington. That's a good hour from anywhere. Its pretty much east end Toronto, versus the airport which is West end. Even from the CN Tower, which is south west/central, that is a good ways. Make a good quest to see if you can get both in a mere 10 hours. Bonus points if you make it through security in time :-D But your right, 10 hours is a long time to waste in an airport. Getting downtown on Public transport shouldn't be too bad, and a walk around there is an interesting experience....just leave yourself plenty of time to make it back.
You've got more chance of peeing on JSOP's porch than you have of understanding why the developer did this. -- Nagy Vilmos
