Twitter and Swine Flu

Tony — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:13:00 GMT

I don't get Twitter. There is so much crap on there I just don't care about. And my life is far too boring to post any such minutiae. So I laughed quite hard when I saw the XKCD cartoon.

Ok, so it is interesting reading about my sisters life over in Sri Lanka because it is so different than here. The lizard in the back yard was just cool.

Spit does not go clunk at -40 aka Converting to Metric

Tony — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:16:44 GMT

I just had to laugh long and loud when I read the Converting to Metric XKCD cartoon. In light of the Canadian prairie deep freeze where the temps have had wind chills in the -40 and -45 C for quite a number of days recently.

Spit does not go clunk at -40.

Mind you there are some videos on YouTube showing boiling water being thrown in the air. For example From Boiling to Frozen

A number of years ago when I was a teenager I was working for my Dad up in Fort McMurray, Alberta on some 3 1/2 story walkup apartment blocks. The recessed balconies had to be painted so they were covered in multiple players of plastic. It was about -45 or -50 C outside without the wind chill. I was really tempted to cut a small slit in the plastic on the fourth floor balcony and see if err, ahhh well you know, that yellow stuff, would be frozen when it hit the snow. However I quickly realized that a rather important chunk of the male anatomy might get frost bite which I figured would be a bad thing.

My sister, who reads my blog, is just shaking her head right now.

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Twitter and Swine Flu

Spit does not go clunk at -40 aka Converting to Metric