More heat than light

[scooterbird]

Quarter mile to the sub shop and the same distance back, in 35 degree heat. That should count double for the trip to Rivendell. "We never had weather like this back home..."

(It occurs to me that there is something to the Fahrenheit scale. After all, that guy named Fahrenheit measured the coldest thing he could find (some salted ice slurry, if

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[heptadecagram]

The story of measurement that I got from my Chemistry teacher was that he figured out when water boiled, and when it froze, and marked those. He then put 180 "degrees" in between the two, since it's, like, half a circle or some junk. I asked "why not 360, then, like a whole circle?", to which the reply was "He didn't have that much room on his thermometer.". He then measured the coldest possible thing he could create in his laboratory, and figured nothing could ever be lower, and called its nearest integer value 0. It turned out that there were about 32 marks between that and water freezing, so that's why water freezes at 32° and boils at 212°.

[kdsorceress]

Dude. Scooter is secretly Bill Gates? ZOHMYGODSGOSSIP!

~Sor

[leiacat]

I thought what Farenheit measured was his wife, rather than himself.

As for the Green policy on Israel, I think I will just avoid the whole issue in the interest of maintaining diplomatic relations, as my own opinions on the subject are rather strong.

[scooterbird]

There are, apparently, different theories on what exactly he did to come up with the scale.

And I've a feeling that we could indeed find things we agree on with reference to Israel, but it isn't necessary for us to solve anything...so I'll respect that avoidance.

[thecanuckguy]

> I thought what Farenheit measured was his wife, rather than himself.

For the "0" or "100" measurement?

*rimshot*

"I woudln't say she was frigid, but ... "

*rimshot*

Thank you, I'll be here all week!

[spleenless]

It did indeed feel like I was walking about in armpit weather today. If he measured his wife instead, what part? ;-)

Having been married for years to a geek, Bill Gates was always considered an obsenity. Forget the looks, I'd be more offended by the business practices.

One of the low points of my day was flipping through the latest issue of Newsweek and glancing at a pic of a broken doll. Except it wasn't a doll - it was a dead Lebanese toddler. All I could think of was how soft and tender my girls were at that age, and how someone's heart was breaking beyond repair.

[madbodger]

I think you're way cuter than Bill. And the "standard" body temp of 98.6°F? That odd
value was chosen, not because it's an official average or anything, but is a nice round 37
in Centigrade. To convert Centigrade to Celsius, multiply by 1. Unless you're using a
Pentium, in which case add 4.28883, divide by eπ, and subtract -0.3632
in octal.