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Due to absurd high temperatures, our web hosting provider in California has been experiencing some power outages, generator fires, and other electrical misadventures today. As a consequence, Damn Interesting has about as reachable as an ex-husband on payday. I know that’s a lame metaphor, but I had to choose between that and “up and down more than a five-dollar hooker,” which just didn’t seem as family-friendly.
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I guess you can use the heat to bake a pie instead of using an oven. That will generate less heatin the house and allow you to save that on air conditioning! Or you could spend a week in Texas to help adjust to the heat wave. It gets hot round these parts. I miss days under the 3x digits…
Three digits.geeeeeezzzzz then stop using Fahrenheit, switch to Celcius, then it is only two digits.
Here in Spain it is a cool 40 degrees.
He said thirty-x digits. He’s obviously using Celcius.
Summer is giving way to rainy season here in Thailand. Fairly hot but breezy.
BTW, changing a metaphor won’t make the article more kids-safe if you choose to include both anyway! Duh..
But we all know kids don’t have the patience to read more than 3 lines.
Nonsense. I was legally a kid until a short while ago and my attention span is
Ah, I interpreted the 3x wrong.
Here in the inner reaches of mongolia we are experiencing fantastic weather for another year a cool 60 degrees (farenheit) and partly cloudy. Genghis would be very happy.
Thats why you shouldn’t cut trees!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why don’t all you cavemen come on into the 21st century and get with the Kelvin scale of temperature measurment? Zero is the absolute cessation of molecular movement, not the mere freezing of H2O. What an arbitrary place to put zero.
So it should hit 305 degrees here in sunny NYC today.
Haha. But I think that’s a bit more depressing than saying the temperature is just over a hundred, ne? It’s been very hot here in Vermont, but fortunately it’s been raining for the past two days and the weather has been a bit cooler.
No…that is not lame; both me and father were a little relieved when mother decided to get re-married because 1. father said, “oh yeah, it takes a h*** of a burden off my shoulder.” and 2. I said, “good, now she gets to bug her new husband instead of me.”
I live in SF and but it has been 115 or so around central valley and I assure efferybody it is equally depressing even when the unit is in centigrade–you do not see 45 degrees in HK (I was born in there, the worst is around 35 and it happens once or twice a year). Really, 115/45 sounds like Death Valley to me.
RichVR said: “Why don’t all you cavemen come on into the 21st century and get with the Kelvin scale of temperature measurment? Zero is the absolute cessation of molecular movement, not the mere freezing of H2O. What an arbitrary place to put zero.
So it should hit 305 degrees here in sunny NYC today.”
Kelvin isn’t measured in “degrees”, it’s just simply 305 Kelvin.
From google the above is wrong too. it is 305 kelvins … with no capital and a s on the end to make it like other units..
The kelvin (K) temperature scale is an extension of the degree Celsius scale down to absolute zero, a hypothetical temperature characterized by a complete absence of heat energy. Temperatures on this scale are called kelvins, NOT degrees kelvin, kelvin is not capitalized, and the symbol (capital K) stands alone with no degree symbol. [In 1967 the new official name “kelvin” and symbol “K” were set by the 13th General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM).]
Water is the wonder solvent, essential to most life, most everywhere,most of the time, shapes the land, carries the waste away, allows the solution to polution to be dilution, keeps coastlines temperate…the list of contributions of water are extensive. I get thirsty just thinking about water. The temperature at which water freezes at should be worshipped, the temperature at which it boils…placed upon a pedestal. When a disaster strikes, or a survival situation occurs, water is that for which would kill in just a few measly, excruciating days. Food is worthless compared to water. I submit that to use the celcius scale is an homage to water, the elixer of life. Besides, in 30 years of science, I have never used kelvin. I love the name however and nominate it second to celcius with that pesky centrigrade thingy third. Is there a fourth?
I only ever quote temperatures in Rankines. That makes it a frankly quite pleasant 565 degrees in London.
Having relocated to the American South East a few years back I was introduced to new temperature scales, each utterly unrelated to Centigrade, kelvin, Rankine, and Fahrenheit. It’s called the “Goldang” scale. There are no finite measurements, and its functionality is multiplied by the inclusion of humidity. For instance:
“It’s not too Goldang hot, kinda sticky, though” is reported on weather.com as “78 degrees F, 75% humidity.
Then there is “It’s almost too Goldang nasty to git out” translates to “90 degrees F, 80% humidity.”
And finally, there’s “I’d almost go live with them Goldang wierdos in Canada, it’s so Goldang awful out, I s#!t you not! Now Goldang you, woman, you better go git me a Goldang beer!” which means “98 degrees F, 100% humidity, no Nascar race that weekend, time to trim the Kudzu from the trees out back.”
And has it been hot here lately? Well, here’s my weather reaport:
“Not too Goldang bad, compared to them poor sonsabitches in California, but I better lay in some extra beer.” This means here in Charlotte, North Carolina it’s about 90 degrees F, 65% humidity.
Floj: Tomorrow, y’all could bake a pie on the hood ‘a my pickup! Big ‘un, too – apple, maybe. That’s hot, now. Goldang.
This was a really damn interesting article…i enjoyed it… keep churning these out baby!!
I wonder… do you use Dreamhost? That sounds like the same story I was given when my blog went down. At first I thought it may of been traffic, it had been spiking for me 2-3 times my normal amount.
whaaat said: “This was a really damn interesting article…i enjoyed it… keep churning these out baby!!”
dork.
lol, schuylercat. I’ll tell that one to my aunt in Charlotte ;)
Patrick Havens said: “I wonder… do you use Dreamhost? That sounds like the same story I was given when my blog went down. At first I thought it may of been traffic, it had been spiking for me 2-3 times my normal amount.”
You are correct, we’re with DreamHost. We also have a shiny new dedicated server with another provider that we need to start utilizing one of these days… when time allows…
Ok this is a bit late,and a little long but it’s a great laugh especialy for us “natives”. Enjoy:
NEW TEXAN’S DIARY
May 30th:
Just moved to Dallas , Texas .
Now this is a city that knows how to live!!
Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. What a place!
I watched the sunset from a park lying on a blanket.
It was beautiful. I’ve finally found my home. I love it here.
June 14th:
Really heating up. Got to 100 today. Not a problem. Live in an
air-conditioned home, drive an air-conditioned car. What a pleasure
to see the sun everyday like this. I’m turning into a sun worshiper.
June 30th:
Had the backyard landscaped with western plants today. Lots of
cactus and rocks. What a breeze to maintain. No more mowing the
lawn for me. Another scorcher today, but I love it here.
July 10th:
The temperature hasn’t been below 100 all week. How do people get
used to this kind of heat? At least it’s kind of windy though. But
getting used to the heat and humidity is taking longer that I expected.
July 15th:
Fell asleep by the pool. (Got 3rd degree burns over 60% of my body).
Missed 3 days of work. What a dumb thing to do. I learned my lesson
though. Got to respect the ol’ sun in a climate like this.
July 20th:
I missed Morgan (our cat) sneaking into the car when I left this
morning. By the time I got to the hot car for lunch, Morgan had died
and swollen up to the size of a shopping bag and stank up the $2,000
leather upholstery. I told the kids that she ran away. The car now
smells like Kibbles and shits. I learned my lesson though. No more pets
in this heat.
July 25th:
The wind sucks. It feels like a giant freaking blow dryer!! And it’s
hot as hell. The home air-conditioner is not working and the AC
repairman charged $200 just to drive by and tell me he needed to order parts.
July 30th:
Been sleeping outside by the pool for 3 nights now. $1,500 in damn
house payments and we can’t even go inside. Why did I ever come
here?
Aug. 4th:
It’s 109 degrees. Finally got the air-conditioner fixed today. It cost
$500 and gets the temperature down to 85, but this freaking humidity
makes the house feel like it’s about 95. Stupid repairman. I hate this
stupid city.
Aug. 8th:
If another wise ass asks, “Hot enough for you today?” I’m going to
strangle him. Damn heat. By the time I get to work the radiator is
boiling over, my clothes are soaking wet, and I smell like baked cat!!
Aug. 9th:
Tried to run some errands after work. Wore shorts, and sat on the
black leather seats in the ol’ car. I thought my ass was on fire. I
lost 2 layers of flesh and all the hair on the back of my legs and ass.
Now my car smells like burnt hair, fried ass, and baked cat.
Aug. 10th:
The weather report might as well be a damn recording. Hot and sunny.
Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. It’s been too hot to do shit for 2 damn
months and the weatherman says it might really warm up next week.
Doesn’t it ever rain in this damn desert? Water rationing now, so my
$1700 worth of cactus just dried up and blew into the damn pool.
Even the cactus can’t live in this damn heat.
Aug. 14th:
Welcome to HELL!!! Temperature got to 115 today. Forgot to crack the
window and blew the damn windshield out of the car. The installer came
to fix it and said, “Hot enough for you today?” My wife had to spend the
$1500 house payment to bail me out of jail.
Freaking Texas . What kind of a sick demented idiot would want to
live here…We’re MOVING…
LOL!