The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
I heard it was an attempt to calibrate blood temperature, in which case it was imprecise.Tim Holloway wrote:. . . a European decided that 100F was where . . . .
Campbell Ritchie wrote:
I heard it was an attempt to calibrate blood temperature, in which case it was imprecise.Tim Holloway wrote:. . . a European decided that 100F was where . . . .
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
Campbell Ritchie wrote:I heard it was an attempt to calibrate blood temperature, in which case it was imprecise.
https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/202205/history.cfmAmerican Physical Society wrote:Fahrenheit calibrated his temperature scale between 0 and 96. Conveniently, 96 was a highly composite number divisible by 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, and more. He defined 0°F as the freezing temperature of a brine solution made from equal parts water, salt, and ice, and 96°F as the temperature of the human body, which he measured by placing the thermometer under his arm (This would later prove slightly inaccurate: Human body temperature is 98.6°F).
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
Tim Holloway wrote:I do remain firm in my belief that Fahrenheit is a much better scale for measuring human comfort than Celsius
There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors
fred rosenberger wrote:
Tim Holloway wrote:I do remain firm in my belief that Fahrenheit is a much better scale for measuring human comfort than Celsius
Why? I mean, isn't this really just a "familiarity" issue? If all you ever used/knew was Celsius, then the Fahrenheit scale would seem pretty strange to you.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
fred rosenberger wrote:
Tim Holloway wrote:I do remain firm in my belief that Fahrenheit is a much better scale for measuring human comfort than Celsius
Why? I mean, isn't this really just a "familiarity" issue? If all you ever used/knew was Celsius, then the Fahrenheit scale would seem pretty strange to you.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
That may be because they were emulating the scientific and medical communities which changed from grains to milligrams many years ago.kevin Abel wrote:. . . illegal drug dealers worked in metric for a long time. . . .
And I thought my jokes were bad.I want there to be cheer litres. . . .
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
No, the stone was onlyi ever used in Britain; people weigh themselves in pounds in USA. Of course, the different sizes of stone can be used to cure obesity, if you can go down from 16st to 14st by crossing the Tweed.Tim Holloway wrote:. . . I absolutely cannot remember my weight in stone. . . .
Campbell Ritchie wrote:
No, the stone was onlyi ever used in Britain; people weigh themselves in pounds in USA. Of course, the different sizes of stone can be used to cure obesity, if you can go down from 16st to 14st by crossing the Tweed.Tim Holloway wrote:. . . I absolutely cannot remember my weight in stone. . . .
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
kevin Abel wrote:I'm living in South East Florida.
I was afraid of being trapped in my condo during covid.
I couldn't stay in my condo in a hurricane. I didn't want to go to a shelter to catch covid. My mother wasn't eager to drive up north.
We wanted to stay away from air travel during covid.
I chose to get impact storm windows. It took a year to get them installed because the factories were understaffed and backed up.
One window kept cracking when it was being installed.
Now covid is more under control and the storms have gone further north.
I have never been in a hurricane. i'm not completely sure the windows will work.
I think that I'd go to a shelter for anything above cat 3 as a QA test. I'm a HAM radio operator and they look for volunteers at the shelters so I might enjoy that part.
Kevin
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
Laugh if you like. Lynyrd Skynrd first got together about 2 blocks from my old house on the Westside of Jacksonville. They'd already taken off by the time I bought it. but occasionally I'd hear some awful professional music coming from about 2 garages down. Though personally,, I'd rather have had Molly Hatchet.kevin Abel wrote:Tim,
I added the hurricane url to my list of good urls.
When I hear about something that happened with a band I Joke and say that it is the symbolism.
I lived across the street from Yankee Stadium up until I was a few years old in the 1960s. My mom asked me if she made any mistakes raising me. I told her that she should have opened the windows when the Beatles were playing.
Kevin
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
kevin Abel wrote:
The link above is showing that Pembroke Pines is not in a flood zone. I live next to a lake. I'm wondering if homes slide into the lakes in a hurricane.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
Mike Simmons wrote:I may be focusing on the wrong thing here, but...
Did anyone else think it was odd to hear that Hurricane Lee was headed toward the Leeward Islands? Anyone? Or perhaps it's the normal thing, since "leeward" basically means downwind, and storms normally travel downwind, by their very nature. But still...
Anyway, good luck this season.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
Tim wrote:As for the name "Lee", once hurricanes had no names and were known only by their dates. The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane that hit the Florida keys, washed hundreds out to sea and wrecked the Overseas Railroad, for example. Eventually, however, as tracking became a thing, storms were named after women (because "woment are unpredictable creatures prone to sudden wrath ( oink oink)").
kevin Abel wrote:
Tim wrote:As for the name "Lee", once hurricanes had no names and were known only by their dates. The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane that hit the Florida keys, washed hundreds out to sea and wrecked the Overseas Railroad, for example. Eventually, however, as tracking became a thing, storms were named after women (because "woment are unpredictable creatures prone to sudden wrath ( oink oink)").
My family tells the joke that hurricanes are feminine because they are HURRicanes and not HISacanes.
Kevin
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.