The Shrine

and this is coming from someone in so cal where it's only about 35F out right now. i'm tired of living in substandard housing...

Replay wrote:and this is coming from someone in so cal where it's only about 35F out right now. i'm tired of living in substandard housing...

YOU HAVE NO IDEA

snowing / raining here in PA, I'm staying the fuck home. No reason to risk driving into work when I'm the admin of our remote access...

I would have loved to stay home today. Stupid UPS only closing when it's a state of emergency. Grr.

haha i actually hope it stays cold and we have a cold year. last year it got to be >105F for five days in the summer at one point here.

Come up here for Dec and Jan some year. You'll never complain about 35F ever again

Let's see here, it is cold here, we just got 7" of snow and it won't get above freezing until Saturday. Most of the people in my office are not here today.

Imakeholesinu wrote:Let's see here, it is cold here, we just got 7" of snow and it won't get above freezing until Saturday. Most of the people in my office are not here today.

Pansies. If it goes above freezing here anytime from Dec to Mar, people go out in shorts

Zeus wrote:Come up here for Dec and Jan some year. You'll never complain about 35F ever again

my heart is cold as stone. you are a disgrace to the maple leaf if you can't handle a little chill in the winter!

Replay wrote:

Zeus wrote:Come up here for Dec and Jan some year. You'll never complain about 35F ever again

my heart is cold as stone. you are a disgrace to the maple leaf if you can't handle a little chill in the winter!

Ask Bovine about his -45C weather. You'd be weeping in the corner curled up in the fetal position licking your palms if you ever had to endure that :-)

it's weird weather here. We are getting some cold days, but then we get rain and temperatures of five above freezing the next day. We have received a lot of record high days, along with Some really cold ones.

Zeus wrote:

Replay wrote:

Zeus wrote:Come up here for Dec and Jan some year. You'll never complain about 35F ever again

my heart is cold as stone. you are a disgrace to the maple leaf if you can't handle a little chill in the winter!

Ask Bovine about his -45C weather. You'd be weeping in the corner curled up in the fetal position licking your palms if you ever had to endure that :-)

wait, CELSIUS?

somebody convert that for me. or don't.

i mean, doesn't the "50 in 50" rule about having a 50% survival rate in 50F water after one minute start to apply to AIR at that point? O_o

Well, I know central Canada is getting colder temperatures then they have in over a decade this January.

Replay wrote:

Zeus wrote:

Replay wrote: my heart is cold as stone. you are a disgrace to the maple leaf if you can't handle a little chill in the winter!

Ask Bovine about his -45C weather. You'd be weeping in the corner curled up in the fetal position licking your palms if you ever had to endure that :-)

wait, CELSIUS?

somebody convert that for me. or don't.

i mean, doesn't the "50 in 50" rule about having a 50% survival rate in 50F water after one minute start to apply to AIR at that point? O_o

Amazing what a simple Google search can come up with (it's -49F BTW)

http://www.wbuf.noaa.gov/tempfc.htm

Google is better than that: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=-45C+in+F

It's a decent calculator that does unit conversions (including money). If I need to do a quick calculation, it's often easier to open up a new tab (and Google is my homepage) than it is to open up the actual calculator app I use.

Kupek wrote:Google is better than that: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=-45C+in+F

It's a decent calculator that does unit conversions (including money). If I need to do a quick calculation, it's often easier to open up a new tab (and Google is my homepage) than it is to open up the actual calculator app I use.

That's a bit easier. Didn't realize it had a built in calculator. Can be useful, thanks

Isn't complaining about cold weather in California a bannable offense? Should be.

Kupek wrote:Google is better than that: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=-45C+in+F

It's a decent calculator that does unit conversions (including money). If I need to do a quick calculation, it's often easier to open up a new tab (and Google is my homepage) than it is to open up the actual calculator app I use.

That reminded me of this graph from graphjam.

i'm not sure if i should feel intense joy or miserable shame at having contributed greatly to that yellow pie slice

Blotus wrote:Isn't complaining about cold weather in California a bannable offense? Should be.

write Sine, you can get it in the bylaws.

i'm dealing with a FORTY DEGREE FARENHHEIT NIGHT here. the least you all could do is show some compassion!

(laughs and then runs, runs, runs)

We havent had power since 4am Wednesday. We tried to stick it out and hope it came back, but at about 2pm the house got down to 54F inside and we left.

...54F?

I barely ever run my heat and we've had several below-freezing nights here. It's probably about 58-62F in my apartment right now.

Well considering it was getting down to 15 that night and we have no power, and theres a danger of the pipes freezing...

Here's some pics from what it looks like here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/trash.eight ... PhotoAlbum#

Replay wrote:i'm not sure if i should feel intense joy or miserable shame at having contributed greatly to that yellow pie slice

I use it as a spell check all the time. I also use it for conversions a lot.

-20 is nothing to me. Then again, my ancestors come from the lands of the ice and snow with the midnight sun where the hotsprings blow.

Legend of The Seeker wrote:-20 is nothing to me. Then again, my ancestors come from the lands of the ice and snow with the midnight sun where the hotsprings blow.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah aah!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah aah!

Seraphina wrote:Here's some pics from what it looks like here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/trash.eight ... PhotoAlbum#

We refer to days like that as "Wednesday" :-)

Still no power...sigh.

It's 0C today and I'm LOVING IT. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO *fucking long ass lines*

yay

Oracle wrote:It's 0C today and I'm LOVING IT. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.


yay

We've been having subfreezing days in DC for quite a while now. 15F tonight, which is about -10C.

Flip wrote:

Oracle wrote:It's 0C today and I'm LOVING IT. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. *now I can read this damn thread*


yay

We've been having subfreezing days in DC for quite a while now. 15F tonight, which is about -10C.

I'm just happy that it isn't -45C anymore.... for now.... apparantly February is supposed to be evil cold.

Arizona has some really cold mornings and evenings, but surprisingly hot afternoons.

Californians, you fucking lizards call that cold?!

Just got back from my parents' place. Need to unpack a bit and unwind. Glad that we got our power back and can go back to normal.

We had the windstorms in Louisville last Sept (from Ike), and it knocked out the power. We had to worry about the heat, and the fridge/freezer food melting, but we could live there. With this, we were there for maybe 6 hours before we just said "Fuck this cold shit!", packed up, and move over to my folks' place.

Funny thing is that when we were dealing with the food in the fridge, the fridge food was fine (at 45F in the house), and the solution to the freezer food was to put it in a cooler outside (at 15F). We didn't really lose any food, but we couldn't stand to live there.

That would be pretty fucking insane to lose all power at that temp. We lost our heat once at my mom's old place when it was around that temp and regardless of how much you bundle up, you just can't get warm.

SineSwiper wrote:Californians, you fucking lizards call that cold?!

WHY DO PEOPLE HATE MY STATE? I really don't get it. We've done nothing to you, dude.

Replay wrote:

SineSwiper wrote:Californians, you fucking lizards call that cold?!

WHY DO PEOPLE HATE MY STATE? I really don't get it. We've done nothing to you, dude.

There's a rep of Cali's being pretentious whiners, that's why. Probably a bunch of jealous woven in there too since you don't have to deal with the harshness of winter like the rest of us......pansies :-)

oh, lord. i just had a vision of taking every vapid future trophy wife (or trophy husband for that matter) in los angeles to canada and watching them shatter and freeze like popsicles in the cold.

it was...fulfilling.

zeus, you have made my day. thank you, bro.

Freezing? Thinking of Australia might help:

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25 ... 42,00.html

Fea wrote:Freezing? Thinking of Australia might help:

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25 ... 42,00.html

Ugh! I hate heat more than I hate the cold. You can always add on layers...

My thoughts exactly. Luckily, my part of the country is a lot cooler than that.

Seraphina wrote:

Fea wrote:Freezing? Thinking of Australia might help:

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25 ... 42,00.html

Ugh! I hate heat more than I hate the cold. You can always add on layers...

Do you live in extreme cold? Does it get to be -45 celcius down there with wind chill?

Sure, if you're in your house you can bundle up but when it's cold and you have the wind blowing? It's much worse than trying to find shade when it's 40 celcius out there

Zeus wrote:

Seraphina wrote:

Fea wrote:Freezing? Thinking of Australia might help:

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25 ... 42,00.html

Ugh! I hate heat more than I hate the cold. You can always add on layers...

Do you live in extreme cold? Does it get to be -45 celcius down there with wind chill?

Sure, if you're in your house you can bundle up but when it's cold and you have the wind blowing? It's much worse than trying to find shade when it's 40 celcius out there

Fuck that, I'd rather freeze to death and fall asleep then melt to death and suffer through a heat stroke.

Know what's really lame? Getting into a pissing match over who experiences worse weather.

Yeah... I did walk home from work yesterday in the 16 degree or so cold and then it was 50 today so... what the hell?

Kupek wrote:Know what's really lame? Getting into a pissing match over who experiences worse weather.

No u.

Zeus wrote: Do you live in extreme cold? Does it get to be -45 celcius down there with wind chill?

Sure, if you're in your house you can bundle up but when it's cold and you have the wind blowing? It's much worse than trying to find shade when it's 40 celcius out there

Different strokes I guess. The cold has never bothered me, but extreme heat is horrible.

The cold my bothers me when it first crosses the 0 mark. After that I am fine for the remainder of the winter. I will take -30 windchill over rainy weather in January any day (we had a few rainy days; the weather here is a bit nuts bouncing around 20-30 degrees within hours sometimes). I am not a heat person myself either.

Kupek wrote:Know what's really lame? Getting into a pissing match over who experiences worse weather.

Its more a debate on which extreme you prefer, at this point... which i dont think is all that lame.