Search of the Week (or so): -40 f to c
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Called in sick to work, so what more perfect time to do a Search of the Week (or so)? This week, besides the usual sex searches, and Christoper McCandless questions, I got this: -40 f to c
For those of you apparently wondering, -40 is the same in both Fahrenheit and Celsius. I believe the technical term for it is "OHMYFUCKINGGODCOLD", or something along those lines.
A few things you might not know about life at 40 below:
- If you park your car outside, the bottoms of your tires freeze flat, and your whole vehicle goes THUMP THUMP THUMP down the road until the tires warm up. (This actually happens at -30ºF too, but it's a lot more noticeable at -40)
- You may not want to use your turn signal until the passenger compartment warms up … if it's plastic, it will likely snap right the fuck off in your hand.
- I don't know if a cup of boiling water will actually vaporize before it hits the ground (providing you throw it into the air first) … but your nose hairs WILL freeze together when you breathe. Oddly, a nose stud will not freeze.
- You will burn your hands if you touch anything metal. It feels exactly like a first degree burn, if you notice it soon enough. Which you will. So, no, you do not want to try and carry the propane tank to the truck before you put your gloves on.
- Blue insulation foam (popular as outhouse seat material) feels warm to the touch at any temperature I've seen. I don't know how. Maybe magic?
I SO do not miss living in Fairbanks. Juneau is much nicer.
6th March 2008 at 5:49 pm | permalink |Ehh. Juneau rains. I got enough rain to last a lifetime when I lived in Oregon. ;-)
6th March 2008 at 5:57 pm | permalink |Your 3 statements
- a nose stud will not freeze
- you will burn your hands if you touch anything metal
- insulation foam feels warm to the touch at any temperature
are all related. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_capacity.
Metals have low heat capacity and so they quickly change temperature (ie. the nose stud stays warm and a metal pole sucks heat out of your hand). Insulation has high heat capacity so it's slow to change temperature and so it feels warm (the heat stays in your hand).
Live and learn. :)
6th March 2008 at 7:03 pm | permalink |I think 40F is cold enough…damn.
6th March 2008 at 7:21 pm | permalink |Just wanted to let you know that your blog is blocked by my work's internet security. It said your site has a DDR (not the weird Japanese thing) score of 700, and something about "excessive immoral language".
So keep up the great work! Love your blog.
6th March 2008 at 7:42 pm | permalink |God bless that blue insulation foam.
6th March 2008 at 8:14 pm | permalink |This is really odd, last week I was searching for the conversions between farenheight and celcius at work and afterwards I did a search for this site because I couldn't remember the way it was spelled. I wonder if I somehow ended up as being the search of the week.
6th March 2008 at 8:55 pm | permalink |@grimey: Hm … I basically understood the metal part, but I hadn't had the blue foam part explained so succinctly. Thanks!
@cranky: It's 40 here today … which would be glorious this time of year, if we had any decent recent snowfall. I'm going ice climbing this weekend … perfect weather for it!
@matt: How high does that scale go? I'll have to go look it up … sounds like something worth bragging about. ;-)
@sarah: Hell yes.
6th March 2008 at 9:00 pm | permalink |@autodidact: Only if you searched for THIS site using the exact phrase "-40 f to c" … otherwise, I appear to be on my way to becoming an internet authority on temperature scales. rofl!
6th March 2008 at 9:02 pm | permalink |Haha. Surprisingly I'm happy when it's -40 C outside because that is the only temperature where the busses won't run from my school. So we get no school. ^_^
But yeah, -40 sucks, especially when there's lots of snow and you can't even get out of your house from the pile up.
6th March 2008 at 9:24 pm | permalink |@Alpha,
Is that only from certain search engines that you get those search queries that brought a person here?
Also, DDR stands for Dynamic Document Review and is a heuristic search technology that filters returned pages before allowing a person to view them…basically a proxy internet server filter. Its made by one of the best (asswhole, mother-fucking) companies in the world, Symantec.
On a related note, I did some searching, and most people set their filter to start blocking pages in the 50-100 range for such a filter. It seems the phrase 'fucking cunts' might be easily mis-construe as sexual in nature, who would-uh-thunk?
6th March 2008 at 9:24 pm | permalink |@aimee: Yeah, I have an older diesel truck, so when it's -40, I don't even try to start it … so no work for me! ;-)
@autodidact: Excellent. I am *totally* making a badge with my DDR score for the sidebar in the new template I'm working on … heehee!
6th March 2008 at 9:34 pm | permalink |According to a document I read straight from Symantec about DDR, you might be able to offset your horrendous rating on most filters by mentioning Cancer, diseases, and or random sex-education terms. So, for those with such an I-Gear filter on the Internet Proxy at work, I wish them a happy Proctoscopy, Syphilis, Bartonella bacilliformis…filled day.
6th March 2008 at 9:35 pm | permalink |And at -40 you stare at metal poles and think "You'd really be screwed if you stuck your tongue on that."
6th March 2008 at 9:42 pm | permalink |@autodidact: NOOOOO!!! I'm damn proud of scoring a 700 with no porn involved! :-D
@missbossy: I'm so very glad I've never felt the need to test that one out. lol!
6th March 2008 at 9:59 pm | permalink |@akshelby: I actually do miss living in Fairbanks (born and raised), -40 (and -60, even -80) and all. I'm currently going to school in Colorado, and sure as hell miss it.
That blue foam is like gods gift to winter campers. Outhouses with metal seats suddenly become maybe almost someday bearable again
And I don't know about a pot of boiling water, but I have personally witnessed cups of hot (maybe boiling hot) vaporize after being thrown up in the air. Of course that was at Really Fucking Cold degrees Fahrenheit.
7th March 2008 at 1:49 am | permalink |I am so not looking forward to test it my self what -40 °C or °F means or -10 °C [+14 F°] for that matter :D
7th March 2008 at 2:25 am | permalink |There is a f to c/c to f converter at http://www.eskimo.com/~jet/javascript/convert.html
7th March 2008 at 9:17 am | permalink |Yes, there are parts of Fairbanks that I miss. I used to live out Chena Hotsprings road and could see the Northern Lights much more often out there than I do here since it is overcast so often. I do not miss the painfully cold temperatures and frozen pipes. I do miss the damn good breakfasts at Ivory Jack's.
7th March 2008 at 10:53 am | permalink |Hmm, complaining about the cold whilst living in Alaska is a bit like complaining about American politics while living in the Beltway!
But I feel your pain. I left Ohio in 1980 for California. Its political horseshit aside, at least spring has sprung here.
I was in Anchorage for the Barleywine Festival in January and it was almost warm…or was that the Barleywine???
7th March 2008 at 12:57 pm | permalink |At the risk of appearing a ignorant limey cunt, what is the nature and significance of the Christopher McCandless questions? I mean, i know who he was. But what's with the questions?
7th March 2008 at 3:42 pm | permalink |@farcedude: Hmm. Next cold snap, I'll have to try the cup of water thing … I keep meaning to, but then when it actually hits -40, I just realize I don't want to go outside, and I forget all about it. heh
@baley: +14º is nice weather! ;-)
@eddy: Thanks! :-)
@akshelby: Damn, we could'a been neighbors! I can't imagine driving all the way to Ivory Jack's early enough for breakfast though. lol
@david b. watson: Aww, I wasn't complaining! OHMYFUCKINGGODCOLD is more of a statement of fact than a complaint. hehe
@matt burton: I wrote an article about the McCandless movie, and a lot of people end up at this site while they're searching for information about him and the movie. I can look and see what search phrases people type into search engines when they come to the site. :-)
7th March 2008 at 5:30 pm | permalink |how about -40F to -90F which is the avg winter temp of antartica?
9th March 2008 at 6:17 pm | permalink |@obeyyourmusic: Um, in a word? FUCK NO! ;-) (Oops, that was two words .. hehe)
10th March 2008 at 3:47 pm | permalink |Ok, metal is cold 'cause it conducts the heat away from your skin. Insulation does not. Piss does freeze in mid-air and lands as little yellow hail. And despite all the fucked up Talichristians, Texas still beats freezing my ass off up north.
11th March 2008 at 5:21 pm | permalink |@dr. atomix: I think I'll stay here … we definitely have our share of lunatics, but their necks aren't quite as red, on average. ;-)
11th March 2008 at 6:18 pm | permalink |gosh… all this talk about snow is depressing me in fucking hot ass florida. -grrr- stupid stupid idea to come south to work at disney…. but anyway… I MISS SNOW! lol and… i tried to click on that wiki site grimey posted but it didn't work… :( i wanna know what makes the portapot seats not cold!
12th March 2008 at 12:27 pm | permalink |@alphabitch
perhaps we can define it as "bluenecks" up here. It would work well I think. Match the tarps covering the ancient broke down diesel in the front yard. Mayhap the same person stumbling for the outhouse, stumbled over the electric cord?
I dont care what you all say blue closed cell foam is fucking magic….
27th March 2008 at 3:39 am | permalink |@frozensiren: Yes, yes blue foam is fucking magic. I don't care what the physicists say, blue foam is one of the very few things on earth that makes me think there is a god. ;-)
27th March 2008 at 3:44 am | permalink |@swayla: Damn, how did I miss your comment for so long?! I have family in Florida … and DAMN I respect you for being able to live there with your soul intact.
Feel free to look me up, if you ever decide you want to live in the great nowhere. It's an experience worth living, believe me. :-)
27th March 2008 at 3:49 am | permalink |@alpha: I have no idea.. lol yeah I so want to get out of here. where are you at again?
27th March 2008 at 10:35 am | permalink |