Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for August 28, 2013

I wish. Forecast for today is 90. Ugh.

We (middle GA) have been down around 60 for the last two nights.

C to F temperature calculation that can be done in your head: double it, subject 10 percent, add 32. Thus, 22C is 72F (or 71.6F if you can do decimals in your head).

Exactly Richard. I will love the day when we in the US joins the rest of the modern world and goes metric. (former engineer)

Oh and more importantly, Janis, Arlo will be snuggled up to you when the temps get into the forties.

just watching the weather here and 100+ forecast everyday for the next week to week and a half. We don’t usually get any kind of cooler weather in Texas until the end of Sept.

Well, if it’s in the 40’s I’d still be perfectly fine.

Then again I still wear the same clothes (short sleeve shirts) year round. When the temp gets below 30 I’ll grab a jacket.

And only in America can a discussion about temperature devolve into a political diatribe…

I always say a miss is as good as 1.609 kilometers.

Only in Americacan kid who’s washing cars,take a giant step and reach right upand touch the stars……

OK, Rich, using the Imperial “system”, quick now, how many Jeroboams are there in a Hogshead?

please stop with the math you are hurting my head. I hate math I could never keep it straight or remmeber what is what I still have to use my fingers to add and subtract and I’m 38 years old.

I have to admit, metric is probably more logical However, I did not learn it, have no need for it, and don’t really care.

And where will Arlo be? In the house, silly. At whatever temp he chooses. And he is too much of a (comic strip ) gentleman to toss around gratuitous insults like RichardWebster.

Richard – I lived outside the US for 20 years of my professional career, so I do speak fluent metric. When in Spain or most of Latin America I speak Spanish and use C, and in the US I speak English and use F. My “in the head” calculation is not only a neat parlor trick, but also useful for Americans traveling overseas, who likely won’t take the time to learn Flemish and C for their two days in Belgium. Consider it a public service announcement.

If we can learn what all these texting abbreviations mean, we can remember that 22 C is approx 71 F, 27 C is approx 80 F, and 18 C is approx 65F. We can extrapolate from there until we get the idea.

A discussion of temperature brought out all the world’s greatest experts on what the US should do I see.

Well it cracked 22deg here today for the first time since autumn. That’s Common degrees, not the weird Foreign degrees they use in Liberia, Burma and some other place.

Where would he be? Huddled under the blanket with you, that’s where.

I found that Electronic Engineering course formulas didn’t pay much attention to dead kings toe-length.. If it had, we’d still be ‘taking a stab’ at landing on the moon.

My quick conversion method is to remember that every 10 degree jump in C equals 18 in F or in smaller increments, a 5 degree change in C equals 9 in F. For example 10C = 50F; 15C=41F; 20C=68F; 25C30C=86F and so on.

It got sent before I finished,but ’nuff said.

Well said! I am a proud American, however we travel to Europe frequently so I also feel comfortable in either area. I’m so tired of the “we do it best” attitude though (from both sides).I would love to switch to metric system, although I still like the Fahrenheit measure of temperature because there’s a huge difference in each degree in Celsius compared to Fahrenheit, so Fahrenheit seems more exact to me. It’s hard to explain, but the difference between 76 & 77 Fahrenheit is more subtle (and means more to me) than the difference between 22 & 23 Celsius.

All the metric system has done to me is cause me to purchase twice as many wrenches.

Richard, Richard, Richard- your reply to my first posting, simply showing a quick and easy method to convert C to F, was, shall we say, a bit antagonistic. “Or you could just take the time to learn the centigrade scale (like the rest of the world)” My second post was simply asking why a traveling American should accede to your demand that they learn Centigrade, simply to use the knowledge for a few days outside of the Fahrenheit world? Analogy alert: They don’t learn to speak Flemish to spend some time outside the English-speaking world. What’s the dif?

Don’t you people have something better to do with your time than engage in verbal fisticuffs?

Since 1983, A meter has been defined as “the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second.” wikipedia…….. which is impossible for the average person or even most scientists to to measure even vaguely accurately…. I’ll stick with feet and inches… they make more sense to me.

Right. Converting is ridiculous and off putting. I avoided it when teaching and just got students used to thinking in metric. (however, I should point out that the Fahrenheit scale is more precise.)

You got that exactly right!

The problem with the so-called attempt to convert to metric is that it was no real attempt at all, and was doomed to failure. Adding an unfamiliar measurement to a familiar measurement on signs or labels WILL NOT help people get used to the unfamiliar measurement, because people will look at the familiar and ignore the unfamiliar. I speak from experience. When my family moved to Hong Kong in 1963, the temperatures from the Royal Observatory were quoted in both fahrenheit and centigrade, and everyone ignored the centigrade figures (as did I). Then when they finally dropped the fahrenheit no-one was really ready. Further confusion came about because at the same time they dropped the name “centigrade” and started saying “celsius,” which no one had even heard of! However, guess what happened? Once the celsius temperatures were all that were being reported, people learned from experience what 25° actually FELT like, and made the mental transition in a relatively short time.

@SnuffyG said,“All the metric system has done to me is cause me to purchase twice as many wrenches ".~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Biggest laff of the day !! Congrats !! For the record, my shop wall has twice as many wrenches as it did in the 70’s, too…..

All you need to know about Centigrade/Celsius:

If it is below 20, you need a jacket.If it is above 30, you need a swimsuit.

What is this talk about “real” or “artificial” measurements? They are all artificial. They are all man-made. There is no natural measurement.

Also, Ashburn Stadium – It has been a while since a meter (or metre) was defined by the Earth. Even then it wasn’t 100% accepted. Around 1870 or so. They changed to a metal rod kept in France. It is now based on the wave length of the orange-red emission line in the electromagnetic spectrum of the krypton-86 atom in a vacuum.

wow,what a bad attitude shes been having lately

Last I read, the kilogram was the only basic unit of measure still defined by an artifact; time and distance are predicated upon atomic measurements.

You miss my point. There is the speed of light in a vacuum as a phenomenon. It isn’t a unit of measurement. You still have to pick whether it is Km/sec or miles/sec.

Don’t even start on what a “second” is.

He’d be right beside of her, enjoying the view!