[Rhodes22-list] Coping with sailing season/boat show interruptus

[Saroj Gilbert]

Just about what I figured... if it were me I'd take my portable propane 
heater.. BTW, I really have a problem with the shift in using the Wind-chill 
temperature as "the" temperature in common usage today... It kind of dilutes 
the -20 degree (absolute, tho Fahrenheit) temps we used to expereince 
regularly in Canada (pre conversion to metric), but either way you look at 
it, very nasty conditions.  Good luck to them.  They have to be slightly 
insane!

Saroj
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jay Friedland" <jsail1 at verizon.net>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 10:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Coping with sailing season/boat show 
interruptus


> Saroj,
> Actually wind chill at the stadium in Philly is 5 below, with the high 
> (20-30 kts.) winds. Friends & their kids have ALL their winter clothes on 
> for the 4-5 hours from tail-gating to game end. I wonder how much 
> anti-freeze? They won't say.
> J
>
> On Jan 23, 2005, at 10:18 AM, Saroj Gilbert wrote:
>
>> Well, first reaction is "man, Jay has to be really down to the bottom of 
>> his TODO pile or simply can't face it anymore (that would be me).  Second 
>> reaction is that I could have an enjoyable half-hour exploring this 
>> phenomenon and the apparent discovery of two "matching" (whatever that 
>> means), but not quite identical, snow-not-quite-flakes, but, sorry, 
>> working hard to develop strategies to continue to make money in what 
>> looks like a scary market before us.  Third reaction was "is this a how 
>> many angels can dance on the head of a pin conversation?" altho 
>> admittedly snowflakes can be seen which shifts the conversation 
>> considerably.  I suppose it is more in the realm of "is it possible that 
>> two molecules of water can ever follow the precisely exact path in a 
>> waterfall?"  How would one ever know actually... so given the number of 
>> snowflakes that fall and the impossible task of observing more than the 
>> minutest sample of them, the problem has to be addressed on a theoretical 
>> / probability basis.  Thus it could be a very long convresation. 
>> Hopefully had inside near a warm fire with lots to eat and drink.
>>
>> Just on the subject of snow and gawd-awful weather conditions, I'll have 
>> to tune into the Eagles/Falcons game in Philly today to see if any fans 
>> are enthusiastic enough and sufficiently self-destructive to show up to 
>> sit in 19 degree windy conditions to watch the game in person.
>>
>> Have fun!
>>
>> Freezing in S.E. VA,
>> Saroj
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay Friedland" <jsail1 at verizon.net>
>> To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 9:43 AM
>> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Coping with sailing season/boat show interruptus
>>
>>
>>> http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_392.html
>>>
>>>  "Some months ago, Straight Dope fiends will recall, this column struck 
>>> a mighty blow for truth and freedom by attacking the belief that no two 
>>> snowflakes are alike, a superstition that has blighted the lives of 
>>> millions. Not having time to inspect all the world's snowflakes 
>>> (besides, I lost the tweezers), Cecil relied instead on the crushing 
>>> logic of mathematics, arguing that so many flakes had fallen since the 
>>> dawn of time that there were bound to be a few duplicates.
>>>
>>>  Naturally, many scoffed. One peanut-brain called to say he knew for 
>>> sure no two snowflakes were alike because he had heard it on Nova. There 
>>> was also the unfortunate business with the googols, which we won't go 
>>> into here. My defense in all cases was couched strictly in theoretical 
>>> terms, since I did not expect any actual cases of twin flakes to turn up 
>>> (although I must say the cast of characters in those Doublemint 
>>> commercials certainly came close).
>>>
>>>  I was therefore pleasantly surprised to read in the bulletin of the 
>>> American Meteorological Society that matching snow crystals were 
>>> recently discovered by Nancy Knight of the National Center for 
>>> Atmospheric Research. The crystals in question admittedly aren't flakes 
>>> in the usual sense but rather hollow hexagonal prisms. They are also not 
>>> absolutely identical, but come on, if you insist on getting down to the 
>>> molecular level, nothing's identical. They're close enough for me. Just 
>>> shows you, not only is this column at the cutting edge of science, 
>>> sometimes we have to wait for the cutting edge to catch up.
>>>
>>>  --CECIL ADAMS"
>>>
>>> Any comments from the list?
>>> Jay
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