Comments | scooterbird: Livin' la vida metric

scooterbird

Livin' la vida metric

Sep 22, 2010 10:41

There are some good and bad points to being an intellectual or cultural loner, refusing to follow the herd on matters that are otherwise taken for granted. I've always felt that the metric system would be the thing to follow in the U.S. - blame it on a combination of studying in the sciences for years and growing up during the Carter ( Read more... )

weather, autumn, metric system, whine, philosophical rant

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kouaidou September 22 2010, 18:29:31 UTC

Fahrenheit was definitely useful during winter in Chicago, where you can use "negative degrees Fahrenheit" to amaze people with just how fucking cold it is there.

But C is okay too. After my time in Tokyo I can think of 20C as basically ideal.

You are not alone dhs September 22 2010, 19:38:43 UTC

I also follow the temperature in Celsius.

thecanuckguy September 26 2010, 19:19:42 UTC

Gah! There's nothing more annoying to someone who *exclusively* uses Celsius (and finds it very hard to convert to Farenheit) than to see a post like yours, but mixing numbers! Last paragraph talking about temps in single digits (C assumed), but then "back up to 31 today, with a predicted 33 on Friday" ... WTF?!?!?!?!?! That's like sweltering heat! Oh, you're back to F and didn't tell me ...

(Reminds me of an interesting exchange I had with someone recently - we recently had our house heat treated against a bug problem. I stopped by the house briefly to pick up something in the middle of the treatment, and it was so hot my glasses fogged up as soon as I stepped in the door. I told the person that I checked the thermostat when I was in the house and it said 66. The person had an indifferent look on their face, like "yeah, so, my house is like that sometimes." I had to explain "no, 66 *Celsius*." And this was a fellow Canuck I was talking to!)

scooterbird September 27 2010, 06:47:41 UTC

That's only "sweltering heat" to a Canuck. The rest of us down here are pretty well used to it. Er, that's the 33 degrees we got on Friday (closer to 35, I think), not the 66 in your house.

Rest of the week, apparently, will be rainy and drizzly, with a high of 24 and a low of 14.

thecanuckguy September 27 2010, 16:59:51 UTC

No, it's "sweltering heat" to a basement-dwelling geek like myself. I know plenty of Canucks who like temps above 30 (I'm married to one), but not me. (Winnipeg has a very wide range of temps, -40 isn't unusual in winter, +40 isn't unusual in summer)

And apologies, I realized after that the 31 and 33 were Celsius, my rant should be directed to your strange weather rather than you.