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Hasta la Vista, Baby

Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 11:48 pm
by RobertGonzalez
NOTE: This thread started out as a joke plea for attention as I noticed I was the only DevNet registered user on the forums at the time. It has since evolved into a marathon "take this off-topic" thread. It is growing daily. Would you like to steer the thread in the wrong direction with us? Come on in. Anything that does not violate DevNet rules goes...

Title History:
I feel so alone...
Temperature, and the insectoid madness it births
The ultimate off-topic thread
Hasta la Vista, Baby

NOTE (2): All good things must come to an end. So it is with this thread. It shall be locked and thrust into the annals of what-used-to-be tomorrow morning (18-May-2006). It has been fun, what with all the temperature, bugs, guts, aliens, penguins and smilies. But alas, there are so many more topics to fork, it would be a shame to use them all in here. :D

Goodnight Gracie

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I just looked at the portal page and realized I am the only registered user on the forums right now :cry: .

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EDIT | Once again, here Feyd comes to save the day... (sung to the theme of Mighty Mouse). Just before I hit 'Submit' Feyd popped in there. Jeez, there's a surprise. :wink:

Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 11:49 pm
by Burrito
hey! I'm here too!

Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 11:53 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Dude, was it really in the 100's there the last few days? I was watching the weather report the other day and it said that parts of Arizona and the California deserts were going to be upward of 105 degrees.

Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 11:54 pm
by Burrito
It's been ~104 the past 4 days in a row.

starting to get spicy, and will only get worse.

Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 12:02 am
by RobertGonzalez
That is just way to much for me. I was in Phoenix in 1996. In August. In a heatwave. It never got below 102 (Friday through Sunday) and somehow I never broke a sweat. What is that all about :?:

Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 12:16 am
by Charles256
come to alabama.if it tops 80 you sweat..freakin humidity!

Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 12:47 am
by RobertGonzalez
I was in southern Louisiana a few years back. Take a shower in the morning and the towel you used will still be wet the next morning. Yuck. :x

Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 8:49 am
by Bill H
...somehow I never broke a sweat.
Trust me, you broke a sweat. It evaporated so fast you felt continuously dry.

I grew up in Tucson and learned to wear two shirts - an inner tee of 100% cotton, and an outer one of light color with long sleeves. The outer one keeps the inner one from drying out too fast and keeps you cool. Learned that from the Hopi and Navahos - they wrap a blanket around themselves when it gets really hot.

Preserving moisture is critical in the desert. Every year someone dies in the Grand Canyon - dies from dehydration with a full canteen of water on their belt because they never realized they were thirsty.

Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 8:57 am
by Maugrim_The_Reaper
And here I sit in Ireland. Looking out the Window. It's cloudy. No wait, it's raining too. If I steo outside it's probably 14c (whatever that is in usfangled fahrenheit...).

And they wonder why the Irish migrate so often...

Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 9:38 am
by Roja
Ha. Ha. Ha.

Talking about the heat?

I lived in Saudi Arabia when I was growing up. It would regularly get up to 110 degrees F. One afternoon, I had a heat stroke, and the temp *in the shade* was 112 degrees F. I even vacationed in Egypt. When I went to the pyramids, it was over 110 degrees F out.

Granted, you can take the whole "Its a dry heat" approach, but then I moved to south Florida (West Palm Beach represent!). There it would regularly hit 95 degrees F, with a humidity in the upper ninties. No dry heat there - you just boil water out of your body, and it doesn't help a bit with cooling you off.

Now I live in Dublin, Ohio, and when the snow comes, I cheer. People think I'm crazy wearing short-sleeved shirts and shorts in 40 degree weather.. But I just tell them "I stored up plenty of heat when I was a kid". :)

I'm pretty much the last person you want to have a discussion about thermal extremes with. Well, except for the guy that has been to Antarctica and the Sahara desert. But hey, I'm pretty close!

Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 10:53 am
by RobertGonzalez
I feel like such a baby. :cry: The other day it was like 90 degress here. The humidity (what humidity in northern California, right?) was nothing, the sky was clear, but it felt really hot. We broke all kinds of records for heat for this time of year. But I felt like I was boiling. I'm such a wus... :roll:

Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 1:55 pm
by Bill H
I just remembered the perfect response to my being so fond of the desert (Tucson, AZ)

"Yeah, but it's a dry heat."
"So's an oven, you idiot, but it still cooks things."
:?

Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 2:19 pm
by Roja
Everah wrote:Dude, was it really in the 100's there the last few days?
Talk about taking the thread off-topic.. :)

Not that there was much of a topic, and I certainly didn't help things, but.. way to go. :)

Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 2:26 pm
by RobertGonzalez
<taking a bow>
Thank you, thank you.
</taking a bow>

Sorry about that, I was tired and it was hot. :oops:

Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 2:29 pm
by Roja
Everah wrote:Sorry about that, I was tired and it was hot. :oops:
It could be worse..

(From Real Genius)
Chris Knight: Oh, really? Well, what about that time I found you naked with that bowl of Jell-O?
Kent: You did not.
Chris Knight: This is true.
Kent: Yeah, well it was hot and I was hungry.