there are churches that have a special lutefisk supper around here, supposedly it is a tradition. I do not think any Swede in his right mind would eat that tripe unless he was starving. The dogs wont even eat it.
About -14 C (-7 or -8 F) here in the High Desert, with a half a foot of snow yesterday...think I'll look for one of those "Global Warming" nuts to pound, just to get my circulation back to normal. Still trying to get heavy equipment in here to cover all the new water system, but it is too cold for the fellow I had scheduled.
No to be a know it all but -14C works out to about 7F.
Pete
The thing about old Fahrenheit, when he invented his thermometer, he set his scale zero to a hundred right about where people live on planet Earth. When it gets below zero or above a hundred, you just wanna say "Dayum!" F is to human scale. The thing about the French scale, it goes from freezing water to boiling water. That's a fabulous enough scale I suppose for a nation of cooks; but not all that relevant to what people want to know. Old Celsius came up with Centigrade; but he was an astronomer, so, he was not thinking about this human Earth.
Just to confuse things, Celsius is no longer centigrade. I copped this from wikipedia ... see if you can grok all this jibberjabber:
From 1744 until 1954, 0 °C was defined as the freezing point of water and 100 °C was defined as the boiling point of water, both at a pressure of one standard atmosphere with mercury being the working material. Although these defining correlations are commonly taught in schools today, by international agreement the unit "degree Celsius" and the Celsius scale are currently defined by two different temperatures: absolute zero, and the triple point of VSMOW (specially purified water). This definition also precisely relates the Celsius scale to the Kelvin scale, which defines the SIbase unit of thermodynamic temperature with symbol K. Absolute zero, the lowest temperature possible at which matter theoretically would reach minimum entropy, is defined as being precisely 0 K and −273.15 °C. The temperature of the triple point of water is defined as precisely 273.16 K and 0.01 °C.[SUP][2]
Right. That's simple enough.
Gimme my temp F any old day.
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The house temperature feels just about right: 298ºK. For dinner, I plan to increase the entropy of my food by dicing the ham, and mixing it into the beans. Then my metabolism will go the opposite route, turning the mess of ham and beans into highly organized biologic tissues. Gotta love entropy. In the end, we all end up as a mess of beans.
Bob
Okay, technical moment. It is not 298 "degrees" Kelvin as you have written above. A Kelvin is a unit of temperature so the correct way to write your house temperature is 298 K with the space between the number and the capital K.
Sorry. Used to have to do stuff like this. Don't you love nitpicking? No comment about the entropy stuff.