In reply to stuart in mn :
It's a true story except they didn't rub my head or call me little buddy but they enjoyed a good laugh on my behalf.
That's okay, just keep sending over those commissions.....
In reply to stuart in mn :
It's a true story except they didn't rub my head or call me little buddy but they enjoyed a good laugh on my behalf.
That's okay, just keep sending over those commissions.....
Power steering...
The coldest I've seen was -11F. I had a Golf with manual steering. The grease in the rack got so stiff that I could barely turn the wheel.
Hey, I'm happy that it started. And that I'd blanked off the center dash vents the year before. (VW ran the center vents from before the heater core, because hot air is bad for some reason. And they couldn't be closed)
As much as I don't care for the cold anymore, those -25C mornings, the first few minutes are so nice. The suspension fluid is cold and thick, the grease is stiff, the gears whine, everything feels tight and new. I love it.
Well I'm glad I didn't spend yesterday working on the sled. That snow storm that was threatening our very existence? Turned out to be a whole lot of feathers, and not much chicken. I wouldn't be out on the sled today anyway. Colour me surprised. Not.
In reply to Peabody :
You don't need to go very far to get into some decent snow, probably one of the best winters in southern Ontario for snowmobiling in a few years provided you are getting the lake effect snow. We had a solid foot and a half in our backyard in Kitchener when I left Monday before last nights storm.
It's supposed to get up to +40° F on Sunday but for now, it's -46° F. 
That's only -43.34° C for you Metric folks. 
TIL if you hold down the Alt key and type 0176, after you release the Alt key it creates the (°) degree symbol. 
howtosensei.com: How to Type the Degree (°) Symbol using Keyboard
In reply to VolvoHeretic :
°_°
Holy carp that is cold. I only got into the -30f once on a work trip outside Fargo in Feb... Damn it was cold.
It finally hit -33°F here. Just saw a C8 driving by, I could hear the plastic snapping as it bounced over every bump in the ice covered street from my minivan. 
See, sometimes I think about moving up north and then I see things like this and think "hahaha never mind." I would not survive, I barley survive 30 degree weather the few times we get it here in Florida.
In reply to Paris Van Gorder :
Lol, I'm too dumb to know any better. I wonder if Texas is ready for barely above 0°F tonight? Got lots of blankets?
NOAA.com Wednesday Night Low Temperatures Forecast
In reply to VolvoHeretic :
Yeah, no thank you. I will continue to enjoy my 75°F and sunny weather, thank you very much.
Why not Minot? Because it's frakkin cold! :)
It's a balmy +teens here in CT, although it'll be 6ish tomorrow it looks like.
No way man. If I lived there I would do everything in my power not to live there.
I always thought that the Temperature could never drop below the Dew Point? But there are several location on these maps that show just that.
The town 20 minutes south of me was the coldest place on earth yesterday at -41c.
VolvoHeretic said:TIL if you hold down the Alt key and type 0176, after you release the Alt key it creates the (°) degree symbol.
howtosensei.com: How to Type the Degree (°) Symbol using Keyboard
If you're on Windows, you can use Character Map (hit the start menu and type in "Charmap" it'll pop up). That'll show you every individual thing that whatever font you want can make. You can search for something at the bottom, too. You can directly copy out of there, but in the lower right it'll tell you the keyboard shortcut for whatever you've selected. Here's Diameter, for example:
The ones I use a lot (since I do CAM Programming) are:
Diameter: Ø Alt 0216 large, ø 0248 small
Plus/Minus: ± Alt 0177
Degree: ° Alt 248, ° Alt 0176 (some fonts only have one of these hooked up).
Upside down question mark: ¿ Alt 191 to communicate with my spanish Speaking contacts. I'm really bad at Spanish, but at least I can ask a question!
ShawnG said:The town 20 minutes south of me was the coldest place on earth yesterday at -41c.
That's a competition I don't want to be in...
In reply to WonkoTheSane :
You don't have ASCII memorized?
...okay, me neither.
Pete. (l33t FS) said:In reply to WonkoTheSane :
You don't have ASCII memorized?
...okay, me neither.
I have more than I care to admit memorized :)
WonkoTheSane said:ShawnG said:The town 20 minutes south of me was the coldest place on earth yesterday at -41c.
That's a competition I don't want to be in...
It's a dry cold 
I'm just back from a grocery trip in falling temps, currently in the upper teens F., and falling snow to get some bacon. Wife tells me last night we have no bacon in the freezer. WTF? I did not want to contemplate a future without bacon, so off to the store I went.
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