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Bastet bless yor cat. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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Sorry Sander, if you love animals it's like another family member... hope everything turns to be OK and that Nika gets well soon.
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Is 50 cent Espresso a cheap shot?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Bean there, done that. How about we java about something else?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Perhaps you'd rather macchiato or three dollar purchase? Caffeine up that much is a latte money for such a little drink.*
* that is ethanol-deprived.
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That thought is such a grind.
“The palest ink is better than the best memory.” - Chinese Proverb
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Currently showing -34C (-29F), with a daytime high of -31C (-24F). Fortunately, I don't need to leave the house. I feel for those that need to get out to go to work, or have to work outside in weather like this.
Now, I think I'll emulate OriginalGriff and make myself a bacon sandwich for breakfast.
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I don't know how people can live in weather like that.
It snowed here yesterday and we're complaining. 
Steve Wozniak is the only thing at Apple that isn't evil.
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honey the codewitch wrote: I don't know how people can live in weather like that.
Wrestling with polar bears. Keeps you warm.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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I think the Mack Brewery is the northenmost brewery in the world (there was another one further north, but they went out of business). For many years, Mack has produced this Polar Beer. Wresting those could be worth the effort. Having enough of them could make you feel warm as well.
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Central heating plays a major role. That and a certain amount of stupid stubbornness, I think.
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You wouldn't believe the minimum requirements for building insulation in this country (Norway)! With any normal grade insulation mats, you need 12 in thick mats (I am yet talking about high quality insulation). Of course you must also have a sealed wind shield so that no hot air leaks out of the house. Windows have 3-layer glass (with insulating gases between the glass layers) to fulfill the requirements.
Take my living room as an example, covering half of my first floor. It has one long outer wall of about 8 meters, two shorter walls of 4 m. They are 2,5 m tall, making 40 square meter of wall surface. The maximum permitted loss is 0.18 W/sq.m per degree temperature difference, i.e. 7.2 Watt/degree. With -30°C outdoors and I want 20°C indoors, a heater delivering 360 W should be enough to keep my living room warm.
Windows are allowed more loss, up to 0.8 W/sq.m per degree. The two 1.2 m square windows, roughly 3 square meters total, are allowed 2.4 W/degree, or 120 W heat loss when it is -30°C outside. So, I may have to raise the pwer of the heater to 500 Watt. Or maybe not - a human in ordinary social activity emits in the order of 100 W, so inviting a few friends in should be enough.
The basement floor to the ground is only allowed 0.1 W/sq.m per degree. The ground two meters below the surface doesn't go much below freezing (the ground usually freezes about one meter deep in cold winters). So a 100 sq.m basement heated to 20°C (20 degrees above the ground temperature) should have a maximum heat loss through the floor of 200 W.
These are not extreme cases, it is the minimum requirement for new buildings. We will of course save a lot on the heating bill, but it most definitely does help keeping down the cost of putting up a new house!
In my opinion, the authorities have gone too far in their eagerness to save energy.
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That is pretty stiff. I guess good insulation is important when you live so far north though.
Steve Wozniak is the only thing at Apple that isn't evil.
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k5054 wrote: -34C (-29F)
Where the elephant are you situated? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Currently, he's in the kitchen cooking bacon.
No need to thank me, I'm glad to be of help.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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if it's -34C (-29F) in his kitchen, I don't think any amout of bacon can warm him up! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
modified 14-Jan-20 10:06am.
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Bacon can do many, many wondrous things.
It can even turn vegans back to normal ... if they give it a chance.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Just keep ignoring the obvious.
The bacon didn't do the pig that was wearing any ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing good, did it?
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Who cares, even pigs love bacon. I learned that from one of the Jackass movies.
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If I weren't a nice guy I'd say you learned a lot from Jackass movies.
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Waaaaaait a minute...are you trying to say something about me? Or are you referencing the royal "you"...? 
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Johnny J. wrote: Where the elephant are you situated?
Edmonton, Alberta. Colder here than Resolute Bay up in the high arctic, and they're not expecting sunrise for another 3 weeks or so. As long as its not too windy, and the sun is out and the sky is blue, it can have its perks. But once the lottery gods smile on my supplications, its Tahiti on the next flight out.
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I don't think even Gordon Lightfoot would be Alberta Bound[^] in that kind of weather.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Curious:
Why US flag? Can-aid-e-ya is not yet part of the US of A.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Why US flag? Can-aid-e-ya is not yet part of the US of A.
Not quite. It's pronounced Candinavia.
[Edit]
Fixed. I swear sometimes I must be dyslexic.
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modified 14-Jan-20 15:36pm.
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