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Is this what we've devolved to? Talking about the weather like a bunch of old farts on a porch. Is there nothing more exciting going on?
 
StarBob said:
Is this what we've devolved to? Talking about the weather like a bunch of old farts on a porch. Is there nothing more exciting going on?
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:::::::::NUDITY NOT SAFE FOR WORK!::::::::::
Ahem

Also I didn't get much sleep last night. The forecast says like 86 Degrees F for Saturday which is when I'm helping my Brosef put up his pool
 
Get some fans, cold rags on your head, maybe wetted with ice in the middle, depending on how hot you are, ice on the back of your neck, let the water trickle down your spine, cool with ice water, stand in front of a fan, generally keeping the air moving will cool you off. Cold showers, keep your back from getting hot, suck on ice, rub ice on your arms, more to come later.

Also, most important, drink WATER. Preferably refrigerated. If not, warm water is fine, but drink maybe a bottle every hour if you're really sweating a lot. It'll keep you cool, and if you don't like drinking a lot of water, it might take your mind off the heat.
 
MuToiD_MaN said:
Thank you Internet. I'm sure it's your fault that I read StarBob's post as "you can actually cook babies in your car"

... though you could already do that ...
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and then drive them to my house


EDIT: now I can't stop seeing it as "cook babies"
 
I just got reacquainted with my freezer cups. you put them in the freezer, and the ones that have that blue liquid that chills any hot drink....and boy does it get cold! I need to buy more of them and get rid of the regular cups in the house
 
I bought some popsicles today, some of those red white & blue ones. First one I had was a little messed up on top (which I assumed was from carrying it home outside and melting a little), and looked like it had some kinda dark liquid in it. I tried a little and it was ridiculously bitter, like eating dishwashing liquid. So bad I had to spit it out and rinse out my mouth a ton (which still didn't get it all out). Tried a different popsicle from the same pack and it was just a completely normal popsicle.

I know this sounds ridiculous and paranoid, but I'm thinking someone could have tampered with the package and injected blue dish soap or antifreeze into that one popsicle. I inspected the rest in the package and there's a pair that are split apart (usually the paper is packaged so that two popsicles are attached) and the bottom of one popsicle is open. I'm kinda scared to eat the rest. Eating that second one was already kinda stupid.

I blame this awful weather for making me buy these popsicles in the first place :p. Someone else in my lab has also gotten sick (complaining of dizziness) which I suspect also has to do with the fact that you feel like like fainting every time you step outside. And I had to hear my labmate complain about how his hands get sweaty whenever he puts on lab gloves now. :|
 
Was 100 today here in my area, then add about 10-20 degrees from the ramp outside and that makes me one irate person.... Airplanes are blowing out their APU's left and right too.....
 
my internet and pc are running slow, gunna shut them down overnight and feel the room cool down
 
St. Louis had a heat wave a few years ago. It reached 108 here... in st. louis... Wot.
 
Last night I tried something new, I put a deep tray with frozen water bottles in them and placed them near my fan. It sucked up cold air and blew it all over my body. I woke up cold even and slept the whole night! Also tonight it supposed to get a little cooler, then 81 tomorrow with rain Praise the Gods!!
 
Yeah, it's been mid-90s all week here in central NY, so thank god for A/C at home. Unfortunately, I work 10 hours a night in a lab that's had broken A/C since the beginning of June. It's been 84-88 in there for the past 2 weeks.
 
Sedako said:
Yeah, it's been mid-90s all week here in central NY, so thank god for A/C at home. Unfortunately, I work 10 hours a night in a lab that's had broken A/C since the beginning of June. It's been 84-88 in there for the past 2 weeks.
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one trick that always worked well for me is dipping your wrists in cold water under the tap even. within 2 minutes your core body temp should drop and you'll feel better
 
Sedako said:
Yeah, it's been mid-90s all week here in central NY, so thank god for A/C at home. Unfortunately, I work 10 hours a night in a lab that's had broken A/C since the beginning of June. It's been 84-88 in there for the past 2 weeks.
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That sounds awful. The roof leaked in my lab over the winter when we got a bunch of snow. Four of those big ceiling tiles fell out (and pieces got into people's experiments) and there were giant damp stains up there. Six months later, the school still has not fixed these :(. Occasionally when it rains it starts to smell damp and mildewy. There's probably asbestos up there too (the offices being renovated downstairs all have asbestos warning signs posted everywhere).

The worst heat-related experiences I've had were heat exhaustion when doing trail work/gardening outdoors in Houston and getting dehydrated (basically dizziness, severely blurred vision, feeling like you're not going to make it to water without passing out), and also this incident one summer in Austin. I was living with this roommate who would always turn the A/C completely off during the day, leaving me to suffer with the consequences after I got back from work. I walked home once and actually hallucinated (there were voices involved) which resulted in me turning the A/C off and going to sleep. Then my roommate got back and complained that the A/C was off :|.
 
dfc05 said:
That sounds awful. The roof leaked in my lab over the winter when we got a bunch of snow. Four of those big ceiling tiles fell out (and pieces got into people's experiments) and there were giant damp stains up there. Six months later, the school still has not fixed these :(. Occasionally when it rains it starts to smell damp and mildewy. There's probably asbestos up there too (the offices being renovated downstairs all have asbestos warning signs posted everywhere).

The worst heat-related experiences I've had were heat exhaustion when doing trail work/gardening outdoors in Houston and getting dehydrated (basically dizziness, severely blurred vision, feeling like you're not going to make it to water without passing out), and also this incident one summer in Austin. I was living with this roommate who would always turn the A/C completely off during the day, leaving me to suffer with the consequences after I got back from work. I walked home once and actually hallucinated (there were voices involved) which resulted in me turning the A/C off and going to sleep. Then my roommate got back and complained that the A/C was off :|.
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its all about strenuous activity. if you sit there and play games all day in the dark, your fine...but the minute you start walking around, driving places, go for a jog, even swimming forget. Unless you take a cold shower every hour or drink a hundred oz of water in a day your toast. Even the strongest die
 
It was 100 here, but inside it was like 79. I've got a good fan so I was fine. I went for a run after the sun went down and then took a cool shower. I don't use A/C. I just wear only some shorts all day.
 
so ****ing hot in my god damn room...my a/c is on but it's not helping for some reason?!! DAMNIT.

i have to get up super early for an interview tmw wow...
 
I suggest everyone hibernate in their fridges until the nasty heat goes away. Hell, i live in England and i'm complaining... Spent a week in Italy at the end of June though, man that was bad.
 
I'm not so much bothered about the heat as I am with the ****ing hayfever problems I've been having lately. The pollen counts have been off the charts, woke up this morning near death :/
 
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