2016

[LongBlade]

Happy New Year motherhonkers!

Commander it is my unfortunate duty to inform you that on Monday the low temperature in my neck of the woods will be 7 degrees. It will likely be close to that in your neck of the woods.

Prepare.

Oooh. Seven degrees? We're not quite that cold, but I may break out the blast furnace boots for fun anyway.

[Sir Slash]

The forecast low here for Monday will be...... 48 degrees!  :o Where the hell did I leave my long pants last March? Maybe it'll get cool enough to have a fire in the fireplace this year.

[Gusington]

^Mirth may have them...oh wait he never wears pants.

[LongBlade]

^Mirth may have them...oh wait he never wears pants.

But he sometimes collects them!

[MikeGER]

7 degrees ? 48 degrees ?    pfff, you guys still measure temperature derived from the armlength and ass temperature of some gone English king   ;) ???

This year with a strong El Niño (ENSO) phenomena in full swing all weather patterns will be a little different anyway
here in my place we had meteorological the Sept. followed by an Oct. , and a second Oct. , and a third Oct. , and now the calendric January starts of like a rainy Nov.

On 2nd Xmas day, the 26.12., i was even able to sit in the garden in shorts and smoke a pipe at noon (14°C at 300m ASL, and sunny)

[bbmike]

My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!

[LongBlade]

My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!

Ha!

Damn straight!

[Sir Slash]

Well, my truck gets 40 Hogheads to the Rod. I have no idea what that means but it must be impressive somewhere.

[MikeGER]

Well, my truck gets 40 Hogheads to the Rod. I have no idea what that means but it must be impressive somewhere.

Grandpa bbmike says, "The metric system is a tool of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead  and that's the way I likes it."

So our unit of measure that we are interested is a distance per unit volume of gas consumed. The unit in the USA and Great Britain anyway all would know is miles per gallon, or m.p.g., so we will convert into these units from rods/hogshead.


1. We must find the relevant conversions between the units. Let us begin with length. One rod is the equivalent of 16.5 feet as defined in the English system of measure. We also know that there are 5,280 feet in one mile. We put this all together as follows,
 

$${1\:rod}\times\frac{16.5\:feet}{1\:rod}\times\frac{1\:mile}{5,280\:feet}=$$$$=3.125\times10^{-3}\:miles,\:\:\:\left(1\right)$$

which gives us our conversion between miles/rods yielding 320 rods in one mile (obtained by taking the reciprocal to the final answer in equation (1), and moving it to the other side).

2. Next we must find a conversion for going between the units of volume measured in hogsheads to the more familiar gallon. Looking this up, we find that there are 63 US gallons in 1 hogshead.

3. Now we put it all together as,

$$\frac{40\:rod}{1\:Hogshead}\times\frac{16.5\:feet}{1\:rod}\times\frac{1\:mile}{5,280\:feet}\times\frac{1\:Hogshead}{63\:gallons}=$$$$=\frac{40\:rod}{1\:Hogshead}\times\frac{1\:mile}{320\:rods}\times\frac{1\:Hogshead}{63\:gallons}=0.00198\:mpg.\:\:\:\left(2\right)$$

Note the atrocious mileage Grandpa used to get...
;D

[LongBlade]

Yes, but think of the face-cords of power that engine has!

[Martok]

LOL.  Happy New Year, you crazy coots!  I'm glad to be counted as one of you.  8) 

[Gusington]

Celsius is for quitters.

[Sir Slash]

Is that a new 4x Space Sim?

[Gusington]

Yes!

[bayonetbrant]

New Years thoughts?

http://thoughtcatalog.com/brianna-wiest/2015/12/16-goals-to-set-for-next-year-that-are-more-about-enjoying-what-you-have-than-chasing-what-you-dont/