OT: The Avalounge but every time someone posts the quality declines

[Ceremony]

 

[Foppberg]

Please tell me you just didn't link to a BBT video.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

I thought you were talking about Jon Connor. Oops

I can see where the confusion came from lol.

Can you single a song from his?

Which one?

Hurt me soul.

Also just listened to pressure and sunshine. Not as good but okay.

Hello HF Avs from Tokyo Japan the future

I speak to you from the future, where toilets have special features in them, entry into a new country is as simple as scanning your fingerprints and taking a photo, phones are free with unlimited data and calling and where waking up early in the morning is a breeze. I look forward to when you catch up to these many great wonders when the sun reaches your windows, in the mean time I will continue to explore and chronicle what more future wonders await us.

Is it really that head of the rest of the world?

 

[S E P H]

I made a horrible mistake. I downloaded a program that allows me to see my moms computer screen from my home. In the past I've got about one call per month about "tech issues" but I imagine that number will get a lot higher in the future. My big bro used to be the tech support for her but now I got to share the burden I cannot understand that a person who has had an own accounting company since 1980's can ask so simple questions I honestly think she's worse with computers nowadays than she was 10 years ago when I lived with her..

@S E P H I'm talking about episode four, the chimera thing.

I don't think you're doing something wrong Murzu, but for some reason I did not get the last two notifications from you. It might be due to the trade deadline, but HFB has been kind of glitchy lately. Ah dude, that episode sucks and that freakin' part sucks. I don't blame Scar trying to put its life out of misery though. That is one of the best psychotic moments of the show.

Spoiler

The other part which freaked me out was when Hawkeye got sliced in the jugular vein. She's one of my favourite characters of the show, so I was shocked that she almost died.

Hello HF Avs from Tokyo Japan the future

I speak to you from the future, where toilets have special features in them, entry into a new country is as simple as scanning your fingerprints and taking a photo, phones are free with unlimited data and calling and where waking up early in the morning is a breeze. I look forward to when you catch up to these many great wonders when the sun reaches your windows, in the mean time I will continue to explore and chronicle what more future wonders await us.

if you can take any pictures (not of you), totally do it man?! Love to see some! Maybe take one pic of those underwear vending machines for @UncleRisto - I think he would greatly appreciate that.

 

[Lonewolfe2015]

Is it really that head of the rest of the world?

Well let's just say the toilet had a manual of features. Also yes, technologically I feel in a new world. All I did was put my fingers on some scanners, took a picture, show them my passport and I was let in. In other countries they practically interview me. United Kingdom was tough. Germany was a bit easier, but very thorough security. In Japan they don't even have armed officers in plain sight... Then I grabbed an Uber which took me right to my hotel, they gave me a gift upon arrival and I was on my way. In my hotel room there was a phone I could use which was free, unlimited use data, calling and texting. It's a cell phone, so I can take it with me.

Everyone is really polite, helpful and intelligent. And most of the city is in both Kanji and English.

If I see anything really cool I'll be sure to share. This is a business trip so it's hard to get to do tourist things, but I should be traveling back in the coming months and will spend a little more time exploring then.

 

[hockeyfish]

Heading to Cali and then Florida tomorrow and it will be 26 degrees in Miami. I hate the heat so much and yes pun intended.

26?, that’s freezing!!!!!

 

[Foppberg]

26?, that’s freezing!!!!!

Celcius, not Fahrenheit like you weirdos down in America. You guys really gotta update your measures for ...everything.

 

[The Abusement Park]

Celcius, not Fahrenheit like you weirdos down in America. You guys really gotta update your measures for ...everything.

For real. The metric system soooo much more sense... but here we are lol.

 

[LieutenantDangle]

Kelvin or bust you metric bitches

 

[S E P H]

That time when one of your distant relatives who you're really close to asks how you're doing out of nowhere on Facebook - you write an essay long paragraph about your life and all they respond with is a "thumbs up". Lol.

Kelvin or bust you metric *****es

For someone who has taken more chemistry classes than I ever wanted to, Kelvin was made by scientists who were on acid. -273 C is not good enough for you to use in research reports? You have to make it 0 Kelvin. Well screw you.

 

[ASmileyFace]

This last weekend feels like a dream. Skiing pow all day, then walking right to the venue to listen to amazing music, while it is dumping snow, surrounded by a thousand dancing people was absolutely mind blowing. Festival life is too damn easy. Winter Wondergrass was easily one of the best weekends of my life.

It seems like I'm one of the only people around here into bluegrass... but if you are check out Billy Strings. Kid is a prodigal level talent. Easily the artist who impressed me the most out of the whole festival. He puts on a a hell of a show.

 

[henchman21]

Temperature is one area where I think the metric system actually makes less sense. The Fahrenheit scale is based off human body temperature and gives more resolution.

 

[Murzu]

Temperature is one area where I think the metric system actually makes less sense. The Fahrenheit scale is based off human body temperature and gives more resolution.

ONE area? Name one area where miles, foots, inches etc are better

 

[henchman21]

ONE area? Name one area where miles, foots, inches etc are better

Oh you Finns...

How imperial units were developed is actually really interesting to me, almost all are based off some human experience and how we view and see things. IE a mile is supposed to be a 1000 paces. Obviously paces differ between most people, but it is an interesting thought.

 

[UncleRisto]

ONE area? Name one area where miles, foots, inches etc are better

No, he said the exact opposite.

 

[henchman21]

No, he said the exact opposite.

I took it as a smartass comment... Fahrenheit makes more senses for human temperature than Celsius since it is based upon our own body temperature. For scientific reasons, Kelvin is the basis that should be used.

 

[UncleRisto]

Can you single a song from his?

Yeah,
Connor 25:17
2 Week Notice
American Pie
Salvation
Broken Mirror.

 

[UncleRisto]

I took it as a smartass comment... Fahrenheit makes more senses for human temperature than Celsius since it is based upon our own body temperature. For scientific reasons, Kelvin is the basis that should be used.

But... what about water? Water boils at 212? 0 F is ~ -17.8 C. Nothing happens at -17.8 C.

 

[henchman21]

My favorite unit of measurement basis is for an acre... 66' by 660'... or you know, the area that could be plowed by two oxen in one day. So if you had 40 acres, you'd need 2 pairs of oxen working it for 20 days to plow it all. These are the things that fascinate me....

 

[henchman21]

But... what about water?

But what about molecules?

 

[Murzu]

My favorite unit of measurement basis is for an acre... 66' by 660'... or you know, the area that could be plowed by two oxen in one day. So if you had 40 acres, you'd need 2 pairs of oxen working it for 20 days to plow it all. These are the things that fascinate me....

Fascinating but not very practical That's actually a funny fact to know.

And as a person who took a lot of physics classes in high school, I kinda agree with your Kelvin comment.

And if Fahrenheit only makes sense when we talk about human body temperature, it doesn't sound very practical

@UncleRisto I read his comment again after I posted my reply and noticed that he said the opposite of what I first though. Didn't bother to change it tho, my message was clear anyway

 

[UncleRisto]

My favorite unit of measurement basis is for an acre... 66' by 660'... or you know, the area that could be plowed by two oxen in one day. So if you had 40 acres, you'd need 2 pairs of oxen working it for 20 days to plow it all. These are the things that fascinate me....

I've familiarized myself with some approximate conversions for height and weight but what always confuses the hell out of me is, why is it twelve inches in a foot and three feet is a yard? Like I know it's based on something like the dude who came up with them told people he's packing twelve inches, but there's seemingly no logic in how the measures connected to each other are converted.

 

[henchman21]

Fascinating but not very practical That's actually a funny fact to know.

And as a person who took a lot of physics classes in high school, I kinda agree with your Kelvin comment.

And if Fahrenheit only makes sense when we talk about human body temperature, it doesn't sound very practical

@UncleRisto I read his comment again after I posted my reply and figured that he said the opposite of what I first though. Didn't bother to change it tho, my message was clear anyway

Most people use temperature with how we are experiencing it. So weather, internal temperature, etc. That is what I mean by human temperature. Seeing 98 degrees fahrenheit on a weather forecast makes more connection to how the human body relates to that temperature than 35.5 celcius.

The #1 difference between imperial and metric units is that imperial was designed around human experiences and metric was designed around conversions.

 

[Murzu]

I've familiarized myself with some approximate conversions for height and weight but what always confuses the hell out of me is, why is it twelve inches in a foot and three feet is a yard? Like I know it's based on something like the dude who came up with them told people he's packing twelve inches, but there's seemingly no logic in how the measures connected to each other are converted.

Some are easy. Yard is pretty much the same as meter, pound is kilo / 2 and some more, feet, inches etc. are pretty easily converted.

What I never get right is oz. It's hard to understand. Like a Coke can is 8 oz? 12 oz? Wadu hek.

 

[henchman21]

I've familiarized myself with some approximate conversions for height and weight but what always confuses the hell out of me is, why is it twelve inches in a foot and three feet is a yard? Like I know it's based on something like the dude who came up with them told people he's packing twelve inches, but there's seemingly no logic in how the measures connected to each other are converted.

1 foot was designed as a measurement based off the human foot. Now most people's feet are less than 12 inches, so many historians think it originated from a normal sized man with a shoe on = 1 foot. The inch measurement came from the Romans using the width of a human thumb as a measurement... thus all these used to vary a lot.