[TheForge] [YAK] Weather; mussels (Was Re: power hammer)

Wed Jan 14 21:06:01 2004

60 here today w/ low of 48
dan tull
georgia
abba, afc, S.C. psba, obg,sofa
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Spencer" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 7:11 PM
Subject: [TheForge] [YAK] Weather; mussels (Was Re: power hammer)


> 
> Ralph> That -20 gets old quick..........but Frosty's probably just
> Ralph> laughing at us wishing he'd get a warm spell like that.  :-)
> 
> I remember that.  I've gotten spoiled here in Balmy Nova Scotia.  It's
> normally only zero when New England is 20 below.  This year is kinda
> spoiling the record: we're just into our second spell of 5 below.
> 
> Frosty> Of course we all know a mere Alaskan can't hold a candle to a
> Frosty> tough old north easterner like YOU when it comes to cold, COLD
> Frosty> weather.
> 
> When I lived in Monatgue, Mass., it got so cold one January that the
> fire froze up in the stove and we hadda break it up with a cold chisel
> and pry it out with crowbars.  Put it out in the barn and dang if the
> barn didn't burn down when spring thaw came.
> 
> But wait: If it's so mild in Alaska, why does Steve Sayer, my long
> time buddy from College AK, spend his winters in the hills of Western
> Mass where it's "warm"? 
> 
> ObIronwork: Blue mussels use iron extracted from sea water to catalyse
> the conversion of goop into the stuff they use to stick themselves
> down.  Purdue chemist that discovered this speculates that this may
> lead to new rust-proofing technology among other things.
> 
>     http://news.uns.purdue.edu/html4ever/2004/040112.Wilker.mussels.html
> 
> - Mike
> 
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