Tony’s Place

I have 3 modules on AimPages now. I added 2 last Sunday and they are getting adopted pretty quickly. My Fortune module has been out for a month but since most of the quotes are pretty nerdy I didn’t think it would be that popular.

But my Eyes and Visitors modules are already generating more traffic than the Fortune module. It’ll be interesting to see if I can keep up with the traffic once AOL starts promoting AimPages.

Details on the services can be found on my wiki

I always think of great things to blog about while driving home but by the time I’m home I usually have forgotten about them.   I think its time to put a notepad in the car so I stop talking about wind chill and freezing water.

While I have cold weather on my mind lets talk about wind chill.

Question:  if the wind chill is 25 degrees Fahrenheit will water freeze?
Answer: There isn’t enough information to decide.

At 35 degrees with 15 MPH winds the wind chill is 25 degrees.  Water isn’t going to freeze.

If there is no wind it is 25 degrees and water will freeze.

Wind Chill is about how cold it feels.  Not how cold it is.

Debunking stupid stuff. entry 1.

Hot water freezes faster than cold water. yeah whatever. I have heard this from many people over the years. I think they confused cooling speed with time to actually freeze.

Put 1 gallon of 90 degree water outside when it is 20 degrees out and 1 gallon of water that is at 60 degrees.

The 90 degree bucket is going to drop 10 degrees much faster than the 60 degree bucket but the fact of the matter is that the 60 degree bucket has a 30 degree head start and when the 90 degree bucket is at 60 it will have slowed down to the same speed that the 60 degree bucket was at at the start of the race. But its well below 60 now.
Maybe someone will google this and be enlightened.

Of course there is the Mpemba effect but that is a special case and it probably not going to occur when you put hot tap water into your ice cube trays.