{"id":660,"date":"2005-01-14T16:06:08","date_gmt":"2005-01-14T07:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/14\/cold-and-very-cold\/"},"modified":"2013-07-30T01:07:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T16:07:03","slug":"cold-and-very-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/14\/cold-and-very-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold and Very Cold"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nNot been back for a week and they are already announcing snow for tomorrow<\/a>…<\/p>\n

I guess I could launch into my usual bitching about cold temperatures, poor standards of insulation in Japanese architecture and the fact that I can feel the wind blowing from one side of my appartment to the other, through closed windows…<\/p>\n

See, that’s what I would have done a month ago.<\/p>\n

But today I won’t.<\/p>\n

Not only because I’ve just spent two weeks in Montreal, where -15\u00b0 C is considered a warm day. But also because I have heard of Nunavut<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Nunavut<\/a> is Canada’s newest province, carved out of what used to be the Northwest Territories until a few years ago. And it’s cold.<\/p>\n

Last week, at breakfast, while drinking our morning bowl of anti-freeze (this is a Quebecer custom: not that you have to<\/em> do it, but it’s the only way to ensure an emergency bathroom break in the wild doesn’t turn into an extremely painful experience), I asked M. if it could really go any lower up North, temperature-wise. She informed me that temperature in Nunavut routinely reaches -70\u00ba C (for all of you metric-impaired friends: that’s a shitload of negative fahrenheits). On cold days, a -100\u00ba C plus wind-chills.<\/p>\n

Quite frankly, the fact that there are actually people living in these conditions is a testimony to the serious masochistic tendencies of mankind.<\/p>\n

On the upside, noisy neighbours is not an issue there, since we got approximately 20,000 people living over a bit less than 2 million square km, or a density of 1 per 100 km2<\/small><\/sup>…
\nOn the downside, finding a suitable mate for reproductive purpose must take quite a while…<\/p>\n

Hardly a surprise, in these conditions, that the part of the population that is not busy getting high on snowmachine gaz, kills time playing the local version of ice hockey with baby seal’s skulls…<\/p>\n

All that does little for E. here, who’s edging toward snow overdose and threatening to move to Yemen if she ever sees a snowflake again this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not been back for a week and they are already announcing snow for tomorrow<\/a>…<\/p>\n

I guess I could launch into my usual bitching about cold temperatures, poor standards of insulation in Japanese architecture and the fact that I can feel the wind blowing through my apartment from one side to the other, through closed windows…<\/p>\n

See, that’s what I would have done a month ago.<\/p>\n

But today I won’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6679,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/6679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}