A personal story in relation to Sri Lanka: recently a Sri Lanka family moved in next door to my girlfriend's place in Grand Forks. The head of the household had never been to America, and so his first exposure to this country (outside of arriving in LAX) was a road-trip from the City of Angels to the Steppe of North America — in mid-December. He remarked that one week, temps in G.F. were the same as the last 2,000' of Mount Everest (brisk and exhilarating, but sans sherpas in G.F.). His sister came into enough money to get him some of it, and now he can fulfill the dream of becoming a pilot (UND has a crack aviation and air traffic control school that he recently enrolled in).
I'll be sure to start educating him about Coanda.
Sunday, January 21, 2007
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Nice story, MFT. Maybe the guy could use some of those Russian aluminum boots in those Nodak steppes?
We'd have to experiment with different synthetics to keep the boots from freezing up. I'll start pricing some on eBay.
In the meantime, if your friend gets too cold from the ND artic weather, he can always use the Coanda dryer. Just make sure it does not hemisect his scalp.
Here's how Teddy Roosevelt described the southwestern parts of North Dakota in the winter: "In the coldest midwinter weather, not a breath of wind may stir; and then the still, merciless, terrible cold that broods over the earth like the shadow of silent death seems even more dreadful in its gloomy rigor than is the lawless madness of the storms. All the land is like granite; the great rivers stand still in their beds, as if turned to frosted steel."
Here's the link to the rest of the article where I pulled that quote.
When you go to the link, check out what Clay has to say about his march into the main humanities library at UND (and all of North Dakota).
We're gonna need a pretty substantial sized Coanda dryer.
You can try playing ping pong with it.
I've seen the hair dryer ping-pong demonstration somewhere, some time ago. Didn't know that had anything to do with Coanda though. This is why us FCP'ers are so informed about every aspect of society (even if I do think it leans a little too mathematics sometimes — ha!).
Dude's got a height thing.
Grand Forks Sri Lanka update: I just heard the poor guy was treated at the G.F. Hospital for frostbite last week.
Damn! I'll have to keep a better eye on him (we Dakotans try to keep tabs on our equatorian visitors, especially during the winter months). His mother is going to prepare an authentic Sri Lanka dinner for us this weekend. Any of you fellahs know if Sri Lankanians drink, and what they drink?
Salty yogurt as far as I know.
Damn, I just ran out of salty yogurt. I drank some type of milk-based booze slush at a nice Indian (dots not feathers) restaurant in Minneapolis/St. Paul once (AA was there too). At least that's what I think it was. Any exposure to that sort of drink? And if so, you know the name of 'em?
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