While the Bay Area continues to enjoy relatively mild temperatures this summer, much of the rest of the country has faced oppressively hot conditions for weeks. How hot? Hotter than you think. From the AP:
"Northeast Braces For Temps Near Boiling Point."
The headline is not misprint; they really mean it: "The extreme heat that's been roasting the eastern U.S. is only expected to get worse, and residents are bracing themselves for temperatures near and above boiling point... Washington, D.C.'s 103 degrees may seem the same as a melting 116 degrees."
In other news, the AP has modified its hiring practices to require its writers to demonstrate a grasp of the differences between the Celsius and Farenheit scales. Applicants may be granted a waiver of this requirement if they can demonstrate proof of possessing at least a fourth-grader's understanding of the boiling temperature of water (or any other liquid they care to discuss).
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When you consider our jump from TV to a computer screen, you might think the USA could move from the arcane system of a "foot" that was established simply by the length of the king's foot, to something more logical like the metric system that is based on a standard unit of measurement like the meter. Zero degrees Celsius as a freezing point and 100 degrees as a boing point makes a whole more lot of sense than 32 and 212 respectively. Switching over would be tough, but if we can move from watching TV on the computer instead of through a CRT, I think we can go from our random traditional system to a logical metric system.
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