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One of my nephews did a tour in Iraq. He took care of various IT and communication equipment. He said there were a number of times when the thermometers maxed out at 120F(48.8C), so he knew it was hotter than that. They kept the IT equipment 15 degrees lower than the ambient temperature because that was all the AC could handle. But he said surprisingly the equipment held up OK. He said the constant battle with the dust was worse than the heat.


Makes sense. Computer electronics will actually run fine up to usually 170-190F, you just need more airflow to keep them below that when "ambient" is 120F vs 72F. But yeah, dust and dirt is what kills airflow so that's what you have to avoid!

All of my home computers (towers) for the past few years are cases with good intake air filters, really helps prevent the CPU HSF from getting clogged with dust. That said, I wonder how my Sony VAIO laptop has fared... I've never opened it up in the nearly 3.5 years I've had it... might be time to clean that guy out.
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Some nice weather here smile

Day temps way above +20'C (+68'F) and night time around +15'C (+60'F)..
Some very nice combination...

Darnier seems to get to steady flight....



It appears the machine is running steady. Quite right, your weather seems very pleasant.

St Cloud State University is getting another hockey player from Finland. Hope he does well. From the local newspaper:

It may be face-melting hot outside, but there is a fair amount of things to report on the St. Cloud State men’s hockey team.

The Huskies have signed center Kalle Kossila for the 2012-13 season. Kossila played for the Blues U-20 team in a Junior A league in Finland last season and had 20 goals, 37 assists, 22 penalty minutes and was a plus-29 in 32 regular season games. In four playoff games, he had one goal and one assist.

Kossila also played for the Finnish Under-20 team and three goals and three assists in six games. The 19-year-old is listed as 5-foot-10 and 163 pounds.

“He’s a typical Fin in that he’s built more like a greyhound than a defensive lineman,” St. Cloud State assistant coach Mike Gibbons said. “He’s built like (University of Minnesota forward) Erik Haula (5-10, 184).

“He’s a smart hockey player, skilled, good with the puck. He’ll make plays.”

Haula, who is also from Finland, will be a junior for the Gophers this fall. Haula played one season in the USHL before playing for the Gophers, an experience that Kossila will not have.


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All of my home computers (towers) for the past few years are cases with good intake air filters, really helps prevent the CPU HSF from getting clogged with dust. That said, I wonder how my Sony VAIO laptop has fared... I've never opened it up in the nearly 3.5 years I've had it... might be time to clean that guy out.


I suppose those filters were able to keep out most of the residual construction dust. How is your new home performing in this heat ?

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Have to admit that do not follow ice hockey, or practically any sport what so ever....

When I was kid, I did complete on air rifle shooting.
Some people say that it is sport, but I would say that it absolutely antisport.
I can found that element when burn powder, but when completing with these babyes , it was some odd zen kind of culture..

Usual tournament day was pack gears to club bus on some very early hours, travel couple of hours to some back forest...
First hours went inspection of weapons (or waiting own turn)...

Then real waiting start, there was always many times more competitor even on same series than lane places....
So it was usual that we wait something like six hours our turn, my fellows were same age, so we did shoot on same category and often on same track.
When waiting, we usyally just play poker using pellets as stakes...

Well, then shooting...
It always begun lifting gun, loading, arranging rifle as part of body and then some breathing......
My technique was four inhale after I was sure that rifle is locked to right position next to body ... Well, inhaled as much as possible, then again, again and one more time...
This was I did have some very comfortable half minute, I was able to be not breathing but did not notice it anyhow what so ever for some times...
On this time I did start let some air out, all together when building position to last breathing, it did always lead me little a bit too high..
So after last inhale I was able to let out some gas from lungs and that way drop my aiming to right place.... Well, then just some trigger work..
There was always something like hold life on that one shot. Taking that one shot felt always longer time than that six hours waiting own turn to get on track....
Got couple of medals from province level..... Sure it was fun...

Later on my life throw some bullets with Rk 62 and rockets with M72, but it was some very different kind of shooting tongue
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Have to admit that do not follow ice hockey, or practically any sport what so ever....

The only sport I watch is motorsports. Mostly Indy, some F1 and NASCAR.

I have a sprayer on the end of my garden hose that does just mist. With this heat I prop it up in a pine tree and just let it mist away. The birds are so hot they just sit in it for minutes at a time.
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Still some sport stuff...

Finland has won some interesting Olympic medals:

- gold on epic (1936)
- gold on lyric (1948)
- gold on town planning (1948)
- bronze on town planning (1948)
- silver on choral and orchestral (1948)...


U.S.A has won:

- gold on sculpture (1912)
- silver on architectural design (1932)
- silver on painting (1932)
- gold and silver on watercolors (1932)
- gold on prints (1932)
- gold on statues (1932)
- silver on municipal planning (1936)


Nöyp, I'm not kidding biggrin
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Looks like cool weather ahead. Low to mid 80's starting Saturday. Colorado is finally getting rain. Daughter lives out there. Got pretty close to her.
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Looks like cool weather ahead. Low to mid 80's starting Saturday. Colorado is finally getting rain. Daughter lives out there. Got pretty close to her.


That cooler weather can not come fast enough for me.

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Some very nice weather here, although oddly strong winds without any storms.
It seems to me that any three next to road less that four inch trunk, cannot survive on this hill.
I think wind has not change, I think roads are nouveau stuff....


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Some very nice weather here, although oddly strong winds without any storms.
It seems to me that any three next to road less that four inch trunk, cannot survive on this hill.
I think wind has not change, I think roads are nouveau stuff....



It looks like the trees were staked properly, but you think the wind did this. I might also suspect vandals. sad

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