Cold Weather Blues

Hi All,

Cold weather seems like it is the norm lately here in Farmingdale - and on Long Island. Click on this link for cold weather facts from the National Safety Council.  They discuss things like dressing warm, frostbite, hypothermia and more.

Another link that might be of interest to cold weather fans is this one from 'The Weather Channel'.  Entitled 'Deep Freeze Recap: Coldest Temperatures of the Century for Some' the article talks about how records have fallen in many cities around the country during this last cold weather snap.

Click on this link to learn how to stay warm without a heater...brought to you by Wikihow. 

From ApartmentTherapy.com comes this entry with the title, '14 Ways to Keep Warm Without Turning on the Temperature or Turning the Heat Up'.

And remember folks, bring those pets indoors during these bone chillingly cold nights.  With temperatures around 10* and wind-chill factors near -10* you need to bring your cat or dog inside ASAP.   Click on this link to learn how to keep your pet warm after you bring him in from the cold. 

Remember to keep your car maintained so that you don't have a dead battery in the morning.  Click here for some advice on how to winterize your car - fyi, its a video.  Click here for another article on winterizing your car...this one is entitled '9 Ways to Winterize Your Car.'


Finally, click on this link from Google Images for lots of pictures of icy cold tundra like conditions.  Hey, some folks like this weather - others not so much...

Enjoy the links and stay warm.

Regards,
Stu

Summer is Here - The 3 H's Are Back

Hi All,

It looks like summer is back with Wednesday and Thursday's temperatures expected to soar into the mid-90's.  Click here for an article from Newsday about this.

But what I really wanted to talk about in this post was, 'how to keep cool on those hazy, hot and humid' summer days.  Read on!

Click on this link from Men's Health - and no, the tips do not just apply to men...Another article entitled, 'Ten Ways to Keep Cool in Hot Weather' is also helpful. Read about tip number 7 especially.  Great advice - get those water bottles out folks. Finally, click on this article from ehow.com entitled, 'How to Stay Cool in Hot Weather'  (I'm a big fan of number 4 - now you want to read the article and see what it is, don't you :)   )


Eventually you'll have to sleep in the hot weather - you can't always be drinking cold liquids or taking a shower. It just can't happen.  So...click on this link entitled, 'How To Sleep Comfortable on a Hot Night'. 

Finally, click on this link to  Yahoo's Weather center.  Another good site to get weather information is Wunderground.

Enjoy the sites and links,
Stu

World Records

Hi All,

Ever since I was a kid I wanted to set records. And when I found out I wasn't going to be the biggest, fastest, smartest, youngest, oldest, etc in any particular category (kind of like most people) I was very interested in the Guinness Book of World Records.

As a matter of fact the name of the book is now 'Guinness World Records' not 'Guinness Book of World Records'. Go figure - things change. For a goofy record, click here to see who balanced the most books on his head at any one time.

Click here to find a particular record in a category - basically this is a search box so you can type in term and find a record associated with it. For example, you can search for 'animals', 'books', 'baseball', 'coins', 'richest', 'smallest', etc... you get the idea.

Click here for the official site of GBWR (my acronym for it in this blog entry so I don't have to keep writing it out...). Many of us remember the thick paperback GBWR from our childhood and our teen years...of course we have the very same title in the library. Click here for the link to the card catalog to see if we have the book on the shelf.

I'm getting the feeling that the owners of GBWR are trying to 'brand' the product. Especially with the Guinness World Records Museum and the link to Licensing.

For an external link that is not associated with the GBWR, click here to see the Wikipedia entry for the GBWR. You'll notice that there is a fairly long outline that includes the History, Evolution, Museum, TV Series and the Gamer's Edition of the GBWR.

Hope this is an interesting entry - oh and in honor of one of the coldest, snowiest winters on record in the NYC/Long Island area, click here for the largest snow sculpture/structure ever made. It'll make you appreciate the fact that much of this years' snow has melted.

Regards,

Stu

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