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Don't Touch the Sky, It's Fricking Cold
Sun, 05/29/2005 - 21:19 — deadprogrammer
On Friday I was walking by the Tishman building and overheard a guy brandishing what I thought was a pistol-shaped photographic spotmeter, telling another guy - “hey, get a load of this”. Naturally I stopped to take a look. The instrument turned out to be not a spotmeter, but a Raytek Raynger ST , a noncontact thermometer used by air conditioning professionals to check temperatures at different points in buildings. The guy pointed it at the sidewalk, cars and skyscrapers, reading a normal range of temperatures. But when he pointed it at the sky, the Raynger showed a temperature of approximately -30. It’s very cold up there, isn’t it?
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My name is Michael Krakovskiy, and this is my blog.
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100 Views of the Empire State Building project: I try to take 100 interesting photos of Manhattan’s (sadly) tallest building.
My Gastronomic Adventures: I eat weird food - from 13 year old New Coke to Durian and parasitic fungi.
My attempts to grow exotic plants: pineapples, coconuts, etc.
My photos, mostly of New York City.
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I have one of those. It’s cool. I use it to check temps on CPU components (optimizing for quiet means more heat).
I also use it to freak out my cats, which is a lot more fun.
I have a Fluke 51 thermocouple that I use as a cooking thermometer. I also check the espresso maker’s brewing temperature with it.
Oh, right, I wonder what it’s gonna show if you point it right at the sun.
We have one of these in our server room. It is surprisingly addictive to play with.
The guys who run server rooms always have the best stuff.
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