My feet have been getting cold!

[highrisemech]

Hi everybody,
Every winter I sit at my computer in my socks and my feet keep getting cold. Well I say enough is enough. this year is going to be different I'm going to put on of those little fan forced space heaters under my desk. I just had to share that with you........

[Kubie]

How about some nice fleece-lined slippers?
Carl

[bob]

1. Get a hot plate and a great big pot.
2. Fill pot with warm water and place on hot plate.
3. Turn on hot plate and put feet in pot.

[bigpuma]

move to California

[highrisemech]

It gets to cold here for water. I can't move my Mom is getting to old.
Although nice ideas....lol.

[bob]

Wrap feet in an electric blanket.

So Cal is 70 deg 1 hour after sunset today

[mairving]

Just buy a UPS for your computer and stick it under your desk. The heat coming off it is good enough to warm the toes.

[highrisemech]

I always keep sitting on my feet to keep them warm.

[lil Jimmie]

I have thought about running some duct work from the power supply exhaust of my 1.4ghz box to blow under my desk to help keep my feet warm.

[Demosthenes]

If you run an Athlon, just overclock it a little more and turn the front intake fan around to blow out. Or, if you are really creative, you can rig up a duct work system from your heatsink to below your desk. That would be interesting, indeed.

But that was said above, did not type fast enough.

Respectfully,

Demosthenes

[highrisemech]

Ok update:

Well it is usually super cold here by this time of year BRRRRRRRR
in fact I can't ever rember it being so warm this late in the year. But this week it is starting to chill down. So off to Home depot I went in search of my heater. Don't be shocked overclockers it gets better. So I buy the smallest fan forced heater for my feet I could find. 1500 watts $17.00. This little puppy is keeping my feet toasty warm, but even a better part it has a filter on the back of it sucking up any dust particles in the air and even better it is drawing cold air from the rest of the house right past my computer intake. According to my motherboadr monitor I'm down to 36 degrees celcieus. Oh and one of these days I'll replce this keyboard because I keep making typos on it. But I hate parting with it since it is like a family fixture we all have gotten quite used to it.

[Colonel Sanders]

you really want to brag about cooling your PC? try -17 degrees celcius, the computerator from pcrivals.

http://www.pcrivals.com/projects/com...or/index.shtml

Logan

[highrisemech]

I hope this thing keeps your beer cold as well.

[bosco]

A 40 pound beagle keeps my feet warm. A couple cold ones keep the innerds warm. 32F today.

[HAL9000]

Hey, I'm having a December heat wave here. It's 28'F.

[Colonel Sanders]

Temp here has ben getting to the low teens at night, but all the ice melts off the road by about noon, I really don't pay too much attention to the temp.

BTW, I just noticed about that computerator that if you overclock that too much the ice on the CPU will melt.(Gasp )

Logan

[Jenni]

Lowest temp here for the next six days is forcast to be 48 Monday night. Highest is supposed to be 74 Sunday. I hate it when it's 80 on Christmas day though. It just doesn't feel like Christmas!

My son never wears socks or shoes. He was born with EXTREMELY wide feet, and so has only had 4 pairs of shoes that would actually fit him, only one of which has been sneakers. All the rest have been sandals. So in the winter (such as it is here) he wears sandals and socks. For the other 11 months of the year he wears no shoes or socks. His feet are 6¾ inches long, and 3 inches wide. To put this in perspective, I have huge feet for a woman (size 9-10, depending), and mine are 9½ inches long, and 3¾ wide. I'm always asking him "aren't your feet cold?" "No". But then again, I ask him "doesn't it hurt to walk on that?" "No".

[fudge]

well maybe you should all move to wonderful hamiltron new zlind.. it's very tropical at the moment.. stinkin hot.. raining all the time..

unfortunately.. not much sun..

sigh..

[Paul Victorey]

Here's your solution:

Move up to Minnesota for a few years. After some of our winters, you'll think the East Coast is tropical by comparison.

Barring that, buy good socks. Even when it drops to the minus thirties, I'm never cold, indoors or out, because I take care to have appropriate clothing. The only thing that bugs me ever are when my eyes start to dry out and freeze (happens on the nastiest of the cold days) and that usually happens because I don't want to put on ski goggles just to go outside.

On really cold days I'll wear:

Heavy socks, boots, long underwear, jeans, sweater, winter coat (the expensive kind you buy at sporting good stores are excellent), gloves (heavy mittens if it's really cold) a cap, a face mask, sometimes a scarf if I can find it. I'm usually quite warm, even on the days with the windchills in the -60s.

Cold isn't so terrible, so long as you're careful to dress for the weather. Honestly, I prefer -30 to +100 anyday.

[jessho]

"...Cold isn't so terrible, so long as you're careful to dress for the weather. Honestly, I prefer -30 to +100 anyday..."


We rarely get below freezing during the Winter. In fact, on some years, we run the air conditioning at Christmas. Summer is a whole different animal. We had a few days of temperatures of 108 F during the Summer of 2000. The sun and heat turn a hard hat into an oven. After a few days of this, you swear you will never work another Summer outside.

[aym]

I like cold!
My room is cold and I like it!

[fudge]

yep i feel the same way.. i like the cold..

when it's cold you can always rug up and eventually get warm.. or mostly warm.. but when its hot.. that's it.. you can only take so much off and still go out in public without problems..

[mc2phat]

One of my fondest childhood memories is sleeping under 100 pounds of blankets during the winter. We lived in old houses with wood heat, so it wouldn't be too warm in the bedrooms. I'd lay in bed and my parents would pile blanket after blanket on me. Most of these were heavy quilts that my grandmother/great grandmother made. Anyway, I'd wake up in the morning, the temperature in the room low enough where I could juuuust see my breath; toasty as could be under the quilts. I'd jump up and run to the wood stove. Heat the front, turn; heat the back; turn, and so on.

logan_85 & jessho, Where's "here"?

Respectfully,
phfat

[Colonel Sanders]

"Here" is a tiny 1mile square town out in the middle of no where(more commonly know as south-west Kansas). There are no hills, and we use trees and land-markers. Souns like fun out here?

Logan

[highrisemech]

No snow yet here but stay tuned.......

Oh by the way my feet are warm. warm. warm.

[christo418]

I was looking for a holiday gift for somebody and actually stopped and looked a little closer at this:
http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/prod...11959121&RN=77

[shecky981]

The only thing that bugs me ever are when my eyes start to dry out and freeze (happens on the nastiest of the cold days)

oh mah gawd tell me yer kidding. i dont even wanna know thats possible.



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