Silly Topical Jokes

[jesse_the_k]

While I'm writing up the fascinating experience of attending the Society for Disability Studies conference online last weekend, have a ridiculous assortment of dad jokes thanks to a random newsletter:

• Anyone else’s car getting three weeks to the gallon now?
• Saw my neighbor Tammy out early this morning scraping the “My kid is a Terrific Student” sticker off her minivan. Guess that first week of homeschooling didn’t go so well.
• My body has absorbed so much soap and disinfectant lately that when I pee it cleans the toilet.

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

Haha, these are great!

[jesse_the_k]

<3

"three weeks to the gallon"

[ng_moonmoth]

Reminds me of how I characterize charging stations for spouse's electric car by speed: that one goes twenty miles an hour, that one makes 70, that one's good for 95. As usual, your mileage may vary.

Re: "three weeks to the gallon"

[jesse_the_k]

I don't get it.

/brain has melted from lack of interaction\

Re: "three weeks to the gallon"

[ng_moonmoth]

Here, have some interaction.

Spouse's car displays a range estimate of how many miles they can get with the charge remaining in their battery. It tracks how the car is being driven (city vs. highway, aggressively vs. conservatively, etc.) and prevailing conditions (hot vs. cold, night vs. day, whether the heater or headlights are on), so can change quickly and isn't especially accurate, but it's a good estimate -- and won't change if the car isn't being driven.

When spouse parks at a charging station, they note the current estimated range -- and again when they disconnect. The difference between them is a number of miles. And they know how long they were hooked up. That's a number of hours. And because range is pretty much directly correlated with energy in the battery, and charging stations usually operate at a fixed full-power wattage, time at the charger multiplied by the wattage is the energy that gets put into the battery -- and divided by the usage per mile, gives the estimated range.

So, turn it around: range in the car (representing energy) divided by time at the charger gives the effective wattage of the charger. Not the rated wattage listed on the charger, but the actual rate at which that particular charger can charge spouse's particular car. And that, conveniently, has units of "miles per hour", with which people are mostly very familiar. Knowing how "fast" chargers are in the area is convenient for planning trips when it's time to recharge.

The "vary" part of "your mileage may vary" reflects different electric cars' power consumption, and how well they can handle fast charging. Some do better or worse than others, so all one can say for sure is that if a charger's "speed" is high for spouse, it's likely high for others, as well.

[tarasacon]

*snort*
:)

[jesse_the_k]

I live to serve.

[worlds_of_smoke]

I literally loled at the last one. :P And then shared it with Jenn and Denise. :P

[jesse_the_k]

So glad!