Canada Parks Discovery Waste

So yeah, by now, you and all of your neighbors have your free Parks Canada Discovery Pass.  Yay!   Do you know what it's actually for or how much it saves you?  Probably not..  but it's awesome because it's free!!!  People are such cheap idiots.  These passes are only for National Parks.  Not Provincial parks, not Conservation areas.  And they are for day use only.  Many of the Parks I would visit, I would be camping anyways which makes these useless.  Oh, how much are you saving on your day pass?  I bet you spend more money on gas getting there and back than you would have on your passes anyways.

So the government builds up hype and spends all this taxpayer money on ads to promote this and mail every moron their free pass. Protip - it's not free if you are paying for it with your taxes!  Or how about they just give you free entry in the first place if you prove your citizenship instead of wasting money on this campaign...  most of these passes will just sit on someone's shelf unused till they throw them out at the end of the year.

As much as I hate the high prices of Provincial parks, I found one thing I detest more - jerkoffs who like something not because of what it is , does or anything else, only because of a four letter word - F R E E.  You cheap bastard. OK, perhaps I am a little harsh - it does bring awareness to the awesome that is Canada.

http://www.ontarioparks.com/parksblog/are-provincial-parks-free-in-2017/

"Feels Like' Temperatures are Bullshit

     When the temperatures drop and become very cold, or conversely when it is very hot out, you hear it everywhere.   People saying  "OMG, tomorrow it feels like -40 out!" on Facebook, Twitter, and people you talk to, your friends and around the office.  There's a subset of people like myself who are annoyed with the 'feels like' temperatures the media likes to spew out.  My problem is it's a perfect tool for the general population to sensationalize the temperature.  I's say a good majority of society likes to complain about the weather, it's too cold, too hot, too rainy, too humid, they hate the snow etc.  Please just deal with it and shut the fuck up - the weather in Canada is always variable, there's nothing you can do about it and just learn to deal with it.   Whining about it only annoys others and doesn't accomplish anything, and the 'feels like' temperatures only feeds these whiners with more material to whine about the weather.  I personally love the weather in all it's forms, it makes life interesting to me.  Sure, sometimes I would prefer to to have to shovel the driveway, scrape the windows and white knuckle drive my way through a snowstorm somewhere, but still it makes life interesting.  It changes the landscape into a type of beauty that changes with the seasons.
     Don't get me wrong, the wind and humidity do affect how it feels like outside, but they are separate variables, and you can't manipulate the temperature with a formula to come up with some kind of equivalent.  Environment Canada attempted to combine these things that feel different and with a formula wrongly, oh so wrongly attempted to spit out a 'feels like' value, and even have the balls to call it an equivalent temperature.  You see, thermal conduction depends on different things.  The heat transfer through materials and from radiation (infrared) and through convection (transfer to a fluid) are all different, so you can't just make an equivalent number of of some formula.  Sadly, i don't think the wind chill and humidex will go away, since people like to sensationalize and this is toll for them to do so.  To me it's -22 and windy outside...  not 'feels like -40'.


Related Links

Farm & Ranch Guide - ‘Feels Like’ forecasting is equally frustrating, annoying

Slate - Wind Chill Blows - It's time to get rid of a meaningless number

Grumpy Owl - Bullshit Alert:Wind Chill 

 Wind Chill and Humidex - Critique of the Indices

The Globe and Mail - Love it or hate it, ‘wind chill’ here to stay
http://contrarian.ca/tag/wind-chill/