We have an idea for a new sport — cross-country football.  It’s like American football in premise, but the field is 6 miles long and half a mile wide.  And you have more players per team.  Even if you get an opening in the defensive line, you need to have some serious endurance to score a touchdown.  For an individual player to excel at this version of football, you’d need to be an uber-athlete.  And you wouldn’t want too much of your defense to be 300-pound linemen, unless they’ve got some running speed and endurance.

It’s a weird idea, I know, and it’s way outside of the box, but think about it… then share your thoughts on this in the comments section.

Would you rather eat a napkin or a heaping spoonful of mustard?

Not to keep talking about the weather, but, I’m going to.  🙂  The heat continues to get more extreme here in Arkansas.  Today is the 7th straight day of temperatures over 100, and it’s predicted for another 6 days.  The high today is 106, and on Wednesday it’s 108.  For those of you who live here, you know how bad this is and why.  This isn’t some “dry heat” like in Arizona — we have lots of humidity.  So when you step outside you start sweating almost instantly.

We’ve been upgrading the heat status here, going from “crazy-mad hot” to “stupid-hot”, and we’re trying to think up a term for these 106-108 degree days where the heat index is over 115.  We haven’t decided on the next term, although unofficially I’m saying it’s that-ain’t-right hot.  If anyone has any suggestions for what to call it, feel free to speak up.

I realize there are places with worse weather, but this past weekend I saw a map that showed Arkansas having the highest temperatures in the U.S. right now.  Why is that?  Why are we being picked on?  Who’s going to do something about it?

I wonder what my boss would do if I took my shirt off at work… I might get to work from home.  Or, he might say to go home and not bother working anymore… 🙂  But at least I wouldn’t have to go outside.

In the last post I discussed how it’s crazy-mad hot here, but it’s gotten even worse.  So we’ve upgraded the weather situation to stupid-hot.  The high is now over 100 degrees with massive amounts of humidity, pushing the heat index over 110.  We’ve also revisited yesterday’s plan to see if it was sufficient for these extreme circumstances.  We realized the distribution of ice cream sandwiches is catering more to people who work indoors, like in offices and cubicles.  However, some people work outside, and an ice cream sandwich will provide only a few minutes respite from the heat.  So we have improved our plan, in a big way.

The city should create a dome around our city, either inflatable or retractable so it can be removed in times of good weather.  This will be put up in the summer, to protect people from extreme heat temperatures.  But the benefits don’t stop there.  Instead of us going downtown to watch a movie on an inflatable screen, they can project movies on the dome, so everyone in town can watch it at once.  The audio can be tuned in via FM radio.  And the city could put on some massive lightning shows on the dome, where it would be safe to stand outside and watch.

The dome will have some vents at the top to let in some fresh air, to provide circulation for our biosphere.  And if a low-flying cloud gets sucked through, that’s just an added bonus.  So it could still rain inside the dome, when the vents are open.

How cool would this be?  I think someone should make it happen.  Oh, and I haven’t forgotten about the original idea.  It would take a while to inflate or close the roof, so in the meantime we can be served ice cream sandwiches.  🙂