Happy belly for me. And a mission for Nic.
So here is the rest i couldnt write before school. (Im on lunch break now - you know, i havent had omurice at school in a while. It is sad. Today was tuna and cream sauce spaghetti. Yum. )
Ahem. Like i said. The rest. All of Japan around me is becoming winter-ized. It is starting to get a little cold during the day (like 15 degrees) and colder at night (like 7, as the lowest). However, because japanese houses are designed to let all warmth out, due to very hot summers, the houses are quite cold. (I tried to explain to them, a while ago, that all houses in Canada had furnaces, and Okaasan got confused.) Last weekend she put all the fans in storage, and brought out a big heater for the main room downstairs. She started fussing about my blanket not being thick enough (its fine), and gave me a strange fuzzy cover for my mattress, so that i could be extra warm. I have to admit, my room is a bit cold in the morning (13, 11 ish?) so i am happy for the strange fuzzy thing to snuggle into. All in all quite pleasant. Its not just my house though. The classroom airconditioner appparently doubles as a heater, too. All the vending machines have been restocked, so that now more than half of the drinks are hot instead of cold. What i want to know is, how do they have hot and cold cans in the same machine? What do they use inside that keeps the cans hot?　Nic, if youre reading this, I charge you with the mission of finding out! Surely somewhere it is explained, but i have no clue where to start, and you are clearly the man for the job.
Have i mentioned that the world volleyball championships are going on in japan right now? They are. Before every Japan game, the boy band (of two) WaT, performs the theme for the team, their song, Ready GO!. They have sparkly uniform-esque costumes too. It is amazingly hilarious.
anyway, enough for today.
Ahem. Like i said. The rest. All of Japan around me is becoming winter-ized. It is starting to get a little cold during the day (like 15 degrees) and colder at night (like 7, as the lowest). However, because japanese houses are designed to let all warmth out, due to very hot summers, the houses are quite cold. (I tried to explain to them, a while ago, that all houses in Canada had furnaces, and Okaasan got confused.) Last weekend she put all the fans in storage, and brought out a big heater for the main room downstairs. She started fussing about my blanket not being thick enough (its fine), and gave me a strange fuzzy cover for my mattress, so that i could be extra warm. I have to admit, my room is a bit cold in the morning (13, 11 ish?) so i am happy for the strange fuzzy thing to snuggle into. All in all quite pleasant. Its not just my house though. The classroom airconditioner appparently doubles as a heater, too. All the vending machines have been restocked, so that now more than half of the drinks are hot instead of cold. What i want to know is, how do they have hot and cold cans in the same machine? What do they use inside that keeps the cans hot?　Nic, if youre reading this, I charge you with the mission of finding out! Surely somewhere it is explained, but i have no clue where to start, and you are clearly the man for the job.
Have i mentioned that the world volleyball championships are going on in japan right now? They are. Before every Japan game, the boy band (of two) WaT, performs the theme for the team, their song, Ready GO!. They have sparkly uniform-esque costumes too. It is amazingly hilarious.
anyway, enough for today.
posted by Andrea at
8:18 PM
4 Comments:
I'd assume that the heated cans would be kept in a separate internal compartment that's well insulated so there's no heat transfer between the hot and cold side.
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GopherX, at 10:05 AM
It's actually quite difficult to find information on how hot drink vending machines work. I think that our gopher friend is correct about separate compartments, but there's more. In 1973, a Japanese corporation made the first hot drink vending machine. They made the cans from a special kind of plastic that keeps the flavor in, but also doesn't get too hot to the touch.
http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/techno/can/variety.html
Did you know that there is 1 vending machine for every 23 people in Japan?
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Nic Waller, at 1:22 PM
You guys are absolute saints. Its definetly true that the cans dont get too hot - enough to warm up cold hands though. The internal comparments thing sounds right - although the same button i hit for cold tea two weeks ago now gives me hot tea - they must have switched where the button goes to, or something? Anyway, I am only surprised that there are not less people to each vending machine. They are fricking everywhere.
By
Andrea, at 9:09 PM
There's probably just a switch they can hit to turn on the heat.
By
GopherX, at 11:10 PM
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