Friday, May 23, 2008
Two more heat and energy ideas
THERMOSTATS ARE NOT RADIOS. Sounds funny, but many people treat thermostats like a radio. Not cooling fast enough? Turn it down, like you'd turn up the volume on a radio... not! This causes air conditioners to run too long trying to cool the house to 60 degrees in 100 degree heat. Turn it down to...
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Heat control: What's your favorite trick, technicque, or twist?
Have any unususal or unusually effective measures you take to keep your cool? A particualr cooling event you ecxperienced? How about you folks Down Under? I can lead off. A restaurant in northern California is built over a stream. They can open a hatch and cool air pumps out automatically. Hope it...
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Sunday, May 18, 2008
Keeping it cool (Rant Against The Heat)
I have found a system...actually rediscovered it...to help cheaply beat the heat and be in more comfort. I'm no doubt telling Granma (well, Abuelita) how to suck eggs... Remember four principles: hot air rises, air moves from high pressure to low, fans are better pullers than pushers, and we are...
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Saturday, May 17, 2008
Benzinha, (and rest of youse mugs, listen up)
I apologize for not responding to your comments addressed to "maj", I have not been searching for that name to respond. Estou sinceramente desculpa.
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Think about it...movie celebrity must often be like one long pop quiz.
Some questions...MOST questions...don't have a right answer except to waffle... Who was your favorite director? Who was the worst-behaved co-star you ever worked with? What is the best of your movies? Who as your hottest leading (lady/man)? When did you stop smoking crack? How do yo feel about...
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Sunday, May 4, 2008
Blogging Distlists...are they gone?
I just noticed that searching the blogs does not turn up my name. In times past, bloggers would post lists of people they putatively had read, because when you go to search wh has referred to you in a blog, you see it, click on it, and...gotcha. Some were kind en ough to entitle their blog "Are you...
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Sunday, April 27, 2008
Jim Broussard...cutting down the flag for patriotism?
A relative sent me an email with a link to the video taken by a local TV station in Reno, which happened "somehow" to get footage of this self-described Army veteran undoing a "crime" (flying the Mexican flag above the US flag on a Mexican restaurant in Reno NV). He walks up, pulls out a K-bar knife...
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
To paraphrase Bill Cosby, "We're Goin' To The Zoo!".
Crowds will be light, the family's gathered, let's hope the animals can stand us! Please have a good day, and post something, fer cryin' out loud! (This from Mr No Post))
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Back by the gate, behind a bush...
Did I mention I wanted to be a paleontologist when I was young and spent years always looking at the soil and rocks? And so I spot stuff others miss. Like the two hunks of wood leaned up against the trunk of a shrub near a building where few go precisely but many travel past. A two inch diameter...
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Sunday, April 6, 2008
Charlton Heston Quote:
"If you see a little less spring in my step, if your name fails to leap to my lips, you'll know why. And if I tell you a funny story for the second time, please laugh anyway."
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