I think my clothes are half drenched in sweat. Part of it is the rain that’s gently falling here, which, according to the natives, has cooled things down tremendously. I’ll take their word for it. This morning the rain wasn’t falling so gently. The radar showed a mass of red and PURPLE (for hail, the…
I got a summons for jury duty a couple weeks back. I was excited. Then Berck said, “It’s not during our trip to New York, is it?” We’re leaving Tuesday night and coming back on Monday next week. Sure enough, my date was for today. If I got selected for a trial, it would probably…
I removed the air conditioning from my car yesterday. Today, I made a simple air/water heat exchanger out of the condenser…1 It’s reasonably efficient, but it doesn’t exactly make the room cool. The water coming out of the tap is 52F. Depending on the amount of water I pump through this thing, I can get…
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