I have created a heat curtain from my room out of three staples, a hair grip, and a sheet of plastic!
I AM MCGYVER!
clairedammit
11 years ago
Yay, LBT! I assume this is a curtain that keeps heat in where you are?
I need the opposite – I’m sitting here in my shorts with the windows open. Can you McGyver me a fan that will keep me cool without freezing my husband, who is running a fever? (Poor dear caught my Thanksgiving cold.)
hellkell
11 years ago
clairedammit: sorry to hear the husband is down with a cold. Are you as ready as I am for “winter” to start in TX?
Yeah, and it seems to work. (The closet I live in is mostly uninsulated, except what I staple-gunned up myself.) I plan to be the WARMEST motherfucker in the city. (With the curtain, I’m pretty much heating my bed and that’s it.)
It was 34C here on Saturday (crapcrapcrap) but cooler today. You can have all my summer if you want it, I like my heat artificial!
Diogenes The Cynic
11 years ago
Claire, how do you like juryrigging?
Get a long long length of plastic tubing, and fill it with water. On both ends, attach it to a small water pump that you’ll keep running. Toss a small length of it into a metal bowl with water in it, and a fan blowing over it. The rest of the plastic tubing can be coiled under your blanket. Should keep you cool if I remembered my Jr. high chemistry right.
clairedammit
11 years ago
Diogenes, a bed-sized swamp cooler, awesome!
hellkell
11 years ago
Clairedammit: 20 minutes and two snowflakes if we’re lucky. I would just like it to not be 80 or above any more. Yesterday was perfect, and chilly at night.
clairedammit
11 years ago
Hellkell, you expect two whole snowflakes? You must not live in Houston. You’re right, it has been lovely lately though.
I’m sorry, y’all, are the Texans boring you talking about the weather? We like to do that a lot.
Speaking of Houston, I just discovered that PElam and I share a home city. Ick. For some reason I thought he was in Australia. I went as far as to put his post office box zip code into Google Maps. Luckily, he seems to be across town from me.
I’m from Texas originally. It’s just making me un-nostalgic.
(HAHAHA I LIVE IN PLACES WHERE SUMMERS DON’T HIT 110!)
Magpie
11 years ago
My Mum was born in the hottest summer on record (til last year). Grandma put her under the house under wet sheets, like a coolgardie safe.
LBT – awesome magyvering! Dad did something like that in his shed – he had a sort of maze of tarps hanging from the roof, with a pot belly stove in the middle.
Magpie
11 years ago
Kitteh’s help – 34C in Melbourne! Say it ain’t so – I hope to visit in January, what the hell will it be like then O.o
Off topic: My cat is sleeping on my wallet, and she nips at my hand when I try to retrieve it. Does that mean she is a hypergamous, gold-digging pussy?
We Hunted The Mammoth
That’s a lovely hat, David.
That picture reminds me of this video.
Been photographing rich people’s parties again? I guess it is a living…
Since it’s open off-topic season…
I have created a heat curtain from my room out of three staples, a hair grip, and a sheet of plastic!
I AM MCGYVER!
Yay, LBT! I assume this is a curtain that keeps heat in where you are?
I need the opposite – I’m sitting here in my shorts with the windows open. Can you McGyver me a fan that will keep me cool without freezing my husband, who is running a fever? (Poor dear caught my Thanksgiving cold.)
clairedammit: sorry to hear the husband is down with a cold. Are you as ready as I am for “winter” to start in TX?
Anyone who wants extra warmth is more than welcome to take summer when it hits us here! I’ll send it out freight free …
Oh yes. We’re expecting winter to be 15 minutes in January as usual, right?
RE: Clairedammit
Yeah, and it seems to work. (The closet I live in is mostly uninsulated, except what I staple-gunned up myself.) I plan to be the WARMEST motherfucker in the city. (With the curtain, I’m pretty much heating my bed and that’s it.)
LBT, I’m sure telescope cannons and duct tape airplanes will be right around the corner.
@Kitteh: summer has already arrived here. But I am happy to keep all the warm for myself.
It was 34C here on Saturday (crapcrapcrap) but cooler today. You can have all my summer if you want it, I like my heat artificial!
Claire, how do you like juryrigging?
Get a long long length of plastic tubing, and fill it with water. On both ends, attach it to a small water pump that you’ll keep running. Toss a small length of it into a metal bowl with water in it, and a fan blowing over it. The rest of the plastic tubing can be coiled under your blanket. Should keep you cool if I remembered my Jr. high chemistry right.
Diogenes, a bed-sized swamp cooler, awesome!
Clairedammit: 20 minutes and two snowflakes if we’re lucky. I would just like it to not be 80 or above any more. Yesterday was perfect, and chilly at night.
Hellkell, you expect two whole snowflakes? You must not live in Houston. You’re right, it has been lovely lately though.
I’m sorry, y’all, are the Texans boring you talking about the weather? We like to do that a lot.
Speaking of Houston, I just discovered that PElam and I share a home city. Ick. For some reason I thought he was in Australia. I went as far as to put his post office box zip code into Google Maps. Luckily, he seems to be across town from me.
I’m from Texas originally. It’s just making me un-nostalgic.
(HAHAHA I LIVE IN PLACES WHERE SUMMERS DON’T HIT 110!)
My Mum was born in the hottest summer on record (til last year). Grandma put her under the house under wet sheets, like a coolgardie safe.
LBT – awesome magyvering! Dad did something like that in his shed – he had a sort of maze of tarps hanging from the roof, with a pot belly stove in the middle.
Kitteh’s help – 34C in Melbourne! Say it ain’t so – I hope to visit in January, what the hell will it be like then O.o
Off topic: My cat is sleeping on my wallet, and she nips at my hand when I try to retrieve it. Does that mean she is a hypergamous, gold-digging pussy?
It means she is really a dragon, on a hoard of gold.
I have my AC on and have since Wednesday. Stupid tension headaches.
Cloudiah’s kitty has a Smaug complex! :O
Yeah, I know, 34C in November SUCKS SO MUCCCCCHHHHH.
Actually it sucks at any time. IhatesummerIhatesummerIhatesummer
::lies on floor kicking wall::
I also have spent hours in the past three days working on a corridor on my Terraria world for no reason other than it looks nice.
I have to get a life one of these years.
Ha, define “life” then! That sounds like a pretty good life to me. 🙂
Hey, I’m happy about 34C days. I’ll be begging for them for at least another week.