The Glade 4.0

Brilliant.

I'm not sure it worked the other way around:

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

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"I Live, I Love, I Slay, and I Am Content."
- Conan the Barbarian

Screw. That.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Yea, it was -3 on my way into work tonight. I am so ready to move.

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Raell Kromwell

Whatever. I love this weather. Yesterday, we had 15 minutes of flurries in 20 degree weather. It was bone dry snow, and the standard gusting breezes for the Midwest. I was out driving immediately afterwards -- I love the way dry snow blows around on roads and catches and highlights all the eddies in a wispy, breezy cloud.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

I like the way I can go outside in shorts and a tshirt and not die.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Yeah, I know what you guys mean. Temperatures here have plummeted down to the lower 60s here this evening. I was slightly chilly when I went outside just now.

I know right! I totally considered adding a base layer before I got on the bike today...

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Holy shitsnacks!

I'm amused that down here I can wear just a regular set of clothing when everyone else is putting on jackets, hats, and gloves.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

We had 7 on the mercury. -10 with the wind chill. It was fun, today it is less fun since it appears to be too cold for the salt to actually work.

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Was 2 out this morning when I went into work. 2 as in 1 and then you're there.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Marlon Brando? The Great and Powerful Oz?

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

Mussolini. Fascist party headquarters in the run-up to an election, early 1930s, I think.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

Still wearing blue jeans, Hawaiian shirts, and sandals here.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

It was in the 80s low yesterday. Of course, we had a cold snap last week - apparently Jimmy Kimmel made fun of Angelenos for their overreaction. But, hey, most of our houses aren't insulated for **** (heck, our first two houses didn't have a furnace).

But it did get down to 35 up here, very cold for us.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

What about AC? If your house isn't well insulated, how do you keep the heat out and the cool air in?

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Raell Kromwell

My house is not insulated either. They just didn't do that back in "the day". The air trapped between the plaster and boards suffice (they don't).

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Keeping a house cool is less about insulation, and more about losing heat.

High ceilings keep the relatively warmer air away from humans. Large, pronounced ridge vents let enormous amounts of hot air escape through the attic. Flat, open floor plans (instead of a cube-shaped multi-level house centered around a furnace) allow for circulation, and circulation makes people feel cooler by evaporating perspiration.

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