Class consciousness, air conditioners, a portrait, and a song or five

So, I don't have a thermometer, but I'd estimate the current temperature of Missnegativity HQ* at 30ºC or more. Here's a science experiment that demonstrates exactly how hot it is:

9:45 PM


Overnight


I don't know how long it's supposed to take a block of solid ice to melt, but it seemed pretty fast. I live on a third-floor apartment with a full southern exposure, upstairs from a restaurant. The apartment is configured in such a way that all the heat from the restaurant ovens somehow ends up in my bedroom. I have two fans blowing cross currents but they don't help much. Neither kitty nor I have any sort of an appetite (that might be good in his case, but I do worry. He's lethargic and cranky.) I look very much like I do in this portrait done by rote -- frizzy-haired, red-faced, and with little anarchy symbols for eyes.

Okay, maybe not the last bit.

The point of this infodump is: It's fucking hot, and I want air conditioning.

"Oh teh nooes!" you say, "How can an environmentalist who complains about smog and talks about peak oil and energy efficiency be considering getting air conditioning? You hypocrite!"

So, in fairness, I started doing some research on why air conditioning is environmentally destructive and what kind of alternatives exist for guilty white liberals people who are really hot right now and want a better way to cool down.

( and this is what I found )

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frandroid tagged me with the music meme...

List five songs that you are currently digging. it doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artist, and the song in your journal, then tag five other people to see what they're listening to.

The songs:

Free Satpal Ram - Asian Dub Foundation
Neo-Con Luv Song - Iron Sheik, featuring Excentrik and Masari
Farewell to Nova Scotia - Stan Rogers
The Phantom of the Opera - Lacrimosa
Sleep Somehow - Wolfsheim

[Insert comment about having rather varied taste in music here]

I'm not tagging any of you. If you haven't done it yet and want to, consider this your invitation.


* I should have a contest to name Missnegativity HQ. We always meant to name the building something cool when the PKK boys were downstairs and Sara lived across the hall, and never got around to it.

Class consciousness, air conditioners, a portrait, and a song or five

So, I don't have a thermometer, but I'd estimate the current temperature of Missnegativity HQ* at 30ºC or more. Here's a science experiment that demonstrates exactly how hot it is:

9:45 PM


Overnight


I don't know how long it's supposed to take a block of solid ice to melt, but it seemed pretty fast. I live on a third-floor apartment with a full southern exposure, upstairs from a restaurant. The apartment is configured in such a way that all the heat from the restaurant ovens somehow ends up in my bedroom. I have two fans blowing cross currents but they don't help much. Neither kitty nor I have any sort of an appetite (that might be good in his case, but I do worry. He's lethargic and cranky.) I look very much like I do in this portrait done by rote -- frizzy-haired, red-faced, and with little anarchy symbols for eyes.

Okay, maybe not the last bit.

The point of this infodump is: It's fucking hot, and I want air conditioning.

"Oh teh nooes!" you say, "How can an environmentalist who complains about smog and talks about peak oil and energy efficiency be considering getting air conditioning? You hypocrite!"

So, in fairness, I started doing some research on why air conditioning is environmentally destructive and what kind of alternatives exist for guilty white liberals people who are really hot right now and want a better way to cool down.

( and this is what I found )

+++

frandroid tagged me with the music meme...

List five songs that you are currently digging. it doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artist, and the song in your journal, then tag five other people to see what they're listening to.

The songs:

Free Satpal Ram - Asian Dub Foundation
Neo-Con Luv Song - Iron Sheik, featuring Excentrik and Masari
Farewell to Nova Scotia - Stan Rogers
The Phantom of the Opera - Lacrimosa
Sleep Somehow - Wolfsheim

[Insert comment about having rather varied taste in music here]

I'm not tagging any of you. If you haven't done it yet and want to, consider this your invitation.


* I should have a contest to name Missnegativity HQ. We always meant to name the building something cool when the PKK boys were downstairs and Sara lived across the hall, and never got around to it.