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Post by Dr. Kobb on May 31, 2020 9:11:00 GMT -5
I have my HVAC unit checked twice a year, and the lastime the technician checked it, he told me that for purposes of humidity control, I should run the fan (with the heating cooling system turned off), when not using the heating or cooling, 24/7 and it would only add $3 a year to my electric bill. Anybody else ever been told that?
I have not heard that, but it's intriguing. Seems like it would be hard on the fan, but I know nothing about these things.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on May 31, 2020 9:14:35 GMT -5
I had planned to have central AC put in this year, but the money I had set aside for that no longer exists. Thanks, worldwide economic meltdown! Last year I planted some arborvitae along the south side of my house to shield it from the sun. Unfortunately it's going to take a few years to really grow in. The good news is I have a pool. Kobb, do you find it makes any difference leaving the AC on while you're at work?
I wonder what that would run to install a full HVAC system? $10K?
So far, it seems to be working pretty good. Obviously, leaving it on 82 means it's still kind of warm when I return, but it's still nicer than outside, and I figure it's not as hard on the system to cool things down than if I leave it completely off.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on May 31, 2020 9:22:37 GMT -5
Assuming, for a moment, that I were not a cold-blooded reptile who sleeps through the chillier months and makes advantageous use of sun and shade to remain active during the rest of the year:
If I were y'all, I'd actually look into my options for transforming into a cold-blooded reptile at the earliest opportunity...it eliminates soooo many hassles.
I tried consulting on this with the many racing lizards who inhabit my yard, but they said they wouldn't even speak with me until I did something about the cat. Since that's not an option, we're at an impasse.
I've considered doing that one-rate plan with the power company. It's always nice knowing what exactly you can expect with the bills. I think if I can make it through this season like this, I might indeed contact them and see what kind of flat rate they can provide.
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Post by Deeky on May 31, 2020 12:48:32 GMT -5
I wonder what that would run to install a full HVAC system? $10K? It depends on if they have to run ductwork or not. It's very expensive at that point. Fortunately for me there is already ductwork and the fan, etc. for the furnace, so that significantly reduces the cost.
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on May 31, 2020 22:18:44 GMT -5
Lemmy, I did go to having my monthly electric bill put on a fixed average amount and either paying more or getting a refund at the end of each year, to make up the difference.
I like it, because I get the difference from the average and how it cumulates each month on my bill, so there won't be any surprises when square up time comes around.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 2, 2020 10:36:47 GMT -5
Did you guys know they made a Banana Splits movie...and it's a horror flick?
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Jun 2, 2020 12:35:41 GMT -5
Did you guys know they made a Banana Splits movie...and it's a horror flick? Tra la la, la la la la...*splatter*
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Post by Deeky on Jun 2, 2020 17:10:38 GMT -5
Did you guys know they made a Banana Splits movie...and it's a horror flick? Yeah, I remember seeing a trailer for that earlier in the year.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 2, 2020 22:51:31 GMT -5
Did you guys know they made a Banana Splits movie...and it's a horror flick? Yeah, I remember seeing a trailer for that earlier in the year. It doesn't look very good (surprise!). But hey, points for concept alone.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 2, 2020 22:55:24 GMT -5
How long since you listened to Firesign Theater, ZAQB? Chose one of their old albums for today's drive-time. Welcome distraction, but at times I probably looked like a deranged maniac - driving along or stopped at lights, then suddenly inexplicably breaking into fits of laughter.
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Post by Deeky on Jun 3, 2020 10:40:57 GMT -5
I'm not sure I've ever actually heard it.
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Post by Deeky on Jun 3, 2020 10:42:28 GMT -5
Yeah, I remember seeing a trailer for that earlier in the year. It doesn't look very good (surprise!). But hey, points for concept alone. They did the same thing with Fantasy Island this year, too.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 3, 2020 23:13:14 GMT -5
I'm not sure I've ever actually heard it.
Today I listened to their "Waiting for the Electrician...or Someone Like Him" on the way to and from work. Good shit. I don't really know a lot about The Firesign Theatre myself. I know they were an inspiration to some performers I admire/enjoy. I think I can see why from listening to "How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All?" yesterday and "Waiting for..." today.
They can probably be best summed up as "a bunch of hippies doing absurdist send-ups of old-timey radio shows". There. I said it.
It's hit and miss ensemble stuff. A skit about a befuddled tourist in a strange land and his Kafkaesque misadventures had me smiling right up to pulling into my driveway a half-hour ago. They even have radio advertisements with ridiculous jingles in between their main programs. To me they're like an audio-only Monty Python's Flying Circus. Things are generally silly, with lots of wordplay and bad puns, but they also tend to veer off into the surreal in Python-like ways. So I'm often laughing, but also going "wut?" half the time.
I don't remember where, but I seem to recall hearing their "Nick Danger: Third Eye" serialized detective misadventures on SOME long ago radio program late at night. Probably college radio 80's Atlanta. Maybe on some Doctor Demento programs, too.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 3, 2020 23:29:14 GMT -5
It doesn't look very good (surprise!). But hey, points for concept alone. They did the same thing with Fantasy Island this year, too.
Oof. Yeah, I just watched that last week. The distinction between the two movies here is that I never was much of a fan of Fantasy Island, while I loved The Banana Splits when I was little. Not sure I want to watch my fuzzy psychedelic TV buddies turned into psychotic monsters. Then again, if I were being honest, The Banana Splits always were kind of creepy anyway.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 4, 2020 12:25:40 GMT -5
Why does the far right keep appropriating beloved lounge culture motifs like tiki torches and Hawaiian shirts? Is it their ode to what they consider an era when America was 'Great'? Genuinely curious here. Not trying to get anybody riled.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Jun 4, 2020 17:39:31 GMT -5
Why does the far right keep appropriating beloved lounge culture motifs like tiki torches and Hawaiian shirts? Is it their ode to what they consider an era when America was 'Great'? Genuinely curious here. Not trying to get anybody riled. It's more about their racist tone-deafness than anything else. So, the proposed new White Power uprising is being called, at least in some quarters, 'the boogaloo"
Two words, "igloo" and "luau" supposedly rhyme with "boogaloo"...The whole thing makes exactly that much (non)sense and no more than that.
So, one new symbol is, surprise surprise, pictures of igloos. The other is hawaiian shirts, and so on...
I think the tiki torches that came out at Charlottesville were just a cheap and easy way for morons to have torches...making actual "mob with torches and pitchforks" torches isn't simple to do, and I'm sure at least some of these yobbos imagined themselves recreating "Birth of a Nation"... Now they're part of the 'luau', of course...
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 18, 2020 15:13:11 GMT -5
I'm seriously considering buying a pair of these shoes right here you can seriously, really-truly click on with this very link for the work day. Reason being, I'm at my wits end (and pain threshold) wearing the shoes I've been wearing for the past umpteen years. My feet actually feel fine, but my knees are screaming at me by the end of any given work day. So, I'm willing to go in the drastically opposite direction of shoe theory I've been working with and try out the barefoot feel to see if it might correct some things that are making the work day really grueling for me.
Has anyone else suffered similar problems, or have their own shoe recommendations? If so, get in here and tell me, because I'm itching to pull the trigger on these as a last resort.
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Post by Deeky on Jun 18, 2020 15:21:41 GMT -5
(There's no link in your link.)
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Post by Deeky on Jun 18, 2020 15:24:03 GMT -5
Two in the pink, one in the stink?
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 18, 2020 15:59:34 GMT -5
Oh my. Try it now. I really need feedback on this.
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