I'm normally not one to believe in the improbable, but someone has laid some serious ju-ju on me. While away at my fabulous geek-cation, my computer bit it, my furnace at home died, and....(God, I can hardly type it...)...MY DSL WENT DOWN!!!1!
Just in time for the launch of my brand-spanking-new blog, just in time for me to share all of my insightful thoughts from ScienceOnline09, my tech life imploded.
So please, dear reader, give me a few days to try to fix everything (meh, the furnace can wait...it's above zero. But the computer and teh tubes...NOOO!!!)
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Do furnaces break more frequently in the winter than the summer, or do people just have occasion to notice non-functional furnaces when the weather gets really cold?
There is some confusion as to precisely how a setback thermostat saves energy. In fact, because of misunderstandings I have heard a number of people proclaim that a setback doesn't save energy. There are two common arguments:
The 2007 Darwin Awards are out, and can be found here. [hat tip Afarensis!]
IEEE Spectrum
(free registration required) has a nice little article about devices
that generate heat and electricity for the home. This is a
good idea, except for two problems: one, it is more efficient, and two,
Congrats on the new blog.While I dont't believe in juju of any kind(my cousin's *creole* wife might debate me on this),the furnaces have a way of expiring in January, as mine did a few years ago.Probably more to do with senescence and workload than kismet,still it *feels* like bad juju....Be that as it may,I left you a comment during your recent exodus about Ornish as woo-enabler ("The War Has Begun..."),if not full-tilt Chopra blunderer.
Um, would you mind keeping the juju to yourself? I left NC with a dying hard drive on my laptop and got home to discover a bookshelf had detached itself from the wall to land on my desktop (which somehow still works). If I find that something's happened to the thumb drive where all my writing is backed up, we're going to have to have a little talk.
We're patient. Well, not really, but we like you, so we'll wait. :)
Ugh. Sorry to hear it!!