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I'm sitting here in my skivvies, sweating. I turned the air conditioner off
an hour ago because it was getting cold in here. This is November mind you. In the mountains of Virginia. It got up reasonably warm today, maybe 70-something. It rained a lot, and was generally overcast. Not very much solar radiation getting in to warm the place up. Around 10:00 PM the heat became so intolerable that we actually turned the A/C on and let it go for around half an hour. So now it's about 1:00 AM. Somewhen between then and now the air has picked heat back up from somewhere, and I'm scratching my head trying to figure it out. It's back up to 81 degrees in here, and it was down to 71 at 10:00 PM. No sun in that time. No electric heat, no propane heat... Could be waste heat from the big dehumidifier that has been chugging 24/7 in the crawlspace for the last six months maybe. Residual from the hot water heater that really needs replacing very soon now. Halogen lights... Still, adding all of this up, it's about 1500 sq. ft. of open space in here, and it would take a lot of BTUs of heat to raise that much air by 10 degrees. Could it be a simple matter of body count? House empty all day, then four big'uns, two little'uns and three furry'uns? (Three medium sized dogs.) I won't be complaining about free heat in a few more weeks, mind you, but it's a real mystery. I'm wondering if I have some problem developing. -- Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ |
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Silvan wrote: I'm sitting here in my skivvies, sweating. I turned the air conditioner off an hour ago because it was getting cold in here. This is November mind you. In the mountains of Virginia. It got up reasonably warm today, maybe 70-something. It rained a lot, and was generally overcast. Not very much solar radiation getting in to warm the place up. Around 10:00 PM the heat became so intolerable that we actually turned the A/C on and let it go for around half an hour. So now it's about 1:00 AM. Somewhen between then and now the air has picked heat back up from somewhere, and I'm scratching my head trying to figure it out. It's back up to 81 degrees in here, and it was down to 71 at 10:00 PM. No sun in that time. No electric heat, no propane heat... Could be waste heat from the big dehumidifier that has been chugging 24/7 in the crawlspace for the last six months maybe. Residual from the hot water heater that really needs replacing very soon now. Halogen lights... Still, adding all of this up, it's about 1500 sq. ft. of open space in here, and it would take a lot of BTUs of heat to raise that much air by 10 degrees. Could it be a simple matter of body count? House empty all day, then four big'uns, two little'uns and three furry'uns? (Three medium sized dogs.) I won't be complaining about free heat in a few more weeks, mind you, but it's a real mystery. I'm wondering if I have some problem developing. *Everything* contributes. I forget how many BTU/hr a person puts out, at rest, but _occupied_ school buildings almost -never- run the heat plant at temperatures above *MINUS* *TWENTY*FIVE* Farenheight. The warm-body factor is enough that they're dumping heat to the outside. Other things, like the _refrigerator_, the dehumidifier, lights, the TV, computers, etc. -- they all add up. non-trivially. Betcha you've got several kilowatts of electric load that you don't even -realize- are running. Plus all those "warm bodies". An additional point -- *rain* releases _tremendous_ amounts of heat into the atmosphere. 1" of rain, over a medium-sized city, say one the size of Omaha, NE, releases more total energy than a mid-size atomic bomb. Not from lightning, etc. -- just from the reverse 'heat of vaporization' released by the water-vapor condensing out. Now, +most+ of that heat is released at higher levels in the atmosphere, and you'll freqently get some 'evaporative' cooling at/near ground level. but, it's not uncommon for ground-level temperatures to climb by several degrees, several hours after the rain. |
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In article , Silvan wrote:
I'm sitting here in my skivvies, sweating. I turned the air conditioner off an hour ago because it was getting cold in here. [snip] Could it be a simple matter of body count? House empty all day, then four big'uns, two little'uns and three furry'uns? (Three medium sized dogs.) Possibly. I seem to recall reading that the heat output of an adult human is around 500 watts asleep, and 750 watts awake, but I could be imagining that. Dogs have a higher body temperature than humans, too. I won't be complaining about free heat in a few more weeks, mind you, but it's a real mystery. I'm wondering if I have some problem developing. Well, you might. Does anyone *else* think it's too hot? 81F isn't hot IMO. That's a comfortable-in-tee-shirt-and-shorts kind of temperature, not a sweating-in-your-skivvies kind of temperature. If you're the only one sweating, it might be time to call a doc (or at least get out a fever thermometer). Have you been drinking enough water? -- Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com) How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America? |
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Well, you might. Does anyone *else* think it's too hot? 81F isn't hot IMO. That's a comfortable-in-tee-shirt-and-shorts kind of temperature, not a sweating-in-your-skivvies kind of temperature. If you're the only one sweating, it might be time to call a doc (or at least get out a fever thermometer). Have you been drinking enough water? SWMBO stripped down to her skivvies too. No, unfortunately, that didn't lead anywhere interesting. :( The kids both kicked off their covers. It wasn't just me. Maybe we got microwaved by aliens from another galaxy. :) -- Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ |
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... I'm sitting here in my skivvies, sweating. I turned the air conditioner off an hour ago because it was getting cold in here. snip I won't be complaining about free heat in a few more weeks, mind you, but it's a real mystery. I'm wondering if I have some problem developing. snip Brick house? They can retain quite a bit of heat within the bricks for a few days. That or a very-well-insulated house and all them bodies.... Did you turn the oven off? ;-) I have my computer in a bedroom converted to an office. That rooms stays pretty much five degrees warmer than the rest of the house just from heat generated by the computer. If you have a computer over 1Ghz, particularly an AMD system, it doubles as a room heater. Ditto for an inefficient computer monitor. |
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Cold fusion?
Come winter we're so desperate for heat and humidity that we filter the dryer outlet and dump it indoors. Makes the choice of fabric softener scent more important than in the summer when we hang out.... "Silvan" wrote in message ... I won't be complaining about free heat in a few more weeks, mind you, but it's a real mystery. I'm wondering if I have some problem developing. |
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"Silvan" wrote in message ... I'm sitting here in my skivvies, sweating. I turned the air conditioner off an hour ago because it was getting cold in here. Spontaneous Human Combustion. I read about this... You're in the early symptoms phase. Start sleeping with a fire extinguisher. |
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I'm sitting here in my skivvies, sweating. I turned the air conditioner off an hour ago because it was getting cold in here. Spontaneous Human Combustion. I read about this... You're in the early symptoms phase. Start sleeping with a fire extinguisher. My first wife works somewhere around B'burg: she'll do as well as any other fire extinguisher. Charlie Self "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." Thomas J. Watson |
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Check your heating system. A few years ago my BIL had his go berserk in
the middle of summer. Heater kicked on permanently and as the AC side was able to maintain the temperature on the thermostat he had no idea until the electric bill came in. Repairman said the controller shorted out somehow and the strip heatrers in the unit had been running 24/7 for while. Joe Silvan wrote: I'm sitting here in my skivvies, sweating. I turned the air conditioner off an hour ago because it was getting cold in here. This is November mind you. In the mountains of Virginia. It got up reasonably warm today, maybe 70-something. It rained a lot, and was generally overcast. Not very much solar radiation getting in to warm the place up. Around 10:00 PM the heat became so intolerable that we actually turned the A/C on and let it go for around half an hour. So now it's about 1:00 AM. Somewhen between then and now the air has picked heat back up from somewhere, and I'm scratching my head trying to figure it out. It's back up to 81 degrees in here, and it was down to 71 at 10:00 PM. No sun in that time. No electric heat, no propane heat... Could be waste heat from the big dehumidifier that has been chugging 24/7 in the crawlspace for the last six months maybe. Residual from the hot water heater that really needs replacing very soon now. Halogen lights... Still, adding all of this up, it's about 1500 sq. ft. of open space in here, and it would take a lot of BTUs of heat to raise that much air by 10 degrees. Could it be a simple matter of body count? House empty all day, then four big'uns, two little'uns and three furry'uns? (Three medium sized dogs.) I won't be complaining about free heat in a few more weeks, mind you, but it's a real mystery. I'm wondering if I have some problem developing. |
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I think your numbers are correct but it is BTU per hour. Not trivial
but not a huge source. my house here in NC gets much warmer after sunset. the heat trapped in the attic tends to start leaking into the living space after about 10 hours. Insulation only works so long. It is a cathedral ceiling so no way to exhaust the waste heat. BRuce Doug Miller wrote: In article , Silvan wrote: I'm sitting here in my skivvies, sweating. I turned the air conditioner off an hour ago because it was getting cold in here. [snip] Could it be a simple matter of body count? House empty all day, then four big'uns, two little'uns and three furry'uns? (Three medium sized dogs.) Possibly. I seem to recall reading that the heat output of an adult human is around 500 watts asleep, and 750 watts awake, but I could be imagining that. Dogs have a higher body temperature than humans, too. I won't be complaining about free heat in a few more weeks, mind you, but it's a real mystery. I'm wondering if I have some problem developing. Well, you might. Does anyone *else* think it's too hot? 81F isn't hot IMO. That's a comfortable-in-tee-shirt-and-shorts kind of temperature, not a sweating-in-your-skivvies kind of temperature. If you're the only one sweating, it might be time to call a doc (or at least get out a fever thermometer). Have you been drinking enough water? -- Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com) How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America? |
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Silvan wrote:
I'm sitting here in my skivvies, sweating. I turned the air conditioner off an hour ago because it was getting cold in here. This is November mind you. In the mountains of Virginia. Same thing happened to me last night, and my friend at work and I were talking about it today. He had the same thing happening. the place up. Around 10:00 PM the heat became so intolerable that we actually turned the A/C on and let it go for around half an hour. Yep, kicked in around 10PM last night. Even my wife thought it was hot, and she almost never thinks it's too warm. snip list of possible localized causes Whatever it was, it wasn't just you and your place. It was happening on my side of town too. I'm guessing some sort of atmospheric pressure change combined with the humidity. Bill Ranck Blacksburg, Va. |
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Might be you are too close to all those politicians spouting a lot of hot
air.... that or it is some sort of government experiment and you need that aluminum foil hat on... grin Same problem here in Atlanta... "Silvan" wrote in message ... I'm sitting here in my skivvies, sweating. I turned the air conditioner off an hour ago because it was getting cold in here. This is November mind you. In the mountains of Virginia. It got up reasonably warm today, maybe 70-something. It rained a lot, and was generally overcast. Not very much solar radiation getting in to warm the place up. Around 10:00 PM the heat became so intolerable that we actually turned the A/C on and let it go for around half an hour. So now it's about 1:00 AM. Somewhen between then and now the air has picked heat back up from somewhere, and I'm scratching my head trying to figure it out. It's back up to 81 degrees in here, and it was down to 71 at 10:00 PM. No sun in that time. No electric heat, no propane heat... Could be waste heat from the big dehumidifier that has been chugging 24/7 in the crawlspace for the last six months maybe. Residual from the hot water heater that really needs replacing very soon now. Halogen lights... Still, adding all of this up, it's about 1500 sq. ft. of open space in here, and it would take a lot of BTUs of heat to raise that much air by 10 degrees. Could it be a simple matter of body count? House empty all day, then four big'uns, two little'uns and three furry'uns? (Three medium sized dogs.) I won't be complaining about free heat in a few more weeks, mind you, but it's a real mystery. I'm wondering if I have some problem developing. -- Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ |
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Silvan wrote:
snip I won't be complaining about free heat in a few more weeks, mind you, but it's a real mystery. I'm wondering if I have some problem developing. Could be. See: http://www.medicine-plants.com/articles/96/ ;-) -- Jack Novak Buffalo, NY - USA (Remove "SPAM" from email address to reply) |
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"Charlie Self" wrote in message ... mttt responds: Start sleeping with a fire extinguisher. My first wife works somewhere around B'burg: she'll do as well as any other fire extinguisher. Now *that* made me grin! I'll confess there was a 5 second lag time before I got it... :) |
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Start sleeping with a fire extinguisher. My first wife works somewhere around B'burg: she'll do as well as any other fire extinguisher. Now *that* made me grin! I'll confess there was a 5 second lag time before I got it... :) Would have taken longer than 5 seconds if you'd married her. Charlie Self "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." Thomas J. Watson |
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Dave,
The old science building at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown (built in the early 70's?) was so energy stingy, they only had to run the heat during the Christmas break ... because there weren't any bodies to keep it warm. Rest of the time they had a heat surplus without the stale air syndrome. Also ... http://www4.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-win/ww...owEvent~206153 shows record low temperature for Pittsburgh area ... pretty close to -25! Rick "David Hall" wrote in message om... () wrote in message news:2Dsqb.12846 SNIP *Everything* contributes. I forget how many BTU/hr a person puts out, at rest, but _occupied_ school buildings almost -never- run the heat plant at temperatures above *MINUS* *TWENTY*FIVE* Farenheight. The warm-body factor is enough that they're dumping heat to the outside. SNIP Huh?! I am the Business Manager for a school district near Pittsburgh, PA. It NEVER gets to -25 F here. I don't think it even went below 0 last winter. We seem to run the heating systems all winter though and spent a total of $350,000 for natural gas last year for 9 buildings. I doubt that body heat can do much for heating significant spaces and if there were enough bodies in the space to heat it when it is -25 outside then the CO2 being given off would kill everyone if there wasn't a MAJOR fresh air exchange going on...not to mention the smell ;) Dave Hall |
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"David Hall" wrote in message I doubt that body heat can do much for heating significant spaces and if there were enough bodies in the space to heat it when it is -25 outside then the CO2 being given off would kill everyone if there wasn't a MAJOR fresh air exchange going on...not to mention the smell ;) Dave Hall Body heat sure adds up. I used to work for a company that built heating and AC units for commercial and industrial applications. Schools were one of their largest markets. Body count is very seriously taken into consideration when calculating heat loads. IIRC, it is 485 Btu per person. or enough heat from 100 people to heat a small home. Ever go to a concert or sports game in an arena? Notice how cool it is when you first arrive and how much warmer it is when the crowd fills the place? And yes, air exchange is also considered. Often the heat is off and the ventilation is bringing in the cold outside air to cool the place down. Ed http://pages.cthome.net/edhome |
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"Silvan" wrote in message The kids both kicked off their covers. It wasn't just me. Maybe we got microwaved by aliens from another galaxy. :) It is also humid under the conditions we've had the past few days adding to the dis-comfort level. All of a sudden it feels very close, very stuffy. |
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Joe Gorman wrote:
Check your heating system. A few years ago my BIL had his go berserk in the middle of summer. Heater kicked on permanently and as the AC side was able to maintain the temperature on the thermostat he had no idea until the electric bill came in. Repairman said the controller shorted out somehow and the strip heatrers in the unit had been running 24/7 for while. Good thought, but it wouldn't distribute the heat without the fan running. Maybe it's just down to dog farts. -- Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ |
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mrdancer wrote:
Brick house? They can retain quite a bit of heat within the bricks for a few days. That or a very-well-insulated house and all them bodies.... Half brick. Weird construction. Bricks are mostly on the north side though. Not terribly well-insulated. Did you turn the oven off? ;-) Used the microwave. I have my computer in a bedroom converted to an office. That rooms stays pretty much five degrees warmer than the rest of the house just from heat generated by the computer. If you have a computer over 1Ghz, particularly an AMD system, it doubles as a room heater. Ditto for an inefficient computer monitor. I do have a 1 GHz AMD box that runs 24/7 and makes this room toasty, but the rest of the house was pretty toasty too. Same thing again this evening, actually. Must be body heat. -- Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ |
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Charlie Self wrote:
Start sleeping with a fire extinguisher. My first wife works somewhere around B'burg: she'll do as well as any other fire extinguisher. She's not that bitchy woman who drives the black Lexus is she? :) -- Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ |
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T. wrote:
Ah, I hadn't realized. That goes far in explaining the content of some of your posts. ROTFMAO Damn right, flatlander! :) My ancestors came from the highlands of Scotland (lots of them on all sides of the family; not just Dad's folks) and I live in the highlands of Virginia. Seems fitting. -- Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ |
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On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 01:06:41 -0500, Silvan
wrote: I'm sitting here in my skivvies, sweating. I Thanks for the visual. G Barry |
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Check for volcanic activity under the house.
"Silvan" wrote in message ... I'm sitting here in my skivvies, sweating. I turned the air conditioner off an hour ago because it was getting cold in here. This is November mind you. In the mountains of Virginia. It got up reasonably warm today, maybe 70-something. It rained a lot, and was generally overcast. Not very much solar radiation getting in to warm the place up. Around 10:00 PM the heat became so intolerable that we actually turned the A/C on and let it go for around half an hour. So now it's about 1:00 AM. Somewhen between then and now the air has picked heat back up from somewhere, and I'm scratching my head trying to figure it out. It's back up to 81 degrees in here, and it was down to 71 at 10:00 PM. No sun in that time. No electric heat, no propane heat... Could be waste heat from the big dehumidifier that has been chugging 24/7 in the crawlspace for the last six months maybe. Residual from the hot water heater that really needs replacing very soon now. Halogen lights... Still, adding all of this up, it's about 1500 sq. ft. of open space in here, and it would take a lot of BTUs of heat to raise that much air by 10 degrees. Could it be a simple matter of body count? House empty all day, then four big'uns, two little'uns and three furry'uns? (Three medium sized dogs.) I won't be complaining about free heat in a few more weeks, mind you, but it's a real mystery. I'm wondering if I have some problem developing. -- Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ |
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Edwin Pawlowski wrote: "David Hall" wrote in message I doubt that body heat can do much for heating significant spaces and if there were enough bodies in the space to heat it when it is -25 outside then the CO2 being given off would kill everyone if there wasn't a MAJOR fresh air exchange going on...not to mention the smell ;) Dave Hall Body heat sure adds up. I used to work for a company that built heating and AC units for commercial and industrial applications. Schools were one of their largest markets. Body count is very seriously taken into consideration when calculating heat loads. IIRC, it is 485 Btu per person. or enough heat from 100 people to heat a small home. I've got numbers ranging from 450 (sleeping), to 570 (hard work). I know that that second number is somewhat _conservative_. For rough calculations, and 'average conditions', 500 BTU/hr/person is a reasonable approximation. Guess it depends on what you consider a 'small home'. The house I grew up in was about 1200 sq ft on the main floor, 2 stories over 25% of the space, and unfinished basement under about half the main floor. Due to 'accident' of incremental construction, the place had _two_ smaller furnaces. one rated at 48KBtu/hr 'net', the other at 64k net. One winter, one of the furnaces *died*. We don't know just when, we -noticed- "something unusual" during a viscious cold spell (daily highs circa -20F, lows below -35 F brrr!). The "big" furnace was running nearly continuously. about 50 minutes out of each hour. Vs. a normal 12-15 -- maybe 20 in really cold weather. Went looking, and discovered the other furnace wasn't running _at_all_. So we've got the _one_ furnace, 64kBTU/hr, running at about an 85% duty cycle, keeping the _entire_ house comfortably warm. In *sustained* -25 F weather. Call it about 55k BTU/hr effective, from the furnace. For somewhere between 1600 and 2200 sq ft of 'livable space', depending on how you count things. Four 20'x20' classrooms (1600 sq ft total), with 30 people/room, produces around 60K BTU/hr of 'people power'. The 'energy' _is_ there to keep the place warm at -25F, without requiring supplemental heat. grin Ever go to a concert or sports game in an arena? Notice how cool it is when you first arrive and how much warmer it is when the crowd fills the place? And yes, air exchange is also considered. Often the heat is off and the ventilation is bringing in the cold outside air to cool the place down. Ed http://pages.cthome.net/edhome |
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Lewis Hartswick wrote: wrote: I forget how many BTU/hr a person puts out, at rest, but _occupied_ school buildings almost -never- run the heat plant at temperatures above *MINUS* *TWENTY*FIVE* Farenheight. The warm-body factor is enough that they're dumping heat to the outside. Other things, like the _refrigerator_, the dehumidifier, lights, the TV, computers, etc. -- they all add up. non-trivially. In the HVAC ( heating venilating & Air Conditioning ) racket we use to figure 500 Watts per person (warm body) :-) ...lew... I got out my reference books. I think you mean 500 BTU/hr. 500 watts is about 3x higher. |
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B a r r y B u r k e J r . wrote: On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 01:06:41 -0500, Silvan wrote: I'm sitting here in my skivvies, sweating. I Thanks for the visual. G The *GOOD*NEWS* is that he has his skivvies _on_. Even as ratty as they are. |
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Same thing happened to me last night, and my friend at work and I were talking about it today. He had the same thing happening. Hmmmm... Yep, kicked in around 10PM last night. Even my wife thought it was hot, and she almost never thinks it's too warm. snip list of possible localized causes Whatever it was, it wasn't just you and your place. It was happening on my side of town too. That tears it then. It was definitely the alien microwave thing. The little slanty eyed gray buggers were trying to cook us! I'm guessing some sort of atmospheric pressure change combined with the humidity. Or maybe that. :) Anyway, it makes me feel a lot better to know it wasn't just me. If you live in Blacksburg somewhere, you're bound to live several miles away, so it must have been a big atmospheric flummy. -- Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ |
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B a r r y B u r k e J r . wrote:
On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 01:06:41 -0500, Silvan wrote: I'm sitting here in my skivvies, sweating. I Thanks for the visual. G I could have done a lot worse, so now I will. Somewhere on the web there's a picture of me floating around, wearing nothing but a sock and an electric guitar. *That* ought to keep you up at night. (Yes, I *was* drunk at the time. Very much so.) -- Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ |
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CW wrote:
Check for volcanic activity under the house. Nah, there'd be steam. My dehumidifier has been going 24/7 for months, and it's still moist down there. No longer quite so dank, but still irksome. Gotta get that in check before I have to figure out how to replace all my joists. -- Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ |
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"Silvan" wrote in message ... T. wrote: Ah, I hadn't realized. That goes far in explaining the content of some of your posts. ROTFMAO Damn right, flatlander! :) Looking out my window at Long's Peak to the north, Pike's to the south. Who's the flatlander? :) |
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On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 20:37:11 GMT, Lewis Hartswick
wrote: In the HVAC ( heating venilating & Air Conditioning ) racket we use to figure 500 Watts per person (warm body) :-) European practice is more like 150W -- Die Gotterspammerung - Junkmail of the Gods |
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That's more in line with the number I remember from one of
my engineering courses many decades ago. The human body at rest generates ~100W of heat. An active body generates more but I don't remember how much more. Art "Andy Dingley" wrote in message ... On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 20:37:11 GMT, Lewis Hartswick wrote: In the HVAC ( heating venilating & Air Conditioning ) racket we use to figure 500 Watts per person (warm body) :-) European practice is more like 150W -- Die Gotterspammerung - Junkmail of the Gods |
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Fri, Nov 7, 2003, 12:19am (Silvan)
boatst: I could have done a lot worse, so now I will. Somewhere on the web there's a picture of me floating around, wearing nothing but a sock and an electric guitar. *That* ought to keep you up at night. sni No, it won't keep me up at night. But, it will definitely make me a lot more careful doing my google searches, no searches using sock, socks, electric, guitar, guitars, for starters. JOAT My aim is to get through life peacefully, with as little interferrnce from human beings as possible. Life just ain't life without good music. - JOAT Web Page Update 8 Nov 2003. Some tunes I like. http://community-2.webtv.net/Jakofal...OMETUNESILIKE/ |
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