Comments on: When you get down to it

By: Beth

Beth — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:07:00 +0000

Great observation! The crux of the issue looming above!

By: amy d

amy d — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:07:46 +0000

I think he meant cooler as in to be cool in hot weather.

By: GatorCat

GatorCat — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:56:20 +0000

I know this is a year old, but did you actually refer to coulottes as “cooler clothes?”

By: melisa in boston

melisa in boston — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:06:55 +0000

it’s a pretty huge waste of money and energy to be running the a/c at FIFTY-FIVE degrees (most guidelines suggest keeping it no lower than 68) when there are people sitting around with sweaters on. why not just reduce the a/c and save the money?

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:23:32 +0000

It doesn’t change when you get married. My wife insists on turning off the heat on spring days (the thermostat is set at around 62° year-round — no AC) because during the day it gets warm enough that the heater is not necessary. Then, of course, at 4 in the morning it is about 50° inside. I’ve explained many times that when the temperature goes above 62, the heater will turn itself off, that is the very reason for the existence of the thermostat! But NOOOOOO…

Get used to it, says me the engineer.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:18:55 +0000

Technically, it depends (slightly) on the air pressure. And on the quantity of dissolved solids in the liquid.

By: Joey's Stinky Foot

Joey's Stinky Foot — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:12:33 +0000

Yeah? Try 100+ with the humidity level at 100%. You’d be bitching, too.

By: Alfred

Alfred — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:11:06 +0000

My girlfriend is also of the doesn’t-quite-understand-how-a-thermostat-works variety. She’ll insist that setting the furnace to 80 will actually make it reach our desired temperature of 68 faster, and she will further insist that setting the AC to “9-Coldest” will give our overloaded AC a better chance of fighting the overwhelming mid-afternoon heat, when all it really does is make us freezing in the morning. I have tried to reason and argue with her, but she continues to defy all my attempts to help her understand how these systems work. Her difficulty with math doesn’t help, nor does her stubbornness.

I have a theory that some people, no matter what, will never truly understand how a thermostat works. Perhaps it’s a genetic thing, the ability to understand this. That would explain why she’s an arts major and I’m an engineering major.

By: phoenix

phoenix — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:18:26 +0000

i had a coworker that used the “turn it all the way down and it will cool faster” logic…
our poor accounting woman’s office was right under the first vent…

i can still hear her beautiful russian accent “what are you trying to do?!?! turn me into a popsicle?!?!”

By: Abigail

Abigail — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:15:03 +0000

Who in their right mind wears coulottes anymore?

By: jerryskid

jerryskid — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:55:49 +0000

In most offices men are stuck having to wear wear suits and ties, while women can wear short skirts, coulottes, and other cooler clothes. This is why men are usually the ones who are hot.

By: JD

JD — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 04:24:43 +0000

Spruce Moose,
While I realize that some would say that California is in a parallel universe, I’m pretty sure that everything freezes at the same temperature there as it does everywhere else.

By: Spruce Moose

Spruce Moose — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:32:25 +0000

Please remember that in California the plumbing freezes at 60. But then, we don’t complain about the 100+ summer days, either.

By: anon

anon — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:52:26 +0000

Man, 55 is swimming weather where I come from… Haha, I remember I was visiting relatives in California once… they all freaked out about how cold it was when it dropped to -gasp- 60.
And then they ran for cover because it started to drizzle. o.0