I can’t create a new post from my phone but I would just like to say that the NWS is forecasting temperatures in my area today of 115. I am speechless and also worried about my dogs. Fuck Scott Pruitt may he melt in hell.
Ahhhh, no AC? Oh, right, California. Shoot. If you can run home at noon with a bag of ice, put out a few big bowls full of water, and a few of water loaded with ice. The more cool water they have the better and if it's hot they'll just lie about in the coolest part of the house. They will drink enormous amounts of water.
In my experience, it takes a long time to heat the house's interior plenum – the hottest time inside is often early evening or at night (just in time for you to start relaxing). If you have a single story house on a poured slab it's very true.
If you have a fan, this is one of the easiest and cleverest | swamp coolers | I've seen:
The towel thing is brilliant. Yes I am about to head out and see how they are, open all the windows, I will do this too. I have a rack like this. I am a little worried this is freakish weather.
Dogs are pretty savvy, they'll sprawl right out on the coolest available surface. Cats also too.
One of those evap. coolers should work great in your climate, with the low humidity. I understand Biff is a past master of this technique. Doesn't work here, one thing you do not want to do is inject yet more water into the air. The horrific mold bloom will have you ending up all green like Steven King in Creepshow
Your terrible weather even made |the news here| "Monster" is definitely something you don't want to hear associated with "your weather".
I have an old window unit ac that I think I might as well turn on for them, I avoid using it but as I’ve been driving home and feeling how prickly hot it is outside I think this is the moment to use that. I will put al the critters in the room with the all unit and close the door. The will hate me but at least the will live to do so.
Please don't take this as whining, but last year around this time (it's monsoon season, after all) The humidity rose to over 50% with the temps in the low 100s. I understand that 50% is quite dry for the south and east, but out here it's just unheard of, and it makes life not worth living. Also, and this is the reason for the comment, my damned wallpaper peeled right off the walls. At 50%, or a little over. I've never heard of wallpaper peeling off the walls in swampier climes. I intend to remove the wallpaper altogether anyway, but sweet jebus, why?
I misspoke I have a wall unit ac which is a lifesaver the few times I use it. I just got home, put the critters in the room with the all unit and am heading back to the office. It feels like a furnace outside, literally like a furnace.
I used to have a window mount a/c for this time of year when my swamp cooler is totally ineffective. Maybe I should see if KMart has any in stock. At least for the bedroom, so I can sleep.
“Where, Wise wizard, where can I find the Elixir of Pruitt? Where can I find the balm that will save the people?”
The wizard sipped his Frappuccino and calmly pondered the middle distance.
He turned his ancient eyes to the young, perspiring woman, taking in her J. Crew shift dress, rumpled from the humidity, and her hopelessly middle-brow mall shoes, saturated with sweat.
“Alexandra, my child,” he started, his voice moist from the refreshing liquid, “These treasures are not for the likes of you. They are for the annointed ones. The ones behind the biometrically locked doors which you shall never enter. The ones who sleep on mattresses filled with fairy farts and unicorn breath. They, my child, are the deserving ones who are soothed with the nectar of Pruitt and live their dreams and fly with angels.”
He took in the despair, the longing for hope in his words that her eyes desperately sought, as they welled with tears, like a sea of broken glass.
Here, in the real future of the early 60s, when I began to read sf, J.G. Ballard has proven far more predictive a futurist than all of the American "hard sf" boys we were assured knew how to do the business. |
Brunner. I really didn't want to live long enough to see "The Sheep Look Up" come to pass, but, goddammit, here I am.
When I was very small and I saw all the books such as that, that my grandparents were always reading (they kept up) and I thought the world of my adulthood would be a toxic and terrifying place. Then things got better and I realized my world would not be toxic and scary.
Those stories were supposed, like 1984 to be Cautionary Tales, not roadmaps. I hope there's still time to listen to them.
Sorry, I've been in an exceptionally grim and fatalistic mood all year and I really should start to pull myself out of it.
This may help: Next week, His Grand Protuberance will away to the UK, where he will meet, if the level of interest and preparation is any guide, an unrelenting avalanche of protest along his entire route for the length of his stay. Fun group activities seem to include a mass pants-free buttock exposure along his parade route, a huge baby-Trump shaped helium balloon hovering near Parliament, lots of crowds, rude shouting and naughty signs.
and then, there's this:
The last time His Protuberance went to his Scottish golf course somebody threw a handful of golf balls with swastikas on them. Can't wait to find out what they have planed for this visit.
*Snerk*
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Someone just told me the power has gone off in my neighborhood. And I just drove all the way home to seal my pets in a closed room with ax to keep them cool.
It’s already back down to 112 so that must have just been a spike – like putting a burger under the broiler flame at the last minute to carmelize the top.
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"Down to 112" is small consolation. Anything over body temperature is hazardous. Stay safe.
(Funny/not funnny: autocorrect wrote "hazardpus" instead of "hazardous")
Autocorrect and phone typing in general changes everything, not necessarily a good thing
[ I confess that earlier I was tempted to ask why
….pets in a closed room with ax to keep them cool. , but stopped b.c. I figured you were having a bad enough day. ]
Now that it's cooling so much, I figure it's ok ]
it Is odd that autocorrect changed “ac” to “ax” – what is your point, autocorrect?
Also, gave you never used an ax to keep your pets cool? It certainly keeps them quiet.
I'd be concerned – mine cause enough chaos without access to sharpened implements.
Frozen plastic water bottles. Wet scarf in the fridge. Unflavored Pedialite, Shade. Siestas.
Evaporation coolers.
A new administration full of scientists and engineers, nationalizing and breaking up the fossil fuel industry. A worldwide coordinated plan to combat and reverse anthropogenic climate change.
That just made me think of a really good idea: I don't have a big cooler, but I could get one of those cheap styrofoam ones and get some bags of ice. That would really help.
I have a cooling mat, they are actually quite cool, a small one for cats and a bigger one for dogs. I lay them out on the floor just now, but just like when I bought the mats, none of my critters is the least bit interested.
Also I came home to find that yes, the power had gone out but is now back on, but when it came back on none of the fans or the ac came back on. So my critters had been here in the heat all that time. fuckin' climate change.
Also beware of riptides at the beach
: )
I used to have a cat who would waive his tail over the surface of my pool, just the tips of his fur touching the surface. Kept him cool, I think. It was elegant.
Glad your critters are OK, though they can be real boneheaded about doing the thing for you that you know will make them cooler.
OMG that's so clever!
I also find it amusing that phone typing takes me to sites that I wouldn't have visited otherwise. I unintentionally click on ads, which of course then keep popping up, like river cruises I will never take (why try to sell me a damn river cruise?) and driving loafers (is that what one wears on a river cruise? I have never owned loafers, they are stupid Republican-looking footwear), i find myself on people's profiles, which might be a good thing as it makes me appear sociable, and I tend to dial phone numbers that I don't mean to dial.
And i have small hands, I can't imagine how guys or anyone with bigger fingers ever navigates on a phone.
He was Outed!
This is going to set our timeline back years. Years, Alexandra!
You will, of course, be Eaten last.
Outréd
I have a better understanding now of why "moist" is the most hated word.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/64984/science-behi…
| Imagine a Moist Plinth |
'splains a lot.
Morans.
The younger and more neurotic the study participants were, the more likely they were to dislike the word.
So dewy young morans, then?
(not that dewy)
| Charlie Stross | approves. | Scalzi | wants to nominate her for a Hugo award.
Normally I'd agree, but those are strictly for works of fiction, are they not?
John Panzer
@jpanzer
Replying to @scalzi
aaaaand Pruitt's out.
Do Kush next, guys!
She IS our Victor Hugo.
l'enfer c'est les dotards
For starters, his name is spelled differently
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/climate/whe…
I wonder what kind of grotesque invertebrate changeling he'll turn out to be.
Is something wrong? You seem distracted.
<img src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VJMC1TIYbrM/hqdefault.jpg">
Favorite movie lines:
"What's up with all this Mugwump jism?"
That was Wheeler's fraternity nickname.
Coincidence? I think not.
Oh man, I loved [The Mugwumps!]
<img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-J-NqsYKFqmY/Wz-Ypk_oP4I/AAAAAAAAB28/iIGemYmz8XYAQZLPNpSXL0C1-q5LZLh5QCL0BGAs/w589-d-h272-n/CR_Post%2Bpost.jpg">
Interesting comments. Even include Cthulhu. Mmmmmm…
Unsurprising. As the Cephalopocalypse approaches, more people are receiving the mental transmissions.
Beware the nocturnal transmissions.
Transition. Transmission.
I can’t create a new post from my phone but I would just like to say that the NWS is forecasting temperatures in my area today of 115. I am speechless and also worried about my dogs. Fuck Scott Pruitt may he melt in hell.
Ahhhh, no AC? Oh, right, California. Shoot. If you can run home at noon with a bag of ice, put out a few big bowls full of water, and a few of water loaded with ice. The more cool water they have the better and if it's hot they'll just lie about in the coolest part of the house. They will drink enormous amounts of water.
In my experience, it takes a long time to heat the house's interior plenum – the hottest time inside is often early evening or at night (just in time for you to start relaxing). If you have a single story house on a poured slab it's very true.
If you have a fan, this is one of the easiest and cleverest | swamp coolers | I've seen:
<img src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gT-suY9wTuE/maxresdefault.jpg"/>
Wet towels. Freezing plastic water bottles and staging them in front of the fan works too.
If it's any consolation (probably not), Great Britain and Europe are getting these brutal heat waves now too, and are terribly unprepared.
Yeah, fuck Scott Pruitt and the grift express he rode in on.
The towel thing is brilliant. Yes I am about to head out and see how they are, open all the windows, I will do this too. I have a rack like this. I am a little worried this is freakish weather.
And yes, single story slab no ac. Of course.
Dogs are pretty savvy, they'll sprawl right out on the coolest available surface. Cats also too.
One of those evap. coolers should work great in your climate, with the low humidity. I understand Biff is a past master of this technique. Doesn't work here, one thing you do not want to do is inject yet more water into the air. The horrific mold bloom will have you ending up all green like Steven King in Creepshow
Your terrible weather even made |the news here| "Monster" is definitely something you don't want to hear associated with "your weather".
Oh crap I haven’t seen that repot.
I have an old window unit ac that I think I might as well turn on for them, I avoid using it but as I’ve been driving home and feeling how prickly hot it is outside I think this is the moment to use that. I will put al the critters in the room with the all unit and close the door. The will hate me but at least the will live to do so.
Please don't take this as whining, but last year around this time (it's monsoon season, after all) The humidity rose to over 50% with the temps in the low 100s. I understand that 50% is quite dry for the south and east, but out here it's just unheard of, and it makes life not worth living. Also, and this is the reason for the comment, my damned wallpaper peeled right off the walls. At 50%, or a little over. I've never heard of wallpaper peeling off the walls in swampier climes. I intend to remove the wallpaper altogether anyway, but sweet jebus, why?
I misspoke I have a wall unit ac which is a lifesaver the few times I use it. I just got home, put the critters in the room with the all unit and am heading back to the office. It feels like a furnace outside, literally like a furnace.
I used to have a window mount a/c for this time of year when my swamp cooler is totally ineffective. Maybe I should see if KMart has any in stock. At least for the bedroom, so I can sleep.
ETA: On the upside, at least there is nothing left to burn.
“Where, Wise wizard, where can I find the Elixir of Pruitt? Where can I find the balm that will save the people?”
The wizard sipped his Frappuccino and calmly pondered the middle distance.
He turned his ancient eyes to the young, perspiring woman, taking in her J. Crew shift dress, rumpled from the humidity, and her hopelessly middle-brow mall shoes, saturated with sweat.
“Alexandra, my child,” he started, his voice moist from the refreshing liquid, “These treasures are not for the likes of you. They are for the annointed ones. The ones behind the biometrically locked doors which you shall never enter. The ones who sleep on mattresses filled with fairy farts and unicorn breath. They, my child, are the deserving ones who are soothed with the nectar of Pruitt and live their dreams and fly with angels.”
He took in the despair, the longing for hope in his words that her eyes desperately sought, as they welled with tears, like a sea of broken glass.
“Yes, my child, sucks for you.”
Whoa
Apropros of
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William Gibson @GreatDismal
Here, in the real future of the early 60s, when I began to read sf, J.G. Ballard has proven far more predictive a futurist than all of the American "hard sf" boys we were assured knew how to do the business. |
Brunner. I really didn't want to live long enough to see "The Sheep Look Up" come to pass, but, goddammit, here I am.
Thank you for frightening me.
When I was very small and I saw all the books such as that, that my grandparents were always reading (they kept up) and I thought the world of my adulthood would be a toxic and terrifying place. Then things got better and I realized my world would not be toxic and scary.
Joke was on me.
Those stories were supposed, like 1984 to be Cautionary Tales, not roadmaps. I hope there's still time to listen to them.
Sorry, I've been in an exceptionally grim and fatalistic mood all year and I really should start to pull myself out of it.
This may help: Next week, His Grand Protuberance will away to the UK, where he will meet, if the level of interest and preparation is any guide, an unrelenting avalanche of protest along his entire route for the length of his stay. Fun group activities seem to include a mass pants-free buttock exposure along his parade route, a huge baby-Trump shaped helium balloon hovering near Parliament, lots of crowds, rude shouting and naughty signs.
and then, there's this:
|
Jamie Ross @JamieRoss7
Absolute lol that Donald Trump thinks he can avoid the worst of the protests next week by spending the weekend in Scotland. |
Scotland! I really need to see the news video of this and wonder just how CNN is going to blur out all those buttocks.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-447327…
We need to liveblog this.
He said the initial crowdfunding target was just £1,000, but this was reached within 24 hours.
The extra cash will now be used to send the balloon on a "world tour" and "haunt" Mr Trump wherever he goes, he added.
Over here! Here! Here! Here!
an "angry baby with a fragile ego and tiny hands".
<img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_blGfuJqvbMU/S6LZnReN54I/AAAAAAAACk0/8w_gQTmjmCQ/s320/babyadolph.jpg">
The last time His Protuberance went to his Scottish golf course somebody threw a handful of golf balls with swastikas on them. Can't wait to find out what they have planed for this visit.
*Snerk*
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God bless the Scots.
Ai, all 'a that.
<img src="http://www.joemygod.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/bawbag-660×330.jpg"/>
Those Scots will give it to ya comin' or goin'.
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Omg!!!!!!!
IKR
I love that Trump is likely to find his routes lined with British backsides.
They really put the rump in tRump!
He still has time to cancel, like he did the last time he was afraid of protests.
At the Roger Waters Concert (not a photoshop):
<img src="https://i2.wp.com/freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2018/07/trumpisabawbag.jpg?resize=500%2C375&ssl=1"/>
Yet, he has no organ
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b2eddf993f81…
I've never seen anyone so unhinged. At least not anyone others actually look up to.
I feel stupider just from reading that. Imagine the intellect he's able to suck out of a crowd in person.
It's frightening.
Keep him away from the children, he'll suck the intelligence right out of them.
It reads like one of Fukui's AI-generated SMOTI posts.
WHAT IS BRAIN
I'd rather eat at Costco than go to one of his rallies.
he has pianist envy
The hero America needs.
The love child of Chauncy Gardener and Mussolini's sister.
The person who projected "SHITHOLE" over the door of trump hotel needs to get permission to use this.
<img src="https://compote.slate.com/images/417682e7-3f71-451f-b2d9-33a0b6b8730d.png?width=780&height=520&rect=610×407&offset=26×76" width=360>
Nigel and Boris are the only allies he has left.
[Scotland!]
https://twitter.com/goldengateblond/status/101497…
Holy mother of god. Weather underground: temp: 116. Feels like: 125.
Get thee to a beach!
Someone just told me the power has gone off in my neighborhood. And I just drove all the way home to seal my pets in a closed room with ax to keep them cool.
Oh damn. Hope it's short-lived.
Back in the day in North Africa they used to live underground. Some folks still do. Below just cut in the hillside.
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Well I am inside an adobe building so it is prob a good place to be in this heat, until the earthquake hits.
In sunny Shoshone California, they did the same.
<img src="https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/02/6a/ca/98/filename-dsc-0119-jpg.jpg"</img>
I used to live in my travel trailer right next door for two years.
I've been to Bandolier (sic?) in New Mexico, very cool
Close enough https://www.nps.gov/band/index.htm
Anyone who hasn't, get out there quick before Zinke and Wheeler discover a reason to demolish it.
Looks like it would really suck for a sleep-walker.
Yikes!
It’s already back down to 112 so that must have just been a spike – like putting a burger under the broiler flame at the last minute to carmelize the top.
Meanwhile, in Scotland:
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SHUT DOWN YON RATTLETRAP YE BAWBAG
Planet's all fucked up
<img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DhcuAhHUcAAgIZh?format=jpg"</img>
What climate change?
Ugh, how long is that supposed to last?
Until our spirits are broken.
It’s back up to 114 now per WU. “Feels like 123.”
Update – WU now says, “Feels like 124.”
There is NO ONE outside on the street.
"Down to 112" is small consolation. Anything over body temperature is hazardous. Stay safe.
(Funny/not funnny: autocorrect wrote "hazardpus" instead of "hazardous")
Autocorrect and phone typing in general changes everything, not necessarily a good thing
[ I confess that earlier I was tempted to ask why
….pets in a closed room with ax to keep them cool. , but stopped b.c. I figured you were having a bad enough day. ]
Now that it's cooling so much, I figure it's ok ]
it Is odd that autocorrect changed “ac” to “ax” – what is your point, autocorrect?
Also, gave you never used an ax to keep your pets cool? It certainly keeps them quiet.
I'd be concerned – mine cause enough chaos without access to sharpened implements.
Frozen plastic water bottles. Wet scarf in the fridge. Unflavored Pedialite, Shade. Siestas.
Evaporation coolers.
A new administration full of scientists and engineers, nationalizing and breaking up the fossil fuel industry. A worldwide coordinated plan to combat and reverse anthropogenic climate change.
That just made me think of a really good idea: I don't have a big cooler, but I could get one of those cheap styrofoam ones and get some bags of ice. That would really help.
I have a cooling mat, they are actually quite cool, a small one for cats and a bigger one for dogs. I lay them out on the floor just now, but just like when I bought the mats, none of my critters is the least bit interested.
Also I came home to find that yes, the power had gone out but is now back on, but when it came back on none of the fans or the ac came back on. So my critters had been here in the heat all that time. fuckin' climate change.
Also beware of riptides at the beach
: )
I used to have a cat who would waive his tail over the surface of my pool, just the tips of his fur touching the surface. Kept him cool, I think. It was elegant.
My kat does too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyqMLkRLi8c
Yes that exactly.
Styrofoam cooler, fan, ice and a couple of 2" PVC 90's. Cheap!
<img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rexhljQiU3M/VxndeGZOI8I/AAAAAAAAAYQ/Opu-LHjd0nwa0QZdDfauChPh2xIZJLZDACLcB/s1600/IMG_20160411_140331.jpg"/>
Glad your critters are OK, though they can be real boneheaded about doing the thing for you that you know will make them cooler.
OMG that's so clever!
I also find it amusing that phone typing takes me to sites that I wouldn't have visited otherwise. I unintentionally click on ads, which of course then keep popping up, like river cruises I will never take (why try to sell me a damn river cruise?) and driving loafers (is that what one wears on a river cruise? I have never owned loafers, they are stupid Republican-looking footwear), i find myself on people's profiles, which might be a good thing as it makes me appear sociable, and I tend to dial phone numbers that I don't mean to dial.
And i have small hands, I can't imagine how guys or anyone with bigger fingers ever navigates on a phone.