11-30-2012, 06:24 AM | #616 |
Readaholic
Posts: 5,197
Karma: 90000000
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: South Georgia
Device: Surface Pro 6 / Galaxy Tab A 8"
|
One side of my house has natural gas heat. The other side has a heat pump. The heat pump side feels warm while the heater is running. As soon as it shuts off that side feels cold. The gas side stays toasty for a good while after shutting down.
Apache |
11-30-2012, 06:25 AM | #617 |
Readaholic
Posts: 5,197
Karma: 90000000
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: South Georgia
Device: Surface Pro 6 / Galaxy Tab A 8"
|
|
Advert | |
|
11-30-2012, 10:33 AM | #618 | |
Grand Sorcerer
Posts: 8,560
Karma: 8033155
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: TN, USA
Device: kindle(all), nook, nookcolor, Sony, Kobo, epic, iphone, iPad, pc
|
Quote:
Sounds like your system may need to be replaced. The good news is you'll save a bit with it (so may not have to run the place at 68), even on the lower-cost contractor grade systems you see advertised in our paper all the time. Monkey - Those who didn't plan for that type of surge haven't been paying much attention to the news. It's been only a matter of time, as the low-hurricane activity century drew to a close, compounded by the slow rise in sea level in the last few years (an inch of ocean is still a lot of water). NY and the seaboard have been hit before (there are even photographs of much of the seaboard destruction from a century or so ago) and will again. They were actually quite lucky, this time, as the hurricane was pretty well slowed down by the time it climbed the coast (although that meant it stalled more, the winds were quite a bit lower than they could have been). New Orleans isn't the only place that is built underwater and the US doesn't have any real ocean defenses for that type of storm (the islands are supposed to be a part of the defense, but we build houses there, too; and cities, which the taxpayers are on the hook to rebuild, exactly as they were before). How many people in NY/NJ will rebuild their houses hurricane proof and on 14' pillars? |
|
11-30-2012, 12:43 PM | #619 | |
eBookworm
Posts: 2,300
Karma: 4525746
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: East Coast *brrrrr*
Device: Kindle 4B/K ~ Nexus 7 ~ Kindle Paperwhite 1&2 ~ iPad Air
|
Quote:
|
|
11-30-2012, 12:48 PM | #620 | ||
Is that a sandwich?
Posts: 8,220
Karma: 101696762
Join Date: Jun 2010
Device: Nook Glowlight Plus
|
Quote:
Now, we are starting to see conceptual designs of ocean barriers to protect NYC. A whole boatload of money needed. Quote:
I wonder how they will insure them after this? Insurance companies are leaving in droves except Lloyd's of London. |
||
Advert | |
|
11-30-2012, 01:13 PM | #621 |
Banned
Posts: 1,431
Karma: 5222495
Join Date: Jun 2011
Device: Nook Color, Entourage Pocket Edge, iPod Touch 5th Gen
|
|
11-30-2012, 03:09 PM | #622 |
Grand Sorcerer
Posts: 8,560
Karma: 8033155
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: TN, USA
Device: kindle(all), nook, nookcolor, Sony, Kobo, epic, iphone, iPad, pc
|
|
11-30-2012, 03:32 PM | #623 | |
Treasure Seeker
Posts: 18,708
Karma: 26026435
Join Date: Mar 2010
Device: Kobo HD Glo, Kindles, Kindle Fires, Andriod Devices
|
Quote:
I can't even began to compare our little flood to the devastation Sandy caused. Rebuilding will take a long time for everyone. |
|
11-30-2012, 03:52 PM | #624 |
Banned
Posts: 1,431
Karma: 5222495
Join Date: Jun 2011
Device: Nook Color, Entourage Pocket Edge, iPod Touch 5th Gen
|
Ah, I suppose that's a reference to FEMA. We have a regular homeowner's policy (fire, theft, liability, etc.) on an island home through a risk pool, but when it was partially destroyed by a hurricane, FEMA stopped by and offered us an obscene amount of taxpayer money for repairs. They've actually done that on several occasions throughout the years we've owned it (roof repairs due to storm damage, etc.). Probably their SOP throughout most of the country.
|
11-30-2012, 09:13 PM | #625 | |
Is that a sandwich?
Posts: 8,220
Karma: 101696762
Join Date: Jun 2010
Device: Nook Glowlight Plus
|
Quote:
|
|
12-01-2012, 12:10 PM | #626 | ||
Fledgling Demagogue
Posts: 2,384
Karma: 31132263
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: White Plains
Device: Clara HD; Oasis 2; Aura HD; iPad Air; PRS-350; Galaxy S7.
|
Quote:
Quote:
The first games which taught me this were loans from a very literate friend who also lent me his PS2: Rule of Rose, Ico and Silent Hill 2. Rule of Rose had a soundtrack that sounded like Bartok's chamber music and a visual style which was a cross between Dorothea Tanning and Edward Gorey. Its narrative was a nightmarish rendering of Billie Holiday's "Gloomy Sunday" transposed to an alternative Victorian age. Ico looked like a steampunk De Chirico landscape, and Silent Hill 2 was all carnage through fog and amnesiac spiritual loss. I tried another game as well: Fatal Frame 2, which involved a ruined Hiroshima landscape within a house permeated with dangerous ghosts that could only be fended off with a camera, the protagonist's sole weapon. None of the games ended happily, as movies usually do, and all were more quirkily written than any blockbuster you might see. And despite the sporadic gore, all were also more evocative than most post-70s horror films. For every Kim-Jee Woon, there's a plethora of hacks making chainsaw xeroxes. All of this made me realize that the future of fiction in new media will combine film, writing, music and aleatoric elements into a total experience: The logical splice of film and hypertext fiction, in which the reader is also the protagonist, and moves through a kind of dis-gaea: vast spaces which don't exist in the physical world, but may be vivified in the virtual one -- balm for the claustrophobia of modern urban life. In the near future, I expect there to be SIM travel packages for people who lack the money to travel physically: Exact recreations of cities and regions in other parts of the world, where the player may interact with AI citizens in sandbox fashion, without ever being held to a gaming narrative. The idea would be for people to explore those virtual landscapes purely as vacationing tourists. That already exists now in provisional form (the GTA series, for example), but I expect to see versions in the future for people who would never touch a game. I avoided games for most of my childhood and adult life because practicing piano, reading books, composing and writing were more important. Yet my paltry time with gaming has convinced me that games are important and will become more so over time. Ultimately, I expect them not to resemble games at all. As the creation of games gets easier, I also expect more academics and serious writers to create experimental works equivalent to history's avant garde gallery exhibitions. Gallery of (badly captured) images from Rule of Rose here. The semi-silhouette above the house is not that of a dirigible but rather a giant floating fish, causing the viewer to wonder whether the fish is airborne or the house is underwater: The fish is incidental and surreal, and does not threaten or attack. For the protagonist, exploring the house leads eventually to an entrance to the hull of a Victorian industrial floating ship, hence the metaphor. Criticism which is closer to the actual texture of the narrative than standard populist or gaming criticism in America tends to get. Last edited by Prestidigitweeze; 12-01-2012 at 11:24 PM. |
||
12-01-2012, 12:28 PM | #627 | |
Grand Sorcerer
Posts: 8,560
Karma: 8033155
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: TN, USA
Device: kindle(all), nook, nookcolor, Sony, Kobo, epic, iphone, iPad, pc
|
Quote:
Yes, the fed govt is required by law to rebuild these areas, but there is nothing in the law that says they should be rebuilt to newer standards (or that perhaps some areas should be paid off and then kept buildings free -- just as there are some areas along the Mississippi that flood almost annually, then get rebuilt exactly as they were before, over and over). |
|
12-01-2012, 01:38 PM | #628 |
Grand Sorcerer
Posts: 44,992
Karma: 55647515
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Peru
Device: Kindle: Oasis 3, Voyage WiFi; Kobo: Libra 2, Aura One
|
Moderator Notice
Back to our Freebies forum, please. |
12-01-2012, 04:34 PM | #629 |
monkey on the fringe
Posts: 45,597
Karma: 158546452
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Seattle Metro
Device: Moto E6, Echo Show
|
|
12-01-2012, 08:19 PM | #630 |
Treasure Seeker
Posts: 18,708
Karma: 26026435
Join Date: Mar 2010
Device: Kobo HD Glo, Kindles, Kindle Fires, Andriod Devices
|
To get things back on track. Just picked up a 3TB WD My Book External drive for $119 at Office Depot as my birthday gift from Hubby. Sales end tonight. Only available in store.
Last edited by Blossom; 12-01-2012 at 09:17 PM. |
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Black Friday Deals - Kindle | tubemonkey | Amazon Kindle | 13 | 11-08-2012 05:39 PM |
Black Friday Deals - What Did You Get? | tubemonkey | Deals and Resources (No Self-Promotion or Affiliate Links) | 51 | 11-29-2011 08:56 AM |