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Jun. 6th, 2008
A very boomy thunderboomer is rolling through town right now. Oddly enough, it's a long, ribbon-shaped storm that just happens to be perfectly aligned to cover Springfield with every inch of its northwesterly progression through our state. Puts me in mind of those cartoons where a guy walks around with his own personal rain cloud; Springfield has our own personal thunderstorm just a few miles thick but very intense. I hope it rolls on past by 4:30; I had been planning to go see Kung-Fu Panda after work today.
More worryingly, I've lost my connection to my home Linux box. I hope it's just something annoying but benign, like a power blink. I'd hate to think lightning hit my computers. I've always thought of myself as kind of immune to lightning, living here in the city where there's so much other stuff around for it to hit.
More worryingly, I've lost my connection to my home Linux box. I hope it's just something annoying but benign, like a power blink. I'd hate to think lightning hit my computers. I've always thought of myself as kind of immune to lightning, living here in the city where there's so much other stuff around for it to hit.
The Lawyer is [In]
Jun. 6th, 2008 11:57 amI'd been meaning to snap this shot for the longest time. The other day, now that I have a working cellphone camera again and was in the neighborhood, I finally got around to it.
( The Lawyer is [In] )
It's made even funnier by the first line underneath the big white panel, which I had never noticed before.
( The Lawyer is [In] )
It's made even funnier by the first line underneath the big white panel, which I had never noticed before.
Day before yesterday, my halogen torchiere lamp finally gave up the ghost. The switch doesn't work, and the contacts with the bulb have apparently gotten damaged or worn to the point where they no longer provide power to the bulb even when the switch is on. So I trucked on down to a number of local stores to try to find a replacement.
It turned out not to be as simple as I had thought. Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Target, Lowe's, Home Depot—nobody carries halogen torchieres anymore. And why is that? Well, they burn at 1000 degrees, so if you're not careful, they'll "torchiere" house. And they do use a lot of energy and do so somewhat wastefully.
I don't know. I really wanted another halogen lamp—partly because I like the light they shed, but also because I know the halogen bulb I have is still good and wanted to get more use out of it. But if nobody local carries them, and the only way I could get one from Amazon would be to pay $14 for the lamp and $35 to ship the lamp—well, it starts to look kind of inefficient. And maybe I could do better than to have a 1000-degree heat source in my apartment at the height of summer.
Guess it's time to see if I can get a good compact fluorescent model inexpensively—I draw the line at an ordinary three-way incandescent.
It turned out not to be as simple as I had thought. Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Target, Lowe's, Home Depot—nobody carries halogen torchieres anymore. And why is that? Well, they burn at 1000 degrees, so if you're not careful, they'll "torchiere" house. And they do use a lot of energy and do so somewhat wastefully.
I don't know. I really wanted another halogen lamp—partly because I like the light they shed, but also because I know the halogen bulb I have is still good and wanted to get more use out of it. But if nobody local carries them, and the only way I could get one from Amazon would be to pay $14 for the lamp and $35 to ship the lamp—well, it starts to look kind of inefficient. And maybe I could do better than to have a 1000-degree heat source in my apartment at the height of summer.
Guess it's time to see if I can get a good compact fluorescent model inexpensively—I draw the line at an ordinary three-way incandescent.
