Month: January 2018

Thermal delight: History, Innovation, Culture, Architecture – all in one episode

Home with porch and cupola located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, by Tobin
Home with porch and cupola located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, by Tobin

The episode covers a history of air-conditioning, its marketing in the early years (including some interesting adverts), its impact on the movie industry(!), on politics (creation of the sunbelt vote bank in the US), and, most interestingly for me, our architecture.

It’s a beautiful, informing, inspiring episode by the good folks at 99pi.org.

Listen to it here.1

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Two hours

That’s how much I overslept this morning due to experimentation with my alarm sounds.

I read somewhere that waking up to pleasant alarm sounds is the correct way to live. So, I gave it a shot. I changed my alarm sounds from the default alarm sound on Nexus 5 to a favourite song, American Pie.

It was nice. It was soothing. Too soothing. I woke up at 8:30, instead of 6:10 AM! :(

I missed my morning swim, and was sour/sad/angry till at least the yoga class at 11.

For tomorrow, I’ve changed the second alarm (6:00) to the regular, jarring alarm sound, while keeping the first one still as the song. Let’s see if this works.

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Convenience trumps taste

Coffee filtering in Chemex
Smoothie prep – Spinach, chia seeds, whey protein, blueberries. Banana & other berries hidden.

Whey protein shaken in water trumps my berries & banana smoothie with whey protein.
Fried eggs trump scrambled eggs and omelettes.

Coffee made in clever dripper trumps coffee made in Chemex.

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