Category: A Day in the Life
This subject covers things (often events) related to every-day life. They are not necessarily profound, but simply things that just happen.
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A Day in the Life: Radical Departures
Today, rather than having my usual two Red Delicious apples for breakfast, I had two Golden Delicious. The spirit of revolution survives!
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A Day in the Life: New Furnace #5
I arrived home this evening and cast my eyes upon the new thermostat. With its 6cm high display and 2.5cm high characters I was able to read it from the front door. It reported 70F. While we do live in a metric country I chose to have the temperature set in Fahrenheit. Why? More precision,…
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A Day in the Life: New Furance #4
“Is it on?” “It must be, it’s getting warmer” “Wow, it’s quiet”
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A Day in the Life: New Furance #3
The homeowner’s guide for the thermostat has 31 pages and starts with: Your decision to choose the Carrier Infinity Control puts you in a select group of homeowners who understand the value of precise comfort control and appreciate the simplicity of an easy-to-use, intuitive, user interface. It astonishing to me that the manufacturer could so…
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A Day in the Life: Information; need it or not?
There’s a lot of critical information we need each day: warnings of impending brake failure or increased levels of carbon monoxide in your house. Add to that count-down timers on pedestrian signals. No doubt added for safety reasons. But how many times can you save the slowest antelope in the herd from its Darwinian fate.…