[quote="Vitriola"]I haven't seen it go any higher than 79 in the house since we moved in without the A/C on, so, same deal, and I like temps in the 80s/90s anyway, so I like coming home to it hot, and then cooling it down later.[/quote]

Annnnnnnnnnnnnnd the basement is several degrees cooler anyway, so having it hotter upstairs is fine with me. I should ask Xcel Energy for their take on things. It would be nice to do things the correct way for the next 60 years.


[quote]What I wonder is how the fridge does when it's hot in a house or apartment? For every time the air doesn't kick on, the fridge has to make up for it by going on more.[/quote]

Dunno about the fridge, but the freezer has to react to me throwing the cats in there constantly. The cats have an average temperature of about 103 degrees. They're small, but comparatively, they take up a not-insignificant portion of the freezer. They also go in there when they are just fucking yodeling, which means they are exciting the air atoms to a positively hellish degree. It means slightly higher electricity bills, but on the other hand what price peace and quiet?

[quote="Jethro Q. Walrustitty"]It's probably cheapest to keep it sort-of running all day. If you turn it off completely during the day, the house can heat up significantly and it might take more work to get it back down.[/quote]

Yeah, I'm thinking of cramming preserves into the other rooms' vents at night. First off, they would smell delicious. Secondly, it would gum up the works.

It's been -- I feel like David Letterman here -- it's been about 105 degrees in Thornton lately. OK, it only hit that temperature once. But it's been pretty fucking hot the entire summer. I try to put the AC to 79 before I leave for work. It certainly isn't running when I come home, so I don't think the house gets much beyond 79 no matter how hot it is outside. Also, it's a much cooler 79 than what was listed at the apartment. I suspect that's in part to my theory behind the dryer at the apartment.

I always imagined the vent going out of the dryer and into the laundry room, like some sort of closed-Rube Goldberg mouse trap. Like how sociologists put people in a room under the pretense of a doctor coming to visit, but then raise the temperature. It wouldn't surprise me if that's what they did at ole Ute Creek.

The new place is much nicer. Wherever the vent for the dryer goes, it's nowhere near the inside of the house. Amazing. Who knew?


[quote]As for doing just some rooms, your basement (do you have a basement? wherever the HVAC equipment is) will have the ducting to each room. There will probably be a flap inside to block forced air going to the various rooms. Block off the ones that you don't care about.[/quote]

Oh! I guess home manufacturers already thought about this. Gnarly.

We do have a basement. I need to take pictures for everyone. It's a "bi-level" so the basement is the lower level.


[quote]We're flying out of Rochester on New Year's Eve... got tickets for $169 + tax. Good thing I bought them early, the same tickets soon afterwards went up to $327 + tax.[/quote]

That always bugs me about airline tickets. I really hate buying that shit so far in advance.

I don't subscribe to the leave the A/C on all day at a higher temp. Theories vary, but when I was home back in the apartment during the day with it on, it would kick on numerous times an hour to get it down 1 degree at a time. When left off, all day long, the temp. only rose 7-8 degrees. Much cheaper to let cool down 8 degrees 1 time than 1 degree 50 times. But I get how a place that heats up to the 90s or more, like a brick building or older house would not stay that cool on it's own. I haven't seen it go any higher than 79 in the house since we moved in without the A/C on, so, same deal, and I like temps in the 80s/90s anyway, so I like coming home to it hot, and then cooling it down later.

What I wonder is how the fridge does when it's hot in a house or apartment? For every time the air doesn't kick on, the fridge has to make up for it by going on more. What's cheaper to run, fridge or air? What's easier to fix, etc.? I can see there being a definite trade-off there.

Why do airline ticket prices bounce around so much? It's worse than gas prices. Seriously, it's price gouging.



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It's probably cheapest to keep it sort-of running all day. If you turn it off completely during the day, the house can heat up significantly and it might take more work to get it back down.

As for doing just some rooms, your basement (do you have a basement? wherever the HVAC equipment is) will have the ducting to each room. There will probably be a flap inside to block forced air going to the various rooms. Block off the ones that you don't care about.

We're flying out of Rochester on New Year's Eve... got tickets for $169 + tax. Good thing I bought them early, the same tickets soon afterwards went up to $327 + tax.

Tough to say on Christmas. I want to take a look at what the bills are for the house before I make any big purchases.

Our A/C situation hasn't changed but it's now for a much bigger place. We let it go throughout the day, but try to get it down to 68 degrees when we sleep. This led for very reasonable rates in the apartment. How do I tell the house to only bring one room down to 68 degrees at night? I would like to do that.

But yeah, while neither one of us have seen our parents since last Christmas, the airline industry is out of fucking control. It's about $400 per person to fly around Christmas. I have a mental hang-up about not being able to immediately leave the airport when I descend, so there is also parking.

But don't get me wrong. I want to return... and get a high score spot on your Baby Pac machine!

Remind me you-know-where. I have another one half-done of laserdisc games. Astron Belt, Esh's Auronmilla, etc. Can't get Mach 3 to work though, it starts up then just sits there. I think I need a different ROM.

Your Tick DVD is sitting by my keyboard, collecting dust, also.

I take it that we won't see you in the East until Christmastime this year?

[quote="Jethro Q. Walrustitty"]In related news, I just burnt myself a DVD with Dragon's Lair 1 and 2, complete and Daphne-tested, on it. Along with the complete NoIntro collection of Genesis games (1,594 of 'em) and enough GBA games to fill up the rest of the DVD. (Several hundred.) Gotta love DVD-Rs. All that gaming content in one little shiny disc.[/quote]

I need a copy of that disc more than anything else in the world.

In related news, I just burnt myself a DVD with Dragon's Lair 1 and 2, complete and Daphne-tested, on it. Along with the complete NoIntro collection of Genesis games (1,594 of 'em) and enough GBA games to fill up the rest of the DVD. (Several hundred.) Gotta love DVD-Rs. All that gaming content in one little shiny disc.

After playing both, I came to the conclusion that DL2 is vastly superior to DL1. Both are terrible, but DL2 at least takes you down the same path every time and makes the moves easier to recognize, so that you're not thrown into new and unknown scenes every time. Like the big bowl with the giant marbles rolling back and forth. There you are and what do you do with the joystick? Beats me!

Dragon's Lair fucking SUCKS. As a game.

[quote="JQW"]Ikari Warriors will be very difficult to play without a rotary joystick.

Kind of how Forgotten Worlds is very difficult without a spinner.[/quote]

Nethack is also difficult to play without a keyboard, but that doesn't mean I didn't EMULATE it!

I imagine I will not have a lot of fun with Ikari, true. But at least now I can see what it looks like!

Fun story: So, the original intent of my little box was to be able to play Discs of Tron correctly. I knew it needed buttons, a joystick, a spinner.... I added all those things.

At some point I realized that you need three hands to do it with a spinner (push-pull at that!), a button for shoot, a button for shield and a joystick to move. Fuck. How did they do this in the arcade? It CAN'T BE DONE. This is HORSESHI oh they used those joysticks with the thumb buttons on top of them.

... That are [i]just like the three joysticks in Xeno, which I pass by every goddamn day of my life.[/i]

Probably should have deduced that.

Ikari Warriors will be very difficult to play without a rotary joystick.

Kind of how Forgotten Worlds is very difficult without a spinner.

Oh. And if anyone knows where one can grab the Daphne-enabled Dragon's Lair and Space Ace games, let me know.

http://www.rom-world.com/dl.php?name=MAME&letter=C

This is the "C"s. I can verify that Captain America and the Avengers works.

You may find it helpful for the game your collection lacks. It's already served me well with CAatA and Popeye going from "inactive" to "active." Next up: Ikari Warriors! Will Jonsey finally see what all the fuss was about?