So Kristin and I are currently arguing about whether or not to turn on the air conditioning.\u00a0 Thus far it’s only been light hearted jabs and I’ve held my mouth in check despite the sweat glistening on my brow some evenings.\u00a0 Today, she called me up:<\/p>\n
Kristin – “How hot is it supposed to be today?”<\/p>\n
Me – “85 degrees”<\/p>\n
Kristin – “Hmph”\u00a0 Quiet pause.\u00a0 “I guess that’s hot enough for the air conditioning.”<\/p>\n
Me – I resist the urge to equate this epiphany to others things just as obvious.<\/p>\n
Kristin – “What’s the temperature supposed to be like over the weekend.”<\/p>\n
Me – “Hot.\u00a0 Damn hot.\u00a0 Mid 70s and then high 70s to low 80s.”\u00a0 Then the suspician creeps in.\u00a0 “Why?”<\/p>\n
Kristin – “Cause it seems like such a waste to turn on the air for just a single night if we’re just going to turn it off for the rest of the weekend.”<\/p>\n
Now that got me thinking… if only<\/strong> there were some device, some technological creation pushing the boundaries of imagination so as to seem near magical in the breadth of it’s use, that could control our heating and air conditioning.\u00a0 Now I’m going to get a little crazy here with my musings, but try to stay with me…<\/p>\n I’m thinking this… we hook our furnace up to this device, this invention, this marvel of the 21st century.\u00a0 Now I’m just thinking out loud here, but what if this thing was able to control when heat or air conditioning was needed and then… then my dear friends and readers, then this mythical icon of our era could DETECT<\/strong> whether or not more heat was needed OR<\/strong> if more air conditioning was needed, and it could turn on and off our furnace… AUTO-MAGICALLY!!!!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n Wow, wouldn’t that be something?\u00a0 A device that would only push out air conditioning when it was needed and then turn it off so as to not waste money when it was not needed?\u00a0 I mean, imagine that?!!?!?!\u00a0 No more fighting with the Temperature Nazis who demand in name of the all mighty electric bill that we constantly turn off the air when it’s not needed.\u00a0 This one device as I envision it would maintain the temperature of your house at a pristine range of your own choosing.<\/p>\n This could really be something…<\/p>\n All I need now is a name… some combination of Latin words, like Thermo <\/em>for heat and then something that means to stabilize or make constant…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So Kristin and I are currently arguing about whether or not to turn on the air conditioning.\u00a0 Thus far it’s only been light hearted jabs and I’ve held my mouth in check despite the sweat glistening on my brow some evenings.\u00a0 Today, she called me up: Kristin – “How hot is it supposed to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[95,96,94],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brilliant","category-ranting-and-raving","tag-air-conditioning","tag-invention","tag-thermostat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}