America - you need more windows!
Jul. 9th, 2008 06:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
almostwittyIf I was designing a nation that sat under never-ending huge amounts of summer sunshine, then I'd think I'd make better design choices than:
- making all the buildings brown or dark (Florida is probably the honorary exception to this rule)
- ensuring a relative lack of windows, to make the interiors seem surprisingly dark
- because it's all dark, then having to use electric light fittings to give more light. At 2pm on a sunny afternoon
- because of a lack of opening windows, aritficial a/c has to be used instead. Thus raking up the electricity bills, which is never a good idea.
Granted, the sun must wreak havoc on all sorts of things - like my body for instance. But at least bigger windows would enable you to use sunlight for its good stuff.
Never mind the differences between blue and red America, the differences between outdoors America, street America and inside America are vastly huge. Inside, it's quiet, dark and rather cold thanks to excessive a/c. Outside, it's quiet, bright and blisteringly hot. And people are still walking around in business suits, dark trousers and not sweating. I also note that the weather in Cleveland today is 82 F/28 C.
Oh, I have finally realised that American daytime television is terrible. Either that, or I need my fix of Dave and daytime Top Gear. Stat.
- making all the buildings brown or dark (Florida is probably the honorary exception to this rule)
- ensuring a relative lack of windows, to make the interiors seem surprisingly dark
- because it's all dark, then having to use electric light fittings to give more light. At 2pm on a sunny afternoon
- because of a lack of opening windows, aritficial a/c has to be used instead. Thus raking up the electricity bills, which is never a good idea.
Granted, the sun must wreak havoc on all sorts of things - like my body for instance. But at least bigger windows would enable you to use sunlight for its good stuff.
Never mind the differences between blue and red America, the differences between outdoors America, street America and inside America are vastly huge. Inside, it's quiet, dark and rather cold thanks to excessive a/c. Outside, it's quiet, bright and blisteringly hot. And people are still walking around in business suits, dark trousers and not sweating. I also note that the weather in Cleveland today is 82 F/28 C.
Oh, I have finally realised that American daytime television is terrible. Either that, or I need my fix of Dave and daytime Top Gear. Stat.
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Date: 2008-07-09 06:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-09 07:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-09 08:35 pm (UTC)Also it is (eyes thermometer) 99 here right now and I don't have A/C. but it probably is humid there - whereas it isn't here. Also dehumidifying and a/c are different - even if it is done by the same machine (also depends on the user and location)
*I'll elaborate via IM if you really need more of an explanation.
TV - yup.
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Date: 2008-07-10 07:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-26 07:32 am (UTC)And the new series of Top Gear is on. I've got 1 and 2 and am struggling to download 3 and 4 over here. Argh.