I should dig up the pictures I've taken of my aunt's antique "Cottage Diamond" wood stove that they use up in the Catskills. If I could inherit one thing from that house, I'd take the stove.
She just... she just did the math.
Kaylee ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Theodosia - Feb 08, 2013 10:10:53 am PST #10423 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Sue - Feb 08, 2013 10:12:50 am PST #10424 of 30001
hip deep in pie
I suspect the cats would not be so keen on pneumatic tube transport.
sj - Feb 08, 2013 10:13:10 am PST #10425 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Lots of people have wood burning stoves for heat in my neighborhood; on really cold days you can smell them throughout my neighborhood. There was one attached to our fireplace when we first looked at this house, but the owner took it with him. Which was fine, because the smell of burning wood really bothers my allergies.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 08, 2013 10:14:02 am PST #10426 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I suspect the cats would not be so keen on pneumatic tube transport.
They have their own methods of instantaneous transportation if my mom's cat is anything to judge by.
Gudanov - Feb 08, 2013 10:15:57 am PST #10427 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
I suspect the cats would not be so keen on pneumatic tube transport.
They don't like being stuffed into the little carriers. It always makes trips though the bank drive-through awkward.
Theodosia - Feb 08, 2013 10:16:57 am PST #10428 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Maybe cats' fear of vacuums has to do with some unfortunate early cat-pneumatic-tube experiments. We may have forgotten, but they haven't.
Amy - Feb 08, 2013 10:17:07 am PST #10429 of 30001
Because books.
Some of those cat ... shelves (I don't know what else to call them) that wind all over the house would be sort of cool.
DavidS - Feb 08, 2013 10:23:03 am PST #10430 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Both my Georgia grandfather and my Aunts in Georgia had hand operated water pumps in the kitchen sink. I wanted to use it and give it a pump and expected water to come gushing out like turning on a tap. My cousins mocked me and then showed me how you had to pump up the water.
§ ita § - Feb 08, 2013 10:29:11 am PST #10431 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
About half our houses in England had fireplaces, and in England no source of heat is ornamental--it's way warmer than Detroit or Montreal, but the only place I've sat down on a toilet seat and melted the rime with my morning piss.
I didn't sit on the seat long, but a) heating the bathroom isn't optional and b) extra not optional when the toilet is in a separate room from the sink and tub.
We also had a fair incidence of burst water pipes. And never in Canada or the midwest.
Tom Scola - Feb 08, 2013 10:39:31 am PST #10432 of 30001
hwæt
The Pneumatic Tube system of New York.
On at least one occasion the tubes carried not just mail, but a live cat. “The postal workers seemed as fascinated by the nearly magical tube system as everyone else and, at least once, even routed a luckless cat through the city’s tubes.‘He was a little dizzy, but he made it." - Joseph H. Cohen, historian for the New York City Post Office.