beating the summer heat (warning: there's balls in here)
polycounter lvl 14
Hey Polycounters
Summer's heat has finally gotten to me. Today the high was 108 in portland, and I am sweating balls as I type this.
Anyway, I wanted to ask, how you guys beat the heat in such climates. How the hell do you even work in this weather and how do you guys maintain your precious computers? All I got is a little plug in fan facing my tower.:(
Ideas? Rants? Horror story's?
Summer's heat has finally gotten to me. Today the high was 108 in portland, and I am sweating balls as I type this.
Anyway, I wanted to ask, how you guys beat the heat in such climates. How the hell do you even work in this weather and how do you guys maintain your precious computers? All I got is a little plug in fan facing my tower.:(
Ideas? Rants? Horror story's?
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P.s. Isn't that what Air Conditioners are for?
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I dunno ive been strippin down and just hoping for a cool breeze in my window. Im on the 9th floor and its been swealtering here in vancouver the past week. ive just gotten used to having my skin glistening in a highly seductive manner. enjoy that mantasy lads.
atleast its not as humid as montreal when I was there, jesus
But than again, we all know there's nothing sexier than naked CG artists working at their compurters, eh ladies?
But seriously, how you guys cooling down your compurters. I put a thermostat in my computer case early tonight at it read 105 F! Sweet jesus, i had to move my desktop downstairs wheres it cooler. Upstairs was wayy to hot. I got no AC in the home. Just fans.
I also had a deep freezer, and I'd freeze blocks of ice and place those in front of the fan. Stay out of direct sunlight. I'd rather be in 110 degree dry heat than 90 degree heat with stupid humidity. Another trick I did was have a long container and have ice in there and let the fan run on medium over it. Made the room really cool. And turn off the LCD's and plasma's when you can... they get the room real toasty.
Its a good temp here in brisbane right now
Go powder your balls else where!
(next meetup we have im so gonna call you ball powder :P )
It was easily upper 90's by my computer last night and I was pretty comfortable for about an hour, but then again, I love my sauna too..
I guess we're lucky here, we havent seen a summer in 3 years.
I couldn't agree more. I spent a few summers in AZ with my grandparents. I'll take 112 in the shade as long as its dry.
Work is all AC all the time. Sometimes I have to wear a sweatshirt... so its a little too much at times.
My place gets very little direct sunlight and stays pretty cool. Last night was the first night I had the fan on when we went to bed. Ended up shutting it off.
When and if it gets really bad I'll dunk my head, keep it wet and sit in front of a fan. But it hasn't been that bad yet.
You tried it, didn't you? Feels like some Wizard buffed your balls for +10 to AC, doesn't it?
Oh those are 86 and 96 respectively.
My irish blood prefers cold and rainy days.
in the library.
okay that last part wasn't true.
DAMMIT! way to work up a great mental image and then ruin it.
That damn gold bond trick rocks man... seriously... get a small tupperware bin, fill it up with the GB, and just create a station for your balls to work at. just every once in a while you may need to flop them around into some new powder like you would if you were battering fish in bread crumbs.
ohhhh. Now there's a mental image.
It's hot as fuck here.
shave your hair off or cut it very short.
Your head and your feet both have a lot of blood circulating near the skin. Usually these two areas are covered so if you uncover them you'll feel a lot cooler. But you may get sunburn on your scalp and get mistaken for peter garrett.
hotpants and a mesh shirt might also be a good idea...
Sahara winds are the worse!
The best thing is to stay closed in a room with AC and go to beach in the afternoon... CANCER is something that some fools will earn taking sun baths more than 10 min.
I don't understand why some people from the UK, and GER, come to spain to burn their backs... they must love the heat. They come white and they return pink/red hahaha.
I kind of like that idea. Keep the old boys warm in this freezing wet weather.
As for my PC keeping it cold and quiet were the two main concerns when I put it together. An aluminum case with 2 120 mm fans, a giant passive copper heatsink on the cpu with a 120 mm fan on it just to be sure, my nvidia 9600 is also passively cooled model though I attached a 120mm fan for extra cooling power. Everything stays nice and cool, very quiet too.
My old PC is another story... I took the side panel off and have a big fan blowing on it constantly while it's in use.
(you can give or take on ingredients. pretty much comes out the same. The order is important, though)
1) 5-7 Ice Cubes:
Put these assholes in a blender. Use Ice Crush until you hear no more chopping.
2) 1 Banana: (2 if you really liked Bananas. I guess.)
Put this piece of shit in the blender. Blend on a low setting until you see no more big chunks.
3) 3/4 - 6/4 Cups of Yogurt:
Pour whatever kind of yogurt you fancy in the blender. (I like Vanilla)
4) 1 Tspn. of Sugar:
Pour this on top of the yogurt. Blend until it becomes some homogenous mix.
Don't do these all at once, though. You get some chunky mess that still tastes pretty good, but isn't as good as a smoothie.
Enjoy, fools!
Drink Responsibly.
The same thing happens with european tourists here in australia. I guess being tan is still considered a status symbol in europe.
here is a picture of a kangaroo demonstrating my favorite technique for cooling off...
A good tan is ok, but here we can see people with excessive tan hehe, they look like mud, very very brown. Red skins are the most common thing here ^^
"healthy sun tan" is something people ignore here