Way Too Hot

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Spencer determined to take things too far, is sitting around the house modeling his stylish Palestine High School windbreaker. In real life, though, I think he went to Bronx Science just like Marty Peretz.

In other news, our house is very cold since the heat is broken and the relevant repairpersons refused to come before tomorrow.

Comments

Matt,
Not sure how cold it is in D.C., but if the heat stays off run a drip of warm water from a couple of faucets overnight to keep the pipes from bursting. You probably knew that already, right?

Posted by: AlanB. on October 23, 2006 05:57 PM

It'll stay above freezing, so that's not necessary, right?

Posted by: Matthew Yglesias on October 23, 2006 05:59 PM

In the winter of 76-77, the cold was so severe and prolonged that we eventually had 48 inches of frost. Normal is around 3 or 4. Pipes froze up from mid-January until the first week of March. Thousands of old rental units around town became uninhabitable and the search for really good friends who could put you up for a few days at a time, as if you were a maiden aunt come to live with relations on a rotating basis -- the visits not the relations -- was intense.

Posted by: Jeffrey Davis on October 23, 2006 06:17 PM

Oh my god! Forty-eight inches of frost! You mean snow and ice, right?

Posted by: Kriston on October 23, 2006 06:19 PM

"It'll stay above freezing, so that's not necessary, right?"

Yeah, you're fine.

Coleman makes a propane space heater that you can run indoors. At least, as my heat still isn't on in Salt Lake City, I've been running mine indoors. They call it the "SportCat" or something. I bought mine at Wal-Mart.

Posted by: ptm on October 23, 2006 06:26 PM

Is that a Mac laptop there? Those things could heat a gymnasium!

Posted by: Fred F. on October 23, 2006 06:28 PM

It's not really cold until you guys start blogging from within sleeping bags.

Posted by: Jackmormon on October 23, 2006 06:36 PM

Cuddle with your clones.

Posted by: bob mcmanus on October 23, 2006 06:45 PM

I kept warm for a month last winter with one of those little space heaters -- they work pretty well if you buy the right one. Look on the bright side, you'll be slightly decreasing your personal level of CO2 emissions for the evening.

Posted by: fnook on October 23, 2006 07:03 PM

Cuddle with your clones.

No - slit your clones open, then sleep inside their still-steaming guts.

Posted by: Christmas on October 23, 2006 07:24 PM

No - slit your clones open, then sleep inside their still-steaming guts.

And I thought they smelled bad on the outside!

Posted by: Kriston on October 23, 2006 07:39 PM

Ole Spencer doesn't look too happy. I wonder if it because he has to wear that Palestine HS windbreaker in the house or the fact his picture was taken while wearing the aforementioned windbreaker in the house. It's a great reason to go to a nice warm bar and get fall down, sloppy drunk...then you won't care that you have no heat in the house, you'll just want it to stop spinning.

Posted by: Porn Store Owner Dude... on October 23, 2006 07:42 PM

Um, why would you wear a high school jacket after you've graduated from high school?

Posted by: Al on October 23, 2006 08:20 PM

um, because it's AWESOME?

Posted by: catherine on October 23, 2006 08:47 PM

What I want to know is what kind of DIY hack is that pair of bulging silver buttons where Steve Jobs demands only one belongs.

Posted by: JRoth on October 23, 2006 08:49 PM

It'll stay above freezing, so that's not necessary, right?

I can tell Bronx Science is a damned fine school, but they may want to focus less on advancing "the self" and more on educating "the self" in the sciences.

Posted by: Just Karl on October 23, 2006 09:03 PM

Seriously, someone should tell us if we need to drip the faucets tonight.

Posted by: Kriston on October 23, 2006 09:05 PM

we're all going to freeze to death.

more beer!

Posted by: catherine on October 23, 2006 09:09 PM

When I lived in Italy the heat could only be turned on after the tenants had voted to set a date -- we had a warm fall, so they voted for a late date, and then it turned real cold and they were stuck -- actually, we were too.

As resident foreigners we had more sense than to vote ourselves.

Posted by: Gene O'Grady on October 23, 2006 09:15 PM

Am I the only one to get the "Palestine" joke?

Posted by: Peter H on October 23, 2006 09:36 PM

I can tell you that the jacket originated in Palestine, Texas. Go Cats!

Posted by: Kriston on October 23, 2006 10:00 PM

Move to San Diego. It's in the 70s here.

And the blondes on the beach will inspire you to write better. That is if you feel the need to, despite the blondes.

Posted by: gregor on October 23, 2006 10:31 PM

In case it's not obvious, no, you don't need to run faucets to keep pipes from freezing unless you expect temperatures in the house to drop below freezing. It's that water-expands-when-it-freezes thing that you're supposed to be watching out for. No freezing, no problem.

Posted by: DaveL on October 23, 2006 11:03 PM

"Move to San Diego. It's in the 70s here."

Don't y'all move back to Texas. We got people right in this house probably live with 50 miles of Palestine and couldn't tell ya what direction it's in. Round here summer, I think.

Posted by: bob mcmanus on October 24, 2006 12:21 AM

At least he didn't wear a Stuyvesant jacket.

Posted by: Pan on October 24, 2006 07:55 AM

Move to San Diego. It's in the 70s here.

Groovy, baby!

Posted by: neil on October 24, 2006 08:47 AM

Did Marty fire him because he went to Palestine?

Posted by: Perfvert on October 24, 2006 09:02 AM

Spencer's a lock for the lead if they revive Leave It To Beaver.

Posted by: Miracle Max on October 24, 2006 09:38 AM

So did everyone survive the elements? I see Yglesias is posting up a storm, so he made it through ok. Did we lose anyone last night? LOL... :-P

Posted by: Porn Store Owner Dude... on October 24, 2006 12:29 PM

I've lived less than half a mile away from Bronx Science, just around the northwest corner of the reservoir on Sedgwick Ave., for long enough that I probably ran into young Spencer at the local pizza joint or on the street, never realizing that the little delinquent would ever amount to anything.

Posted by: CJColucci on October 24, 2006 01:39 PM

It'll stay above freezing, so that's not necessary, right?

Posted by: Matthew Yglesias

You got it, champ! No freezing of water outside, no danger of freezing pipes. Stick with the common sense, it will take you far. Takes quite a bit to freeze the pipes, more like zero degrees Fahrenheit for quite a few hours, perhaps a little higher if the plumbing is outside decent insulation.

Crikey, what is this thread anyways? Almost strikes me as a parody on some freeper site about clueless elite wimpy latte liberals who wouldn't be able to make it past day zero on "Survivor" auditions.

I can't believe you have had your heat turned on to begin with! We have the same weather in New York and I haven't fired the furnace up yet, the house is 72 degrees right now, gets down to like 65 at night, when I might turn a space heater on at my desk because of drafts along the floor. Why do you need the heat on with 50 degree temps outside in the daytime? Have you forgotten to close the windows or do you have big holes in the wall? I just can't figure it out. Perhaps you're in one of those southern shacks without any insulation at all? Or is it that 60 at night is too cold for Blogohouse? I believe that NYC rent law allows landlords to turn it down to something like that at night....I get the distinct impression heating is included in your rent or you'd all have windbreakers on the last few weeks....

"Mom"

Posted by: artappraiser on October 24, 2006 01:51 PM

That is perfect - lessons on how to be tough from some person with the handle 'artappraiser.'
Wasn't Bloghouse one of those reality shows on PBS that never caught on?

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