The Machine Stops
Jul. 19th, 2006 05:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altarielThree cheers for our brand new fan, which decided yesterday that it was far too hot to be expected to work, and broke down. I'll grind its bones to make my bread.
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Date: 2006-07-19 05:36 pm (UTC)As we're told this is going to become the norm, I'm beginning to wonder whether I can justify investing in one of these (http://www.guardianoffers.co.uk/mall/productpage.cfm/Guardian/TRUAC022)?
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Date: 2006-07-19 05:50 pm (UTC)That cooler is a thing of beauty.
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Date: 2006-07-20 03:52 am (UTC)You're meant to be having summer. New Zealand might be too cool. Not that I'm not feeling chilled on this side of the Tasman...
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Date: 2006-07-19 04:39 pm (UTC)Just Kidding.
I don't understand what has happened to simple technology. Items like cell phones and self focussing digital cameras are well made and have long lifetimes considering the amount of fancy works in side, yet a simple fan, which is a motor (100+ year old technology) turning a plastic part has to be assembled by the purchaser and only lasts a few weeks.
My toaster does not do the two sides evenly. I have to turn the toast half way through. The quick connect fittings on my garden hose fail regularly. I have had three expensive can openers that either never opened cans properly or wore out in a year or two. Why can they not make these simple items function as well as the ones made 75 years ago?
Anyway, I hope you are coping with the heat. Are there air conditioned pubs or movie theaters you can retreat to in the evening.
mk
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Date: 2006-07-19 04:45 pm (UTC)I am pretty pissed off about this fan, I can tell you. We have had it almost exactly a fortnight. The last one we had kept going for years, with much more continuous use than this one has had. I'm guessing they want this stuff to break down more quickly so that we have to buy again sooner.
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Date: 2006-07-19 10:30 pm (UTC)"Ending is better than mending" (Brave New World)
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Date: 2006-07-20 07:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-20 03:54 am (UTC)Tsk! Even Arts graduates can assemble a fan! I'm living proof! :)
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Date: 2006-07-19 11:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-20 07:28 am (UTC)Hmm, good point. I need minions.
The last fan we had was brilliant - we had it for five or six years and used it constantly during the summer. This one we've had a fortnight. Gah!
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Date: 2006-07-20 12:27 pm (UTC)It's raining here, but before you grow unbearably jealous and make yourself even hotter, it's still warm enough to require a fan. Preferably one with the back to the window to suck the somewhat cooler air in.
Nevertheless, I maintain this is FAR BETTER than winter. And at least I don't have to water the flowers today, which are looking somewhat droopy for all the wetness dropped upon them. Hm...
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Re: A fan, a plan, obsolescence?
Date: 2006-07-20 12:58 pm (UTC)I think this is the hottest July on record for the UK. I know our winters are much milder, but I can't wait for September.
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Date: 2006-07-20 01:14 pm (UTC)You need frozen grapes for this - mini-shots of ice to the brain.
I think this is the hottest July on record for the UK. I know our winters are much milder, but I can't wait for September.
Whereas summer has been on again off again here (not complaining (much)).
Local forecast puts us at 72F right now, predicted high of 84F, with "strong thunderstorms" and the possibility of hail (?!?!).
Dwim
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Date: 2006-07-20 01:54 pm (UTC)Re: A fan, a plan, obsolescence?
Date: 2006-07-20 02:19 pm (UTC)You can have today's thunderstorms, though, with my thanks. I need to pick up my bike from the shop hopefully today. Since I just sent it in to get a tune-up and have the very rusty chain and sprockets fixed/replaced, I'd like not to have to bother with oiling them up immediately.
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Re: A fan, a plan, obsolescence?
Date: 2006-07-20 03:01 pm (UTC)Ooh, a grey cloud is passing overhead. Just a little one, but it's a start...
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