Rant #046 Wednesday, June 30, 2004

Air Conditioning

"Air conditioning has just got to be mankind's greatest treasure, It's the triumph of science over nature." - Misato Katsuragi from Neon Genesis Evangelion

How true it is. As you have heard me whine about it in the past, there was no climate control in the studio... until now. That's right... I finally bit the bullet and went to the trouble of installing an air conditioner. 8,000 BTU's of pure, unobstructed, cooling bliss. Summer heat is no longer an excuse for rushed or delayed updates :D

So.... yeah. Now to get a heater for when the winter pushes temperatures in here below 50?. It's funny, because the main workstation actually has processor and stability problems when the room is too cold. People have always told me that when it comes to computers, the colder the better (barring condensation). If anyone knows what's up with a computer crashing all the time from running too cold, e-mail me and let me know how that works.

As for the file server, the extreme heat in the other room apparently caused the power supply to fail somehow; or maybe it just wore out. In any case (no pun intended), I replaced the case's power supply with a new 300 Watt box and it works fine now.

Re-draws, re-draws... ah, yes. While I was hoping to work on it through the week, the schedule is only leaving time open on the weekend to work on 2214. Something should probably be done to free up the evenings...