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goobster  ·  1065 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: April 28, 2021

The weather here is nice outside, but my office in the basement is still fucking cold, no matter what I do.

Best solution so far was to put a radiant space heater under the right side of my desk. This keeps my arm and mouse/trackpad hand warm, which makes a huge difference.

I'm also making sure to wear my Glerups in the house, rather than my Danner boots, because the Danners just pull up the cold from the concrete floor, and the Glerups isolate me from the cold floor.

Thursday the Yard Project starts in earnest! My Master Gardener mother is coming with a pickup truck full of plants and trees, and I have 6 yards of fresh compost to move around the yard before then.

We will then plant everything in this new gorgeous soil, which will hopefully recondition the crap soil that is underneath, and we will have a lovely yard full of food and prettiness. And a little parking slot for my car, so I can pull it off the street.

And birdbaths. Gonna have a few birdbaths, too. Saw a bird trying to bathe in the overturned lid of garbage can, the other day, and felt bad for them.

Maybe I'll put up the hummingbird feeder, too.

It's that time of year again, here in the Northern Hemisphere...





b_b  ·  1065 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Lol, my system is the exact same in my basement office. I pull my hand under the table every few minutes to keep my fingers nimble. I have an Amazon branded radiant heater that is sort of a piece of shit. It works really well for some stretches and then gets cold for some stretches and the stretches don't really seem to correlate to how warm the room or the heater's internal temp is. If I could the heat situation squared away I'd never leave the basement!

goobster  ·  1064 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think there's a market for some sort of recirculating water-based heating system for desks, like underfloor heating.

Imagine a rubber mat with plastic/rubber tubes in it, similar to the design of an electric blanket.

It connects to a small space heater, that the water cycles through.

The mat connects to the underside of any desk, warming the surface and the person's legs under the desk, in an efficient and reliable manner without the need for fans or heating the entire room.

Set an MSRP of $250, with discounts down to around $175, and I think people could make a killing on it.

Maybe I'll make it and rich.