Wherever you are and whoever you are stop saying "room temperature" as if that means anything.
There are places, such as here in Texas, where in the absence of air conditioning "room temperature" would resemble the temperature inside a convection oven. Contrarily, I have lived in places where you can leave a popsicle sitting on a counter overnight and wake up to a delightful frozen treat for breakfast. Room temperature means nothing. Just come up with a decent temperature range to describe what you need to describe and be done with it.
agreed. from now on all references to room temp should be replaced with an actual temperature.
ReplyDeletein Kelvin.
also, underwear should be worn on the outside, so we can check.
okay, Mufti Dor apologizes for being a smartass. rolling brown-outs killed my a.c. a couple nights ago and i had time to reflect on the fact that i live in an environment where turning off the a.c. at 1:30 in the morning means my body is streaming with sweat inside of ten minutes.
ReplyDeleteit does make me wonder where the idealized, platonic "room" in "room temperature" is located...northern france? vermont in the summer, florida in the winter? Mufti Dor remembers how, in Seattle, no one bothered getting central air because it was only useful for maybe a month and a half out of the year.
wherever it is, Mufti Dor knows who lives in it: the "normative" person described in the DSM IV's "normative behavior," together with his fully functional 2.5 kids and a collection of isosceles triangles.