Monday, May 21, 2012

Fans

One month from today on Wednesday, June 20, 2012, the Summer Solstice will occur.  If you don't have a plan to beat the heat yet, now seems like a good time to think about doing so.

My initial though is to hire women to fan me while wearing swim suits but, unfortunately, this is not practical from a financial point of view.

Air conditioning is cool (hilarious, right!?!) but it takes a lot of energy and energy is expensive in California.

Fans are a really good solution to managing high temperatures.  I've spent hours with my nose in home furnishing magazines recently and it seems that big faced silver/ nickel colored metal fans enclosed in matching metal wire enclosures seem to be popular these days.

If you could find such a fan with working motor, you could build your own stand for it to make a fancy floor fan. 

Here is an example of the type of fan I'm talking about, which happens to be done in brass instead of nickel/ silver:



Also, birdcages seem  to take up a lot of background space in home furnishing publications.

This post sort of relates to an earlier post about clocks, which can be viewed online here.

9 comments:

  1. Unfortunately in this country for most of Summer we really don't need to worry about being too warm, I'm pretty jealous of you wherever you're at buddy.

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  2. I would go for ceiling fan one if at all, did you see Dyson fan? 350$ or something why would anyone go for that instead of AC for that price?

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  3. I'll just spend it all at a beach. Sounds about right, yeah.

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  4. Usually I'm at the Glastonbury festival for the solstice...
    As for fans the geek in me would want a Dyson fan.

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  5. Its already hot here in California...

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  6. I am thinking I will just eat ice cream for three months.

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  7. I keep wanting to make an energy pad that you can jump on to cool you, but that would just break you out in a sweat. It's a good thing that I'm not an inventor.

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  8. If you got a mail order bride from some poor country you could get them to fan you! (but you'd also have to feed them!)

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