Comments on: Real Men of Genius

By: Luka

Luka — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 05:44:07 +0000

Amen! Although, strangely (given how much I love air conditioning) I have not once owned an air conditioner in my 9+ years in Los Angeles. Thankfully, the past 4+ have been by the beach, where a/c isn’t usually necessary. I have lived outside of LA, though. One of the more recent times was in 1999. Summer. NYC. The building required that I pay a flat fee of $50 a month to use a window unit. New York was crazy hot and humid that summer. Terrible. I paid that fee. I turned the thing on the moment it was installed. I turned it off a couple months later when I had to give it back. I don’t know that I turned it off other than that…My apartment was a thing of beauty. An island of refreshing coldness on a real island of ungodly heat and humidity…Thanks Willis. You’re the man.

By: Will Wilkinson

Will Wilkinson — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 22:03:28 +0000

Yes. But at least this hanger-on is cool!

By: Jeff Lilly

Jeff Lilly — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 21:54:48 +0000

Bah.
The only reason that Washington DC is able to support so many lobbyists, beaurocrats, and various hangers-on is because of the air conditioner. The city is barely habitable otherwise.
The whole military industrial complex is this man’s fault.