temperature and fanmail

Jessica got me a temperature gauge and I've been nerding out with it around the house.

taking temperature readings of different rooms during the day and night

measuring the temp difference between the middle of a room and an open window (can be pretty high, like 10 degrees F or so)

temp difference from floor to ceiling (the floor's about 4 deg cooler)

temp under Chispita as she sits on the sofa (about 88 F)

All this is going into a master theory of when to close and open the windows to get a desired temperature change in the house. For instance, the house is about 72 F right now. Outside, it's 67 F. When the rising temp outside equals the temp inside, I figure I should close all the windows, because I won't be cooling the house off anymore. Note that we don't use big huge fans to blow air in or out of windows. If we did, I could probably cool the house down (or heat it up) faster. If you have a theory on this matter, let me know.

Speaking of which...

In other news, I've been getting some pretty weird fanmail because of a press release on the National Science Foundation webpage regarding my work on a hidden unity between the heavens and the atom. Sometime, I should post some fanmail highlights.