According an article called Bigger isn’t Better in the July 04 issue of Fine Homebuilding (which sadly, you can’t read unless you pay good money), more than 70% of newly installed central air installations are either improperly sized or installed. And 95% of all new air conditioning installations fail in regards to energy efficiency.
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Author Archives: ape man
Speaking for the trades…
Let’s face it, very few men in the trades can speak intelligently even when the subject is something that interests them. And don’t even get me started on the average tradesmen’s writing ability.
Good thing that are people out there who can speak for them. Otherwise, the views and the feelings of tradesmen would never Click Here to continue reading.
A Personal Idealization
I don’t like to write in a personal style on my blogs. I particularly don’t like to write with a personal style on this blog. I would prefer to keep my ideas separate from my person. Plus, to write in personal style means to write in a way that reveals your humanity. And to be Click Here to continue reading.
Reading is necessary for life, but writing is a luxury.
I have not been writing lately because I have been short on time. For one thing, I have been doing too much sleeping. But I always make time for reading even if I have to cut out on the sleeping.
I figure that since I have not been writing I might as well share some Click Here to continue reading.
Young male economic participation, existential questions, and the failure of the social sciences
Why should we bother to exist? What gives life meaning? Why shouldn’t we all just give up and go off into that good night?
I doubt that you want to hear my answers to those questions. And frankly, I am not at all sure that I would be edified to hear your answers to those Click Here to continue reading.
Why I vary my arguments
This post is a comment that I left on my own blog in response to Mr. La Roche. This is getting to be a bad habit with me. But when I write two pages out, I hate to bury it in the comment section. Especially when writing out those two pages prevented me from writing Click Here to continue reading.
The only demographic effect that educated people will accept
Why is it that there is one and only one demographic effect that the majority of highly educated people in the world are willing to accept? And why is that one effect the idea that less children are good for the environment?
A lot of highly educated people are willing to argue that people Click Here to continue reading.
This calls for some celebration
Yesterday, I wrote to Mr. Nichols in spare moment saying…
Poetic temperament is a valid excuse for having problems writing. But not for taking stuff that you have already written down. Have a little mercy on the rest of humanity.
He never responded. But Philosophical Poetry went back up today. Hooray!!
Given Mr. Nichols past record you can Click Here to continue reading.
A rephrasing of the question of Psychology
I am making this response to a comment on my last post into a post of its own. I am doing this mostly because I think that this comment is what I should have said in the first place. It captures the heart of my reaction to Mr. La Roche’s post in a more condensed Click Here to continue reading.
On the question of Psychology
In a comment left on my rant against the Economist and in a post on Fistful of Euros, Guy La Roche asks….
Has anyone questioned, since Ape Man mentioned the name, the psychology behind a guy like Mark Steyn? It would go a long way in understanding his motives and way of thinking. And it might Click Here to continue reading.