Today is
the 110th birthday of air conditioning, which ironically is doing as much to increase global warming as anything else, but I could give a shit, I'd rather the planet burst into the Sun 200 years from now than go one minute not in absolute comfort....nay, extreme comfort.
It was a world-changing innovation. “Air-conditioning, in the broad sense, had a profound effect on the way people lived and worked,” said Bernard A. Nagengast, an engineering consultant who specializes in the history of air-conditioning and heating. “It allowed industry to operate in ways it couldn’t operate before, in places it couldn’t operate before.”
As you know, a/c was a big deal
when I was a young buck and every single moment of my fucking life since:
My parents being from Massachusetts meant that I inherited the complete pussy gene when it comes to the heat; even as a young buck I was a pansy about it. So while logic would dictate that the greatest day in family history from the 80's be the day we added illWill to the lineup, I hafta admit I was just as thrilled the day I came home from school and the central air conditioning had been installed. May 12, 1987: Never Forget.
Also, if he had been my kid Joe Girardi never woulda made it to the big leagues since
there's no way in fucking hell I'd forgo a/c for some stupid kid. Oh, and the next time people try to bitch that we should defund NASA because it's "so expensive",
remind them of this.
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