You use the same formulas for central air more or less, just divide by 12,000 to get the tonnage of your system. As far as brands and rating, you need to talk to a pro, because proper installation is more important than the reliabililty of the equipment.

The number of website comments generated a day in aggregate tell me people aren't really that busy. We're all just really good at pretending.

My opinion: spend the extra money and get a portable rather than an in-window. Easier to move to where you need the cooling and you don't ruin a window that you could use for cross breezes in more temperate weather or need to load on weather stripping for when it's cold.

No. Do it with a knife because a pizza cutter is harder to clean that a knife is. Which is worse? Edge of quesadilla is rough, or 5 minutes to clean cheese off pizza cutter?

Who eats early in the day (Dinner at 4:00pm WTF)? Old people.

Oh man, the windspeed is not displayed in appropriately stereotypical surfer terms, like 'Spicolli-Aloha Mr Hand', 'beach boys - brian wilson', 'bodacious', 'blue crush', 'beach boys- mike love' and the lowest - 'get back to work dude'.

The one he removed for the washer is the beep to tell you it is done, which I think is pretty useful and even moreso on a dryer. I'm actually quite surprised that Electrolux doesn't have a button somewhere to turn it off. My $299 GE model from Lowes does.

Well, you gotta go higher up the chain in my opinion. The university's name is what sucks. It probably took some magistrate 30 seconds to name the place, so 5 minutes for the logo is 6X as long.

Verdana is where it's at baby.

It's $20 a month to subscribe to the API. Man, that sucks. Calling API is way easier than screen scraping, but screen scraping is free.

How do you pronouce the name Acxiom?

I say money can buy happiness but not contentment, where happiness is fleeting but contentedness is lasting.

The ratio of people to cake is not good!

If I'm going to spend $100 on a belt, it's gonna have my name embossed into it. Because nothing says classy and friendly like your name on your belt. You say "Man I would like to know that person's name" and there it is on their belt. You just thought you'd get a eye full of back and butt, but you got a name too.

the one near me does to. It's crazy to think that with an iphone and one of those credit card swiper gadgets, you can be more technologically advanced that an corporation listed on the DOW.

Melie Bianco’s Neon iPad Clutch Is as Stylish as You Are:

Female Russian sailors are always photobombing recording sessions.

I'm cool with anything personal (engagments, babies, exercise, whatever) but if it's not personal and it's some random forward, it better be funny.

IF I had to listen to LBJ berate me from the can, I'd harbor deep disdain as well.

IF I had to listen to LBJ berate me from the can, I'd harbor deep disdain as well.