The totally off-topic thread

[amaroo]

Talking about solar - it's been a cracking summer:mrgreen:

 

[Cossie]

Certainly has, bet my rebate is bigger than yours......


ho hum........

 

[cove]

That 3 year payback of our big outlay on 7 solar systems is working out really well. Those much smaller power bills will get even smaller as we change more lights to LED inside those premises.

 

[Hvr]

Make it a good one. As of 1 Jan this year, no more stamps departing OZ.

I didn't have any Australian stamps in my old passport.

 

[Simo]

Our system is getting heaps of sun but the air con has been on heaps so my hope is the 2 balance each other out and it is just a normal bill...

 

[cove]

We get a dry heat mostly in Perth. I cannot imagine what it would be like in Sydney or Brisbane this week without air conditioning.

 

[amaroo]

We don't have AC.. we have aspect which does the same job for free.

 

[Quickstatus]

Listening to researchers talk about the Orange bellied parrot, seems like they are a doomed species in the wild.

Jurong Bird Park in Singapore has a wall near its entrance with pictures of endangered birds. One of them is the Sulphur Crested coughatoo

 

[Pushka]

i would say the storms have been over the last 3 to 4 years and increasing in ferocity.

It is also so much warmer. I always used to turn my heaters on and off until Christmas, but now they get turned off in late September and I just don't turn them on again. Of course that could be age related as well. Maybe I have finally got used to the cold here.

Adelaide's weather last year (16) was the coolest and wettest I can remember. Just a couple of days over 35. The year before in December (15) we had our longest heat wave. No trend here.

'Aspect' airconditioning would not work in Adelaide.

 

[Quickstatus]

I commenced full-time work at the age of 15. Proud to say I've never come within a bull's roar of claiming this LSL lurk...

In NSW the LSL lurk is much more.

Whenever there is a development application put in to a council a LSL levy has to be paid. Now that pot of money is a LSL pot for those in the construction industry!!!.

Now this is a LSL lurk!!

http://www.longservice.nsw.gov.au/bci/levy/about-the-levy/long-service-levy

 

[amaroo]

How about one species helping another..

[h=1]US Navy dolphins find their special porpoise - saving a species from extinction[/h]

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/c...-species-from-extinction-20170105-gtmu7t.html

 

[whatmeworry]

Jurong Bird Park in Singapore has a wall near its entrance with pictures of endangered birds. One of them is the Sulphur Crested coughatoo

Lol, coughies are one species that will never go extinct.

What irks me about solar, is you pay about 22c a kilowatt from the grid but only get paid about 5c for every kilowatt you produced.

Roll on Tesla batteries.

 

[Denali]

My husband is about to start 18mths long service leave, hopefully he'll be offered redundancy before he's suppose to return to work.

I have a couple of months LSL to use but no desire at this point. My anxiety is through the roof at the idea of taking 3 weeks in March. I told my boss to never approve anything that long again.

 

[serfty]

The amount of time wasted moving desks is amazing. Doesn't do much for motivation/morale....

Try working in an "Agile" office environment.

- No-one has "their own" desk.
- Each employee is issued with a backpack containing laptop and other devices/peripherals.
- Each day first in best dressed for desk choice.
- On arrival you plug laptop into a rack on the desk which is connected to a monitor, power supply etc.
- Telephone is an IP headset plugged into the laptop with an onscreen APP for dialing etc.
- Printing is discouraged.
- At end of day, you take the laptop with you.
- When you leave for the day no personal paraphernalia is to be left at the desk.

 

[TomVexille]

Found this rather interesting. A U of Calgary student took nighttime aerial IR photos of every house in the city to show each buildings heat loss

https://myheat.ca/calgary

 

[blackcat20]

Try working in an "Agile" office environment.

- No-one has "their own" desk.
- Each employee is issued with a backpack containing laptop and other devices/peripherals.
- Each day first in best dressed for desk choice.
- On arrival you plug laptop into a rack on the desk which is connected to a monitor, power supply etc.
- Telephone is an IP headset plugged into the laptop with an onscreen APP for dialing etc.
- Printing is discouraged.
- At end of day, you take the laptop with you.
- When you leave for the day no personal paraphernalia is to be left at the desk.

I would hate that. I value my personal space and have turned down a position that had hot desking. I don't want to waste time twice a day unpacking and packing up.

 

[Rugby]

Last night was similar to the night I finally gave in and got aircon.

 

[Flying mermaid]

I actually turned my air conditioner on Friday and then I thought "I complain all the time about how much I hate Canberra's cold weather, so why I am doing this?" So I turned it off again and just enjoyed the warmth.....(it was 39 outside, but not more than 30 inside).

 

[Flying mermaid]

Adelaide's weather last year (16) was the coolest and wettest I can remember. Just a couple of days over 35. The year before in December (15) we had our longest heat wave. No trend here.

'Aspect' airconditioning would not work in Adelaide.

A trend of erratic weather?

 

[v1nce007]

Try working in an "Agile" office environment.

- No-one has "their own" desk.
- Each employee is issued with a backpack containing laptop and other devices/peripherals.
- Each day first in best dressed for desk choice.
- On arrival you plug laptop into a rack on the desk which is connected to a monitor, power supply etc.
- Telephone is an IP headset plugged into the laptop with an onscreen APP for dialing etc.
- Printing is discouraged.
- At end of day, you take the laptop with you.
- When you leave for the day no personal paraphernalia is to be left at the desk.

Do you find that people tent to gravitate to the same desks each day anyway?