Comments on: Ahh, cool.

By: Doc Searls

Doc Searls — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:19:10 +0000

Hey, Sue.

Actually my Greensboro years were spent at Guilford College (Class of ‘69). I grew up in Maywood, New Jersey, and went to public schools there through the 9th grade, after which my parents sent me to Concordia Collegiate Institute in Bronxville, New York, which I half-jokingly call a “Lutheran academic correctional institution.” That’s what it was for me, anyway… or why I was sent there. It’s gone now.

One way or another I was a North Carolinian from 1965-1985, when I left for Silicon Valley. Still miss it.

I’ll check out ConvergeSouth when I can read small type again. Right now I’m typing with vision blurred by dilation drops. Just had my eyes tested.

By: Sue Polinsky

Sue Polinsky — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:46:49 +0000

Wave to Doc!
I don’t know if you did high school in Greensboro, but I taught on the 3rd floor of the main building at Grimsley for a few years and had to get pregnant for the thankfully old-fashioned principal to decide to move me to a first floor classroom! (good old days…) Since my own kids have graduated, all the Greensboro public schools are now air-conditioned.

Were we tougher? Heck, A/C is simply better. When they said that a/c “opened up the South,” they were right.

Got time to join us at ConvergeSouth this October 17? BlogHer is the very next day and we’d love to have you on the video tour. All is at http://2008.convergesouth.com.

By: cthrall

cthrall — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:03:36 +0000

Ceiling fan has been working overtime in our home office in Dorchester. The last few days have been hot. It has been a really nice break to walk the dogs down to the beach at night and sit in the cooling sea breeze.

Glad to hear you are doing better btw.

By: docduke

docduke — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:41:57 +0000

I live in New Mexico where it gets hot, but the humidity is low. We use "swamp coolers," which blow air through the house after humidifying it, which drops the temperature 10 or 15 degrees. There is a more interesting solution west of here, however. The "oldest continuously occupied city in North America" is on the west edge of New Mexico. It is Acoma Sky City. I have been there when it's 110 oF outside, and the thick adobe walls and ceiling keep the inside temperature in the 70s .. and they do that with mud! We can be environmentally friendly, and cool, without being high-tech!