August 15th, 2008, 6 Comments »
At first I laughed at the labels for the temperature control in my freezer, but then I decided they made a lot of sense. After all, it’s either ‘cold’ or it’s ‘colder’. It’s the ultimate level of abstraction for a freezer.
On a related note, does anybody know why Flickr decided that this photo was taken in ‘Harris Green, Victoria’ (see the ‘Additional Information’ metadata to the right of the photo)?
February 4th, 2008, 6 Comments »
In the past year, I’ve owned or rented three different fridges in three different countries. In each case, the fridge’s thermostat was set very low.
Here in Morocco, our little bar fridge has a knob which (rather oddly) goes from zero to seven. If we set it above two, the food freezes. My other recent fridges have behaved in similar fashion. If you increased the setting beyond, like, 25%, you had rock-hard bologna.
Do you find this as well? If so, why are fridges set this way? Is it because their freezing power gets exhausted over the lifetime of the appliance, and you need to keep turning it up higher to maintain the same temperature?
June 21st, 2007, 4 Comments »
KA emailed, and wants to know what’s in our fridge. Here it is:
Nothing too extraordinary, except that watermelon season seems to have started and they’re dirt cheap. What else…some Cisk beer (which rhymes with ‘frisk’, which is apparently the Maltese word for ‘fresh’), nectarines, cherries, some leftover olives, Diet Coke, gazpacho, and some condensed milk, which Julie’s been putting in her coffee lately (a habit learned, I think, from my South African step-mother).
KA also wants to know what’s in your fridge. There’s a Flickr photo group to which you can add your fridge.