November 3, 2007
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You Sit on It, but You Can't Take It With You
Warning: The following post contains
excessive use of the word "chair." If you or any of your friends,
family, or religious leaders are offended by the word "chair," please
skip today's post. This concludes the warning, and today's post will proceed
presently.
Did you ever sit down in a chair shortly after someone just
left it? Of course you have. Isn't the chair still a little warm from the other
person? Now, this I can understand. What
I don't understand is why you don't feel your own body heat when you sit down
in your chair just after leaving it. At work, I was sitting in my chair for
several hours. I then went up to do something that took less than a minute, and
then sat back down in the same chair. For some reason, it was not warm. I
couldn't help but wonder why. Could it be that my posterior remained warm from
sitting in the chair for so long that the temperature of both was roughly
equal, and I didn't notice? Could it be that everybody as their own, unique
posterior heat signature that always feels different if somebody else sits
down? If that was the case, wouldn't people with a lower signature feel colder
to someone with a higher signature? Could it be that some people sit heavier in
chairs? Maybe some sink in to chairs more and transfer more heat into it, while
others remain on tenterhooks and don't sink in. Would any of these theories
still apply to a toilet seat, where the middle is cut out? It was at about this
time that my boss got angry at me for spacing out.
Comments (1)
I commend you on your use of 'posterior'. That is an interesting theory. Perhaps you should waste millions of dollars testing it out only to find it was insignificant in the end.