Re: Eastercon 2010

Paul Dormer wrote:
> In article <cbLw0TSBKa6HFwUt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> fred@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Robert Sneddon) wrote:
> 
>>  Good con, workable hotel despite the corridors being rather 
>> narrow
> 
> Incidentally, on the matter of corridors and temperature...
> 
> I was working green room, and had cause therefore to often walk through
> the narrow corridor that ran from Commonwealth to the green room which
> avoided fighting your way through the crowds standing on the bridges
> over the river in the atrium bar.  (We christened the bridges Bifrost,
> by the way.)  Most of the corridor was as freezing as the rest of the
> hotel, but about a third of the way along it, you'd find a blast of hot
> air descending.


Ah ha - I see where the problem might have arisen - warm air *rises*, 
so a forced air system blowing *down* probably wouldn't warm the areas 
that needed warming sufficiently!  The heating engineer must have 
failed basic physics <g>

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Jette Goldie
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