SwampNut

Too much fuckery to just light it for 45-75 minutes every morning. Also ugly. And for all I know it takes some special oil that doesn't exist here either.

In places with real winter, you get lower prices and a lot of options for heating fuels. Just like the total unavailability of pellets, there are also few options for propane delivery. Lowest I can find is $26/tank dropped off in front of the house. Not terrible if we use one a month, pretty fucked up if we use four. The NG hose would go between our chairs and be out of the way, so not a big thing. But wouldn't easily move to the gazebo.

I think based on our usage and the specs given, we're looking at over two tanks a month. The cost is mildly annoying, the part about going to get refills is very annoying. And then running out when I forget ...

Reminds me of this... A doctor goes to a moran conference. Finds lots of complete idiots in a cult. Question nothing, have faith. https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/11/childrens-health-defense-conference-pro-vaccine-doctor/ At the conferences I typically attend, microphones are set up around the room or passed among attendees before panels end. But not at the CHD conference. Though speakers implored us to “question everything,” there was never a chance to ask questions. But there didn’t need to be. Everyone in the room seemed united in purpose. Whatever brought attendees there — concerns about vaccine safety, “medical freedom,” or broader distrust — the glue was identity. Speaker after speaker described the purgatory they’d endured for speaking out, especially during Covid. They recounted the pushback accrued at first — the revocation of board certifications or the loss of close friends — before passing through a painful gauntlet of ostracization and profound loss. However, when emerging on the other side, they found themselves stronger, more steadfast, and in better company.

I only just now learned that Adams became a woke nutter during COVID, a MAGAtard, and started speaking against the other proven treatments for everything. Cartoon boy thought he was a biologist.

Now I need to decide whether to convert it to NG or not. Propane bottles will piss me off over time, and are so fucking expensive. OTOH, I can walk the heater over to our gazebo (top right in pic) for group gatherings if I leave it as propane. OR...I can run a NG line there, which would likely cost well over $100 but pay back on gas savings (not to mention annoyance). NG kit for the patio, $35, maybe $65 if a longer hose is needed. Oh yeah, this morning my fluffy house shoe was smoking from being a little too close. And one last thing...I'm considering adding a sheet of stainless around 1/2 of the circumference to reflect the wasted heat at us.

Yes.

I can't believe you missed this...

Much like Steve Jobs, I just learned that Scott Adams turned to quackery instead of proven solutions when he got cancer. Like Jobs, it's going to kill him. The non-retard solutions had an extremely high success rate. The horse paste, not so much. The scumbag who effectively committed manslaughter is blaming the victim, of course.

It's attractive, solidly made, and easy to start. There are two flames; the "catalytic" type around the circumference and a normal flame ring with rocks up top. The ring is the primary human heat source. It produces mostly IR heat so you feel it on your skin really well. The top flame is more decorative, but also, certainly does add to the perceived heat. It's convective as you'd expect, not IR. My review is 100% positive, it's nice, does what we want. We're still reconfiguring the space to figure out what works, and will move it around. But it's dealing with this massive bullshit very well. They should put a coffee mug holder on the side to keep it warm. I might make one. Our little dog loves to get on the ottoman and then walk all over us, he's pretty pissed off about not being able to use it any more. I'll work on moving things to see if it can be better for everyone.

"We'd hate for you to lose all this ad revenue, you should tell people they're gonna die if they use non-branded versions." For the first time in history, a generic version of a drug has become insanely popular and widely used well before the name brand can get approved and made. Fucking awesome. Retatrutide is Eli Lilly's next-gen diabetes and obesity peptide. It has taken off massively, even though it's not through all of the trials (but most of them, and the dosing and safety are fairly well proven already). I first bought it in October of 2023, to give you a timeline on it, and that was after enough studies were completed to satisfy me. And I sent my own batch to be tested, so I started using it at the end of 2023. In particular it has been taken up by the gym rats and workout bros, as something that helps with whatever their goals are. You can't put that genie back in the bottle; those guys have been buying illegal 'roids from the back of a magazine since at least the 80s. A legal peptide that can't really be controlled? Never gonna stop it. Anarchy is good. https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/retratrutide-eli-lilly-new-weight-loss-jab-untested-skxpbh75z The article is rife with all the usual hit piece language that suggests doom and gloom without actually telling you anything. It avoids making truly total lies, while lying to you in context. The next weight-loss drug is here — but it’s fake and untested Even before Eli Lilly’s promising retatrutide jab passes clinical trials, Chinese rip-offs are being sold to teenagers with no checks

And we will use it only sitting in low chairs, so it won't burn us, but not really heat us.

Oh, fuck. Shit. Moriah just said winter is coming. Gotta buy this today when I go get fish for the Friday neighborhood dinner. A week of complete shit weather coming. Do you mean a glass tube style pyramid, or the traditional mushroom? We hated the latter, but have been considering the glass tube type.

We're considering IR for the patio because heating the air would do absolutely nothing. Inside of a closed space, like a garage, I assume you want to heat the air, not the things/people? I don't think IR would ever heat the air, or more precisely, would take a ridiculous amount of time. You have a bunch of HUGE heat sinks (all the metal). An IR heater is aimed at people to warm them. The wavelength gets complicated, and expensive. Let's not get into that. Unless you're willing to buy a $1k heater (I really don't want to, but looked), you're only going to get the generic shortwave elements. These are the ones that glow, and provide heat in three seconds. They penetrate well and are effective close by in open space. The dark elements with long IR cost a fuckload, and have slower heating. But remember my helicopter ride to solve the problem of "too many" panels and "too cold" making them hyper-efficient. No smoke, but those controllers were made to just shut down.

It was 85 today. FYI. But it will be down to 60 early in the morning, and hence the heater.