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Office Temperature Watch

While m’colleague Neil and I have been whinging about the temperature* in our office for a few weeks, we haven’t, until today, been able to do so with statistical verification.

I brought a cheap thermometer into work this morning and we’ve established that - even with a portable A/C unit blowing through the open door - the climate in our fifth floor cubbyhole is balmier than Bankgkok, Harare, Bermuda, Mexico City, Calcutta, Athens and Istanbul, to name but a few.

It's getting hot in here....

As I write, the mercury has just reached 36°C (97°F), which I think must make it one of the hottest offices around.

Unless you know different?

I invite you to head to your nearest purveyor of temperature recording devices (most hardware stores, some bigger newsagents and supermarkets, pretty much all DIY emporia) and plonk your thermometer somewhere for a bit, before taking a photo of it and uploading to flickr (we’ll make a pool if we get enough). We need photographic evidence because otherwise you could just say your office was 60°C, couldn’t you?

Post a link to it in the comments here, or let me know via flickr or something. The inhabitant of the hottest office will win something suitably cool.

[No cheating, now: I don’t want to think of you clamping a thermometer between your thighs to get it up to a suitably impressive level, y’hear?]

* And speaking of whinging about the weather, it’s probably time to bring the crappy-summer-o-matic out of the rainy shadows where it’s been living for the last few years:

crappy-summer-o-matic

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