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I heard radio chatter that the new air conditioner in one of the buildings.  They were complaining about it not cooling as well as a pipe leak in the room.  I went down to check on it to see what the problem was:  The room wasn’t cool all right, but that was because the air conditioner was sitting in the middle of the floor…. on…. in the middle of the floor….on.  It was in the middle of a puddle of water from the condenser because it was int he middle of the floor….on….in the middle of the store….on.

To a certain extent, I was thinking of not correcting anyone for the hope that we’d get a better air conditioner, and then I remembered that I was at camp… in a building… with an air conditioner in the middle of the floor….on.

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I had a co-worker propose the following riddle:  In a sealed room there’s a refrigerator with the door open.  Will the room increase or decrease in temperature?  I said it’d increase over time due to the 2nd Law of thermodynamics and after I got a blank-eyed stare stated that “the fridge generates more heat than it takes away”.  He looked at me grinning, said I was wrong, and stated that he never said it was plugged in.  I said his point was stupid and he called me unobservant, I shucked off the point until I remember as with most situations at work, there’s a XKCD comic that discusses it.  I found it.