Cory Doctorow
This year, I am determined to continue working in my hammock through the winter, including the cold winter mornings (cold by LA standards, e.g.6'C).
I've got *TWO* electric heated slankets: a battery powered one that has most of its elements along my back, and a mains-cabled one with foot-pouches whose elements run down its front.
I'm wearing my EFF staff beanie and a pair of thin, warm "typing" gloves advertised for writers, and I've asked for new slippers for Xmas.
Kim Scheinberg
@pluralistic
Cory, I think you're old enough now for us to have The Talk. This is life changing stuff and it starts here:
https://www.ororowear.com/products/men-heated-vest-black?variant=41733288624310
This plus heated socks turned my half-days of skiing into full days. The socks are pricey, but I have a unworn pair in a size too large for me that I'd be happy to send you.
Cory Doctorow
@kims That's pretty cool, but I still need the slanket for sleeves, so I might as well use that for torso warmth, I think.
But for skiing, this would be great. I've already got battery-heated gloves and boots.
John Anderson
@pluralistic Ooh, link to the typing gloves?
Cory Doctorow
@quizzicus https://thewritersglove.com/products/typing-gloves-writing-gloves
Cory Doctorow
A Tumblr follower points out that I am a "Slanketpilled hammockmaxer," and that is totally correct.
Cory Doctorow
Mildly Feral :v_bi:
@pluralistic Slanket?
Angus McIntyre
@pluralistic Shakespeare nods approvingly.
"God's judgment upon thee, thou slanketpilled hammockmaxer, thou electrically be-cosseted rogue, always a-dangle 'twixt earth and sky!”
(Falstaff to Ned Poins in “Richard VII, Part 3”)
Cory Doctorow
@farah @mjausson Mine's not an official slanket (it's superior because it has electrical heating elements and foot-pouches.
Mildly Feral :v_bi:
@mjausson @pluralistic I have one of those!! They are brilliant!! Didn’t know they were called slanket though 😅
Cecilia Mjausson Huster
Cory Doctorow
@farah No, I'm definitely Slanketpilled Hammockmaxer
Mildly Feral :v_bi:
@pluralistic You can just call it electric cocoon. Your superhero name will be ‘electric mothman’
Cory Doctorow
Slanketpilled hammockmaxer
Jaap Zeldenrust
@pluralistic You may want to look into getting an underquilt. Putting the insulating material outside of the hammock means it doesn't get compressed by you laying on top of it, so it's much more effective than having insulating material between you and the hammock.
Cory Doctorow
@jozeldenrust Excellent suggestion, though for now I'm doing OK - and I'm trying to minimize the things that have to remain stable in the hammock when I get up and then get back into it (I get into it in pitch dark, so it all has to be assemblable by feel alone).
Ride Theory
@pluralistic I want to see this as your author photo on your next book.
Jeff Gang
@pluralistic How are you positioning the laptop when working in your hammock? Just on your ... lap? Does your neck feel OK?
(Not trying to yuck your yum ... just interested in figuring out if I, an ergonomics normie, could work in a hammock too.)
Cory Doctorow
@gang On my lap, with a rolled up blanket beneath my head to get neck position right.
Jeff Gang
@pluralistic Blankets all the way down!
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