In 15 days time, I... Nate.. will leave the Kimball House.
I came in sometime in mid November last year so it has been 11 months of what can only be classified as
crazy awesome. One of the defining characteristics of the year has been the fridge. Rarely used as intended it has served us well in... other purposes.
The fridge began in the kitchen. standard fare.
Then Brad brought home some english chick.
After a night of harassment and Jimmy meeting someone he can actually talk to about british music *he was on a kick* Brad decided to... well.. be Brad and lock himself in his room with the girl.
Tired of his antisocial bullshit we opted to lock him in his room in our own fashion. That is, moving the fridge from the kitchen and placing it at his door, as is illustrated in figure
i.This combined with loose items of questionable origin, a couple chairs, screens from the windows and wheelchair formed the obstruction at Brads door. It was then that it became apparent that having moved the fridge THIS far we might as well keep it in the living room. Not only is it classy, but it better facilitates drinking.
fig. i
fantastic.
Figure
ii shows the original placement of the kimball house living room fridge. This was aesthetically the best position but proved problematic at times. Note that the couch illustrated is the old one and we still are using the arm chair. The chair is at this point the designated serving or passing position. you get the beer for the room. your in the chair. As the living room continues to evolve, the fridge will no longer function in this position and will have to be moved.
fig. ii
After some sort of frantic cleaning effort the fridge was replaced against the west wall of the room. This opened up the corner and allowed us better functionality for the room as a whole. The compensation for this was a 45* slant in living room orientation, as illustrated in figure
iii.In this position, alignment of the TV and couch was nominal allowing for a direct viewing position. Also, the fridge door had enough space to open without obstruction. The serving position moved from the arm chair to the end of the couch, that being closest sitting to the fridge. This was, functionaly speaking, the ideal position for the machine.
fig. iii
fig. iv
Fridge can be seen behind Nathan
In our experimentation we found that, though the 45* orientation was ideal for imagery, social interaction was at a detriment due to the coffee table being off axis to the secondary seating position. Furthermore, as the room continued to evolve, the allotted space given to seating exponentially increased. The couch was replaced with a new and substantially larger one and the arm chair itself was replaced with another couch/futon. It was at this point necessary to remove the fridge from the living room proper and situate it within the foyer/entryway.
This allowed the continuation of the theme while compensating for the decrease in available space. As a benefit, the right orientation of the room provided exceptional social response and on axis directivity of drink placement; see figure
v.
fig. v
Note the fridge behind Matty and Scott... fuck jimmy All in all this was the best placement of the fridge in terms of balanced criteria.
SO GOOD was it in fact that we moved it back to that position after barricading Jamie's door.
Reference post:
Where the Fuck is the fun?It was not until one Alex Fernandez began his work into the study of object propagation through static environments, that we found an alternate placement for the ice box.
Dr. Fernandez addresses the International Society for General Relativity and GravitationDr. Fernandez suggested the idea that an object such as a pole, when propelled into an unmoving environment, my bedroom wall, would retain its structural integrity while manipulating not only the primary environment but the encompassing sphere of physical influence as well.
Indeed, he was most accurate in his hypothesis. Not only was the immediate environment influenced, that is to say manipulated by the magnitude of physical penetration, but the influencing sphere necessitated a drastic change in the macro environment. An outside object was altered in position to compensate for the loss of structural integrity to the primary.
structural integrity to the primary environment In his experimentation, Fernandez necessitated the need for the fridge to be returned to its original placement.
Thus the cycle is completed.
