Comments on: Fun, While It Lasts http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/12/29/fun-while-it-lasts/ I FORGET WHAT EIGHT WAS FOR Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:37:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Casey http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/12/29/fun-while-it-lasts/#comment-70838 Sun, 01 Jan 2006 22:26:22 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/12/29/fun-while-it-lasts/#comment-70838 Actually, John, I’m thinking that maybe you should let Athena jump on the new one once. After she sinks waist-deep in it and you have to winch her out of there, she should be cool with not jumping on it anymore.

]]> By: sulizano http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/12/29/fun-while-it-lasts/#comment-70837 Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:35:12 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/12/29/fun-while-it-lasts/#comment-70837 That photo is now officially our New Years Day 2006 desktop background.

What a fun little chickadee is Athena!

Suli

]]> By: T.W. http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/12/29/fun-while-it-lasts/#comment-70836 Sat, 31 Dec 2005 05:13:14 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/12/29/fun-while-it-lasts/#comment-70836 Futons have the lowest inertia transfer of all mattresses because they are a solid slab of cotton. It does not get any harder. Foam varies with quality just as spring matresses do. Air mattresses are a bad idea cause they are heat sinks, pulling the warmth right out of you. Water beds are a different matter all together

]]> By: chibent http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/12/29/fun-while-it-lasts/#comment-70835 Sat, 31 Dec 2005 00:55:01 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/12/29/fun-while-it-lasts/#comment-70835 Our big purchase next year will also be a mattress. Husband is a light sleeper, and any movement I make wakes him up. Even move-my-hand-to-scratch-my-chin-type movement.

When/if you do review your new mattress, we will be fervently hoping for a mention of how well it dampens transfer of movement.

]]> By: punkrockhockeymom http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/12/29/fun-while-it-lasts/#comment-70834 Fri, 30 Dec 2005 13:19:01 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/12/29/fun-while-it-lasts/#comment-70834 Puppy didn’t stop jumping on our bed until he got too tall to do so without risk of serious brain injury.

Now, instead, he starts running at the far end of the room (our house is a Cape Cod and our room is the whole upstairs–so there’s a bit of a runway), builds up lots of speed, jumps vertically and flops on the bed to see if he can bounce me off.

He can.

]]> By: John Scalzi http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/12/29/fun-while-it-lasts/#comment-70833 Fri, 30 Dec 2005 12:49:46 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/12/29/fun-while-it-lasts/#comment-70833 It’s a risk I’m willing to take.

]]> By: Kate Nepveu http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/12/29/fun-while-it-lasts/#comment-70832 Fri, 30 Dec 2005 12:37:14 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/12/29/fun-while-it-lasts/#comment-70832 Something they don’t tell you about really good mattreses–you’ll never be comfortable again on another bed, even if it’s a pretty good one for hotels/spare rooms/air beds.

Just a warning.

]]> By: Burns! http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/12/29/fun-while-it-lasts/#comment-70831 Fri, 30 Dec 2005 08:19:48 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/12/29/fun-while-it-lasts/#comment-70831 That is a very cool photo.

]]> By: Justine Larbalestier http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/12/29/fun-while-it-lasts/#comment-70830 Fri, 30 Dec 2005 05:27:26 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/12/29/fun-while-it-lasts/#comment-70830 Cool photo. Made me wanna bounce!

]]> By: Soni http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/12/29/fun-while-it-lasts/#comment-70829 Fri, 30 Dec 2005 04:13:12 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/12/29/fun-while-it-lasts/#comment-70829 At close to 40 years of age, I cop to still jumping on the mattress from time to time as I come to bed after a long night of blog-hopping, usually in a playfully childish attempt to disturb and unseat my already comfortably prone husband and whatever he happens to be reading/eating/futzing around with.

I will say that more often than not, it’s actually more of an exaggerated occillation or “Fe Fi Fo Fum” giant stomp than bona fide trampolining. But that’s just because our mattress set had less spring than Dick “Lon” Cheney’s step and sits directly on the floor instead of perching more flexibly in a bed frame.

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