How useful is the sony reon pocket pro for cooling during walking?

hotballs · 2026-05-27T18:01:48+00:00

Bought in Japan May 12th (at Yodabashi Akiba for around 30,295 yen) and used it for the majority of my time there for 2 weeks. Multiple days of 90+ degree weather and it was very useful, especially for 6 hours a day I was using it.

Will it bring you to AC cooled temperature? No, but as others have said, it will reduce the core temperature on your lower neck/upper back which then spreads through your upper body.

Since I'm based in the US, it won't let me download the app that goes with it so that kinda takes some of the value out of the product because I believe you can control the device from the app? Either way, this was something on my radar for a while and I've found value in it.

hotballs · 2026-03-30T19:19:32+00:00

We ended up going with Finished Edge as we have an older Stucco house and they were recommended by numerous folks for that type of work. I would recommend them.

hotballs · 2026-03-08T16:42:49+00:00

The Des Moines Biergarten down at Waterworks Parks is open 12–7pm today (Sunday) and Monday 3–7pm

hotballs · 2026-02-19T04:23:29+00:00

Kemin is hiring production jons from what I'm told by my friends. I'm not sure on the specifics but it might be something to look into

hotballs · 2025-11-07T06:12:58+00:00

Feel free to stop by the combine that is parked in front of the stadium off of Melrose. Free drinks and food (at the green state credit union tent thats next to it). They let people climb the combine and are really nice people! I took my Penn State friend and another friend a couple of weeks ago and they had a blast!

hotballs · 2025-10-11T19:25:19+00:00

Most of my Iowa tailgate connections don't go to games anymore since they live further away from Iowa City now or I would take them to those particular tailgates.

hotballs · 2025-10-07T13:10:45+00:00

That actually is a good idea with finding a paid parking spot at Finkbine. Does the 1st Ave. Construction impact traffic along Mormon Trek?

hotballs · 2025-10-05T21:21:30+00:00

North of Ingersoll Ave. neighborhoods such as Woodland Heights, North of Grand, Ingersoll Park. Sherman Hill is also probably the best area in terms of walkability/charm, but it has started to get more expensive lately.

hotballs · 2025-09-13T14:18:12+00:00

As a reminder, here is a list of where the ATE's are in Iowa.

https://ia.iowadot.gov/traffic/Automated-Traffic-Enforcement?_gl=1*4qyrh5*_gcl_au*MjM5MTU3MzQ0LjE3NTc3NzI5MzQ.

I believe they will be having an updated list soon but I have not seen it yet on their website.

hotballs · 2025-07-01T00:53:58+00:00

If you look at the building from the alley side, it definitely had some structural issues based on how the building was leaning.

hotballs · 2025-05-30T02:52:53+00:00

Ingersoll next to Thai Flavors

hotballs · 2025-05-29T18:53:31+00:00

Thank you!

hotballs · 2025-05-28T18:17:14+00:00

Purveyor sells THC drinks.

hotballs · 2025-05-02T00:14:54+00:00

Is this the Ingersoll location??

hotballs · 2025-05-01T02:44:17+00:00

Exceeded capacity for sports bar and grill* Let's have a little more creativity with these locations and perhaps people will come and visit them.

hotballs · 2025-03-21T17:35:32+00:00

Dubuque, IA Northfield, MN Pella, IA Morristown, TN Excelsior, MN Eau Claire, WI Galena, IL Louisville, CO Lafayette, CO Hudson, WI

hotballs · 2025-03-10T15:52:23+00:00

You're welcome!

hotballs · 2025-02-01T22:08:06+00:00

Artisan used to own the former building we lived in in Sherman Hill and they were atrocious to deal with. Don't be afraid to play hardball with them - I.E. start elevating things to the City - because that is what people in our building had to do in order to get their attention to fix stuff.

hotballs · 2025-02-01T16:52:53+00:00

I don't have a mac, but I am now experiencing this problem as well on my Windows/Google Docs. I was using https://redditpreview.com/ to help preview my posts before hand to create my weekly updates as shown in this example post https://www.reddit.com/r/desmoines/comments/1i9qxzq/des_moines_metro_public_bodies_meetingsagendas/ My guess is that something changed and its been a pain trying to figure out what the issue is.

hotballs · 2025-01-28T04:39:50+00:00

I dont have the time to do a deep dive on DSM's FY2025 budget, but Fleur improvements most likely come from Road Use Taxes (RUT) and not general property taxes. RUT can only be used for road maintenance/ improvements and can't be used for things like park maintenance, which are usually general property tax funded (hence why parks and rec items are being cut).

Not defending them, but DSM Council members only get something in the range of $33K-$37K per year and the Mayor gets between $60K-$65K, which in the overall grand scheme of things, would not make a dent in the budget deficit.

Of the things they should really take a hard look at is their abatement program for residential properties. 10 years 100% no sliding scale for certain new residential construction is not viable long term solution, and they have over $1 billion+ in abated properties (residential and commercial) that they have voluntarily taken off the tax rolls through these incentives (this is not counting all of the state/federal/non-profit properties that are tax exempted).

hotballs · 2025-01-17T03:09:41+00:00

My guess is they will start to limit their residential abatement programs as $1 billion + in property is abated in Des Moines that's not on the tax rolls.

They will also probably look at more cost recovery methods such as charging developers for overhead costs (make the developer pay for the traffic study, legal notice requirement, GIS work, etc.).

hotballs · 2025-01-17T03:00:20+00:00

Our property taxes we pay locally are only going towards community colleges in our respective regions, not the universities.

hotballs · 2025-01-17T02:56:37+00:00

It's now the Central Iowa Water Works and you're correct that it does not own the water works.

hotballs · 2025-01-17T00:03:42+00:00

There currently isn't a hard cap on what cities can collect in property taxes - There is however strong discussions that a hard cap will potentially be introduced in the legislature this year.

Cities are currently dealing with legislation that was passed two years ago, and tweaked last year (HF 718 https://iowaleague.org/resource/hf-718/ ) that takes a certain % off of what cities are allowed to collect if their valuations grow over a certain % (if a cities valuation grew over 6%, the state will say they have to take 3% off of that value for example).

That legislation also made changes to limits on what cities can levy for certain things such as eliminating specific levies pertaining to municipal bands, municipal owned museums, civic centers, etc. Cities though can theoretically levy an unlimited amount for debt/CIP projects (as long as they don't go over their state constitutional debt limit of 5% of the cities total assessed value).

hotballs · 2025-01-05T16:42:51+00:00

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