1. If you know something bothers you, and you know it REALLY bothers you, why would you continually look/read/get involved with said thing that really bothers you? I find that ridiculous. (And disingenuous.) Also, I'm reminding all readers of this journal that I log IPs, not to sell your IP to advertisers, or anything like that, just to keep track of hit counts (and possible stalkers.) Which is why I know some people love to come to my journal and read things they've been adamant about not participating in/finding distasteful. [/cryptic] If you know something gets your blood pressure up, you should probably avoid that thing. Just a thought. (I also respect your right to not like me, this journal, contents of this journal, dogs, and Wednesdays. You can scroll, delete, whatever, with no worries from me.)
2. I really REALLY wish someone would design a RETROFITTED ENGINE for people's cars to make them hybrids/run on electricity/run on compost. That's far more "green" than manufacturing NEW vehicles that provide that capability. (Reasoning: you now have something new that was made - in the same way other vehicles are made, fairies don't create Priuses, leaving behind pixie dust. Your old vehicle is now in someone else's hands, being driven, which means there are now TWO vehicles where there was ONE.) I'd gladly throw down a grand or more to have my current engine retrofitted with a more efficient engine. Anyone? Does this make sense?
3. I wish my town would enforce a tax on the WEIGHT of garbage each household throws away. It would a) encourage more recycling (a tax CREDIT could be offered for every __# of recycled waste) and b) maybe get more people into composting their scraps. Which also includes sheets, towels, old ratty jeans, t-shirts.... (Yes, you can compost them. It's cotton, a plant.) Germany did this in some villages I've been to, and I thought it was a fantastic idea.
4. If Friday was officially doughnut and coffee day, I think more people would smile. I know I would. Mmmm, chocolate glazed and Sumatra. <-- every day should start with that.
5. I'm going to put my money where my mouth is (figuratively, not literally as money is really dirty) and turn my surplus of plastic bags into reusable tote bags. I read the idea of crocheting them into various things. We'll see how that turns out... (And if you guessed my kids have Earth Day projects, you're right on track. *G*)
Finally, I did it. I got Rock Band yesterday. Radiohead? The Pixies? Yeah Yeah Yeahs? Ramones? ...the Grateful Dead?? Hells to the Yes! lml -_- lml (and apparently you can download a Metallica pack??? I'll see you guys in a few weeks. Hee!)
(Happy early Birthday to my lovely friend,
dovil!!! Save some liver for our NYC trip!)
2. I really REALLY wish someone would design a RETROFITTED ENGINE for people's cars to make them hybrids/run on electricity/run on compost. That's far more "green" than manufacturing NEW vehicles that provide that capability. (Reasoning: you now have something new that was made - in the same way other vehicles are made, fairies don't create Priuses, leaving behind pixie dust. Your old vehicle is now in someone else's hands, being driven, which means there are now TWO vehicles where there was ONE.) I'd gladly throw down a grand or more to have my current engine retrofitted with a more efficient engine. Anyone? Does this make sense?
3. I wish my town would enforce a tax on the WEIGHT of garbage each household throws away. It would a) encourage more recycling (a tax CREDIT could be offered for every __# of recycled waste) and b) maybe get more people into composting their scraps. Which also includes sheets, towels, old ratty jeans, t-shirts.... (Yes, you can compost them. It's cotton, a plant.) Germany did this in some villages I've been to, and I thought it was a fantastic idea.
4. If Friday was officially doughnut and coffee day, I think more people would smile. I know I would. Mmmm, chocolate glazed and Sumatra. <-- every day should start with that.
5. I'm going to put my money where my mouth is (figuratively, not literally as money is really dirty) and turn my surplus of plastic bags into reusable tote bags. I read the idea of crocheting them into various things. We'll see how that turns out... (And if you guessed my kids have Earth Day projects, you're right on track. *G*)
Finally, I did it. I got Rock Band yesterday. Radiohead? The Pixies? Yeah Yeah Yeahs? Ramones? ...the Grateful Dead?? Hells to the Yes! lml -_- lml (and apparently you can download a Metallica pack??? I'll see you guys in a few weeks. Hee!)
(Happy early Birthday to my lovely friend,
dovil!!! Save some liver for our NYC trip!)- Spock is::
quixotic - Current Music:Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld
'Oos dis bint, then?
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But I don't then phone all those people to argue with them.
Hahahahaha to your last line. Hee!
Rock Band > Guitar Hero.
It sure as hell is fun, that's for sure!
Total sense. I'd do it.
Love the bag fusing idea. Maybe I'll give it a try this weekend. I see reusable shopping bags (that I don't have to buy from the grocery story) in my future.
Coffee and donuts...mmmmm. There's this doughnut where they make the doughnuts using real ingredients. What an amazing idea. The raised chocolate glazed (real chocolate, mind you) are sex in donut form. For those who like a heftier breakfast pastry, there are coconut crullers...
There's a donut shop down the street from me that makes the most fantastic, fresh donuts. UNGH. Get in my mouth, please. (I'm unable to eat a lot of crullers, though. They are SO good, but SO filling. Mmmm, sweets.) :D
1. I think there's a certain brand of people out there who simply are not happy unless they're unhappy. New York is full of them; I had to work briefly at a call center they adored, apparently ("What do you mean, the Li'l Swimmers class is full? You will fnid me a spot this instant!" "I'm sorry ma'am, I can't do that, as the dealine passed two weeks ago, there's a waiting list or more than twenty people, and I have absolutely no control over admissions. I just take orders. May I suggest alternatives?" "I am a member of this institution." "Yes, as are all the other people who signed up before the deadline. May I suggest alternatives?")
I wish them huge ugly goiters that make them walk lopsided and make them look liek Iggy Pop's srpouted out of their necks.
2. 'S'funny--no one ever talks about the environmental impact of manufacturing those green cars, let alone the impact all those older cars have (and let's face it--used cars will never get the loving care of a new car on lease, and a well-maintained car = a marginally less-polluting car). And while I admire the idea of the Prius and its brethren, a diesel Mini will earn a minimum 45/mpg. For starters. There's truth to the hype, but some of it is unabashed HYPE. But--I think you're on to something. Now to get some venture capital in this burgeoning juggernaut of an economy! [mild eyetwitch]
3. This is a cool idea--but what happens in a large city like New York, where a large number of people don't have backyards? Maybe there can be community composts, like community gardens! It's like "take-a-penny, leave-a-penny!" Only stinkier, and far better for the begonias.
4. I so totally thought you wrote "chocolate glazed Sumatra." WANT. Though I have no idea what it might be.
5. Okay. The plasic bag ideas? Mind-searingly BRILLIANT. I like the fusing better, but I am expecting photos of finished product of both, yes?
ROCK BAND - I could go on for HOURS on this. How cool is it that you can design your own rocker--and then go out and blow the house down with all kinds of music? Be sure to check all the available downloads. The Monkee's "Last Train to Clarksville" is available, as are a number of Metallica tracks. Did you know that they're simultaneously releasing their new album on Rock Band, and in The Real World? Serious. :D Let me know just how much you're enjoying the game, once you actually peel yourself away from it and get to a computer. As for me? There were days I saw little tracking lines and colored bars in my sleep!
2. YEAH. Um, buying stuff doesn't make you environmentally friendly. I got into it with this idealistic 20 year old vegan on this last movie set. She was very sniffy with me when I pulled up in my SUV at the shoot, and continued on until I put her in her place. (Sweetly, with a smile.) Unless you're RECYCLING existing things, don't tell me how "green" you are. (Especially if you don't compost, use vermiculture, etc.)
3. Yeah! In some of these villages, there are plots at the edge of the urban areas that are communal. It's wonderful. Everyone has a small plot to grow their own foods, compost, etc. They get instruction, community involvement, and in the end, healthy home-grown food.
4. hahaha! Um, YUM.(Chocolate covered coffee beans are CRACK.)
5. I think the fusing looks cooler, too.
HAHAHAHHA. I've TOTALLY been dreaming in Guitar Hero!! I see a lot of downloads and jamming in my immediate future. CANNOT WAIT.
Why not make a multi-sides 3-D structure that can capture the maximum # of rays? Like, a 10 or 20 sided structure? Thank you, D-n-D for the dodecahedron model that created this theory. :D
2. Excellent idea! Reminds me of Back to the Future. :)
3. I just wish my town had some sort of enforced recycling program. I mean, I don't have a problem with taking it to the recyling center once a week, but I know there are a whoooooole lot of people who are simply too lazy.
Mmmm, Doughnuts!
We *have* a recycling program in my town that's awesome. IF PEOPLE DID IT. Gah. They even give us our bins, pick them up AND PUT THEM BACK every Monday... you're right. It's pure laziness.
#3 We generate less than a bag of trash per week mainly by composting and recycling. There are only two of us, though.
#4 Saturday is coffee cake and coffee day around here. I love fresh baked goods to start the weekend right. I have kringle dough thawing on the counter right now.
#5 Wow, what a cool idea. I don't have a sewing machine, but want one right this minute!
Well, I'd rather go to a Widespread Panic or Phish concert and buy an organic sweater made by some hippie chick in a Mother Hubbard who knitted it from her pet llama, thanks. It'll only cost me a few veggie burritos. :D
And you'd be hard pressed to find a more efficient car than a Honda. They continue to beat environmental standards. <3 (I use my grocery bags for dog walks/cat box. But I still can't use them all! And a lot of times, I forget my cloth bags...)
You so clever!
:)
People do what they do 'cause they're people. That's all i know. Crazy people.
Oh, wait! I think you *can* retrofit an engine to burn biodiesel, but i know those engines don't have as much power...
http://www.grist.org/advice/ask/2005/04/28/umbra-retrofit/
http://www.omnitekcorp.com/altfuel.htm
http://www.eere.energy.gov/afdc/vehicles/conversions.html
Edited at 2008-03-07 06:31 pm (UTC)
Ooooh, I'll be looking into those links. I would REALLY like a way to retro-fit an engine to be like the current hybrids. Surely there's a way...
2 Yes, very much so. Making more stuff unnecessarily=not that green
4 Yes, really, really definitely. I want a doughnut now.
5 Ooo, report back pls?
On 3, I am so nearly with you, but OTOH I live in a tiny suburban flat, gardenless and 3 miles from our local recycling centre (not on public transport, I have no car) and sometimes, I just have to throw stuff away that could have been recycled. And therefore I'd be taxed more. Sigh. So basically I agree with everything you say that doesn't personally inconvenience me. And there is a nutshell version of the reason the world's going to environmental hell.
If it weren't doughnut and coffee day that would really get me down.
Local governments/communities need to make it easier for people to recycle, like provide newspaper drop off sites, etc. It just benefits us all, you know?
I think I'm going to need to get a donut to accompany this coffee...
But yeah - if I could turn my already there compost into fuel? Uh.... YEAH.
4. Mmmm DOUGHNUTS. I have not had one in ages. This is sad.
4. GET THEE HENCE! For there is a place of donut-crafting behind me, yea verily! Mmmm, donuts.