// of course, i’ll catch the bus tonight. there’s no buses running today because it’s a holiday….. so much for the working class.
Month: January 2009
// it’s snowing outside. looks more like flurries. co-work says we might get 4”. better haul it to ingles and buy bread and milk.
// the water coming from the home facets are rust red. or clay red. one of the plagues of egypt? or asheville’s stellar urban planning?
// i’m on my third cup of coffee. still waiting for the first cup to kick in. must be monday. or the weather.
// weird. fell asleep reading an ezra pound bio and woke up thinking i’m late for class.
// i didn’t know ezra pound had wisconsin connections… chippewa falls connections at that.
10 Ways to Save Money
10. Get better at re-using your stuff
9. Cut your food costs
8. Dress and look sharp with less cash
7. Start working for yourself (crazy as it sounds)
6. Cut the cable and get your TV free
5. Trim your cell phone costs
4. Invest in your career
3. Trick yourself into spending less, saving more
2. Get serious about Craigslist
1. Reduce your bills by simply asking
from lifehacker:
Top 10 Ways to Save Money in a Recession
(via wyliefisher)
// if i have dreams, i never remember them upon waking. but this morning i awoke and remembered a dream about chicken soup. weird.
// so much for…. think i’ll make some coffee and ponder how to answer the kidlinger’s question, ‘what do you do all day?’
// awesome. the podcasts are loaded are ready to listen, download and subscribe (via apple itunes). next week i repeat the process.
// poetry vrs. the american poetry review. this month the the american poetry review wins (due to the publication of wendell berry poems).
// okay, so i didn’t take the bus this morning because i didn’t want to wait outside when the windchill is -8°F.
// sometimes, in conversation, it is difficult to distinguish what comments require a response and what comments require further attention.
// time to catch a bus. how long will i have to wait for the bus with a wind chill of 6°F?
The Google Footprint
American physicist Alex Wissner Gross has recently done research in the filed of web searching. He has estimated that each google search lets out 7 gram of CO2. A kettle of boiling water required for a cup of tea leaves 15 gram. That means two google searches are equal to a cup of tea. Now that doesn’t sound to bad, but thinking about the amount of google searches done every single day brings the total to a different level.
Now the funniest part of the research is that google lets out more CO2 than other search engines. At first I thought that had to be complete nonsense, but since google is a very fast search engine and uses several servers to provide us with top notch results, it may be some truth to it.
Google itself claims that they let out a lot less than Gross stated, saying each search only result in only 0,2 gram.
Wonder what the footprint of this post will be…
Often, I’ve wondered about the carbon footprint made by maintaining an online magazine versus a print magazine. A print magazine can always be recycled (inks, papers, etc.). But an online magazine requires energy to keep an online magazine available 24-hours a day.
Is there any research to answer this question?
// standing in a grocery store with a list in one hand & a basket in the other… staring at walls of stuff & wondering what’s it all about
//decisions, decisions… eat lunch at my desk while editing audio recordings? or eat in the breakroom and read barzun’s house of intellect?
// best buys really needs to grow its customer service… a dozen people on the floor and only one person asks if need assistance.
Interview: Seth Godin on How Often to Post to Your Blog
From AdAge.com:
Seth Godin: My goals in blogging are:
- To spread ideas
- To put my ideas out there and get them out of the way of the next idea
- To encourage people to add alacrity to their diet
I find that I have about six bloggable ideas a day. I also find that writing twice as long a post doesn’t increase communication, it usually decreases it. And finally, I found that people get antsy if there are unread posts in their queue.
Hence, the compromise on daily.
How the city hurts your brain – Boston Globe
The reason such seemingly trivial mental tasks leave us depleted is that they exploit one of the crucial weak spots of the brain. A city is so overstuffed with stimuli that we need to constantly redirect our attention so that we aren’t distracted by irrelevant things, like a flashing neon sign or the cellphone conversation of a nearby passenger on the bus. This sort of controlled perception — we are telling the mind what to pay attention to — takes energy and effort. The mind is like a powerful supercomputer, but the act of paying attention consumes much of its processing power.
Interesting. Is this another call to simple, rural living?
// it’s snowing… i totally forgot to make a run on the grocery store for bread and milk… how am i going to survive a southern blizzard?
// watched high fidelity the other night… i want to be a record store owner… do record stores still exist?
CARIBOU vs. STARBUCKS
discuss.
Um, that’s like THE BEATLES vs. THE ROLLING STONES. Both seem ubiquitous and overhyped/over-priced.
My flavorite coffee den is Firestorm Cafe (but it’s not open in the mornings… and there’s no Caribou coffee in the area… … there’s Izzy’s, but it’s not on the bus route to the office and if I hiked over there for me daily brew I’d late for work… The Drip in actually on the bus route to the office, but if i stopped for coffee i’d have to wait 30 minutes for the next bus which would make me late to work… and there’s City Bakery, but that presents the same dilemma as The Drip… leaving me with Starbucks and the bad taste in my mouth that Asheville’s public transit is not as good as it could be.). So, ugh (I can’t believe it!)… I concede… Starbucks (at least for me morning dose of caffeine).
Coffeehouse Junkie 