Category: general

// 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.

// 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?’

// 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?

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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

// best buys really needs to grow its customer service… a dozen people on the floor and only one person asks if need assistance.

// 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?

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discuss.

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).

‘Please know I love especially you, how every morning you turn over/ the languorous earth,…’

browsing through a copy of The American Poetry Review and Poetry (both arrived yesterday) while drinking a big cup coffee.

just finished watching a couple episodes of Marty Stouffer’s Wild America with the kidlingers

It is amusing to find lists of books that include a title (or titles) that I helped bring to the reading audience. This book list (http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1852804) includes titles by C.S. Lewis, Ayn Rand, Chaim Potok and one of the books I published in the last few years. The company a book keeps on an individual reader’s bookshelf is very educational.

// listening to the wind pull the barn door off its hinges.