Archive for May, 2008

Flagstaff to Phoenix (and back again)

I drove down to Phoenix yesterday with a friend.  The landscape is otherworldly most of the way – I’m still not used to living in a volcanic region.  Even more interesting though, are the changes caused by the elevation drop – Phoenix is 6000 feet lower than Flagstaff.  The flora changes dramatically.  We started in […]

Breaking old habits: fossil fuels

Several people have told me that solar and/or windpower are useless because the amount of energy necessary to manufacture them is less than the energy they can output over the entire life of the device.  That’s uninformed nonsense. And don’t try the “it’s too expensive” argument either because now solar is actually cheaper than coal.  […]

Weekly top 5

Mascott – Dreamer’s Book Jem – Finally Woken Deb Talan – Something Burning Deb Talan – Sincerely Sonia Dada – Test Pattern

What I’ve Noticed (belatedly)

Georgia: even more of a backwater than you thought. Read a book, plant a tree. I need a lot of these. You don’t believe in evolution. You just believe it. To believe in something takes faith, trust, effort, strength. I need none of these things to believe evolution. It just is. My health is better […]

The semester may be over

But I’m still busy. So busy, in fact, that you’re going to have to wait to find out what I’ve noticed this week and what I’ve been listening to. I even missed a day of photo365, so I’m going to cheat and post two pictures taken on the same day… Amy probably won’t like this […]

My vagina and consumer electronics

Today I took a survey about consumer electronics and my purchasing habits.  At the end of the survey I was asked whether I was male or female in order to “better analyze the results of this survey.” My vagina does not influence what I buy.  Except for chocolate and tampons.