February 2011
53 posts
nickels and dime get you vodka
sleater kinney eats a lot
as well does living things
but it gets a little wierd
when my dad sings.
otis day comes on strong
eat shit be fit
dont ever steal someone elses bong.
TV kills but so do guns
i like people
but i really like honey buns.
smoking in the car
light it up
and look at cows
all that methane
will blow you the fuck up.
the saab smells fresh
as does the taurus
but if i stopped
i;d be able to see a tyranosaurus
unless your name is: Brandon
Richie
Anne
or buttmunch
in which case your a fagosaurus rex.
P.J. O’Rourke’s Problem with Bikes
O’Rourke’s sometimes amusing, sometimes mean-spirited campaign against the bicycle is well-documented. Here is a summary of his problems with bikes; odd how many of them are the very reasons each of us ride….
The Principle Arguments That May be Marshaled Against Bicycles:
1. Bicycles are childish.
2. Bicycles are undignified.
3. Bicycles are unsafe.
4. Bicycles are un-American.
5. I don’t like the kind of people who ride bicycles.
6. Bicycles are unfair.
7. Bicycles are good exercise.
dude turned a city into a math problem to accurately predict urban consumption and a fuck of a lot of other things. : Read the rest here.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/magazine/19Urban_West-t.html?_r=1
West illustrates the problem by translating human life into watts. “A human being at rest runs on 90 watts,” he says. “That’s how much power you need just to lie down. And if you’re a hunter-gatherer and you live in the Amazon, you’ll need about 250 watts. That’s how much energy it takes to run about and find food. So how much energy does our lifestyle [in America] require? Well, when you add up all our calories and then you add up the energy needed to run the computer and the air-conditioner, you get an incredibly large number, somewhere around 11,000 watts. Now you can ask yourself: What kind of animal requires 11,000 watts to live? And what you find is that we have created a lifestyle where we need more watts than a blue whale. We require more energy than the biggest animal that has ever existed. That is why our lifestyle is unsustainable. We can’t have seven billion blue whales on this planet. It’s not even clear that we can afford to have 300 million blue whales.
