Inara ,'Serenity'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I'm glad the NYTimes used their endorsement of John McCain to remind people about what a terrible person Rudy Giuliani is. Never forget! [link]
PS: The Times has the Australian Open situation on their front page.
ION, being gone for two days made me forget about how the spacebar on my computer here doesn't work all that well. Annoying!
Neato.
A biofuel startup in Illinois can make ethanol from just about anything organic for less than $1 per gallon, and it wouldn't interfere with food supplies, company officials said.[...]
May Wu, an environmental scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, says Coskata's ethanol produces 84 percent less greenhouse gas than fossil fuel even after accounting for the energy needed to produce and transport the feedstock. It also generates 7.7 times more energy than is required to produce it. Corn ethanol typically generates 1.3 times more energy than is used producing it.
The Times has the Australian Open situation on their front page
I like the usage of "situation" here. It makes it sound like we need to scramble a response team. Perhaps find Jack Bauer and dig up SpyDaddy.
I am distracted. cannot focus on work!
I feel like this is permanent state for me. The week after next, I am supposed to "Work from home". I have no idea how I'm going to get anything done.
I wish I could bring my cat to work.
Me too. But since we're not even supposed to eat at our desks here, I can't imagine how they would react to live animals.
I feel like this is permanent state for me.
I'm blaming mine on my meds. Which is why I was up working at 5.
Did you guys catch any of the other men's semi?
Because that was an excellent match.
Me too. But since we're not even supposed to eat at our desks here, I can't imagine how they would react to live animals.
Well, that's very sensible. Imagine all the hair you'd ingest if you were eating at a live animal--not to mention the dramatically increased risk of spillage.
A biofuel startup in Illinois can make ethanol from just about anything organic for less than $1 per gallon, and it wouldn't interfere with food supplies, company officials said.
Huh. My first reaction was skepticism, but the article sounds like this is a real possibility....
Of course, the whole thing is being funded by some fly-by-night tech company called "General Motors"....
Rather than fermenting that gas or using thermo-chemical catalysts to produce ethanol, Coskata pumps it into a reactor containing bacteria that consume the gas and excrete ethanol.
It's bacteria poop!
Corn is about the worst choice for making ethanol, from efficiency, environmental, just about every perspective. Well, puppies would be worse I guess. But not by much.
My boss's dog comes and visits me (for petting) on most days.
I wish. Then I could just blame it on that. As is it, I have to live in a carefully constructed fantasy world where the hair is invisible and no one ever notices it. So I'm LA LA LAing your post, Jesse, sorry.
Imagine all the hair you'd ingest if you were eating at a live animal--not to mention the dramatically increased risk of spillage.
You could go for a hairless animal.