I had a fantastic weekend with people I don't see nearly enough. Even the fact I am now sitting in LAX waiting on a plane that is delayed at least half an hour without the cookie spread Kat gave me because as a paste it wasn't allowed is ruining it, even though I am very tired already and need the name of the cookie paste.
Mal: Take your people and go. Captain: You would have done the same. Mal: We can already see I haven't.
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Lee - Mar 13, 2011 8:32:39 pm PDT #28174 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Typo Boy - Mar 13, 2011 8:44:25 pm PDT #28175 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Well, the something I'm saying is "I'm not getting off the grid."
::clutches surge protectors to chest::
My agreement with this is one of the reasons I'm into alternative energy. If I wanted to see us go back before the age of electricity, I'd just sit back and watch humanity do what it is doing. Cause honestly that is where business as usual is heading.
Trudy Booth - Mar 13, 2011 9:00:05 pm PDT #28176 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
It'll be interesting if centralized power being pretty exclusive turns out to be a blip in human history.
Liese S. - Mar 13, 2011 9:07:50 pm PDT #28177 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Power issues. The biggest issue for us out here with wind is water. Water is a much bigger problem for us, so the fact that some of the windmill systems are quite water intensive is an issue. Of course, we're coming off of coal using water from the potable aquifer for their slurry, when the non-potable aquifer is Right There. So, you know, lots of issues.
Uranium mining, and irresponsibility surrounding it has contributed heavily to problems on the reservations. This article is a good, if chilling narrative of the problems over the last fifty years. It ends abruptly; maybe there was a transcription problem, but the last year discussed was 2003. I started visiting the reservation in 1998, went into full time work there in 2001. I drank well water for the next four years, and tribal water for the two following, much of which may have been uranium tainted. Here's a recent article from Scientific American on the issue.
Maybe these days mining would be better, more protected. But this is still the reservation. I doubt it.
Typo Boy - Mar 13, 2011 9:42:08 pm PDT #28178 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Can you talk more about wind energy being water intensive? This is new to me.
Shir - Mar 13, 2011 11:50:40 pm PDT #28179 of 30001
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Crashing to announce important Nilly news: please check Beep Me.
Lee - Mar 13, 2011 11:57:27 pm PDT #28180 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
WHOOOO HOOOOO Nilly Baby!
Shir - Mar 13, 2011 11:58:47 pm PDT #28181 of 30001
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
I know! I can't seem to stop smiling.
amych - Mar 14, 2011 12:57:38 am PDT #28182 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
NILLY!!! PI BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Calli - Mar 14, 2011 1:19:45 am PDT #28183 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Yay, Nilly!
Liese, your home is lovely! Thanks for sharing the photos.