The new toy arrived via secret import channels yesterday, and I spent a couple hours last night adding files, poking buttons, and generally enjoying my super-slick ebook reader. A fairly basic little machine, there is nothing particularly special about the behind-the-scenes technology that powers the device. Sure, it doesn’t have a wi-fi connection, touch-screen, faster [...]

Mother Earth, that is. It’s Earth Day today — in case you hadn’t realized. If I could actually see the ground for the snow, I might have done something quasi-organic. Instead, we’ll be spending the day indoors burning fossil fuels to keep warm. On the bright side, I’m not driving [...]

Every day I get up early in the morning and drive to work amongst the hoards of trucks migrating to the oil-fueled town where my non-oil-related job is located.
Every day I watch out my window as heavy equipment destined for some none-too-distant rig is shuttled around or between various industrial production yards.
Every day I sit [...]

Black mark on my carbon score this year, I succumbed and bought an evil page-a-day calendar. You know the kind, of course, a year’s worth of paper stacked in a sheath of attention-deficit daily entertainment.
I justify these things (likely wrongly) because I only buy calendars from the discount bin after the new year has [...]

My priority for fashion has always been bent towards function. I’m not sure if I should brag that up, or not. Fortunately I have a wife who is much more inclined towards form on that front. The end result is that my wardrobe of late has been shifting up an steady slope: [...]

BP has a nifty little carbon calculator on their site that lets you estimate your carbon footprint. (It’s all the rage these days, didn’t you know?) Based on some basic estimates, Karin and I (despite our best efforts at home) still have a footprint of about 16 tonnes. Yikes! The worst part [...]

Take the Falun Dafa dudes for example: they stand in the four square meters of concrete that is the front entrance to our office. They stand there day after day, rain or shine, heat or cold, and hand out little slips of paper and CD-ROMs explaining their cause. I suppose if my relatives were being held as political prisoners by the Chinese government, I might be willing to do the same sort of thing.