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Tuesday, 28 August 2007

  • taken from tuesday monday quarterback, my weekly stop for all things football and current events:

     

    In July, numerous pop musicians and celebrities flew in private jets, then rode limos to the Live Earth concerts, where they demanded that others conserve. Some 150 acts performed at the event's various venues. Suppose half the acts flew commercial, half aboard private jets. Flying a private jet a transcontinental distance generates greenhouse gases equivalent to driving a Hummer for a year. So that's 75 Hummer Years of greenhouse gases caused by the Live Earth acts that arrived by private jet. (TMQ proposes that henceforth, environmental hypocrisy be measured in Hummer Years.)

    If the other acts flew commercial, assuming the average act has five performers and crew and flies a medium distance, that would translate to about 550 tons of greenhouse gases, which is another 60 Hummer Years of global-warming emissions. Now factor in all the spectators and staff attending the various Live Earth concerts. John Buckley of Carbonfootprint.com estimated that around 35,000 tons of greenhouse gases were caused by spectators and logistical support for Live Earth -- converted into HYs, that's about the same as driving a Hummer for 4,000 years. Four thousand years' worth of Hummer emissions for an event demanding conservation! And we're just talking about one day of screeching guitars and slurred lyrics, not about the many pop stars who live the private jet lifestyle the year long. As Marina Hyde of London's Guardian newspaper pointed out, Sting's wife recently charted a helicopter to fly her to an environmental meeting.

Monday, 20 August 2007

  • for those of you who don't know (probably most of you as i haven't really been talking about it), my grandmother has been having some health problems lately. she had knee surgery, and because of that, my mom is living with her for the next month or so to help her get things done.

    in addition, she had bad chest pain a few weeks ago and had to go to the doctor. they figured out it wasn't a heart problem, but gall stones and i think a few other things. things are lost in the translation talking about it with my mom on the phone. i think they are still waiting on some tests to come in actually.

    then saturday night, she had horrible stomach pains and my parents took her to the emergency room. the doctors there ran tests but couldn't figure anything out so ended up sending her home at like 5 sunday morning. she continued feeling bad all day, but not nearly as bad as the night before.

    this morning i called on the way to work and she still wasn't feeling well, but everything was okay.

    just got a phone call from my dad now and apparently things have changed. my great uncle, my grandmother's brother, came to visit her while my mom was there and collapsed, apparently due to a heart attack. last i heard they were rushing him to the hospital but he looks to be in bad shape, possibly already passed on. details are spotty.

    on the way to the hospital, an intestinal expert at the emergency room my grandmother went to saturday night called, saying he'd reviewed the tests that had been run then, and that she had to come in for surgery today. not sure exactly why but i'm hearing it third hand.

    please keep my whole family in your prayers guys.

Wednesday, 08 August 2007

Tuesday, 07 August 2007

  • this is for me since i'm at work.

     

    music to check out:

    kaki king - until we feel red

    the locust - new erections

    life in your way - waking giants

    the dark romantics

    Happy Together: A Lujo Records Wedding Compilation

    Inhale/Exhale - The Lost, The Sick, The Sacred

     

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