The move to turn the clocks forward by an hour on March 11 rather than the usual early April date was mandated by the U.S. government as an energy-saving effort. But other than forcing millions of drowsy American workers and school children into the dark, wintry weather three weeks early, the move appears to have had little impact on power usage. “We haven’t seen any measurable impact,” said Jason Cuevas, spokesman for Southern Co., one of the nation’s largest power companies, echoing comments from several large utilities.
The thought of politicians jumping up and down yelling “We’ve got to -do- something, gentlemen” reminds me of an exchange from Mel Brook’s Blazing Saddles:
Governor William J. Le Petomane: HOLY UNDERWEAR! People murdered? Innocent women and children blown to bits? We must do something to protect our phoney-baloney jobs people. Harumph! Harumph! All of the governor’s lackeys but one chant along with him: Harumph! Harumph! Governor: I didn’t get a harumph out of that guy. Another lackey: Give the governer a harumph! Lackey: Harumph! Governor: You watch your ass.
I’m sure you noticed that there’s now some ads on my site. I’ve been playing with them since May 15th or so. Here’s where I’ve come to…
I put one ad at the bottom of each article page in (what I hope is) a relatively unobtrusive spot with unobtrusive colors. Very popular pages that I don’t care too much about (like this) get a few more ads sprinkled in them.
Google Adsense says that my blog site gets about 500 ad impressions per day. WordPress stats agrees with that but Analog stats says I’m getting more like 2,000 page views/day in my blog folders… hmm. Maybe it’s that Analog is counting spam bots and web crawlers. On the ads, Google says I have a clickthrough rate of about 0.5%. The site makes $0.50/day…. about $180/year. So the site pays for itself and buys me a nice dinner every few months. You might be able to extrapolate your potential earnings from these numbers.
Seen on the back of a forklift at the Shipyard while I helped clean it out a few weeks ago.
DANGER! LAWYER OPPORTUNITY ZONE
Failure to have perfectly adequate warnings that anticipate every possible hazardous situation, no matter how remote, will result in litigation by hordes of lawyers who will make even the most innocent thing appear to be malicious willful intent by your company to cause a great harm to their client, and will leave you penniless and broken after wasting immense amounts of your time.
Jimmy Kimmel went to Maker Faire. He gave us a nice interview though all that made it to screen were a few short clips. It’s cool to note that our fire acted as endcaps to the bit. His story starts and ends with FLG fire.
I got about 4 frames on TV. At 30 frames/second, that’s 0.166 seconds of fame.
I overheard this on a mailing list I belong to. Much redacted to protect the innocent, and the guilty. The topic was, “how to keep people from tagging art work”.
Tagging will happen.
SEVERAL YEARS AGO we worked around the clock and through sand storms to finish “that stupid [redacted].” Late one evening [person] walked up behind a very large dude tagging the freshly stained [art]. The tagger was sporting two large and long dreadlocks right out of the top of his head. Suddenly his hair style changed to a uni-dread as [person] grabbed him by the head and threw him to the ground effectively scalping the guy.
As a warning to the rest of the taggers, [person] tied the scalped dread to his [object] and [left] it hanging there for the rest of the event.
Take what you will from this, everything has consequences.
Last year I helped to build The Serpent Mother with the Flaming Lotus Girls. I welded and ground a lot of stainless steel sheet. Here is a safety guide I created for safely working with stainless steel.
Phoey! I just found Penn Radio a few months ago on podcast. I went looking for it today and it’s gone :-( . He stopped broadcasting the show in March but my podcasting just caught up to it.
I was really starting to get into it. I simply loved the latest “Pull of the Weasel Friday” episode.
