Our intrepid cat
dutifully goes outdoors
even in the snow.
For those wondering: Yes. It snowed yesterday. We now have a snowblower. I cleared out my driveway around 3pm yesterday, ran out of gas, went out and purchased more and then plowed over to my neighbors and did half of his driveway. Jim cleared the driveway off again around 7pm. I cleared it again around 6:30 this morning.
I love the snow blower!
Lucia,
“I love the snow blower!”
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Probably as much as I love not needing to own one. 🙂
SteveF–
Not needing to own one is better.
So what’s the carbon-footprint of this feersum engine?
(kg of pure driven-snow per kg CO2 emitted)
Is your snowblower powered by gasoline or by electricity?
Beta Blocker : Gasoline. Electricity would be nice because then I wouldn’t run out and have to get more gas. But it’s gas.
michael hart: I don’t know. We inherited this and only began using it. I haven’t taken data on ‘kg snow/gallon gas” I guess I should have tried to start estimating yesterday.
Beta Blocker,
“I cleared out my driveway around 3pm yesterday, ran out of gas, went out and purchased more..”
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Does suggest that it is a gasoline powered snow blower… unless it was Lucia that ran out of gas, and she had to go out to purchase some ‘Five Hour Energy’ drink. 😉
Wintry mix today
Snow or rain, AGW blamed
But no school, woo hoo!
Without comment: snow in DC has caused La Curry’s hearing on climate change to be postponed. 🙂
Snow is the payback
For mocking the Gore-bots.
It serves you right.
I have to fly into Ohare in April. Last time was also in April just after a major snow storm…what fun THAT was.
Looking at those prints your intrepid cat must be one large moggy!
Ian–
No. I need a close up of a print. The snow is deep so it gets dragged along. The actual pay print in near the front of each streak.
Nothing stuck in DC. Lots of wind, and of course, cancelled flights. It’s about 40 F now
There may be other interpretations of this linked graph, but using a snow blower and creating carbon dioxide emissions, will help you live longer.
http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2013/03/precautionary-principle-in-one-chart.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CoyoteBlog+%28Coyote+Blog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
Over at “Open Mind”, Tamino has invented the “Pi-ku”.
http://tamino.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/pi-ku/
Surely such a poem would have to be infinitely long?
Ray–
Yes. And the one he wrote is pretty bad. Using yes! For all sentences with 1 syllable is going to be boring. I think the idea needs a “space” for the ‘.’ in 3.14159.
—
His poem.
Bad.
That’s what I think.
Drek.
I bet you agree.
Cuz I think it’s really, really bad.
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According to the dictionary, Poem has two syllables.
I don’t think pi-ku’s are going to catch on because the rythm is infelicitous. The 1-4-1 near the beginning starts out choppy.