tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post8768467864020854119..comments2023-11-29T01:47:52.439-07:00Comments on clarity2010: Zeroing In on Soubriquet's Poo Wi-FiRelax Maxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-61041298908783748582012-08-09T15:49:39.087-06:002012-08-09T15:49:39.087-06:00I can't believe you prefer the dentist. :)I can't believe you prefer the dentist. :)Relax Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-16630792949766534002012-08-07T11:09:56.155-06:002012-08-07T11:09:56.155-06:00OMG, another long post. I'll be back to read i...OMG, another long post. I'll be back to read it later. I have to go to the dentist.Suzannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10035409330352625930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-45863670932837317132012-08-04T15:12:05.326-06:002012-08-04T15:12:05.326-06:00We just follow your lead in these things.We just follow your lead in these things.Relax Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-78117989275331032632012-08-04T15:11:19.955-06:002012-08-04T15:11:19.955-06:00You are such a troublemaker. :) Isn't Megan Ir...You are such a troublemaker. :) Isn't Megan Irish? I'd heard she was. I suppose you will also say that Erayrd also is not Irish.<br /><br />I think pub is meant to be public. I don't know for sure. It is almost certainly Irish, though.Relax Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-25101183253234842002012-08-04T14:55:24.134-06:002012-08-04T14:55:24.134-06:00PS I rather wish I'd never mentioned dog poo f...PS I rather wish I'd never mentioned dog poo fairies in the first place. There seems to be a virtual proliferation of dog poo, as well as on the streets.A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04709794851766685322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-78843612342192476792012-08-04T14:53:58.330-06:002012-08-04T14:53:58.330-06:00Any Irish named streets? I can see two, if I look...Any Irish named streets? I can see two, if I look hard - Dublin and Shannon. Unless of course you count Pub Alleyway and I suppose you could make a case for that. However, not one of them leads to the dog park.A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04709794851766685322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-17352597150098284772012-08-04T14:08:31.197-06:002012-08-04T14:08:31.197-06:00Don't be running down the British motherland. ...Don't be running down the British motherland. You may need a job reference someday. :)Relax Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-4974101370648981742012-08-04T14:05:06.213-06:002012-08-04T14:05:06.213-06:00The strip malls are only facades. There are orange...The strip malls are only facades. There are orange groves and dairy farms behind them.<br /><br />Britain is blamesless.Relax Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-75300518968845618622012-08-04T14:01:56.568-06:002012-08-04T14:01:56.568-06:00This sounds like a job for Amadinejab. After his o...This sounds like a job for Amadinejab. After his oil ships are emptied, we can fill them up with human poo. Slurry, of course. And send them back to him full. He can make electricity out of the poo and not need uranium. That much poo would probably make pretty good bombs too. A twofer.Relax Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-91544763447022351022012-08-04T13:58:09.947-06:002012-08-04T13:58:09.947-06:00Soub never lies.
Or tells funny jokes. :)
Or pla...Soub never lies.<br /><br />Or tells funny jokes. :)<br /><br />Or plays good music...<br /><br />Bwahahahahahaha!!!!<br /><br />No, his jokes are funny. You just have to be smart to get them. That's my problem.Relax Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-78462242330593604912012-08-04T13:27:16.529-06:002012-08-04T13:27:16.529-06:00Max lives in Mexico City......Max lives in Mexico City......Adullamitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15537659871829290071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-30406330206237816412012-08-04T07:37:14.174-06:002012-08-04T07:37:14.174-06:00p.s. I like the idea of orange groves. I like the ...p.s. I like the idea of orange groves. I like the thought of the scent of citrus on the breeze. I like farms and cows, and rural life, and people who don't need dog parks at all, because they don't live in a concrete wilderness.<br /><br />What I've seen in my U.S. travels so far, with regard to the spread and sprawl of cities, of unimaginative urban planning saddens me. Your nation led the world, and still does in its creation and protection of national parks and wilderness areas, but on the more local level we see strip malls and ribbon developments straggling on along the margins of highways, so you can travel for hour after hour without leaving the city, and franchises and chain-retail that are identical are repeated every few miles. It may be that most of those strips are only a half-mile deep, but the feeling is of being trapped in enldess repetition, nature held at bay.<br /><br />Britain is not blameless. London, for instance, is a filthy spreading organism. Build walls, I cry, don't let it get any bigger.soubriquethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01151288534629885195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-18251342414072133352012-08-04T07:24:34.983-06:002012-08-04T07:24:34.983-06:00Thank you, Max, as you so often do, you cut to the...Thank you, Max, as you so often do, you cut to the core of the matter, my fascination with the factthat places I read about actually exist, are peopled, that those people live lives, complex lives that interact with other lives in places of which I've also probably never heard.<br /><br />I am, however, sad to say I can only give you a 'B' on this assignment. You have, as they say here in England, dropped the ball. Why? Where?<br />It would be a matter of your reading comprehension, your parsing of the given information, and your conflation of two disparate projects in two disparate countries.<br /><br />The park in Gilbert contains a dog-poo digester, an ASU project, which turns the energy contained in the faeces of Gilbert's canine population into electricity to light a lamp at the heart of the dog-park.<br /><br />But the dog-poo for wi-fi automated device is in Mexico, Mexico City, I think, a project by Mexican internet service provider, Terra. The idea there is similar to that in Gilbert, to provide an extra incentive to people to clean up their dog mess, and dog poo deposited into the machine actuates a period of wi-fi access for park visitors. <br /><br />Your conflation of these two is understandable. It seems to me to be a great way to enhance the one in Gilbert, and so far as I know, Terra's device is not actually powered by dog-poo, it's just a device that offers a reward in return for crap.<br /><br />The idea's flawed. If you're walking your dog, then you're probably not in the park to sit on a bench with your laptop. So the 'reward' is more about feelgood by supplying others with wifi time, whilst doing what you should have done anyway.<br /><br />A further value, though, is that these projects might just make us make us think of microgeneration of power in different ways. <br />Our own poo, for instance, inn the volumes handled by a city's sewage system, carries away how many megawatts of harvestable power?<br />Bradford, in England, has a sewage works that generates methane, which is piped to engines which run pumps and generators that run the plant, and also export energy into the national power grid. http://www.darvill.clara.net/altenerg/biogas.htm<br />In California, there's a pilot scheme producing hydrogen for car-fuel out of sewage. http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-20097576-48/sewage-powered-hydrogen-fueling-station-opens-in-ca/?part=rss&subj=cartech&tag=title<br /><br />It's a start.soubriquethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01151288534629885195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-37702149409557960252012-08-04T03:10:31.320-06:002012-08-04T03:10:31.320-06:00So Soub wasn't lying after all?
The loss of ...So Soub wasn't lying after all? <br />The loss of trees and the planting of houses instead, hmmm where have I seen that before?<br /><br />Lot's of Mexican names there mind....Adullamitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15537659871829290071noreply@blogger.com