A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling, washing, packaging, and transporting that box of organic salad to a plate on the East Coast takes more than 4,600 calories of fossil fuel energy, or 57 calories of fossil fuel energy for every calorie of food.
– The Omnivore’s Dilemma
I missed you, Lake Michigan.
Plant Dad
Pronto Pup, Grand Haven, Michigan. Don’t you wish your weiner was this good after 77 years?
Finished reading: Amulet 3: The Cloud Searchers by Kazu Kibuishi 📚
It’s about that time.
It’s amazing how much we don’t know about Harris this far into the first term, isn’t it? She’s been basically invisible to me.
@crossingthethreshold I’ve found on Micro.blog that the muted words are case sensitive. I had to stick a capital “T” in one of the words, if you catch my drift.
Rethinking this microblogging stuff, again. Not sure why this takes up so much of my brainpower. I’m finding that I just prefer my bloggy stuff separate from my Micro.blog/Mastodon/Bluesky stuff, sort of formal vs informal. Playing with a draft site at afterword.blog.
@ablerism Wonderful. There’s also urban design and landscape architecture, if the curiosity continues :)
@riversidebryan I miss last.fm
When I see my own posts from Micro.blog on an alt Mastodon account, I never see replies from Micro.blog people from that side, even if they’re federating. I don’t see them on Bluesky, either. Why am I only seeing the full picture from within Micro.blog?
@jsonbecker For all the time I spend worrying about my sites and tweaking them, with all the tools we add to subscribe to JSON, RSS, links to social accounts, etc., I sure don’t think people actually spend any time over there on my actual blog.
I guess the point of all this cross-posting and federation stuff is that no one has to spend any time there, even if they are interested in the posts.
And why would they, I guess? There is no shortage of thoughts out there. Gone are the days of our teens and early 20s when we’d post to Live Journal or MySpace when everyone was fawning over the daily discoveries of interesting, far-off people. Now that we all have mortgages and kids and most eyeballs are on 30 second TikTok videos and Instagram celebrities, no one cares.
Whoa, looks like maybe I’m taking the day off? Gov system down. Blue screen of death.
I distinctly remember being taught that “dilemma” was spelled “dilemNa” in the early 80s. Why, I have no idea.
I was in the area for work, so drove up to Council Crest Park to break up the routine. Hazy, but gorgeous day (70° F), with many people out enjoying it. #pdx
@manton Chris Hannah has an app for that, Text Shot.
On this topic, I’d love an Open Graph style preview of links, if not on the timeline, on the blog itself.
I wonder if the doctors who don’t like prescribing antibiotics have any idea what’s happening in the meat industry.
After some thought and many years wearing the thing, I’ve decided to drop the Apple Watch in favor of my old mechanical Seiko for daily wear. What little value the Apple Watch brought never outweighed its annoyances for me.
Switched our flat rate electric service to time-of-day pricing with PGE. So long as you can divert your energy use away from 5-9 to other times of day, your bill shouldd go down. I charge my EV overnight ($0.08 per kWh) and saved $29 last month over the flat rate plan. #pdx
Fellow parents, how much time (if any) do you schedule for your own interests, creativity, hobbies and other pursuits in a given week? How do you negotiate that with your partner?
@jedda I actually got one today for about 20% off. I already know I’m going to love it. Thanks again.
I just realized I had the ISO cranked way up yesterday on my camera during our family trip to Enchanted Forest and I didn’t even realize it. I thought full auto meant full auto…guess not. I still have so much to learn, and need to pay attention. Thankfully some of the photos still turned out.
@jedda awesome tips! I don’t have a kindle but I’m considering getting a paperwhite and I am in fact a slow reader, so the airplane mode trick is amazing.
Days like these make the hard days worth it.
Nikon coming up from behind with its release of Nikon Imaging Cloud. Looking forward to this being made available to the Zf so I can play around with it.
Nikon Imaging Cloud enables users to recreate their favorite film stock, preset, or experiment with a library of existing recipes from Nikon Creators, and upload it to their camera as a color profile. Up to 9 recipes can be uploaded directly from the cloud to a Nikon camera, providing endless creative freedom and experimentation.
Rest in peace Shelley Duvall, Dr. Ruth, and Richard Simmons. The world lost some authentic ones this weekend.
Oregano ruins anything it touches.
@daisy55 I’m not made for the heat - and the summers here are cloudless and getting hotter.
Hate to say it, but I’m ready for fall.
Zawojski said he once mistakenly received mail from the Crooks house, but never engaged with the family members directly even as he returned the mail to their porch. “I couldn’t even tell you what they look like,” he said.
Sadly, this is much of America in the age of streaming services and smart phones. I’ve got a neighbor two doors down that I’ve lived next to for 6 years and have only seen him 2 or 3 times to get his DoorDash from the porch.
@hardly_ted it was a good run. The pandemic really helped keep the miles down.
Goodbye, ol’ Suby. You were a great car for the 11 years you were mine. I probably took this car to 30 states on road trips. Sold to a friend’s son as his first car, hopefully he gets another 100k out of it.
@intrepidhero you sir are an early riser.
@gregmorris oh, nice! It was down to one of those or the Nikon Zf. Ended up going with the latter but I’m considering it an extended trial. Again, great work.
@tomk every day is different and I never get bored. I work on all sorts of projects, from EV charging infrastructure, grant writing, pedestrian planning, real estate sales and purchases, space planning, wayfinding, planning studies, honestly it’s all over the map.
@gregmorris Greg, are these taken with an 85mm? I’m just trying to get into photography a little more seriously and playing with focal lengths. The compression on these make me think is 85 or higher?