Yep.
and there are four more-- in a six page paper, that's it--but blogger won't let me paste them in.
My kind of hell.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
July 26, 2011
I have a special dislike deep, deep down in my heart for ecology:
Yep.
and there are four more-- in a six page paper, that's it--but blogger won't let me paste them in.
My kind of hell.
Yep.
and there are four more-- in a six page paper, that's it--but blogger won't let me paste them in.
My kind of hell.
Monday, July 18, 2011
July 18 2011
Last night we had a really bad epic thunderstorm. (Bad? I don't know if that's the right word. Good? Cool? Epic?) It knocked the power out for a minute, then the power came back on, and then it knocked it out again. (It came back on momentarily). Usually when the power goes off it is gone for a good few hours. It was sweet though.
Do you know, I'm in university, and one of the things that I find baffling is that when I buy pop, it sits in my fridge/pantry/kitchen after I open it (usually I buy it for mix. For alcohol. For friends' nights in, a.k.a. Super Smash Bros Night or Mario Kart/Party Parties). I do the same with chips. I'll open it, eat three or four (or a quarter of the bag), then put the bag down and forget about it for months, till I'm cleaning out my pantry again. Then I'm like, oh, wow. I bought these ages ago. I then proceed, usually, to feed them to my rats as treats, or if they are only marginally stale, I eat them. I'm a terrible person, I know, but my rats love junk food.
But I mean, I'm in university, I'm supposed to never have leftover junk food, right? I mean don't get me wrong, you don't exactly find chocolate floating around, and nuts don't last long in my house... but chips and pop... just stick around forever. And ever. Until they're so stale that my rats won't touch them.
A new thing that I've begun to truly dislike is these:
(image via)
I know, they're good-er for the environment, and I'm totally cool with that. I am so down with not killing the environment. Even though I own a car, I try to use my bike unless I absolutely have to use the car (eg: large item purchases. I would still have had to call a cab, which uses MORE gas than my well-kept car, and for some reason they always seem to take the long routes home).
However, I have an issue with the legality of these.
1) You do not need a driver's license for them. This is one of my biggest issues. You do not even need a beginner's license. So, you have some nitwit who hasn't any idea of the laws and rules and etiquette of the road driving around on the road... or worse. A car would be pulled over. Not so much these.
2) Because they are under the "bike" category (they have non-functioning 'pedals', which are not pictured in the photograph), and they have a smaller sized tire, it is "legal" apparently, to drive them on the SIDEWALK. Yes. Where there are people walking. Much slower than these things go.
3) They go 32 km an hour, and are allowed on the sidewalk.
4) They are a bike, and so drivers argue that they are allowed on bike trails and paths that move throughout some cities which have a "no motorized vehicles" rule. However, they are motorized with an engine that is electric, making them... motorized.
5) These things are 75 kg. If it were to hit somebody/thing (or fall on them, as I watched a driver of one yesterday almost a)hit a car while crossing at a cross walk and then b)swerve to avoid a post that she... didn't see? and almost fall off the curb on the sidewalk to the traffic in the street), it would do some considerable damage. Let me reiterate: 75kg is 165 lbs. That's like a fairly heavy person (myself or a man), who wears metal armor, running into you at a little over half the speed that a car moves while traveling on 50 km/hr roads.
... Plus the weight of the driver, now over 250lbs for a small rider, plus the weight of carry-ons. If it were me riding, it would be over 300 lbs of weight. Plus there's force involved for it going 32 km/hr right into you. My bike (a mountain bike with no shocks) is light enough that it would be my weight, plus about 20 pounds, about 180 lbs. Plus my meager 20 km/hr... maybe. If I don't get thrown off, because my bike is not made to hold me on a seat in a seated position, like the e-bike is.
6) They do not have to be insured, so they are only fined when in an accident wherein they ruin another person's vehicle-meaning that they have no financial responsibilities to the person whose vehicle they just hit, even though a driver of another motorized vehicle would be.
... Do you see my issue here?
Do you know, I'm in university, and one of the things that I find baffling is that when I buy pop, it sits in my fridge/pantry/kitchen after I open it (usually I buy it for mix. For alcohol. For friends' nights in, a.k.a. Super Smash Bros Night or Mario Kart/Party Parties). I do the same with chips. I'll open it, eat three or four (or a quarter of the bag), then put the bag down and forget about it for months, till I'm cleaning out my pantry again. Then I'm like, oh, wow. I bought these ages ago. I then proceed, usually, to feed them to my rats as treats, or if they are only marginally stale, I eat them. I'm a terrible person, I know, but my rats love junk food.
But I mean, I'm in university, I'm supposed to never have leftover junk food, right? I mean don't get me wrong, you don't exactly find chocolate floating around, and nuts don't last long in my house... but chips and pop... just stick around forever. And ever. Until they're so stale that my rats won't touch them.
A new thing that I've begun to truly dislike is these:
(image via)I know, they're good-er for the environment, and I'm totally cool with that. I am so down with not killing the environment. Even though I own a car, I try to use my bike unless I absolutely have to use the car (eg: large item purchases. I would still have had to call a cab, which uses MORE gas than my well-kept car, and for some reason they always seem to take the long routes home).
However, I have an issue with the legality of these.
1) You do not need a driver's license for them. This is one of my biggest issues. You do not even need a beginner's license. So, you have some nitwit who hasn't any idea of the laws and rules and etiquette of the road driving around on the road... or worse. A car would be pulled over. Not so much these.
2) Because they are under the "bike" category (they have non-functioning 'pedals', which are not pictured in the photograph), and they have a smaller sized tire, it is "legal" apparently, to drive them on the SIDEWALK. Yes. Where there are people walking. Much slower than these things go.
3) They go 32 km an hour, and are allowed on the sidewalk.
4) They are a bike, and so drivers argue that they are allowed on bike trails and paths that move throughout some cities which have a "no motorized vehicles" rule. However, they are motorized with an engine that is electric, making them... motorized.
5) These things are 75 kg. If it were to hit somebody/thing (or fall on them, as I watched a driver of one yesterday almost a)hit a car while crossing at a cross walk and then b)swerve to avoid a post that she... didn't see? and almost fall off the curb on the sidewalk to the traffic in the street), it would do some considerable damage. Let me reiterate: 75kg is 165 lbs. That's like a fairly heavy person (myself or a man), who wears metal armor, running into you at a little over half the speed that a car moves while traveling on 50 km/hr roads.
... Plus the weight of the driver, now over 250lbs for a small rider, plus the weight of carry-ons. If it were me riding, it would be over 300 lbs of weight. Plus there's force involved for it going 32 km/hr right into you. My bike (a mountain bike with no shocks) is light enough that it would be my weight, plus about 20 pounds, about 180 lbs. Plus my meager 20 km/hr... maybe. If I don't get thrown off, because my bike is not made to hold me on a seat in a seated position, like the e-bike is.
6) They do not have to be insured, so they are only fined when in an accident wherein they ruin another person's vehicle-meaning that they have no financial responsibilities to the person whose vehicle they just hit, even though a driver of another motorized vehicle would be.
... Do you see my issue here?
Thursday, July 7, 2011
July 7, 2011
In the most awesome fashion, I had an ecology class yesterday and wore jeans--yay! We were hiking on the drumlin to compare the west and east bank trails for tree species. Basically, the East bank I think, had way more Ironwood trees. The other side had a lot of buckthorn and sugar maples--but we also came across an oak- a white oak! (Yes, that excites me. It wasn't a sugar maple OR an Ironwood. It's awesome).
Anwyay, I wore jeans in the 900+ C weather to avoid poison ivy, which is rampant up there... Did not wear a long sleeved, white shirt. So, now I have mosquito bites... all over my arms, and my hands. Whoo!
(Sarcasm). On the other side of that, most of the nasty ladies who were biting me (biting mosquitoes are female, they don't care about inflicting itchiness as long as they survive) got squished as soon as they landed on me, HAHAHAHA!
Have you ever had a mosquito bite somewhere that was uncomfortable? Like, fingers, toe joints, your ear?
Anwyay, I wore jeans in the 900+ C weather to avoid poison ivy, which is rampant up there... Did not wear a long sleeved, white shirt. So, now I have mosquito bites... all over my arms, and my hands. Whoo!
(Sarcasm). On the other side of that, most of the nasty ladies who were biting me (biting mosquitoes are female, they don't care about inflicting itchiness as long as they survive) got squished as soon as they landed on me, HAHAHAHA!
Have you ever had a mosquito bite somewhere that was uncomfortable? Like, fingers, toe joints, your ear?
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