musn't grumble

David Miliband has not twittered a response to Brittany Murphy’s death: PM hopes in doubt

musntgrumble — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:02:15 +0000

It’s been just over 40 minutes since the news hit the web and I am still waiting for David Miliband to twitter a response to the news of Brittany Murphy’s death. In the meantime his future Prime Ministerial prospects must be rapidly slipping away.

Germany’s Experience: How Effective Are Renewables, Really?

musntgrumble — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:48:03 +0000

Wind turns out to be impressive. It’s still a fair bit more expensive than what we pay here ($0.0735CDN/KWH* vs. $0.09USD/KWH), but that’s not that huge (solar is $0.43/KWH!)

Overall it’s stuff I didn’t know much about. Would have liked info on prices for nuclear and such, but not enough that I’m about to look them up elsewhere.

from Spiegel Online

*-took the lowest flat-rate I could find for ontario. The standard rate varies over peak and valley hours and I wasn’t about to try to figure that out.

walking

musntgrumble — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:30:30 +0000

yesterday, walking self-absorbedly wondering if people notice I can’t walk properly, I didn’t notice the lady in front of me, careening from one side of the sidewalk to the other, one hand clutching a bag that seemed to be slipping, and another holding her tights up (though they didn’t look to be in danger of falling down).
I guess that’s a lesson to me.