City House Blog

Eric’s Question

lukaszw — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:01:29 +0000

I’m not sure if people still read this, but I figured I’d post anyway. This article reminds me of the post Eric made asking if his life is worth as much as bird. I agree with the move to decouple “person” from “human.”

Corrosive Drywall?

tpatrickwalsh — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:48:15 +0000

This is pretty insane… and somehow seems city-related:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/business/08drywall.html?pagewanted=2&em

Patrick

City House Memories

lukaszw — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:03:39 +0000

I’ve been meaning to put these videos up on this blog pretty much ever since they were recorded, but I kept forgetting to do it. They might make me look a bit more violent and crazy than I actually am, but I’m ok with that.

City Skeet Apocalypse. If you don’t know what it is, you should.

My punching Eric in the face. It’s not really that good of a punch. Ben’s punch was probably better.

Ah City House. I miss it and all the weird fucks that lived there.

Green Energy Scams

tpatrickwalsh — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:26:59 +0000

Kind of interesting: These are ads running on the NYT website – just the sort of obvious scams like you would see for weight-loss products or something, but instead selling green energy “kits” that will eliminate your electricity bill for $100:

http://www.homemadeenergy.org/?hop=cyprusmete#

http://www.make-solar-panels-at-home.com/news/

Bullshit in US Energy Discourse

arilikeairy — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:06:42 +0000

Copied from a Worldchanging article:

The Top 10 Bogus Statements (BS) in the US Climate Debate

No. 10 BS: The United States can’t make a firm commitment to reduce greenhouse gases until China and India do.
No. 9 BS: Coal will be with us for a long time to come.
No. 8 BS: The answer to energy security is to produce more oil, coal and gas here at home.
No. 7 BS: We are powerless to stop mountain top removal.
No. 6 BS: Putting a price on carbon is a “national energy tax.”
No. 5 BS: By increasing energy prices, cap and trade will hurt consumers in the depths of a recession.
No. 4 BS: Consumers will pay thousands of dollars more for energy every year.
No. 3 BS: All of this spending on a “new energy economy” is placing a terrible debt on our children.
No. 2 BS: Climate action is a “growth-killing millstone.”
And the No. 1 bogus statement in the climate debate today: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a choice between “liberty or tyranny.”

Exxon = Green

tpatrickwalsh — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:35:40 +0000

They are supposedly planning to invest $600 million in algae-based biofuels.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/business/energy-environment/14fuel.html?hp

Zombies

eatsrocksandleaves — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:15:00 +0000

I was reading some forum discussions by other travelers in Costa Rica in Lonely Planet’s, Thorn Tree forum. They where talking about the dangers of running into crack heads in various parts of the country, one guy described his experience of meeting a crackhead as them feeling no pain or fear. This grabbed my attention and I thought about it some more. After a crack addiction has run it’s course and a crack addict has no more means to buy crack, they sole purpose of their live becomes to do whatever they have to do and hurt whoever they have to hurt to get more crack.

It’s as if their humanity has been kill’t and all that’s left is their animal need to feed, on crack.

Hence my thesis, crack addicts are zombies, zombies are real, the apocalypse has begun. Initiate city apocalypse phase one alpha.

Awww

eatsrocksandleaves — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:56:31 +0000

Apparently Obama wrote a 4th grader a cool note to excuse her from class to attend his town hall style meeting. Dude’s got style.

http://current.com/items/90193201_obamas-first-pardon.htm

So, the economy, huh?

soyouthinkyoureapirate — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:14:26 +0000

This American Life – 382: The Watchmen

“Since Congress hasn’t held 1930′s-style hearings into the causes of the financial crisis, we stage one of our own. The subject? The regulators and watchdogs who were supposed to be overseeing the banks and the finance industry—to make sure things wouldn’t blow up like they have. Clearly something went wrong. Today we pound a gavel and ask: where were the watchmen?”

Awesome Graphic/Visual Design

arilikeairy — Fri, 22 May 2009 19:54:38 +0000

Snippet of image from GOOD magazine

Click the image above to learn from GOOD magazine if a Prius is more efficient than a Boeing 737.

Here‘s a link to similar images from GOOD magazine. Beware: it may become time consuming.