Written on Wednesday, the 28th of June, 2006 at 1:10 pm and was filed under:
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Cake Woman is in San Francisco starting fights and raising a ruckus, so I have the apartment to myself. I’ve been running around in the nude with all the lights in the house on because for a brief few days, I can. Okay, before Cake Woman kicks my ass I should come clean — earlier I had all the lights on in the kitchen while I was doing the dishes. Really the only thing that I did that she will get upset about is that I drank one of the Viking beers in the fridge. It’s dark and chocolatey. Mmm mmm good. Actually, I bought that beer for her in a fit on generosity the other day. I don’t know what I was thinking. I must like her or something.
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Written on Wednesday, the 28th of June, 2006 at 12:50 pm and was filed under:
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I think that this post is self-explanatory.
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Written on Wednesday, the 28th of June, 2006 at 12:50 pm and was filed under:
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When I unplugged the DSL modem (router? whatchamajigger?) after work today, Lisa went into immediate shock. She was pale and clammy until Stan and I rubbed ethernet cables on her wrists for a while.
“Where am I? Where is the internets?” she stammered.
“I’m taking them to Anoka,” I answered grimly.
“Jail?” asked Noah. He always confuses Anoka with jail. Make of that what you wish.
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Written on Wednesday, the 28th of June, 2006 at 12:07 am and was filed under:
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I was doing a little research because I’m a big nerd and I found some interesting stats for nationwide bus-based transit.
- Diesel Fuel Consumed (gallons)
- 550,466,000
- Other Fuel Consumed (gallons)
- 131,356,000
- Total Fuel Consumption (gallons)
- 681,356,000
- Miles, Passenger
- 21,376,973,000
- Passenger Miles Per Gallon
- 31.4
- Miles, Vehicle Total
- 2,470,991,000
- Total Bus Miles Per Gallon
- 3.6
Oh, I left out the electric stuff. Hmm. The amount of energy involved is four or five orders of magnitude less, so the final number comes out the same.
- Electricity Consumed (kwh)
- 2,399,000
- 1 kilowatt-hour
- 3414 BTUs
- 1 gallon diesel
- 139,200 BTU
- Equivalent diesel (gallons)
- 58,803
- Total Fuel Consumption (gallons)
- 681,414,803
- Passenger Miles Per Gallon
- 31.4
Of course, these numbers can only be improved by hybrids and increased ridership. It would be interesting to see these numbers for smaller samples — how does a really busy line compare? If the 16 is full all day long, what is the mileage per passenger?
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