The Washington Post has a great article about how making ethanol from corn is bad for the environment and drives up food prices.
I have a friend who is a corn farmer and rather than being happy about the higher prices he gets for corn, he’s upset at the bigger picture.
I took some photos of firefighters carrying water up a hill to fight a brushfire the other day.
The funny thing is, these photos were supposed to illustrate a planned story about how brushfire season is starting. You can’t schedule this sort of photo op, so instead we were scheduled to go to a firehouse to take a picture of brushfire fighting gear. Then the call came in, and we high-tailed it to the location of the fire, which was up a steep hill.
I came home from this assignment smelling of smoke.
(on another note - I finally added the TidBITS superlative badge that I was awarded in 2000. It only took me eight years. It’s on the right, beneath the Mac OS X badges.
Tonight I was listening to Erin’s favorite radio station, 94 Rock. They occasionally have contests. Not the kind of contests I remember from when I was a teenager (”…we’ll take the one hundred seventh caller…”); the prizes are smaller, and they rarely ask for more than nine callers.
Well, anyway, this contest involved taking bits of five songs and splicing them together to make a musical montage or mashup. Callers had to identify all five artists and songs for the $20 gift certificate.
Well, the last song was very popular in 1992 when I was in high school, so I figured I had an edge, but I figured someone else would get it. Plus, there were two songs in there that I really didn’t know anything about, though I am sure Erin could tell me about them. Darn newfangled music.
After the DJ’s third talkset, I sensed he was dying. So I started writing the lyrics from the songs I didn’t recognize, and thanks to Google, I had all the answers.
Then I called, and got through on the first try.
It was too easy.
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