Comments on: Incantation against McMansion-dwellers

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:19:11 +0000

In reply to Dave. I've no need to know. I think I'm more interested in what I mean by asking such a question.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:00:46 +0000

In reply to Bill. No offense taken, Bill -- it's a legitimate question, which I meant to try and answer yesterday, but got sidetracked from.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:46:08 +0000

Sorry, that’s a rude question of me to ask. I’d read that server sheds were going up faster than McMansions and were consuming one to two percent of the world’s electricity so I started thinking about on-line carbon footprints. I know you’re very, very far from being as obese as I am, that you are wonderfully lean in fact, but still it’s rude of me. If I ever got thinking hard, quantitatively, about my energy consumption, my power to perceive it would gain; I would see walls not translucent air.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:46:09 +0000

Do you know the mass of your cloud body, your on-line corpus, in bytes?

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:35:44 +0000

In reply to Joan. That's weird. I would've thought that all my stuff resides on the same server, but maybe not. The next time it happens, could you email me, please? bontasaurus(at)yahoo(dot)com.

By: Joan

Joan — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:09:49 +0000

Actually it went down about an hour after I posted, and did not return until this A.M. The pattern has been up in the A.M. & down in the evening but on Sunday it took an almost complete day of rest. I tried coming at it sideways in case my computer was bipolar. Found that Morning Porch was still perking and or some Tweets but all the rest were down. I am guessing Negativa has another server. Sooo while I stewed I looked at your beautiful pictures on Flicker.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:16:47 +0000

In reply to Lorianne.

Wow, that must require an insane amount of obsessiveness to rebuild a house to the same plan! Guess they really loved the old place. Maybe it’s all the insurance would cover, so they figured, what the heck?

The kids these days, they just don’t know how lucky they have it! Why, when I was their age…

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:13:31 +0000

In reply to Joan.

Yes, you’re right — I’ve heard about those spray-painted lawns! Glad you liked the poem.

Actually, we got more submissions than ever this time, just not as many curses as I would’ve liked. I don’t think very many people submit to qarrtsiluni as a result of seeing my posts about it here, no. And this is the first that I’ve heard that Via Negativa has been down. That’s pretty alarming.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:10:27 +0000

In reply to Beth. Oh good. Thanks for commenting.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:10:05 +0000

In reply to Laura Sorrells. Well, of course, I think it would be better if they learned not to have lawns at all, and let the leaves fall where they may. That's what I do, and the neighbors haven't complained yet!