Jul 02
A New York Times article I recently read shared some highlights a new efficient milk jug you may have seen recently if you shop at Sam’s Club or Costco. A more efficient square jug is replacing the standard jug with a tapered spout.
Standard vs. New Cube
Sam’s Club reports that they can fit 9% more milk per truck load, or 384 more gallons. This is all great news for consumers saving us 10¢ - 20¢ per gallon. The only problem is when pouring milk from these cubes, you should expect to spill about 10¢ - 20¢ worth of milk per gallon! (*this from my own experience) Efficiency comes at the sake of performance in this case. There is good news however. Some stores have live demonstrations to teach customers how to pour from these new cubes. Rest-and-tip instead of lift-and-pour. Now they tell me.
– steve
May 01
I knew I was in relatively poor shape, fitness-wise, but never realized it was this bad. The other night I jumped on the treadmill for a run. I was alarmed to learn after reviewing my stats that I had just ran my first twelve minute mile. Back when I was in high school (we’ll call that the old days) I ran a sub six minute mile.
I took another stab at it tonight. This time it was better, if only a little. I ran a 9:22 mile. My time was better, but it felt like knives were being inserted into my lungs. I’m going to see if I can improve on this little by little until I get to a reasonable time/speed. I hope that after few attempts, my cardio respiratory stamina will improve and allow me to pick up the pace.
– steve
Apr 22
Today is earth day. The radio is all “Al Gore this…” and “carbon footprint that….” so I’m all “what’s a carbon footprint?” I went to this website to calculate my carbon footprint. I learned that the average person’s carbon footprint is about 17.8 tons of CO2 per year. Using the simple calculator I figured mine to be about 10.5 tons of CO2 per year. I drive a “standard pickup truck” so I’m a little high in transportation, however I travel infrequently so I am much lower in travel.
I may not be completely green, but I’m not as bad as a could be either. I’ll call Earth Day a win this year, since this is probably the first time I’ve spent any considerable time thinking about it. Baby steps. Now excuse me, I’m off to trade in the truck for a Toyota Prius.
– steve
P.S. - I do recycle at home, but it seems that no one is talking about that anymore. That must be all 1990’s.
