Conversations with my Mother
May 21, 2010
Over the past two days, I have been lamenting the fact that it is time to take out the compost, including humanure compost. It’s not that labor intensive and smelly as it sounds. The most annoying part is when the buckets are full and you have to shit.
“Ah, man, I have to shit and the humanure buckets are full,” I say as I head upstairs to the bathroom.
“What?!” My mother says, even when she hears me perfectly well.
“I said I have to shit in the toilet ’cause the buckets are full.”
In an encouraging tone, my mother replies,
“Yeah… Yeah, that’s OK.”
The next day…
“I gotta get the compost thermometer out of the grand marquis. It’s in the trunk.”
“Oh.”
I return indoors with the thermometer and enthusiasm, “that’s the most exciting part of humanure composting, to see how high you can get the temperature. When I was composting upstate, and it was 44 degrees F outside, it was 132 degrees F in the center of the pile.”
“Oooh, hot shit!!”
Later that day…
“I posted some writing about our interactions about humanure composting.”
“You’re letting people know you’re shitting in a bucket?…”
“…Yeah…”
“…Jesus Christ.”
OVERSHOOT v1.8 Tracklist
April 19, 2010
Track info. Some of you may have received CDs entitled “Share” or something else. I do not have the track info posted for those versions, if you leave a comment I can direct you to the sources. “Overshoot” versions 1.4-1.75 do not have a track info list, but many tracks are similar. The sources can also be obtained by browsing the various links throughout this blog. Enjoy and spread the word!
1. Dmitry Orlov on Radio Ecoshock with Alex Smith
2. “The Good Times Are Killin’ Me” by Modest Mouse
3. Matthew Stein on The Reality Report with Jason Bradford
4. Dennis Meadows on Radio Ecoshock with Alex Smith
5. Dmitry Orlov on Voice America with Jay Taylor
6. Paul Kingsnorth on Radio Ecoshock with Alex Smith
7. Colin Campbell on Zone 5 with Graham Strouts
8. Paul Ehrlich lecture “The Dominant Animal“
9. Paul Kingsnorth on Radio Ecoshock with Alex Smith
10. John Michael Greer on Radio Ecoshock with Alex Smith
11. James Howard Kunstler lecture
12. James Howard Kunstler on the C-Realm Podcast with KMO
13. Good Morning Beautiful by Deftones
15. Richard Heinberg on Reality Report with Jason Bradford
16. Bill Wilson on Peak Moment Television with Janaia Donaldson
17. Charlie Hall on Peak Moment Television with Janaia Donaldson
18. Charlie Hall on Peak Moment Television with Janaia Donaldson
19. Charlie Hall on Peak Moment Television with Janaia Donaldson
20. Jay Hanson on The Reality Report with Jason Bradford
21. Jay Hanson on The Reality Report with Jason Bradford
22. James Howard Kunstler on the C-Realm Podcast with KMO
23. Richard Heinberg lecture, “The Energy Transition”
24. Richard Heinberg lecture, “The Energy Transition”
25. Michael Parenti lecture, “The Hidden Ideology of Mass Media”
26. James Howard Kunstler on The KunstlerCast with Duncan Crary
27. Kurt Cobb on Radio Ecoshock with Alex Smith
28. Ross Gelbspan presentation
29. Keith Farnish on Radio Ecoshock with Alex Smith
30. “Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometime“ by Beck
31. Colin A.M. Duncan on Against The Grain with C.S. Soong
32. Richard Heinberg on the Reality Report with Jason Bradford
33. James Howard Kunstler on the C-Realm Podcast with KMO
34. Paul Kingsnorth on Radio Ecoshock with Alex Smith
35. Jan Lundberg on the C-Realm Podcast with KMO
36. Old Future by John Gorka
37. KMO of the C-Realm Podcast reading a quote by Tim Bennett
38. Dmitry Orlov on Radio Ecoshock with Alex Smith
39. Sally Erickson on the C-Realm Podcast with KMO
40. “Hole in the Earth” by the Deftones
41. Richard Heinberg lecture, “What Will We Eat After the Oil Runs Out?”
42. Rick Munroe interviewed by Kathleen Petty on CBC Radio
43. Dmitry Orlov on Voice America with Jay Taylor
45. Bill Wilson on Peak Moment Television with Janaia Donaldson
46. David Blume on the C-Realm Podcast with KMO
47. “Be Healthy” by Dead Prez
48. Adam Schick of Linnea Farm interviewed on Deconstructing Dinner
49. Dmitry Orlov on Radio Ecoshock with Alex Smith
50. Dmitry Orlov on Radio Ecoshock with Alex Smith
51. Paul Ehrlich lecture, “The Dominant Animal”
52. “Nothing But Flowers” by Talking Heads
53. Erik Assadourian on Radio Ecoshock with Alex Smith
54. Charles Eisenstein on the C-Realm Podcast with KMO
55. Dmitry Orlov on Business Matters with Thomas White
56. Charles Eisenstein on the C-Realm Podcast with KMO
57. Dmitry Orlov on Radio Ecoshock with Alex Smith
58. Erik Assadourian on Radio Ecoshock with Alex Smith
59. Charles Eisenstein on the C-Realm Podcast with KMO
60. James Howard Kunstler on the KunstlerCast with Duncan Crary
61. Jan Lundberg on the C-Realm Podcast with KMO
62. “Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event” by the Deftones
The most interesting article I have ever partly read.
April 1, 2010
This will be reading material for the next week or so.
The sky is the limit: human powered cranes and lifting devices
From the earliest civilisations right up to the start of the Industrial Revolution, humans used sheer muscle power, organisation skills and ingenious mechanics to lift weights that would be impossible to handle by most power cranes in operation today.
