completely unrelated

Over the last two weeks the US car companies have been announcing initiatives involving "green" cars. This replaces last year's announcements about hydrogen fueled cars under development.

I just read that a highlight of the State of the Union is a call for "us" to reduce our gasoline consumption by 20%.

This isn't a orchestrated approach, I'm sure it's just coincidental.

Let's put it on the American consumers to reduce energy consumption and pollution, since they have the strength of will of a noodle that's been in the pot for four hours. That way we can do nothing for another two years, industry can continue to pollute to its heart's content, and we can blame everything on the suckers who buy everything we sell.

Mathilda, whenever you're ready.

noise

The job I'm doing now requires being in a very noisy area most of the day. When I get home all I want is silence, to the point I prefer not to be in a room with a computer on. Absolute silence.

Yesterday I realized a side effect of this was that I wasn't listening to music on a regular basis. This has a distinctly adverse effect on my happiness (not to mention my random dancing). So tonight, after an hour or so of silence, I put music on. But there are so many choices to play I'm schizo.

GIP

Oh, yeah. Trainspotting GIPs.