Moonie's Ramblings

[Prof. Moonie]

Finished reading the assigned reading material for my Environment & Human Life class, and finished taking the quiz. *sighs*  

[Prof. Moonie]

A Gaia-related thought: Normally when I've been earning gold I've been trying to get the cheaper items off my wishlist. Well, I decided that most of the items that I really want are some of the more expensive ones ((usually 100,000 or more)). So I decided that I'll try getting the ones I really want first, and then worry about the not-so-much wanted ones later.

I really wish I could organize the order of my wishlist. *sighs*  

[Prof. Moonie]

Oh! Looks like there's something else I need to read for the actual lecture part for my ES/RP 101 (the Environment class). *opens the PDF for it**gasps* 40 pages! Holy smokes!

Okay... I'm waiting to read that until after Julius Caesar then.  

[Prof. Moonie]

*goes to read Julius Caesar* It'll be more like browsing over it, since I pretty much know most of it. xd  

[Prof. Moonie]

*listens to Polar Express Suite* whee  

[Prof. Moonie]

*reads the first part of Brutus and Cassius* Why is it that I can totally see Holmes and Watson when reading these? xd  

[Prof. Moonie]

Brutus would be Watson and Cassius is Holmes. ((I'm only posting parts of things that remind me of our beloved duo.))

CASSIUS: Will you go see the order of the course?
BRUTUS: Not I.
CASSIUS: I pray you, do.
BRUTUS: I am not gamesome; I do lack some part / Of that quick spirit that is in Anthony. / Let me no hinder, Cassius, you desires; I'll leave you.
CASSIUS: Brutus, I do observe you now of late: / I have not from your eyes that gentleness / And show of love as I was wont to have: / You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand / Over your friend that loves you.
BRUTUS: Be not deceived... Vexed I am / Of late with passions of some difference, / Conceptions only proper to myself, / Which give some soil perhaps to my behaviors; / But let not therefore my good friends be grieved -- / Among which number, Cassius, be you one... Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war, / Forgets the shows of love to other men.  

[Prof. Moonie]

*sighs* I'm going to start reading that reading assignment for my Environment class... I'm starting to get bored browsing over the Julius Caesar stuff. sweatdrop  

[Prof. Moonie]

La di da...  

[Prof. Moonie]

Most of this stuff we briefly discussed in class yesterday, so I'm able to browse over most of it, since it was featured in the slideshow. 3nodding  

[Prof. Moonie]

Interesting fact:

In the Miami area, for example, interstate
highway travel speeds dropped from 53
to 41 miles per hour—a 23 percent decline—
between 1983 and 1997 (Wallis et al., 2001).  

[Prof. Moonie]

Another interesting fact:

“. . . a one-acre
parking lot
produces about
16 times the
volume of runoff
that comes
from a one-acre
meadow.”  

[Prof. Moonie]

I'll probably keeping interesting facts that I run across as I browse over the text. I'm already at page 15 of 40.

Lawns cover 20 to 30 million acres of the
American landscape. Research in a number of
states concludes that 70 percent of all lawns are
regularly fertilized.Most of these lawns have not
been tested to determine whether they need (and
can absorb) additional nitrogen (Schueler and
Holland, 2000)  

[Prof. Moonie]

A study of the lower San Francisco Bay
found that half of the cadmium and zinc in the
bay came from tire wear. Lead came primarily
from diesel-fueled vehicles. Half of the copper in
the bay arrived via stormwater from brake pad
wear. An additional 25 percent of the copper
arrived in the form of atmospheric deposition,
ultimately from motor vehicles.  

[Prof. Moonie]

Studies show that as housing and employment
densities rise, the number and length of
automobile trips declines. Air pollutants—
nitrous oxides, carbon monoxide, and volatile
organic compounds—also decrease (Frank,
2000)