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An offsite meeting gave me a different view on my commute today. I really enjoyed it but after about 40 mins of going 10 km/hr, I was a bit less enthused Luckily, I rarely drive in downtown rush hour.
My new apartment is in Tianhe, which is a nice and happening neighbourhood near Central Guangzhou. I take the legendarily crowded #3 metro to work and the crowds are really quite something, almost Tokioesque.
Today I had another in the car with me for part of the morning commute - my dog, who desperately needed to go to the groomer. My dog is not really a dog, I don't think. For one, he is a retriever, yet he does not know how to play fetch. He hates walks. He loves going in the car but then...he lays down!!! I roll down the windows, but does he act like every other dog and stick his head out? Noooo. Weirdo.
It was snowing lightly. That traffic is nice and sharp because they and I were both at a near-standstill. My drive home, normally about 40 minutes, took an hour and a half. January 25, 2013.
“Home” reveals that over the last 60 years, the world’s population has tripled and continues to grow exponentially. An example is Shenzhen, which just 40 years ago was a small fishing village, but today hosts millions of inhabitants and hundreds of skyscrapers.
Due to increasing populations, nature is continually destroyed for the development of new roads. As a result, when cars begin to drive on these roads it continually impacts the environment. Although attempts have been made to preserve nature and it’s forests, the attempt is still minimal compared to the amount of nature, our most vital resource, that we destroy. Everyday when people commute in their cars it pollutes harmful emissions into the air, which are produced from the car’s burning diesel and petrol. A short-term possibility to alleviate this issue is through the development of electric cars. In the movie, "Who Killed the Electric Car", it claims that the electric car had already been developed in 1996, but the idea had been put down due to the remaining profitability within the oil industry, with over a trillion barrels of oil untapped within the earth’s crust, as of 2006. The benefits of electric cars are priceless. Such benefits include, but not limited to, less air pollution, quieter vehicles, and lower costs to operate. However, some obstacles may interrupt the development of electric cars such as higher technological costs, which may dissuade consumers from buying such vehicles, range problems off a full charge, and the difficult task of developing charging stations. In the textbook, "Essential Environment", it suggests the possibility of the development of hydrogen fuel with electricity. Although, this is a far-reaching possibility for the future, hydrogen could alleviate the dependence on fuels and help prevent climate change, since the vehicle’s exhaust would be water vapor.
another cellphone vid (here's my first cellvid)...
(this time, the excellent song is by fat freddie's drop. and again, i hope they don't mind us using it. if we make any money, we'll totally slide ya a nice cut of it, ok??? but meantime, it's all for love.)
this whole dang ting was shot and edited on my fine-a cellphone. dats how come we gots sucha cool gritty effect and all. yeeeah!
On trains home from London, I tend to opt to sit on the floor: I avoid the cramped seats, and get to stretch my legs a bit.
With me wearing my headlamp and Kiyomi wearing her reflective collar with LEDs flashing, we took a long walk from our house to the park, ran offleash for a while, and walked back.