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Beer and speed is okay, but the full use of your body isn't
I won the fish lottery today: I had built up two rewards in the Boston Smoked Fish Co.'s repeat customer program, so after I paid for my bagel I got to take home a container of salmon paté gratis plus a piece of fancy smoked salmon, as the little cats will soon find out.
I did not win the public transit lottery: the Orange Line to Sullivan was too crowded even to squeeze onto and there was a thirteen-minute wait for the next train, so I went the opposite direction to Downtown Crossing, changed for the Red Line, and was then delayed between stations thanks to the supremely unreassuring announcement of "police action at Harvard." When I finally got to Davis, I had to run three blocks after my bus. I did catch it, but I really feel this was an unnecessary touch.
I don't like LED streetlights, headlights, all that cold glare everywhere in the night; it feels like being surrounded by computer screens even when you're AFK. I spend enough of my life staring into screens for my work. I'm going to be forced into taking walks in the daytime just to get away from that blue frequency.
On the bright side, two DVDs I had ordered last week came in to the library.
On the rest of it, I want to lie down.
I did not win the public transit lottery: the Orange Line to Sullivan was too crowded even to squeeze onto and there was a thirteen-minute wait for the next train, so I went the opposite direction to Downtown Crossing, changed for the Red Line, and was then delayed between stations thanks to the supremely unreassuring announcement of "police action at Harvard." When I finally got to Davis, I had to run three blocks after my bus. I did catch it, but I really feel this was an unnecessary touch.
I don't like LED streetlights, headlights, all that cold glare everywhere in the night; it feels like being surrounded by computer screens even when you're AFK. I spend enough of my life staring into screens for my work. I'm going to be forced into taking walks in the daytime just to get away from that blue frequency.
On the bright side, two DVDs I had ordered last week came in to the library.
On the rest of it, I want to lie down.
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The savings to the planet are enormous so long as humans don't decide just because LEDs are cheap and efficient they're also safe to stick over every square foot of the planet, which is unfortunately just what humans are doing: "[S]aving energy while reducing light pollution is certainly possible, as long as the energy that is saved isn't spent on adding more light sources."