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Research: Airliners can be more eco-friendly than trains
Research carried out by boffins in California appears to have seriously undermined a major piece of received wisdom regarding transport: namely, the belief that railways are more eco-friendly than airliners. The cage-rattling analysis comes from profs at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley. …
I wonder what assumptions about electricity generation were used, and whether any predictions about the effects of improvements in same were made (eg current generation = all fossil-fuel/carbon/GHG-producing = very very bad, future generation = renewables/nuclear, minimal carbon/GHG = very very good).
I suspect it's going to prove to be easier to upgrade electricity generation than change airliner fuels radically, so the ground-based choice probably has greater potential to be "greenified".
There's another way to work this out
Rail is not a popular or growing form of transport because laying tracks is so outrageously expensive. This high financial cost is a major clue as to how 'environmentally' costly rail is. The sad truth about rail is that many of its proponents suffer from the same kind of feeble wooly-headed soft-socialist thinking that drives the green movement.
But a car...
It makes sense, but a trains forte is bulk freight or passengers.
Car drivers should be ashamed if most of their commute is spent in a virtual parking lot. Maybe now we can get the Gov to put trams (or bus lanes) everywhere in the interest of the environment.
What about helicopters?
Research FAIL
They're comparing to rail infrastructures which already exist.
Sure, you want to compare a new airport and flying route to a new rail infrastructure, then fine. But most countries already have a rail infrastructure in place, so this is bollocks.
The inadequacies of carbon counting
This analysis of the amount of carbon emissions resulting from modes of transport may be valid. But it would appear that the only climate change agent considered is carbon dioxide.
An electric train uses energy which was converted in a large power station. Such power stations have flue gas desulphurisation in place, so the emissions are almost exclusively carbon dioxide at ground level. An aircraft, on the other hand, is a mobile untreated paraffin stove, which in addition to carbon dioxide emits NOXs, sulphur oxides, unburned hydrocarbons and exotic aromatic compounds straight into the upper atmosphere, as well as seeding clouds (technically a meteorological rather than climatic effect, but one which is chronic).
The focus on carbon footprint is a godsend for industries with dirty processes, none more so than aviation, giving them the ability to cherry pick a well known measure which makes them look better than they really are.
It's just research..
For every report that produces this conclusion, you'll be able to dig up another paper that utterly contradicts it's findings. Pick the one that suits your ideology, and go find a soap box, sorry, academic journal, and start pontificating.
That seems to be the usual methodology.
They could all easily be summarised as "travel takes a lot of energy, regardless of how you do it"
The emissions-saving possibilities for ground-based transport offered through changing the make-up of electricity generation can be seen in the report by looking at the differences between the Caltrain and Boston Light Rail figures. The electricity generation in CA uses less fossil-fuel than that of MA, and the Caltrain has substantially fewer emissions (about 1/3 less), even though the energy consumption is practically identical.
IOW, "greenifying" power stations would make a huge difference.
This makes sense of UK Rail Policy...
If the railways are only eco-efficient when 100% full, that explains why there are never enough seats & I have to stand for 4 hours from Yorkshire to the South Coast!
Suddenly a light at the end of the tunnel .... oh, it's an oncoming (and overcrowded) train!
More research failure
To get to Heathrow for example, I may take the train to London and then the Heathrow Express to the airport!
Have they considered the use of public transport infrastructures to get to the airport? Those alone would make flying an environmental nightmare.
not the first time this has been shown...
Roger Kemp at Lancaster pointed this out about 5 years ago. See http://www.engineering.lancs.ac.uk/research/download/Transport%20Energy%20Consumption%20Discussion%20Paper.pdf
This shows how politicians can get whatever greenwash they want by altering a few assumptions. The high speed rail lines they want to build are as bad (in CO2) as modern aviation (unless of course they power the trains by building nuclear power stations). And as a general rule, 3 or more people travelling together could produce less CO2 by taking a reasonably economical car than the train (see also http://www.co2balance.uk.com/ if you don't want to accept Kemp's figures; try Edinburgh-London by train, or 296 miles by car).
If your pointy haired boss wants to reduce your company carbon footprint from travel, I have a simple 3 point plan:
1: three or more staff travelling together should go by car
2: one or two staff should pick the most crowded train service available, which can easily be found by comparing fares and buying the most expensive ticket
3: if it is not convenient to take a crowded train, staff should fly
And, of course, rails.
It ain't exactly eco-friendly to lay track across huge swathes of the countryside.
Reminds me of a documentary I saw a while back on the Channel Tunnel rail link. One of the things the programme makers did was toddle off to France to interview their man in charge of track as to how they could stick in a huge high-speed network while we spent years and millions on the "arguing about it a lot" process for one little bit.
His response was that in the past they'd had carte blanche to stick whatever they wanted whereever they wanted it. However, they'd just gone millions over budget and years behind schedule putting in a line to the west of the country. Apparently some bunch of inconvenient little fonctionnaires had introduced the concepts of planning, approval and environmental impact to what had historically been a simple process. To add insult to injury, they'd also seen fit to allow the peasants to object to having a nice, shiny new railway run through their cruddy little hamlets.
@Research FAIL
It's not just where rail already exists. New projects (such as the channel tunnel was 20 years ago) rapidly repay the environmental cost of building relative to flight, because it transports lots of passengers. It's when a route is scarcely used - a destination in Alaska or Montana (or better still Greenland) rather than in California - that the cost of building a railway (or road) may exceed that of flying.
i know
Lets just make E trains then they are zero emissio, and cheaper 4p per mile :D
oh wait hangon !!
Ac @ 9:29 - not that clear cut
Take the UK. We have existing rail infrastructure for sure, but it needs almost totally replacing if we are to run TGV stylee fast trains. So the research assumptions do stack up.
and I'm sure you'll agree that only TGV style fast trains can compete with air travel.
Half full?
C'mon people - when were you last on a train that was half full?
The real flaws in the argument are:
1, airliners don't stop every few miles to let people on or off.
2, If you take an air journey then you will almost certainly be taking another form of transport at each end as well as the plane itself.
Building Bigger Bridges?
This is a deeply mysterious report. Since most people get to airports by public transport and in London that means rail (by modern, not Victorian infrastructures).
Of course building a London to New York railway would be a tad expensive with the wrong sort of jelly fish causing some delay. The shipping alternative is not noted for its green credentials so efficient airliners maybe with some better thought out bio fuels is the best option for intercontinental travel. Instead of 'green' airline taxes that merely deny the poor, but benefit the rich, I always thought that deep and heavy taxes should only be applied to seating over 34". Highly efficient travel (bit of pain which restricts it to really valued travel) for those willing to squeeze in. And, hopefully, an end to the outrageously unenvironmental 'flying beds'. Or at least soak them to finance some decent green research.
@ FRank Bough - our new railway line opens in 12 months to relieve the growing pressure on the old. Being the East London (Overgound) Line it isn't going to displace any runways methinks ... just make London City Airport more accessible.
get ready
For Clarkson et al to make huge huffing-and-puffing-I-told-you-so noises.
Like with like
The paper needs a bit more reading, although it is notably thin. However, one thing is blindingly obvious - comparing CO2 footprints for urban transport on a per passenger kilometre basis with that for long haul transport in aircraft is a ridiculous idea. It's not exactly practical to hitch a lift on a 747 for a 5 mile journey into town. By all means compare (say) a high-speed train CO2 footprint with that for a comparable flight (and both should include the relevant parts of the journey that have to be completed by other forms of transport to get to/from the final end points).
As for flying cars Lewis, then you might as well be talking about flying pigs. The previous Register article on the subject was a joke (like stating that road infrastructure wouldn't be needed, leaving out the little problem of goods movement), safety problems and the objection that many of us would have to these things buzzing around the suburbs. Of course the chance of actually producing such flying vehicles at price points comparable to those of road vehicles is as close to zero as one would care to imagine. At best, expensive toys for the rich.
Just as with the comitted greenies, another cherry-picked, misrepresentative item chosen to support a pre-decided point of view, rather than a serious contribution. Now there is a valid study to be done over (say) long-haul train vs car, and short-haul public transport vs, say, electric vehicles, but it isn't this study.
Re: Half full?
No, the environmental impact of a train or plane is very little different whether it is half full or overcrowded - just a bit more energy needed to drag the extra weight up hills or get it off the ground. But you can't use regenerative braking on aircraft. You can't use the energy fo a landing plane to boost that of one that is taking off. You can do the equivalent with electric trains.
What does change is the carbon emissions per passenger-km. Overall it doesn't make any difference whether you travel on a crowded train or a lightly loaded one, assuming both trains are running anyway. The marginal impact is the same.
@ Steven Jones
"As for flying cars Lewis, then you might as well be talking about flying pigs. The previous Register article on the subject was a joke..."
<sarcasm>Jeez, you hit the nail right on the head there.</sarcasm>
If you go and check, the flying car story is in fact a theme spanning quite a few articles that many of us on this site quite enjoy for light relief. Maybe you'd like to complain about the Rise of the Machines (TM) articles while you're at it as well? Or even the BOFH?
I'd like to see
A plane that can run on nuclear power. Rail may be beat by planes in plain CO2 count, if you count it in a particular way, but railways can take advantage of any improvement in electricity generation. It's the same argument as electric cars. While contemporary electricity generation is 'dirty' gas/oil/coal shortages and the green movement will force future generation to 'clean' sources. Railways will adapt to this transition much easier than planes.
Completely mis-reported.
The report doesn't say aircraft are more eco-friendly at all. Did you even read more than the first paragraph?
It's clearly shows rail as being generally more efficient per passenger-kilometre.
Oddly they didn't research long distance rail travel, or ships, which means they don't have any comparison for the large aircraft figures, but anyway, over short distances rail was more efficient.
Bad reporting.
@Research FAIL
So you are saying that they never need to replace this rail infrastructure once set up?
To all the "but, but, but" comments
I have no idea if this paper is correct or not, but if everyone absolutely believes that rail is so much better, then nobody will bother implementing all your nice ideas for making it even more efficient.
@Frank Bough
"The sad truth about rail is that many of its proponents suffer from the same kind of feeble wooly-headed soft-socialist thinking that drives the green movement."
And what kind of thinking drives an economic system based on continuous growth on a finite planet, exactly?
The article that previous flying car article that Lewis linked to shows no sign of being intended as a joke at all. If it was, it is very cleverly disguised and hats off to him for giving an impression of somebody being serious whilst making what are derisory claims about technology and practicality.
A bit like that article on how incandescent light bulkbs could be made as power efficient as CFLs after being zapped with a laser. Clearly another joke rather than an inability to understand numbers presented in a misleading manner. Clearly the intention of The Register journalists to have a joke at their reader's expense knows no bounds.
@ Steve
Well, everyone else got the joke except you.
The reason why it came across as serious is because the author seems to be pretty interested in such things for their own sake, which is why I still read his articles... I just take a big pinch of salt with a few of the conclusions he reaches.
That seems a good rule to use with many of the articles on here.
Planes, trains, and flying automobiles
I can only hope should any of you read the conference paper I'm trying to write at the moment that you can treat my work a little more sypathetically! If the reseachers are venting this paper as a reason for why we should build more planes than trains, than shame on them. More than likely they were just interested in the topic and they are right to point out things nobody else has yet considered.
We need planes, trains, automobiles (but probably not flying ones - one or two per km, fine, 100s, it's be worse than things are now) and boats. All have niches and specific purposes. Integrating them properly is the key to making them more useful (along with pricing, frequency etc.).
How could we help prevent the spread of disease, have a universally decent quality of life, avoid long-lasting environmental problems and climate change all at once? LESS PEOPLE. Those fewer individuals would also have to be on the whole smarter, a lot less selfish, and a lot more prideful in their work (whatever it might be) and in the work of others.
A humanity hivemind perhaps...?
Quick skim read
Suggests that 747s are more environmentally friendly for urban transport than little trains. I cannot wait to see one of them rolling down the North Circular.
Assumptions truly are the key
And let's start right now by straightening out the one obvious mistaken assumption you Brits are making: Unless you happen to be a Senator of more than 12 years from a small state in the northeast corridor, there are no high speed trains in the US, and especially no high speed passenger trains. Rail development here seems to have mostly stopped around the time the robber barons died. Rail in the US means freight: two, three, or more diesels hooked up to a long line of cars carrying coal, iron ore, refined iron/steel, chemicals, automobiles, or perhaps garbage to an out of state landfill. You guys may have the Priusses of trains, here in The States were still driving the Model T.
Oh, and AC Coward of 8th June 2009 09:57 GMT, in the northeast corridor, even the non-high speed trains are competitive with airlines on trip time after you add in the extra arrival time for security these days. The problem is, while you can hop a commuter flight at just about any 30 minute interval, the trains, well not so much. So travelers tend to fly rather than train.
@Emily Parry
I think you'll find most of the comments are directed at the way Lewis chose to report and headline it rather than the aim of the paper itself. Notably it was headlines that aeroplanes can be more environmentally friendly than trains. Now whilst that is no doubt true under certain cricumstances (building a railway line to supply the research station at the South Pole would clearly be ludicrous as an alternative to using 'planes), the comparison he chose to make was a completely bogus one. Either he was being stupid or provocative (I suspect the latter).
Now as for your wish for fewer people (and, for that matter, mixed transport modes), I'd echo that - but I'd be interested to know how you plan to achieve that aim. We have to start where we are. I rather suspect that nature will do it for us - I'm just hoping it's sufficiently far into the future that I'm not around to witness it...
Impact per passenger km is a bogus statistic
It would only be relevant if the mode of transport in question was 100% full.
A train (or plane) with 1 passenger on it does pretty much the same environmental damage as a full one. Yet the Kg of CO2 per passenger Kilometre would be significantly different.
So, given this metric, the best way to save the polar bear is to hire transients to take up any unused spaces on planes / trains / buses so they are always full. CO2 / passenger / KM drops, ice caps re-form, polar bears get back to eating Eskimos and all would be well in the world.
per passenger km
It's going to make congestion in London a lot worse if they have 747s taxiing down the buslanes torepalce the tube.
I'd love to fly the Central Line
to Tottenham Court Road.
But I get the kinda feeling that a few skyscrapers and lack of landing space in central London just might kybosh the whole thing.
And yet...
How do you fly from one end of Boston to the other, so you can get this increased efficiency.
Apples and oranges.
How very odd
To me this is totally unexpected given that Berkeley is usually the most leftish, greeny, french kiss a gopher's hole, antiestablishmentarian, with liberally and social justice for all, kind of place. Oh my, the times they are a changin', into what I can't say, but there you go.
As far as trains here go, flying is usually cheaper, assuming you fly cattle class, and gets you closer to where you really want to be. I'd love to have a train like the HST in Taiwan but in the US, where would you run it? You'd have people saying it's too fast, too expensive, too loud, too dangerous, NIMBY especially if it isn't going to stop here, too et cetera.
Oh Lee, the best way to save the polar bear is to stop shooting the buggers. Unless of course you're talking about 1/2 oz creme de cacao mixed over ice with 1/2 oz peppermint schnapps, strain into a shot glass. Enjoy.
Boston Light Rail
A bit hard to judge by the transit maps, but I'd guess damn few commuter airline routes are as short as the likely longest runs on the Boston light rail system.
Flying cars
Lewis - Did I miss it, or did you fail to account for the adverse air-quality effects and the, um , "environmental impacts" of all the crashing and burning the flying cars?
Different tech for different purposes
Airliners can be more efficient on long haul perhaps, but that is only because the huge take-off cost can be offset by a long cruise time.
A 747 uses more fuel in take off as it does in an hour of cruising. On shorter distances, up to say 500km, that really messes up the numbers.
Use trains for commuter transport and aircraft for long haul.
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The Georgia State Patrol says 38-year-old Trooper First Class Chadwick LeCroy of Marietta was shot twice in the face Monday night
and died while being taken to a hospital.
A patrol news release says LeCroy tried to stop a car, but it fled and crashed after a short chase.
LeCroy and the driver of the car then fought, and the trooper was shot.
The release says the suspect drove away in the trooper's car but was arrested soon after.
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The Real Political Purpose of the ICE Raids
New America Media, Commentary, David Bacon Posted: Mar 30, 2007
Editor's note: Yesterday immigration agents arrested more than 50 people in raids on a temporary employment agency's offices and places where it provided undocumented workers in Baltimore. NAM associate editor David Bacon says these raids are serving more than one political purpose.
BERKELEY, Calif. - For the last several months, agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have carried out well-publicized immigration raids in factories, meatpacking plants, janitorial services, and other workplaces employing immigrants. ICE calls the workers criminals, because immigration law forbids employers to hire them.
But while workers get deported, and often must leave their children with relatives, or even strangers, don't expect to see many of their employers go to jail. Further, ICE can't, and won't, deport all 12 million undocumented workers in the country. This would quickly halt many industries. Instead, these raids have a political purpose.
Last fall, after agents raided Swift & Co. meatpacking plants, Homeland Secretary Michael Chertoff told the media the deportations would show Congress the need for "stronger border security, effective interior enforcement and a temporary-worker program.'' Bush wants, he said, "a program that would allow businesses that need foreign workers, because they can't otherwise satisfy their labor needs, to be able to get those workers in a regulated program."
In his recent visit to Mexico, President Bush again proposed new guest worker programs. He would allow corporations and contractors to recruit hundreds of thousands of workers a year outside of the US, and put them to work here on temporary, employment-based visas.
Last week, Congressmen Luis Gutierrez and Jeff Flake introduced a bill into Congress which would set up the kind of guest worker program the President calls for. Corporations could bring in 400,000 guest workers annually, while the kind of sanctions that have led to the wave of workplace raids would be put on steroids.
Labor schemes like this have a long history. From 1942 to 1964 the bracero program recruited temporary immigrants, who were exploited, cheated, and deported if they tried to go on strike. Growers pitted them against workers already in the country to drive down wages. Cesar Chavez and other Latino leaders campaigned to get the program repealed.
Advocates of today's programs avoid the bitter "bracero" label, and call them "guest worker," "essential worker," or just "new worker" schemes. You can't clean up an unpleasant reality, however, by renaming it.
Guest worker programs are low-wage schemes, intended to supply plentiful labor to corporate employers, at a price they want to pay. Companies don't recruit guest workers so they can pay them more, but to pay them less. According to Rob Rosado, director of legislative affairs for the American Meat Institute, meatpackers want a guest worker program, but not a basic wage guarantee for those workers. "We don't want the government setting wages," he says. "The market determines wages."
The Southern Poverty Law Center's recent report, Close to Slavery, shows that current guest worker programs allow labor contractors to maintain blacklists of workers who work slowly or demand their rights. Public interest lawyers spend years in court, trying just to get back wages for cheated immigrants. Meanwhile, the Department of Labor almost never decertifies contractors who abuse workers.
The AFL-CIO opposes guest worker programs, and says immigrants should be given permanent residence visas, so they have labor rights and can become normal members of the communities they live in. Since 1999, the AFL-CIO has called for legalization of the 12 million people living in the US without documents. Most unions oppose employer sanctions and the recent immigration raids, because they're often used used to threaten and punish workers when they speak out for better wages and conditions.
Today over 180 million people in the world already live outside the countries where they were born. In the countries that are the main sources of migration to the US, trade agreements like NAFTA, and market-based economic reforms, have uprooted hundreds of thousands of farmers and workers, leaving them little option other than coming north.
A rational immigration policy should end trade and investment policies abroad that produce poverty and displace people. In the US, immigration policy should emphasize rights and equality, and protect all families and communities, of immigrants and native-born alike.
Using immigration raids instead as a pressure tactic to get Congress to approve guest worker programs is not a legitimate use of enforcement. It undermines the family and community values for which this country stands.
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David on May 07, 2007 at 08:09:38 said:
"Using immigration raids" is a slight of hand argument, made by people who know they are on the wrong side of this issue. If your local police "raided" the house next door to arrest drug dealers, or a prostitution ring, would we decry them as "...not a legitimate use of enforcement"? If so, then WHAT IS a legitimate use of enforcement? Think about it.
Thank goodness ICE is finally doing their job. Go ICE Go!!!
jim on Apr 30, 2007 at 12:19:07 said:
Go ICE! Go get 'em! Round up the illegals and DEPORT them! Illegal aliens abuse our country by taking, not giving. Why should I subsidize the medical care and well-being of an illegal?
I'd like to see ICE "goose step" across America! Yeah!
alan on Apr 27, 2007 at 20:58:55 said:
By whatever name, 'guest worker' is a cynical exploitation, pure and simple. The way to prevent exploitation, ironically enough, is stepped up workplace enforcement. Even with unlimited visa availability of a type, even with more worker protections built in, you still need on-site enforcement or hirers will go outside the law and hire in the black market. If the hirer has no fear, he will break the law for competitive advantage and worker abuse will be the result. People who cry wolf about every action ICE takes are just hurting the people they claim they want to protect. Undermining enforcement guarantees the continuation of the black market and the resultant problems.-->


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"[I'm surprised], but it is a hard league and sometimes when you buy players and early in the season a couple of results don't go for you, it suddenly becomes harder to win a game.
"I've been there myself with West Ham. I know how difficult it can be. We had a good squad of players but for whatever reason, it just didn't work for us that season.
"QPR have got a good squad of players and hopefully Mark Hughes can turn it round although not starting on Saturday.
"It is massively important for us to bounce back," added the England international. "We were disappointed with the result against Galatasaray but we are in a good position in this group. The Norwich game was disappointing too.
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Joey Bada$$ Says Responding To Lil B's Diss Was "Too Easy"
Joey Bada$$ says that it was "too easy" to respond to Lil B's diss track.
Earlier this week, Lil B made headlines when he dissed up-and-comer Joey Bada$$ on his song "I'm the Bad A$$." Now, Joey catches up with MTV to discuss his response to the the Based God's jab, "Don't Quit Your Day Job."
The Flatbush upstart talked about the Janet Jackson-sampling track, saying that dissing Lil B was "too easy." He added that while he doesn't know whether the feud will continue, he feels that he's effectively silenced the California rapper.
"I just linked up with my homey Ben, and he played this beat and was like, 'Yo, Lil B dis record?' And I was like, 'Oh, a'ight,'" he said. "Who knows [why he dissed me]? But if somebody sends a jab at me, I'll just send one twice as hard. I really didn't have to respond, I don't feel so, but I just did it. I don't know why. It's too easy, that's what it is. It's too easy, so I thought, 'Why not?' I'm just flexing my skill on him."
He added, "I killed him. He shouldn't even attempt to do anything again."
The feud reportedly began in response to the late Pro Era member Captial STEEZ's verse on "Survival Tactics," in which he raps, "They say hard work pays off/Well tell the Based God don't quit his day job."
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Celtics' Rondo suspended for two games
Boston Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo has been suspended for two games following his scuffle with Brooklyn Nets forward Kris Humphries in the second quarter of Wednesday night's game between the two teams.
After a Humphries foul sent forward Kevin Garnett crashing to the floor, Rondo immediately confronted the Nets player, beginning a shoving match that moved partly into the stands. Both Rondo and Humphries, along with Brooklyn's Gerald Wallace, were ejected from the game.
According to ESPNBoston.com, Celtics general manager Danny Ainge acknowledged that Rondo would be suspended for two games in a radio interview on WEEI in Boston.
Earlier on Thursday, Rondo spoke about the fight to the Boston Globe, stating, "I don't think I did anything dirty. I didn't try to start a riot. I don't think it's more than just a pushing war that started."
The six-year pro is averaging 12.9 points, 12.9 assists, and 4.6 rebounds per game for the Celtics this season.
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If those continuing pregnancy rumours are to be believed, then these pictures from Gisele Bundchen's new campaign for Loewe aren't helping any. The Brazilian supermodel has once again sparked rumours that she is expecting, after she was reportedly ecstatic over the news at Sao Paulo Fashion Week. She then fuelled further speculation when she took to the catwalk with her belly cleverly disguised. Now, Gisele fronts Stuart Vevers's latest handbag collection for Loewe with her stomach region also hidden beneath an array of gorgeous new leather goodies.
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Prep: 15 min. Bake: 50 min.
1-1/3 cups canola oil
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i've had a lot of rage in me lately. i think it's partly due to sleep deprivation (because of kayla's night wakings - ugh) and partly because of the female curse called a bloody uterus. anyway, this blah mood of mine has caused me to neglect my blog and as i was raging on my way home today, i decided to channel my inner bitch and start a blog series stolen from family guy called what grinds my gears. i'm pretty pissed off right now so this should be a treat for you. welcome to the first edition.
for the most part of this week, my director has kept me isolated from the general public; most likely for the safety of the other employees. when i get like this, i'm like one of those cute monkeys that looks like a big ball of furry fun (not to say that i'm furry but you get my point) but is really just a raging sack of angry hate waiting to explode because the inkeeper has prodded him one too many times or the other monkeys keep stealing his bananas and and he's one nudge away from going beserk and throwing feces at everyone.
what really grinds my gears (i could go on about multiple topics but let's focus here) are lazy motherfuckers in the work place. i was just assigned to a project which i had recently transitioned away from because the company found a permanent resource. and, typical of the company, they need help because they're behind in a lot of tasks which translates to they can't get their shit organized and nobody on the project gives a fuck. when i was originally assigned, my job was to identify and streamline various processes in the company and then document the changes so it can be approved by the executives. when i transitioned to the permanent resource, i gave her everything i had.
during today's update meeting, i was given the same task with the exact same information .... that had not been touched since i did the knowledge transfer. after i wiped the what the fuck? expression off my face and asked why nothing had been updated, there was some mumbling about not having time because there was too much admin work.
uh huh. i see.
so what i'm hearing is that everyone is too fucking lazy to do their job and now they're up shit's creek because they deploy in less than a month and nothing's been signed off. awesome. hey here's an idea: you see that boxy thing on your desk? the one with the screen and that rectangle thing with letters on them? yes, why don't you fire that up and oh i don't know.... use it to actually do some work?
while i don't mind doing the work, i hate the fact that i'm cleaning up other people's messes because they can't or won't do what needs to be done. what i really wanted to say was: maybe if you stopped with all the fuckery or whatever the hell you do, you'd be close to getting this shit done. but i am a professional and if this project goes off the rails, my director would look bad so i'm doing this for him. me, i would rather spend my time on etsy or pinterest.
so yeah, lazy people.... that's what really grinds my gears. now i'm going to go chug a beer.


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