When you want to cut down on your electricity consumption in your home, the easiest approach is to just turn stuff off when you’re not using it.

But when you turn it off, is it really off??? Chances are, it’s not. Plasma TVs, VCRs, DVD players, game consoles, … tons of your appliances and elctronics are actually creatures of the night, sucking down electricity when you think they’re asleep.

Just how much power are they drawing when you’re not looking? Refer to the graphic below or pickup a watt meter to measure directly.

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I’m drunk right now. That’s right. Totally smashed. I can hardly even type. I’ve just had 9 bourbons. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not some kind of an alcoholic. I’m actually just an evironmentalist who has had a very long weekend.

You see, I just read from on Environmental Grafitti that there are environmental benefits to the production of scotch whiskey.  Specifically: a by-product of whisky has been shown to clean contaminated water.

According to the articale, it cleans up heavy metals, pesticides, and chlorine polution.

I started dringingking wehisky whn i moved to europpes back in 2000.  It was a w a time that the internet bubble burt and i didn’t really know what do do but my wife thought it was gfoodf to move to there bacesuse she wanted t and then i had a friend and hisname was Stefan and he liked to drink whisky and so h told me i sjhold drink the whiskey and i never weant to insult my friends tso i said ok i will try your whsihky and then it was so good that i loiked it and thien i wanted to drinkit a lot and now i drink it after a long day at workd or when it was a short day at work or when i am particaultaly sad or maybe when i am also happy and then i lke it to drink when i am writing a blog entry too because i don;’t thingk that anyone is really reading this bloig anyway so whjy does it even fuking matter.  In fact nothing really seems to smematter anymore and that is why the whiskey is so good.

Sometimes I try to drink the  lowland whiskeys, but never ever ever do that, it will giv you such a headache and you’ll wish that you were never alive like the night i have all that vodka with Giuseppe and Igor.  What was I thinking?!??!?!  I threw up soimany times that i thouew up som any times.  But the highland whiskey are really good, but the best of all are the bourbons from USA (godfblessamerica, ami reight… who’s with me fellas?) and the scotches from Islay.  No, for realseies I mean it, I cold drink that all night long and not even notice it. oki mean sure i might strat blogging aobut stuff that i shouflgndt ve bloggin about but who cares cux no one really realds cblodgs anywhay anfd scotcht from islay is so good.

One time in germany i told stefan that i pour whisky liek i pour water but i confused the word for ‘pour’ with the ‘word’ for ‘enjoy’.  then i think stefan didn’t want to give me anymore of the schotch because it was so ecxpkebncsive. his was like 200 euros per bottle which today is like 300 dollars per bottle and i thinkg that is too much espacially whant i can djust go dontw to the liqcuoier stoe and get a bottle of mekers for 20 biucks, right?

nowi’m up to like 11 cless oes of whicky tomgnit  and i should probaly stop.  Beacuse grnealty speaking dirnking so much is not a ood thing.  i jsut want to do my part and save the world.  now i noewj trhat producing whickey cleans contaminated water.  i am isjut dsjio excited and i think i need to celebreate.  maybe just none more drink anad then i’m donig home.

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The sun is a wonderful thing.  How can you not love a great big ball of gas that provides us with light, heat, food, and electricity?  If the sun were an olympic swimmer, it would be Michael Phelps.  If it were a politician, it would be Obama.  And if it could sing, it would surely have the voice of Chelsea Williams.

But perfection is the province of only God (and maybe Obama).  The sun is not all lollipops and rainbows; too much of it can cause skin cancer. 

Well, sort of.  Too much of the damaging UV light is what causes the cancer, but our skin can actually benefit from some of the wavelengths.  But I’ll tell you what’s uebercool.  There is a way to separate the harmful UV from the skin-therapeutic wavelengths that rejuvenate skin and treat common skin disorders like fine lines, wrinkles, hyperpigmentation, and sun damage.  Avea does this with a special dense knit of polymer fibres, blocking out UV rays with a UPF of 50+.

(If this is an ad for a digital camera, I have no idea what is going on. It is supposed to be a fricking sun-protection hat.)

Now you can go out in the sun, be fit, be healthy, and look sexy.  Available for Men and Women.

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