Archive for December, 2007

The Levee

// December 15th, 2007 // 1 Comment » // Thoughts

Night out last weekend. Good times. I don’t really know what I am up to in the first picture with Logan Danny, and I. Marcela and Sandy are in the second one.

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Destination Go at Record Bar

// December 14th, 2007 // No Comments » // Thoughts

Destination Go

UPS Saved 3 Million Gallons of Gas By Not Turning Left

// December 12th, 2007 // No Comments » // Thoughts

Turns out UPS isn’t an ambi-turner.

(Via NYTimes.com)

It seems that sitting in the left lane, engine idling, waiting for oncoming traffic to clear so you can make a left-hand turn, is minutely wasteful — of time and peace of mind, for sure, but also of gas and therefore money. Not a ton of gas and money if we’re talking about just you and your Windstar, say, but immensely wasteful if we’re talking about more than 95,000 big square brown trucks delivering packages every day. And this realization — that when you operate a gigantic fleet of vehicles, tiny improvements in the efficiency of each one will translate to huge savings overall — is what led U.P.S. to limit further the number of left-hand turns its drivers make.

The company employs what it calls a “package flow” software program, which among other hyperefficient practices involving the packing and sorting of its cargo, maps out routes for every one of its drivers, drastically reducing the number of left-hand turns they make (taking into consideration, of course, those instances where not to make the left-hand turn would result in a ridiculously circuitous route).

Last year, according to Heather Robinson, a U.P.S. spokeswoman, the software helped the company shave 28.5 million miles off its delivery routes, which has resulted in savings of roughly three million gallons of gas and has reduced CO2 emissions by 31,000 metric tons. So what can Brown do for you? We can’t speak to how good or bad they are in the parcel-delivery world, but they won’t be clogging up the left-hand lane while they do their business.

Product Type Photography

// December 4th, 2007 // No Comments » // Thoughts

Did a project yesterday. Tried to make my own little ghetto lightbox. Using cutout cardboard, vellum paper, normal white paper, and two 500 watt work lights. I like the results for the first try but there is still some stuff to figure out. Pretty fun to do.

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