My wife and I recently attended The Master Plan (https://www.soulpepper.ca/performances/the-master-plan) by Michael Healey who appeared on stage as a narrator and a tree.
I switched my web servers over to an AWS t2.micro instance in 2014, which has been adequate for my needs until late afternoon on December 16th when I started to get a flurry of "high CPU" alerts. I noticed a large number of queued web requests that seemed slow to complete. Web server responsiveness was extremely slow.
MIT Technology Review (paywalled) recently published "Your AC habits aren’t unique.
In 2008 I bought a second refrigerator as a backup for my main refrigerator and to replace a chest freezer that consumed far too much electricity. The second refrigerator is in the basement and does not get regular use - it failed last year causing some frozen food to spoil before the problem was detected.
Cases of Lyme disease spread by black-legged ticks have been steadily increasing in northeast, mid-west and mid-Atlantic USA and southern Canada.
I installed a waterfall faucet as part of renovating the bathroom. A plumber recommended that I apply car wax to the spout to reduce limescale buildup. Unfortunately, the design of the faucet not only contributed to limescale but also made waxing difficult.
It is easy to lose your smartphone. On a trip to Montreal, I left the hotel to visit the sights and only realised I did not have my phone after walking about twenty minutes. No worries. I could use my wife's phone, start an incognito mode session, login to my account, and launch https://google.com/android/find.
I have been using an Ecobee3 Lite thermostat since 2019. Aside from the issue described in Hydro One's myEnergyRewards in Action, it has met my needs. I can create schedules that minimise furnace and A/C operation without impacting comfort levels.
In 2017, I was given a SodaStream (https://sodastream.ca/) device that injects CO2 from a rechargeable cylinder into water. The injection rate dropped noticeably in the last few weeks, even with a full CO2 cylinder.
I recently attended a Consumer Reports (CR) Community webinar that presented the results of a CR "study ... designed to help researchers better understand the state of the surveillance economy in 2023 and real-world surveillance practices, including hard-to-measure server-to-server data transfers.