The age-old adage First Do No Harm should be the tempering goal of not only medicine, but government and industry, especially when they team up to deploy new technologies, set policies and serve the people.

This blog exists to reveal and analyze areas in which these powerful groups are failing to "first do no harm."

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Smart Meter Cartoons are all the RAGE

How about some comic relief in the smart meter battles?
Check these out:

Innovative smart meter use for utility execs

Smart meter stare down 

Poor, lonely smart meters

Smart meter zombie

Another use for smart meters

Microwave Nation is a series of cartoons at Pixton relating to smart meters and wireless.
Microwave Nation: Utility Man

Microwave Nation: Sick from Meter
Microwave Nation: Unite to Fight Smart Meters!

And I leave you with a poem that may give you some fresh ideas about what you could do with your smart meter. The exercise was to write a poem using these five words:

inevitable
flypaper
pretzel
pillow
Chevrolet


Ode to the toxic “smart meter"
(the utility refuses to remove)

Your demise is inevitable.
Someday, I’ll stick you to flypaper    
and take you to the range for target practice.     
I’ll twist your smoking innards into pretzels
and hold you under a pillow to suffocate your last spark.    
Stuffing you in a black trash bag, I’ll dump you in the trunk    
of my ’69 Chevy and gun it to the nearest cliff.

Poking the shiny chrome nose over the teetering edge,
I’ll scramble out, and push, sending you down,
down to the jagged, foam-covered rocks below.
Even if they find the banged up wreck,
they’ll never ID your smashed remains.




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Thursday, December 8, 2011

Smart Meter Cartoons are all the RAGE

How about some comic relief in the smart meter battles?
Check these out:

Innovative smart meter use for utility execs

Smart meter stare down 

Poor, lonely smart meters

Smart meter zombie

Another use for smart meters

Microwave Nation is a series of cartoons at Pixton relating to smart meters and wireless.
Microwave Nation: Utility Man

Microwave Nation: Sick from Meter
Microwave Nation: Unite to Fight Smart Meters!

And I leave you with a poem that may give you some fresh ideas about what you could do with your smart meter. The exercise was to write a poem using these five words:

inevitable
flypaper
pretzel
pillow
Chevrolet


Ode to the toxic “smart meter"
(the utility refuses to remove)

Your demise is inevitable.
Someday, I’ll stick you to flypaper    
and take you to the range for target practice.     
I’ll twist your smoking innards into pretzels
and hold you under a pillow to suffocate your last spark.    
Stuffing you in a black trash bag, I’ll dump you in the trunk    
of my ’69 Chevy and gun it to the nearest cliff.

Poking the shiny chrome nose over the teetering edge,
I’ll scramble out, and push, sending you down,
down to the jagged, foam-covered rocks below.
Even if they find the banged up wreck,
they’ll never ID your smashed remains.




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