Going Green and Coming Up Short

So last night I began to work on my studio project which is being designed to be a green building. Something the Berliners are big into. They are also crazily into recycling. There's pails for green glass, brown glass, and clear glass. Theres paper and compost and non-recylable trash. Its a little tough to keep it all straight. Its definitely a huge cultural difference here. People are actually encouraged to recycle because on all glass bottles the return for recycling it can be almost 25 to 33 cents. Its odd here how recycling and being efficient isn't seen as going above and beyond like it is in America, its seen as a daily and normal routine.

So the other part of this story is about the Jets. The game was at 12:30am CET and ended just before 4am. So my roommate casey (him being a Steelers fan) and I decided to stream the game on our computers on our crappy internet connection. So we huddled around my computer and watched, me agonizingly for two quarters then triumphantly for one. Then as the fourth quarter started the internet application sent us a message that we reached our data limit and proceed to shut down. So both of us huddled in front of ESPN.com watching the time tick down and continue to guess what happened. Unfortunately it was not to be for the Jets and going to be at 4am was even more bitter.