Al’s Big Room, Nancy’s Glacier, And All That Green Cred

ANYTHING but that gaping mouth of Rudi. It was a show of horrors!

I hope Al recycles.

Hmmm. How strange. Al’s desk looks different from George Bush’s. I’m sure it doesn’t mean anything. *snark*
All those screens though. Takes a lot of current to run those things. Really, how green is that?

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It’s like NORAD if NORAD was run by the Kennedy Chair in Public Policy at Yale or something — a position, by the way, that I so totally made up. It’s a weird combination of information nerve center and erudite scholar’s office.
Look at that multitasking, though! Gore will give himself a strange kind of ADD with all of those monitors: he’ll interrupt his explanation of CO2 emissions in China to tell us about the breakup of ice shelves in Antarctica.

oozing oodles of watts, the Minutia Man awaits
the call
that came
yesterday.
Finding no place to sit, i called out, “Al! Al… you said you wanted to see me?”
“Just… a… minute. Let me… finish, uh… just finish this… ummm…. oh! Look! can’t ignore that! it’s… so i’m… i’m going to…”
“Nevermind, Al. Everyone’s already finished dinner and gone home. Joe said he had another party to go to. George brought a book about his Pet Goat, and…”
“Pet Goat?”
“Yes, that’s what Laura said. Something about a GOAT.”
“waitAminute… let me… let me just look that up… GOOGLE GOAT”
“Al…”
“OMG! i googled “pet goat” and it says : ‘Bin Laden Determined to Attack the U.S.‘ Should i tell anybody?”
“Al… everyone’s gone home, Al…”
“let me… let me just… make a note about that. there! Oh! Look! whenever i move my cursor over here, a little balloon pops up, and…”
“Good Night, Al. What time do you want to get up?”
“…and there’s billions and billions and billions of stars… in… the Cosmos…”

Al’s office looks just like my son’s room – except my son’s room also contains a number of stuffed tigers. About 50 of them. And he only works on two monitors at a time, but I’m sure he would love to have three.
What an amazing treasure trove of information Al is. It would be a shame to confine him to just the presidency, really. I’m glad he’s had the chance to get people interested in the climate change problem, and what an excellent job he’s doing.

All those screens though. Takes a lot of current to run those things. Really, how green is that?
Of course it would depend on the power source. We use screens like that in Radiology and in other areas of our hospital.
I mean, I can run two screens just off my IBM laptop, which is basically on household current. Is that less green than running the air conditioning? Is it more? And just how ‘green’ does Al Gore have to be to satisfy you or anyone else?

Gore’s use of energy is somewhat like the idea of carbon tradeoff’s. One guy uses a lot, and plants a bunch of trees somewhere, or, he’s balanced by someone like me who keeps her waterheater turned off except when she needs to take a bath, her thermostat at 78, and drives only 4-8 miles in a day, leaving her car parked several days out of every week. It’s okay, Al, I’m glad to sacrifice my comfort so you can show off your technology.
Nancy, on the other hand, can do no wrong in my book.

Gore’s use of energy is somewhat like the idea of carbon tradeoff’s. One guy uses a lot, and plants a bunch of trees somewhere, or, he’s balanced by someone like me who keeps her waterheater turned off except when she needs to take a bath, her thermostat at 78, and drives only 4-8 miles in a day, leaving her car parked several days out of every week. It’s okay, Al, I’m glad to sacrifice my comfort so you can show off your technology.
Nancy, on the other hand, can do no wrong in my book.

okay I’m impressed by the books, binders and busyness, but partially hidden among this impressive clutter is a crystal ball, pray tell what wisdom does it relay ?

I`m impressed by the small personal touches. It looks like he has 2 pics of his family. The rainforest frog, and what looks like a White House Plate.
I wish we could see the rest of the office. Right now this is deffinately someone whose attention is on forward goals rather than past achievements.

The crystal ball seems to be embellished with a map of the continents. It is a globe.
The picture on the TV screen below the frog looks to be from Current TV, one of Gore’s business ventures.
He sure is paying attention.

I feel SO MUCH BETTER about my desk now!! REally, no snark!

don’t be fooled that earth cover is to disguise the crystal ball, anyone can see that.

I tend to agree with The Bag that Pelosi’s on a catch-up tour, probably to take the stink from all the blowback she’s been getting from the Iraq financing bill. I also noticed the W’s off-topic speeches last couple of days and was puzzled until I realized the G-8 summit was a-comin’ up. The W doesn’t want to be cold shouldered like he has been before, but once all the hoopla is over, he’ll be back to his old normal scary self……poundin’ his chest and claiming to be the president (I suppose that’s just to annoy Cheney).
As for Big Al, his office looks only slightly neater than mine. LOL. But three screens, man, that’s some heavy-duty serious. All of which, sad to say, seems to be the trappings of a researcher/author not a candidate for the oval office.
BTW, I’m still having nightmares about mouth-full-o-teeth Guilliani from yesterday.
And to M.Gonzo: Brilliant!

ref : “Nancy, on the other hand, can do no wrong in my book.”
imho, another AIPAC toady, she.
you just got screwed, margaret; but, not unlike the cult-of-personality Dubya drones, my dear lady (and i say that heartfelt) you remain too proud to admit that you’ve been conned : “Naming liberal media makers like Salon, MyDD and Daily Kos blogs as key to “MoveOn and its Netroots allies having become identified as the leadership of the anti-war movement”–despite the fact that, when given a choice between building a powerful grassroots movement to end the war, -vs- exploiting the war for the benefit of getting Democrats elected, Kos & MoveOn have repeatedly chosen the latter, [naively] believing there is no difference.”
She’s better off there, on some god-forsaken iceberg, margaret ~ because if she showed her face here, in San Francisco ~ there’d be what, 50,000+ protesters lining Market Street all the way from The Embarcadero on up to The Castro :-/
as rtbag noticed : we are angry out here on the Left Coast !

Monsieur, you are angry. We all are angry. Who do you suggest we support if not the most powerful Democrat in the union right now?

How about giving that support to someone who knows its value, like, oh, I don’t know……………Dennis Kucinich!

…And the posing continues. I’ve said this before (and been invited to “return” to free republic by Pelosi’s fans and worshipers) but there’s such a sense, in the photos of her, of someone dressing up and acting a part. The beret is a nice choice for a picture in front of an iceberg, just like the hermes scarf for Damascus, and the red shawl for the capital steps. The people who are so mesmerized by her visual presentation are the last ones to call her to account for actual results.