Category Archives: humour

The Most Often Overlooked Risk in Your Energy Supply Chain?

Is it the grid and the possibility of another great blackout (due to a lack of breakers)?

Is it the unpredictable terrorist act that could blow up a pipeline in North America (which includes friendly Canada)?

No, it’s Sciurus Carolinensis!

One little squirrel in one little circuit-breaker in one little substation can knock out power to 9,000 homes with a single nibble, as FirstEnergy customers in North Royalton found out on Tuesday.

Maybe Dark Verne has the right idea when he thinks we need to Get Rid of that Squirrel!.

Have yourself a Mathematically Correct Breakfast?

Have you ever wanted a mathematically correct breakfast? Well, thanks to George W. Hart, now you can (have one)!

Check out this great page on how to slice a bagel into two linked halves. (Now, if you’re not watching your weight, it will also work on a properly proportioned old-fashioned donut, but I strongly recommend the bagel.)

Hat-Tip to Matthieu Cormier, of Cocoa Mondo, a fellow Haligonian.

It’s Not Easy Being Green

On one of my recent trips over the hedge, I brought you Dark Verne’s song. And I know a few of you wondered what Verne’s song was when he had his dark side under control. Well, that’s simple. He has adopted Kermit the Frog‘s anthem It’s Not Easy Being Green (which was originally written by Joe Raposo and voiced by Jim Henson and which can be found on YouTube).

So, without further ado, here is Verne‘s song.

It’s Not Easy Being Green

It’s not that easy being green
Having to spend each day the color of the leaves
When I think it could be nicer being red, or yellow or gold
Or something much more colorful like that

It’s not easy being green
It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
And people tend to pass you over ’cause you’re
Not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water
Or stars in the sky

But green’s the color of Spring
And green can be cool and friendly-like
And green can be big like an ocean, or important
Like a mountain, or tall like a tree

When green is all there is to be
It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why
Wonder, I am green and it’ll do fine, it’s beautiful
And I think it’s what I want to be

FYI: Here is the Over the Hedge song archive to date:
Hammy’s Song,
Hammy Dreaming,
RJ’s Song, and
(Dark) Verne’s Song.