Bandwith should be great.

Too bad I took my Christmas lights down.

We're up and running! Oven self-clean: on. All lights: on. 2-cycle lawn mower: idling.

Well you guys are ahead of the curve! just after 5 pm here I am READY! turn on the lights the dryer, dishwasher, clean the oven and flash up OLD SPARKY! a little arc welding for you-all city folks, fire up the 4x4 and let her idle WOO HOO

I'll be at the Flames game tonight during Earth Hour. I'll take a little extra pleasure knowing every electrical device in my house will be on while I'm not home.

It's 9:08 local time (Halifax), and my place is all lit up on my blacked-out street. This is funny, in an eerie kind of way.

I had to go into work this morning for a few hours. I turned off all my lights before I left. Do I get credit for that?

Gotta run second period is starting. Hopefully the CBC won't pull the plug on the game at 8:30.

I just drove home from Charlottetown at 8:40 local time. It looked just as illuminated as usual, however in addition a plane was coming in to land at 8:30 on the dot - with accompanying landing lights flashing a the airport. I could not think of a better way to celebrate the hour of power than watching a carbon-spewing jet racing towards huge towers of light!
Out here in the country, the lights are on everywhere. The radio announcer said he is talking from a dark room. Still broadcasting though - do people not even realize their own ridiculous hypocrisy?

Tad slow off the mark m'lady!

Almost done celebrating Human Achievement Hour here in NS.

Elizabeth - no, they do not. They are asleep, minds rendered into goo by fully-indexed-pension, politically correct, can't hack it in the real world teachers, prodded by an equally foolish agenda-driven media.

Celebrate "I Can Think For Myself Hour" - show the whole world that you are not a manipulated lemming by turning on all your lights. If any incandescent lights are out, get in your hummer and drive two blocks to buy some 100W replacements, while you still can. Extra points if you leave the car idling while you run in and shop.

Actually, quick off the mark. The blog is timestamped in Florida, the "Hour of Power" still in far the future here in Saskatchewan.

There are problems here in my household.
My 8 year old son has been fully indoctrinated
by our government schools.
(In Toronto the Good)
He has been told to report back to his teacher
about what went on at home
during the Global Moonbat hour.
My wife doesn't want him to become an outcast
by his classmates.
So lights are off upstairs
I am exiled into the basement
but I am doing my part
I've turned the electric heater up to high.

Hehe... Earth Hour...what an easy way to identify the knobs in my neighbourhood - the ones who've swallowed the eco-moron junk science hook line and sinker. Less easy to figure out which of the ones with their lights still on have retained their faculty for critical thinking and which are simply too oblivious to care....

Mao Stlong hele in China say,

Off with youl rights.
...-

"The President of China, Hu Jin Tao, greets Maurice Strong"

http://www.mauricestrong.net/bio.html

Take back the night!

Got everything cranked here to the max in Montreal. It just sucks that our air-conditioner is on the fritz...have to open the windows to compensate for the 30 degree setting on the baseboard heaters.

Only a few places in the dark here on my street. All of the immigrants from communist (or formerly communist) countries are operating as normal. We could take a lesson from that.

Hey bryceman, my neighbours who immigrated from Russia after the collapse of commie-fascism are lit up to. Glad to see that. Always thought they had their heads screwed on right.

Hi Everyone,

I'm usually very frugal with the energy budget. In fact,it feels quite strange leaving a room in my house without having turned everything off.

Kind of like the feeling one gets when driving without a seatbelt. Something's missing...

Right now, my whole house is illuminated, and I can't seem to wipe the grin off my face.

Sure it might be the Molson's, or the Habs' third goal, but at least the whole neighborhood knows that those are factors in the equation of my glee.

Every stinkin' bulb both inside the house, and outside are on. Washer, dryer, oven, compressor...check, check, check, and check.

Petty, but I don't care.

Sam S.

2 million years it took for humans to realize that they wanted to light up a dark cave and figure out how to do it, and a clusterf*ck of Darwinian nominees want to roll it all back....

Kate: (The green lettering is a nice touch, yes?)

Loved it! Pro-development and progress hour on its way at our place in Edmonton. We'll be self cleaning the oven, yard lights on, and enjoying watching the F1 Melbourne GP qualifying time trials on the computer in our toasty warm house.

Our block should be nice and bright tonight. I only know of one on our street who might sit in the dark and drink the blue kool aid with the world whack-job fund.

The East has done its part. To you flatlanders we pass the Human Achievement Hour Torch; now quick, extinguish it and turn on all your lights instead! Those self-cleaning ovens aren't gonna self-clean themselves!

It is fun to browse in the dark when your monitor is the only source of light available...

you should all try it.

Food for thought before I shut down: It takes at least 50 people like me shutting off less than 100W to make up for one of you super-consumers. Last year Calgary's consumption only rose by 1%.

Got the xmas lights on - snow's deeper than it was at xmas

got pretty much everylight and computer on.

Plus the oven at 425 (mccains french fries)

and the Grill - hamburgers

and the house exhaust fan

Doing what i can for the VRRC.
and the daughter is downstairs having an birthday party with the 47 inch flat screen on

Now that you all are "up and running" for the E hour, its time to get your own personal "carbon cab"

Check it out :-)

http://262496.spreadshirt.com/us/US/Shop/

I celebrated Earth Hour by helping bring more crude oil and natural gas to the market, and I hope you don't like it...

Oven baked pizzas one after the other ... non stop laundry and full drying cycle.

Furnace up an extra degree to make us all feel a little better about the -9 weather....

And I've been playing the Tele with my 120 watt Peavey cranked to go along with the 400 watt audio as I jam to last night's Dust My Broom session.

This IS fun!

I live in downtown Toronto - and last year, the condos were dark. This year - there's no difference from an ordinary evening...no-one seems to be paying any attention to the politboro nonsense and all lights are on.

greenist quebecois - I know it's not much fun in quebec but we still won't define you as a victim of anything other than your own socialist brainwashed lifestyle.

Had to leave for work, so I turned on everything that wouldn't burn down my house before I locked up - that was an hour ago, 11 left to go before I get home. On my break, I'll be driving to McDonald's for dinner, then across town to the Timmy's for coffee. I'll probably have to stop at the Mac's to pick up a few things, and I've got keyless entry...

I must apologize for my wretched sloth, I only managed to turn on all the lights and get a load of laundry in the dryer.

I had plans of idling a few diesel accessories, but after dinner it all seemed like too much work so I watched a movie instead. Horton Hears a Who. Pretty good animation.

I got home from helping some elderly relatives and, Earth Hour not being on my mind, I was wondering why my husband had so many lights on—no dimmer in the hall either. (He was even brave—or stupid!—enough, in our very PC neighbourhood, to leave the curtains wide open as he sat watching TV: no bricks through the window though!)

I checked along the street: pretty dark in the houses, though the street lights, as always, were blazing away.

Earth Hour’s one of the anemic liturgies of our post-Christian West: what a come down. Among other goods, Christianity gave us our schools, our hospitals, and the rule of law (with the concepts of self-control and sacrifice, front and centre), as well as the bulk of our private charities.

What do we expect the proponents of Earth Hour are likely to give us? (I find that the word "Obama" comes to mind.)

I left it up to my 13 year old. I asked him if he wanted to turn off all appliances, including the three computers and his Xbox, and sit in the dark for an hour to save the earth. He said, "Thanks Mom, but I'm good".

Guess the young aren't as "into it" as the greenies think.

Well, all lights went on.

Ran a tap to get the water pump churning.

Two vehicles idling in the yard.

Fired up the gas generator to give it some exercise too. Things started to draw too hard and dimmed the lights here.

The tires will be lit up tomorrow night as it was raining.

Diddle you Al Gore et al. Diddle you.

I was expecting a cavalcade of greenweenies to be rushing up to my house and congratulating me for my apparent use of resources. Outside there was, at least, 6000watts of lights on..tho indoors only candles, and I think I fell into the dark green side because of it. Or as dionkey would say, I been shifted.

I am so sorry...

My wife and I were watching a DVD during the appointed hour, so I really couldn't go around having all my lights blazing...

I'm proud of my neighborhood. No more than the normal number of lights out due to absence.

Decided to start my wireless power meter calibration early by putting a lamb roast in the oven. Up to 5.1 Kw total power before I even start finding out how much the shop heater draws. I have some nice 300 W lamps that should make reading easier once it gets dark enough to turn them on.

It will be really interesting to see if the power meter monitor can keep up. At 5.1 Kw it takes the electric meter disk just 5 seconds to make a complete rotation. I've got 200 Amps coming into the house but I doubt that I'll be able to use more than 50 Amps tonight. Once I get the electric kiln for the wife wired up I'll really be able to rack up the kwh.

Stolen from another blog - "And the Lord said, "Let there be light." Who am I to argue with the Big Guy?"

Hubby is busy turning on every light. He figures that since the North Koreans can't celebrate Human Achievement Hour, it's up to us to pick up the slack.

you humans are very strange, do you also burn your money on Tax Savings day as well?

Luv,
Nonny Mouse

Gaia is angry.

Species8472 reports: >>> "Heavy smell of sulfur in the air."
...-

Volcanic Ash Fall - Anchorage

"Myself ^

Posted on Saturday, March 28, 2009 10:13:06 PM by Species8472

Redoubt Volcano has been erupting all day. I am in south Anchorage where ash is falling. 1/8th inch in the last 20 minutes. visibility less than 500 feet. Heavy smell of sulfur in the air.

Hunkering down!"

Here's a puzzling sight:

The neighbours across the street
who always put up big NDP signs
during every election campaign
kept all their lights on.

Schizophrenia or a sign of the times?

What a great way to end a sunny but cool day here in Wasaga Beach. Started the fire at about 4, by 5:30 it was glowing, go my beef and laid it on the smoker's grill, at 8:30 it was too dark to see so I turned on the yard's flood lights, threw on more leaves and twigs to really get that oak flavour into the meat and by 9:30 was enjoying a great meal.

Thanks Kate and to all the other sane people left out there.

My lights were off almost all day. My contribution.

The Gaian/Wiccan/tree-worshippers are really showing how they have adopted a new religion to fill in the vacuum left by their abandonment of traditional religion. They are resembling more and more the medieval Church. First it was the indulgences aka 'carbon credits'. Now it's the meatless Fridays in the form of this symbolic 'Earth Hour'. I suppose that they know that anyone engaged in a Crusade was exempt from observing the meatless Friday. In the same way, the Algore, being a crusader, is allowed to light up his Tennessee mansion while all his disciples are shivvering in the dark.

Oven cleaning... check
Laundry, wash & dry... check
Big-screen hockey game... check
More lights than I need... check

I'm hoping Calgary can better last year's total of a 3% increase...let's go hard for 5%!

The CBC says Earth Hour is to raise awareness of global warming.
Is there anyone in the solar system that hasn't heard the bleating about global warming yet?

Now that their symbolic hour is over, noticed nothing darkened here in my Florida neigborhood, are the little envirno moonbats feeling made whole again?

How much longer can this lefty indulgence sustain itself in this mother-of-all recessions?

I’m gonna get that power meter spinning like Uh-bama’s teleprompter on coke.

Allan - with regard to your son's being told to report back to his teacher about what went on in your home, I'd suggest that you write a letter to that teacher, the Principal, the Board of Education and the Education Minister - that you object in the strongest way to a teacher having your son essentially spy on you regarding a private family decision.

This is a violation of both your privacy and your fundamental rights to freedom of expression and association. The school and the teacher have no right to infringe on these rights, to have children report on your family's behaviour, or to expose children to discrimination about family decisions.

'Earth Hour' is not a law but a free option and the school has no right to move it out of this option into a universal moral requirement, and to have children 'report' on their families observance or not, of this option, to the government.

This reeks of totalitarian states - such as in Communist China, Soviet Union, and the fascist Third Reich.

Write them. Inform them they are discriminating against your family's decisions about social and political issues.

I "celebrated" Earth Hour by doing what I'd normally do on a Saturday night- keeping my lights on!
How many silly blogs out there will pop up with new entries declaring that they helped save the Earth by turning off their lights?
And NASA missed these people....

Got all my lights on and watching LAX on net.
Big screen on but nobody watching.
Dryer running.

The only thing missing is a good ole tire fire....

Got my club ready for the first ecomoonbat to ring the bell and remind me it's EH.

Let's see if we can set a new Calgary consumption record.

Dave.

Hi Nonny mouse. Speaking of strange, isn't it kinda strange to pretend to be vermin?

Just askin'.

As to your question, I figure a couple dollars spent on extra lights for an hour is worth it to put you greenies on notice.

My main issue with Earth Day is that much of the media portray it as an energy conservation awareness program, but the organizers later use it to promote their Global Warming activism. A very big difference in my books.

Gosh, it's amazing what you can get done in an hour. I vacuumed my living room, did laundry, ran the dishwasher, and I'm just waiting for home made blueberry muffins to come out of the oven. That's the most motivated I've been to get work done around the house in a long time!

Carolyn Dun(ce) from cbc in Calgary,interviews a woman with 'Friends of people and the Earth'..great crowd out for the show in Cowtown..approx.100 people!!!!!!!!! Way to go Calgary.

Did CBC really go on air with a "pre-time" show,1/2 hour before the time;then what? Did they go off-air for that hour? And they wonder why they don't have any viewers left!

Considering the power went out last Tuesday around 2330 hrs, and didn't came on until around 0600 Wednesday morning...I think I got some byes for the next 6 years.

West coast --- and it begins.

It's glorious.

GLORIOUS!

Shaken wrote: "Celebrate 'I Can Think For Myself Hour' - show the whole world that you are not a manipulated lemming by turning on all your lights. If any incandescent lights are out, get in your hummer and drive two blocks to buy some 100W replacements, while you still can. Extra points if you leave the car idling while you run in and shop."

Hhhhmmmm. How about showing your independence and freedom of thought by just going about your normal Saturday routine? Too radical?

I worked today, and not even one person mentioned the green campaign.

Looked like more than half the houses around my Saskatoon neighbourhood went dark at 8:30! Asses! But understandable given the number of NDP and Green Pary signs I see at election time.

I tried my best to take up the slack: Every light in the house on, including outdoor lights. Three electric heaters, @ 1500 watts each. Two bigscreens on - plasmas, of course (better picture, and take more power)! McCain pizzas in the oven, dishwasher humming and a load in the dryer. And with the temperature at -1 C, I was a little worried about the car starting - plugged in the block heater and interior warmer.

Can't wait for next year's celebration! Think I'll plop a "Celebrate Earth Hour" sign on the lawn and light 'er up with several hundred watts of halogen floods! :-)

I don't really know my neighbours (I'm new here), but it looked unusually dark on my street. As someone said, though, my efforts to use somewhere between 3 and 6 kW for that hour have compensated for somewhere between 10 and 60 green-o-weenies turning off their lights. I'm satisfied that there are enough people like us around that we'll see a net increase in power consumption this year too.

Turned on all the lights that can be seen from the street, including outdoor Christmas lights. The wife is PO'd 'cause I'm wasting money.

All the other houses on the street that I can see have lights on as usual. I bet they wonder why my Christmas lights are on. I wonder if they're even aware that "earth hour" is happening.

Plugged in my Christmas lights and went for a walk in the neighborhood - not more than 10% participation from the self-proclaimed "enlightened" portion of the population from I could tell. Way to go Saskatoon!

Spent Earth hour and thereafter watching a re-run of the hilarious Victor/Victoria on my big ass LCD TV with the full home theatre system giving me perfect sound.... I really pity the knobs who spent the hour in the dark believing they actually did something more than masturbating their fragile egos

Allan -- Well, too bad for not sticking to your guns. When you think about it it is ludicrous that people are made to feel like social pariah's just because they refuse to be duped by the global warming nonsense. I am happy to report that I believe several people on our small little enclave had their lights on (in contrast to last year). Last year I think I was the only person to have lights blazing. This year it looks like several others decided not to drink the kool-aid. Did anyone catch CBC's program on "Earth Hour"? I could not bare to see what sort of foolishness they were broadcasting, but admit I am curious.

P.S. Everyone makes spelling mistakes when they are typing on a computer.

All the lights, dishwasher, washer and dryer, ps2 xbox 2 computers, stereos. Trying to do my part out on the left coast. Should have seen my thirteen year old run around the house turning it all on when i said to him it was 8:30. LOL

LindaL,I flipped over to cbc a few times.They actually had 2 Earth Hour's (E/W)I caught the Calgary bit,with 100 people out to celebrate.I couldn't bear to watch to TO/Eastern part.Hanomansing on W.coast...he was so cold he couldn't even say Suzuki!Majority of stuff I saw,was cbc staff patiently trying to justify their airtime and use of power to broadcast this fiasco.nil Koksal,uh,uh,uh,telling us about cbc buying carbon credits to 'offset' this waste.Isn't that our money????

I was at a comedy performance and they dimmed the lights. 39.50 a ticket, leave the lights on and while you are at it turn on the friggin' air exchange cuz my glasses are fogging up.

I waited until earth hour to turn on every light,TV's, stereo, radios, put in a load of laundry, plug in the new beer fridge preloaded with the amber nectar and for good measure fired up the old Massey Ferguson, went out to the back twenty with a jug of diesel and lit the stump pile on fire.

I turned every light in the house on then went out for dinner. Just got back. Nearly every house on my block was lit up.

My wife did like the idea of leaving on a bunch of lights when we would not be home. I left one light on in protest. I went to church tonight and it was lit up really well!

LindaL: Don't forget that last year this took place on the Easter weekend. There were simply more people in the *not home at all* during the hour. I was one of them.

I had my house lit up like a Christmas tree. Sad to say mine was the only house lit up on the street. Course I live in the reddest part of Redmonton.

Had a couple of eco-nazi's actually knock on my well-lit door at 9:00 to ask if I was "aware that it is earth hour". Anyone else receive visitors?

I am so sick of the gimmicks... that this is precisely how I celebrated Hour of Power 2009, part one of several. The smell, sound and sight served 'em right!

Well here in Delta, Bc, I turned on every light I could find, including overriding the outside motion-detecter lights, set the oven on self-clean, turned on all of the appliances I could identify.

Frankly, my goal was to have that circular thing on the electric meter spinning so fast that it would spin off like a frizbee on steroids...didn't happen.'

Surprisingly, in my neighbourhood, populated by wealthy, over-fed rich capitalists like me, about half of the houses were darkened.'

I despair for our future...

Allen @ 9:04
Hope you and your son (or more importantly, your wife) can resolve who gets to wear the panties tomorrow.

Mike @ 1:00 AM

Trespassers?

Mike @ 1 AM, they are the Gaian equivalent of Mormon missionaries or Jehovah's Witnesses, and sadly they don't even seem to be aware of it.

In addition to the other things I said I would do, I got a last-second flash of inspiration.

I decided all those smug morons with candles in the window, so they could be seen, would enjoy my table-lamp-on-the-roof display. I never thought to take a picture, but a lot of cars were slowing down.

It certainly got their attention...

Can some of these children not just be honest and tell the teacher we do not believe the BS global warming at our house.And then have the parents send a letter of protest to the principal and the teacher against the teaching of this crap.

Hi Nonny mouse. Speaking of strange, isn't it kinda strange to pretend to be vermin?

Just askin'.

As to your question, I figure a couple dollars spent on extra lights for an hour is worth it to put you greenies on notice.
Posted by: The Phantom at March 28, 2009 11:09 PM

Yes, it is strange. I find is stranger to waste energy and money. On Tax Free Day, do you burn money as well?

Myself, I mustered an oven clean and a wash of clothes - both needed anyway. Left some lights on and watched a TV movie. It's a pity that the movie wasn't one of those "stand up to the bully" flicks; then again, they're mostly for kids and I'm far from being one.

Nonny, repetition is the soul of half-wit.

In answer to your question, no. There is no need for me to burn money on tax free day. The government is busy burning it for me.

That being the point of tax freedom day in the first place.

And by the way, you seem to have missed the point we are making with the Hour of Power. By protesting -your- greenie/leftist idiocracy now, it may save us blood later on.

Freedom isn't free. At the moment it only costs a bit of money and electricity, which I prefer. Think of it as conservation.

Is this clearer now, or should I use smaller words? I suppose Idiocracy might be too big for your tiny indoctrinated mouse brain to process. It means "rule by idiots".

You're welcome.

" If Human Achievement Hour is at all a dig against Earth Hour, it is so only by the fact that we are pointing out what Earth Hour truly is about: it isn’t pro-earth, it is anti-man and anti-innovation. So, on March 28th, CEI plans to continue “voting” for humanity by enjoying the fruits of man’s mind. "
http://cei.org/human-achievement-hour

I thank all the Earth worsippers for all the extra bandwith. You made downloading sweet.

We turned on our outdoor lights and I watched the CBC. I couldn't help myself- their Earth Hour reporting is really entertaining...in a scary sort of way...