On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:45:28 -0500, Ken Wilford <kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET>
wrote:

>I am so sick of hearing about the "Carbon Footprint" of everything.  Our
>Vanagons have one.  You have one, I have one, everything has one.  That
>is because everything that does anything needs energy to do it.  If I
>was a rock I would have no carbon footprint.  But then I would be a rock
>and I wouldn't care.

Absolutley no Vanagon content, Friday nothwithstanding, but this "rock"
reference reminded me of a poem from my childhood:

I wish I were a little rock,
Sittin' on a hill,
Doin' nothin' all day long,
Just a sittin' still.

I wouldn't eat, I wouldn't sleep,
Why, I wouldn't even wash.
I'd just sit still for a thousand years,
And rest myself, b'gosh.

The older I get, some days being that rock sounds OK.
Then again, the long rest will come soon enough, and my carbon footprint
will cease, so I'm drivin' my van until then, footprint and all.