William M. Hartnett » house http://www.wmhartnett.com Journalism, the future of newspapers, and cat pictures. Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:45:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en What do you do with 38 light bulbs? http://www.wmhartnett.com/2007/07/08/what-do-you-do-with-38-light-bulbs/ http://www.wmhartnett.com/2007/07/08/what-do-you-do-with-38-light-bulbs/#comments Sun, 08 Jul 2007 14:00:04 +0000 William M. Hartnett http://www.wmhartnett.com/2007/07/08/what-do-you-do-with-38-light-bulbs/ No punchline here. I really am wondering what to do with 38 brand new light bulbs when they’re of the old fashioned, incandescent variety? Like all good superficially eco-sensitive Americans, my wife and I replaced all the barely used bulbs in the new house the other day with compact fluorescent lights. Now I have a box of 38 incandescent bulbs in my garage, and I don’t know what to do with them.

Throwing away so many brand new light bulbs seems just as wasteful as leaving them in the sockets, like selling a Corolla with 100 miles on it to buy a new Prius. I suppose the real question is why developers are still installing incandescent bulbs in brand new homes. Who knows? I just want to get rid of the stupid things.

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This is the 12th move in the past decade for me, and the 11th for my wife, so let’s hope this one lasts for more than a few weeks. Next comes my favorite game: Internet access roulette, in which I guess how many days it will take me to overcome the potent combination of poor telecom customer service and my own ineptitude to get my home network back up and running. I’m thinking three days. Posting will be light to nonexistent in the meantime.

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Elegant, sturdy and bursting with class. Columns.

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