{"id":4313,"date":"2010-05-19T15:39:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T20:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=4313"},"modified":"2010-05-19T16:26:51","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T21:26:51","slug":"the-latest-poop-from-hewlett-packard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=4313","title":{"rendered":"The latest poop from Hewlett-Packard"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4314\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4314\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4314\" title=\"cow_pie\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/cow_pie.jpg\" alt=\"Cud I have my own Amazon.com account?\" width=\"180\" height=\"227\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cud I have my own Amazon.com account?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hewlett-Packard engineers have devised a system that would couple dairy farmers and cattle growers with data technology companies like Google, in a symbiotic relationship, according to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/19\/technology\/19cows.html?ref=technology\">article<\/a> in today&#8217;s <em>New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Based on H.P.&#8217;s calculation that the average cow produces enough waste per day to power a 100-watt light bulb, the process involves the conversion of manure to biogas in order to fuel data centers, which could then be built on inexpensive rural property.<\/p>\n<p>This all reminds me of Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx&#8217;s novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0743242483?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=sallyharrison-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0743242483\"><em>That Old Ace in the Hole<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=sallyharrison-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0743242483\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>, set in the Texas Panhandle where, as one character tells another, &#8220;To live here it sure helps if you are half cow and half mesquite and all crazy.&#8221; Proulx&#8217;s novel, whose main character is a land\u00a0scout for an industrial hog farming corporation,\u00a0is packed with eccentric characters that will make you smile,\u00a0nod in recognition, and laugh out loud.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0743242483?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=sallyharrison-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0743242483\"><em>That Old Ace in the Hole<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=sallyharrison-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0743242483\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>; to find out more about H.P.&#8217;s research, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/19\/technology\/19cows.html?ref=technology\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hewlett-Packard engineers have devised a system that would couple dairy farmers and cattle growers with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-movies","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4313"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4322,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313\/revisions\/4322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}