dasmoth

The standup is still daily though, right?

Also, the “great wheel” in his Helliconia books (which takes this idea to rather extreme levels).

Sorry if I wasn't clear, I meant that most people I know seem to shower for >>2 minutes, so I doubted the credibility of the comparison.

Clearly, if you are fairly consistently sticking to 2-minutes showers, that's going to be more economical than baths -- even with some degree of sharing.

Shower flow rates are somewhere of the order of 10L/min -- potentially rather more if you're talking about power showers -- so the showers-are-more-efficient-than-baths thing is only really clear cut if you take relatively brief showers. I think some of the comparisons I've seen in the past have pointed to 2 minute showers, which seems pretty rushed, especially if you have hair to wash.

If you have a family, can you share a bath (taking turns)? That's a substantial and fairly easily-achieved saving.

If you've got a garden, adding a gray-water collection system also makes things that little bit less wasteful, at least in the summer (but I suppose that would also work with a shower too...)

Have you ever tried an APL-family programming language? If so, I’d be curious how you found it.

Clojure has got pretty nice tools for web development (both backend and — with Clojurescript — frontend). It’s definitely out there in some places.

I hadn't realised he'd ended up at Intel! Will be interesting to see how much impact he has there.