a crank’s progress

“In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto” (Michael Pollan) Even better than the Botany of Desire or Omnivore’s Dilemma, this one really shakes out the food landscape and illustrates what a minefield the modern supermarket is. I buy very little processed food (breakfast cereals are about it) but I think I have some more things to watch out for.

w00t, I found a check for $103 in my mailbox this afternoon, courtesy of Google AdSense and you, you lovely people. And almost $10 for the month so far (hey, that’s pretty good for me).

Submitted by: Jeremy Reid, Graphic Designer, Belleville, Ontario, Canada [From MOVING DAY: PREPARE TO BE TIRED ] I used to do this when we moved as a kid (I had a waterbed at the time and assembly took some time and moving it after assembly was impossible) and they said I was lazy…. Add also that a bed is the largest thing in a bedroom and its placement generally determines where everything else goes and this is not a bad idea.

This performance will be in Seattle on May 16 for the Seattle Art Museum’s Party in the Park, a fundraising event celebrating the museum’s 75th Anniversary…. It will not be possible to pay so all musicians must volunteer their time, but food and drink will be supplied at all rehearsals and the performance.

Reading a piece the other day about Ray Kuzweil and his pill regime — he has a person on staff to manage his nutritional supplements — in his efforts to read the TechnoRapture Singularity, yet another bad SF novel plot came to me…. Assuming the Singularity is reached and bunches of those who can afford to reboot their consciousness into a machine do so, what happens to the rest of the people?

the auto-updating plugin manager doesn’t without typing in a lot stuff (like the ftp URI of the updates)…. well formed XML/an RSS feed seems like a logical way to handle and not all plugins work and likely won’t until I feel like upgrading them by hand as well.

It recently occurred to me, though, that I have no idea what the energy usage or environmental impact of keeping a pound of strawberries frozen for a year, as compared to shipping them fresh from Mexico in February, is…. Similarly, those bagged salads look convenient, but they have kept at a constant temperature of 34° from picking, through trimming and prep and packaged, to shipping and storage.

On Saturday, March 29, 2008, Earth Hour invites people around the world to turn off their lights for one hour – from 8:00pm to 9:00pm in their local time zone. On this day, cities around the world, including Copenhagen, Chicago, Melbourne, Dubai, and Tel Aviv, will hold events to acknowledge their commitment to energy conservation.

Nubes Congeladas

Originally uploaded by conni.ee <3.

Wow, someone just linked to me on Flickr and when I checked out her stuff, this jumped out at me.
Amazing.

I could have used this when the CEO of my last tech company openly complained that the lack of a calendaring system was “killing the company.” Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings– they did it by killing all those who opposed them.