idle musings

I found a source of free range chicken, beef, and pork today. I’ll be able to cook bacon again without feeling guilty! I’m going to make chili in the next few days with organic free range ground beef. I have huge eggs in the fridge and I have every expectation that they will have bright [...]

My metaphor here is that huge societal problems are very much like icebergs. They are huge; massive, with tremendous momentum and inertia. Walk up to an iceberg (standing on anything you can) and push on it, as hard as you can. You will not see ANY response from the iceberg; it’s just too massive for [...]

Tomorrow, you can join the movement. Earth Hour 2008. Turn out your lights from 8-9pm.

I need to hire someone to build me a website. Does anyone know how I would go about doing this?

I received this response from Telus Customer Service: Thank you for your e-mail. That option has always been available to our customers however it isn’t very well known. You shouldn’t receive another book from this point on unless you request one. I sent the following back: Then may I suggest that you make that clear [...]

I just emailed Telus, asking if they have an option of opt out of receiving phone books. I do not believe that they have such an option right now, but maybe if they receive enough requests asking, they may start. The form to email them is found here – it takes two seconds and could [...]

I came across freerice.com through someone’s 101 in 1001 days list. I was immediately addicted. From the FAQs: How does the FreeRice vocabulary program work? FreeRice has a custom database containing thousands of words at varying degrees of difficulty. There are words appropriate for people just learning English and words that will challenge the most [...]

One of the things that I have been thinking a lot about recently has been getting rid of my car. As in, no longer having one at all. For a short period of time I was thinking about buying a Honda Fit, which I still love and think are great cars. But then I stopped [...]