11 years later they FINALLY come through on their promise!

Here is a map of the gulf oil spill so far:

At the office We got free earth day mugs today. So I rinsed it out in boiling hot water, then cleaned it with a disposable paper towel, then filled it with coffee then added sugar from individually packeted sugar, then added individually packeted milk, then stirred it with a wooden stir stick which I then threw out along with the needless packaging. Thank GOD (cause it was all god’s doing) I didn’t use a paper cup! THE EARTH IS SAVED!

You’re welcome!

Along with the mug we were given on a printed sheet of bleached paper the following note:

I can make a difference at my desk.

I can proof read documents on my computer rather than priting them off
I can turn off my monitor when I go into a meeting or before I go home
I can extend the margins of my documents to reduce paper use
I can turn off my computer at the end of the day
I can print doubled sided documents
I can use a paper clip rather than a staple
I can offer my co-workers a scent free environment
I can put old double-sided documents in the recycling bin
I can use one-side-good paper to print internal documents
I can order business cards that are printed on recycled paper
I can have a conference call meeting to avoid travel costs
I can use a travel mug at my desk rather than bringing in disposable cups
I can remind my co-workers to do the same.

I can make a difference at my desk.

www.wrwcanada.com

I would argue that this differences outlined are so negligible that it’s laughable. It seems focused on turning off monitors/puters and not using as much paper. I would argue that there is NEVER a reason to print on paper anymore, since everybody runs around with laptops which are on either in our cubicles, or we could bring them to a meeting room (which is space that is heated yet hardly used and we could actually have our meetings at a table in the middle of our cubicle space). Turning off your puter should already be default, but if it’s not then I guess it’s an ok reminder.

I have no idea how having a scent free environment helps the actual environment, it’s not like someone’s deoderant is stinking up all of halifax, that seems to just be thrown in there, no matter what people have to use deoderant, so 99% of the manufacturing and processing is still having to be done, it’s just that we have to use non perfumated stuff. Big whoop on the difference there!

I think there’s maybe 5 people in this whole building that should have business cards, everybody else doesn’t need em, so don’t even talk about them cause it’s basically irrelevant.

They talk about having conference call meetings to avoid travel costs, yet they are vehemently opposed to people working from home and refuse to actually create a policy for doing so. So we have to shower and shave and look/smell publicly presentable every single work-day because there are trust issues and therefore THE PLANET LOSES.

So as always I see an example of a company doing the bare minimum and flaunting it like they’re superheroes. Sure they dished out probably $400 for mugs for everybody, but they made 10 million off us last year, so uh.. I guess that balances out.

I laughed a lot.

Today, smart. Tomorrow however.. probably not as smart. It’s all downhill from here.

Stuff I missed were american thingies and things that nobody knows. NOBODY I TELLS YA! *shakes fist*

This image has been circulating for a few days:

The usual caption is something like “this is why you’re fat”.

I think this is a more accurate representation of why you’re fat:

A benchmark test to gauge your reaction time. Splains why you suck at games lolz!

http://www.humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime/index.php

Apparently I’m not as 1337 as I thought! I got about an average reaction time. :(

I just read a highly suspicious story, released by ABC News (seriously?) australia. The site, The Drum Unleashed (which I read as “The dump unleashed”, which is probably more accurate) wrote a story saying that too much 3D WILL MAKE YOU BLIND! Of course being that the world is in 3D I immediately shut my eyes FOREVER and am now typing this to you via my sense of smell and my sense of style.

I tried to write a comment on their site but apparently only people who either believe or are surprised by the “news” get their posts accepted. Which is why I’m back to my own blog.

The only link the guy provides is to a wiki page on “Depth Perception”. Well that’s just great, but how about some real information on studies showing this damage in any sort of REAL way in ACTUAL human beings? No? No links for that sort of thing? Oh well, I guess I’ll just have to believe what you say mr. Mark Pesce, expert in the field of Binocular Dysphoria, which if you go to that page you will soon discover:

Binocular Dysphoria is a condition where the brain adapts to an alternate way of perceiving depth cues.

There’s no link to any medial journals or articles of any kind. The New England Journal of Medicine doesn’t mention “Binocular Dysphoria”, neither does the New York Times, or even the American Optometric Association! I got nothing but blog posts, and reposts of the same story; I don’t think there’s any credibility behind this.

The two links at the bottom of that page? One to the blog I just linked at top, and one to reddit, which is where I found this. So he made it up? Binocular Dysphoria™ Looks like other stories made by honorary lecturer Mark is “Who’s reading your emails?”, “Network politics” and “Web of secrecy”. With so much fear mongering articles I have to declare him an interweb drama queen.

Since I’m totally in freakin’ love with 3D, this guy makes me hulk angry.

Wicked flash movie showing the size of things. Friggin’ brilliant! A good use of 1-20 mins!

This video is about to get a LOT more popular!

It was posted July 8, 2006. Freakin’ hilarious!