“Green-ness” and Calculating Carbon Footprints

A journal entry in response to the “I am Green” application in Facebook: 
“Green-ness” and Calculating Carbon Footprints by you on (2007-12-27 13:00:56)
Great for creating awareness, but the “numbers” can be COMPLETELY inaccurate and therefore quite deceiving. Eg, how does using a digital camera merit a “green leaf”??? Using no camera at all MIGHT. You still [...]

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Google Maps: Street Views

Amazing…  Simply amazing…  I don’t usually curse but I almost want to stick in an extra word between “simply” and “amazing.”  Even though I’m not saying that, I can’t help thinking that!
What will Google come up with next?
These “street views” of major cities?  Austin isn’t one of those (yet).  But Houston, New York, Chicago?  I [...]

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Sección Amarilla

“Sí funciona… y funciona muy bien.”
So says the cover of our newest copy of the Yellow Pages.  ¿Es verdad?
I mean… Seriously???  It looks like this same edition that was in Mom’s mailbox is the same edition that was beside my aunt’s mailbox.  Again, ten copies of them!  ¡¡¡Diez copias!!!
I was flipping through the front of [...]

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More Phone Books

A bundle of ten to be exact.  I picked up my aunt from her house today to go shopping with my mom and me, and this bundle of ten phone books was sitting beside her mailbox!  Evidently the person who was supposed to deliver these to the neighborhood didn’t think people really wanted them either.  [...]

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I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon

Talking about Sesame Street… Okay, I admit I bought a Sesame Street CD when I was in college.  Kind of a “greatest hits” CD and I bought it mainly for this song that Ernie sings.  Hm.  I’m not sure if this is proper internet etiquette posting other people’s You Tube videos like this…  But that must be [...]

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