Currently Listening One Plus One Is One By Badly Drawn Boy see related

Why I am now scared of my nalgene waterbottle

Okay so here is the link to the article that inspired my new paranoia -- my Nalgene (http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200311/lol5.asp).  Going to school at WWU, everyone and their dog had a Nalgene. Somehow I just managed to acquire numerous Nalgenes over the years. You lose one, you find another -- one friend referred to it as Nalgene karma.  Presently, I have three -- they just  mysteriously ended up in my possession.  I always have one with me.  Sometimes I take the narrow mouthed one, sometimes the blue, sometimes the purple one with duct tape on it.  Anyway, I never really thought much about my Nalgene, apart from the goal of drinking at least one of them a day.  Then I read the article about how my very dearly loved Nalgene could be leaching icky, nasty plastic particles into my water.  I am so distraught.  I think I am going to have to get the cool and super sexy Sigg stainless steel waterbottle as a replacement. It won't be the same, but I suppose I will  manage somehow. 

A Captain Planet Moment

Okay, so some of you may know about my furor against disposable feminine hygiene products (FPs), but for those of you who don't here it is.  The average menstruating woman produces about 300 hundred pounds of non-recyclable waste from feminine hygiene products in her life time.  All those plastic applicators, and plastic-lined pads just sit in landfills -- FOREVER!  Not to mention that tampons are usually bleached, which is bad for your body and the environment.  So if, like me, this concerns you, here is what you can do about it.  Switch to organic non-chlorine bleached tampons.   Use reusable pads like those found at Gladrags (http://www.gladrags.com), which incidentally is also a local Portland business. You can make your own (http://pacificcoast.net/~manymoons/howto.html); nothing says sisterly bonding like a pad making party!  If you are really daring you can use a product like the keeper or Mooncup (available from Gladrags).  Not only is going reusable better for the environment, it is also way cheaper than purchasing all those fancy schmancy FP's every month.  Women have survived for thousands of years without disposable FPs.  True, the alternatives maybe slightly less convenient, but do we really want to leave our personal waste sitting on the planet for thousands of years after we leave? 

In a unrelated, though still environmental, note, I was looking for a better way to dry ziplock bags that I have reused and discovered the resuable bag website (http://www.reusablebags.com/).  Not only does it have a spiffy little bag drying rack, but it has all kinds of really cool alternatives to plastic bags.  And it has information about plastic leaching and waterbottles -- now I am really paranoid about my Nalgene.  Maybe it is time to switch to stainless steel.

Currently Reading How to Survive a Robot Uprising [UNABRIDGED] By Daniel H. Wilson see related

Easter and Robot Invasions

Easter baskets are kind of a weird tradition, one which my dad had pretty much abandoned after I grew up, until last year.  Last year, we were up late watching movies the night before, and at about 2:30 am my dad decided that we just had to find the baskets.  My brother and I told him that he could just dump the candy in a plastic bag for all we cared, but no, we had to find them.  We couldn't, so my dad rustled up these other basket-like objects. It was kind of funny -- in the same way it is funny that for the last two years, my family and I have watched Almost Famous and listened to "Stairway to Heaven" at like 1:30am on Christmas Eve.  Anyway, this year I had a large pink, cellophane wrapped basket, which I discovered in my bathroom at 1:30 am.  Really, I think I am a too old for the whole deal, but definitely appreciated the copy of How to Survive a Robot Uprising nestled in all the fake grass.  Now I can be prepared for the future robotic armageddon.  Or not. 

Currently Watching The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Widescreen Edition) By Bill Bailey (IV), Anna Chancellor, Warwick Davis, Mos Def, Zooey Deschanel, Su Elliot, Martin Freeman (II), Stephen Fry, Richard Griffiths, Dominique Jackson, Garth Jennings, Simon Jones, Thomas Lennon (III), Mark Longhurst, Kelly Macdonald, John Malkovich, Ian McNeice, Helen Mirren, Bill Nighy, Steve Pemberton see related

Hey Friends

Hey Friends,

So I decided to join the rest of my generation and start a blog.  I actually started this whole project at the beginning of last quarter and never really got around to finishing.  Yay spring break, I actually have time to dink around on the computer!  Anyway, I hope to keep y'all up to date (well more or less, we'll see how it all goes once the quarter really starts) on the enthralling happenings of life in Vancouver.  Apart from this new little blogging adventure, I have been thorougly languishing in the nonchalance of spring break.  Sleeping in, watching movies, hanging out with friends, visiting Seattle. . . Good times all around really.  But all the same I am ready to hunker down and return to studying.  I think I am finally ready to return to my research and start seriously reading again.  So I am watching Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and really wish that Owen Wilson had played Zaphod.  He would have rocked it.  Anyway, talk to you later!