The Life of a RavenThe Life of a Raven - LiveJournal.comGeocaching me.- April 28, 2008 My boss is a geocacher... it's a sort of GPS-driven treasure hunt. People hide stuff and invite others to find it by providing coordinates. It's very organized... the website linked above provides a database of caches and lets you log your finds.Often, the cache is a weather-proof box full of trinkets... take a trinket, leave a trinket. Some of the trinkets include "Travel Bugs" or other items with unique tracking numbers. Find a trackable trinket and you can claim it on the website and...http://ravenx99.livejournal.com/29809.html Eco-friendly in a mail-order world...- April 21, 2008 Do I see the irony in mail-ordering bio-friendly products Of course I do.This is something else I've struggled with... the lack of selection or price locally compared to mail order. And I've got an Amazon Prime account, which means I get free, two-day shipping. ("Free" as in, I paid $80 a year to not have to pay shipping on individual orders.) Since I then don't have to wait until I've got a $25 order to get free (and slow) shipping, I can order a $5 item all by itself without the...http://ravenx99.livejournal.com/29458.html Biodegradable, renewable plastic forks- April 21, 2008 Now this is just cool...http:www.worldcentric.orgstorebioplastics.htmMaybe I'm a bit out of the loop... I've known about corn-starch based plastic wrappers and packing peanuts. But I had no idea that there were companies making plastic cutlery and drinking cups out of the stuff. They're not making plates out of it, because those are being made out of bagasse, the stuff left over after pressing sugar cane. All this stuff's not just biodegradable, but it's compostable, which means it will...http://ravenx99.livejournal.com/29396.html Talking heads on the Internet- April 18, 2008 My number one rule about the Internet, design and life:"Just because you can, doesn't mean you should."Why do some people think that if audio is good, video is better They create a "video podcast" so we can watch them talk as well as listen... but they have nothing visual to convey. All the content is in the (now crappy quality) audio, so why bother with the (crappy quality) video.Audio I can just automatically grab and throw onto my audio player and listen to it in the car, while doing...http://ravenx99.livejournal.com/28981.html |