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Yesterday, I went to the cafeteria downstairs where I work to grab something for lunch at my desk. It was just one of those days, you know, where you give up and eat lunch at your desk. I stopped at the display of food at the cafeteria entrance, trying to decide on something fake-healthy for [...]

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If my blog looks a little odd for a bit, it’s because I’m working on a new design using the Elastic Editor. Fun to play with and I’m learning things, too.

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My wife found a really kewl article about how Walt Disney World Resort is now using environmentally friendly LEDs to light the castle. From the article: In the end, Walt Disney World Entertainment replaced a total of 34 arc-source fixtures with 74 five-watt LED fixtures, cutting the total power requirements by at least 40 percent [...]

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Meant to post this on Thanksgiving, but the turkey made me groggy: Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t [...]

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When Captain James T. Kirk says “There’s not a minute to waste to save the Earth,” you better damn well get off your butt and do it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXP3hQ7jaUk More William Shatner PSAs on the Sierra Club web site.

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I thought this article on The Consumerist was interesting. It provides a basic explanation of our national debt and what things we can do to fix the problems associated with it. Good reading for election season.

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Having only ever really cruised the local Florida waters before, it was an odd experience to pull into our final port and know there was still 4000 or so miles between us and home, and many hours before we could start that journey. When we made our way up to deck for breakfast and I [...]

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New video from their current album. I love this song because it sounds like hockey. Or maybe, as the video suggests, curling. I’m not Canadian, but I pretended I was while I was in Vancouver, eh?

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Sitka was one of the most enjoyable ports we visited. Ignore my expression in most of the pictures; I really was having a good time, but I was at the absolute lowest ebb of my energy levels so I look grumpy. The port is a tender port, meaning you have to take small boat from [...]

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Could this be true? Fascinating, if so. There seems to be a way reverse global warming by adding lime (the mineral, not the fruit) to seawater.

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