This reminds me of one of my favorite books from childhood, Bill Peet’s “Kermit the Hermit,” about a crab who collects so much garbage that he can’t sleep in his own cave. 

Our dog (who is, in fact, pictured above) likes running complex routes through our apartment, banking off couches, going between table legs, and balancing on the arms of chairs. My girlfriend has taken to calling this “dogkour” (parkour for dogs.)

NPR had a piece the other day about San Francisco’s new food recycling program. It’s now required that you put food waste in a separate bin, which the city turns into compost. The full story is here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113969321

Sounds nice — unless you live along one of those roadways, and commute to work. It’d be beyond frustrating to have your daily drive to and from the office clogged with Segways and horses. A huge number of people (most of the U.S. outside city centers, I’m guessing) still depend on reasonably quick personal vehicles to get around – to their jobs, the grocery store, the hospital, schools. Until we convince people to live in urban centers, or improve dedicated commuter routes and light rail networks, I think this might be jumping the gun.

The Nessie under the bridge is extremely cool.

Long receipts — and the double receipts plus rebate coupons that they give you at Vons or other big markets — drive me nuts.

I’m not a huge Apple Store fan, but I’ve always liked their e-mail receipts.

Dingo, chalupa, and gnome come to mind.

This reminds me of one of my favorite books from childhood, Bill Peet’s “Kermit the Hermit,” about a crab who collects so much garbage that he can’t sleep in his own cave. 

Our dog (who is, in fact, pictured above) likes running complex routes through our apartment, banking off couches, going between table legs, and balancing on the arms of chairs. My girlfriend has taken to calling this “dogkour” (parkour for dogs.)

NPR had a piece the other day about San Francisco’s new food recycling program. It’s now required that you put food waste in a separate bin, which the city turns into compost. The full story is here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113969321

Sounds nice — unless you live along one of those roadways, and commute to work. It’d be beyond frustrating to have your daily drive to and from the office clogged with Segways and horses. A huge number of people (most of the U.S. outside city centers, I’m guessing) still depend on reasonably quick personal vehicles to get around – to their jobs, the grocery store, the hospital, schools. Until we convince people to live in urban centers, or improve dedicated commuter routes and light rail networks, I think this might be jumping the gun.

The Nessie under the bridge is extremely cool.

Long receipts — and the double receipts plus rebate coupons that they give you at Vons or other big markets — drive me nuts.

I’m not a huge Apple Store fan, but I’ve always liked their e-mail receipts.

Dingo, chalupa, and gnome come to mind.

I’m seriously considering it. My dumb SUV with 176,000 miles on it qualifies for the full voucher, which is about $3k more than I could get for trade in. I truly wish I could buy a used car, though. That’s the only thing holding me back. 

I was at a wedding last month and got into a conversation with an older gentleman about the web vs. magazines. His single favorite thing about printed mags: the table of contents. That sort of casual, wandering, bouncing story-to-story browsing is something that the web and Kindle haven’t totally nailed yet. It’ll be interesting to see how they try to recreate the “Sunday paper” experience through electronics.

I hope it’s not a PR stunt — but even if it is real, 120 miles wouldn’t even get me to my parents’ house. Hopefully a company like Better Place will come up with some kind of swappable battery standard before the market is filled with incompatible technology.