Archive for January, 2009

The Big Yellow Book

The only places I see people using phone directories are in movies. They are usually used in interrogation scenes.
I absolutely hate getting them every year. They waste trees, energy, water, human resources, and my time. Even if you are morally ambivalent toward phone books, I’m sure you can agree that in the internet age, they [...]

Junk Mails (Again)

[Photo via darkest-star]
I talked about my annoyance toward fake personal junk mails, but I actually hate junk mails in general.
Junk mails are very resource intensive. In the US alone, every year 100 million trees are harvested to make them, and 44% of the time they go straight into trash (source: ForestEthics). This is equivalent to [...]

Healthy Fear in 2009?

[Photo via Michael Mistretta]
Hi I’m back from slacking off.
A lot had happened in 2008: the Olympics, the elections (yes, there were more than one), and the market going apeshit. I’d say 2009 will be an in-between year though. It’s not quite 2010, another symbolic coming of a new decade and the much anticipated Winter Olympics [...]