Oh, and because of my freakishly odd need to be packed a week early, the shoes are already in there!
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Slack-a-muffintop
Ok, so I was not as loyal to the Ragamuffintopping as I should have been. I have not been 100% slacking, I just did not quite make it to my goal. Sure, I ran 18,000 miles a day chasing after the little kiddos I nanny but it's not quite the same. Here I am 4 days before I leave on my mission trip and I am out of time. I'll make up for it (or pay for it) in Asia where we walk A LOT. In the mean time, I am turning over my duties to my bff Suzanne who will Ragamuffintop for me while I am gone (see you in August). Suzanne is dehydrated, always. That chick needs to drink some water. If you know me, then you know I drink enough water to sustain an army of camels crossing the Sahara on a daily basis. She is gonna start drinking water every day (how can she not, it blows my mind. If I don't drink at least 8oz an hour I feel like I'm licking sand) So go on over to her blogaliciousness and give her some lovin. Oh, and stop by and say hi to the blogfather while you're at it. He's the coolest guy you've never met!
Oh, and because of my freakishly odd need to be packed a week early, the shoes are already in there!
Oh, and because of my freakishly odd need to be packed a week early, the shoes are already in there!
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Ragamuffintopping
The blogfather Carlos has inspired me to join the Ragamuffintop Challenge, so here it goes.
He's laid down some ground rules for the challengs so I'll do my best to follow them, here they are:
1. You must have a measurable goal.
~My goal is not measurable so I'll add a new goal that I can track
~I will walk one mile 5 days a week for the nest 34 days (that's when I leave for east Asia)
That's my measurable goal because the real goal is to be in better shape to handle the GlobalX trip that I am going on. I'm going to be chasing after kids in a summer camp in the hottest place on earth for three weeks, I need to increase my stamina!
2. You must place a photo or video on your blog each weekend and give us the scoop on how you did.
~There is no way that I am putting a picture/video of me getting on a scale up here. Not gonna happen. Instead I will give you a picture of my inspiration. These shoes are freakin expensive. I am the cheapest person ever. I buy shoes at TJMaxx for $30 and stress that they cost too much. These shoes came from Fleet Feet, the most intimidating store ever. The people that work/shop there run on purpose. I only run when chased (and I don't get chased). Clearly there is something wrong with these people, but I bought their shoes anyhow. These super expensive shoes now sit by the door begging to be used. I'd love to put a picture of the real inspiration, the kids I am going to work with this summer, but because of security I can't put their pictures online, bummer. You can follow our trip HERE if you want!
3. You must link back here so that the readers of your blog get to see how the rest of us are failing or succeeding.
~Okey dokey, that's easy. Go read Carlos' blog. It's fanfreakintastic!
Ragamuffintop Challenge
Everyday Ragamuffin
4. You fill out the linky thing below and then people can get to your blog from my front page and we can cheer each other on.
~Did it! I'm officially Ragamuffintopping
He's laid down some ground rules for the challengs so I'll do my best to follow them, here they are:
1. You must have a measurable goal.
~My goal is not measurable so I'll add a new goal that I can track
~I will walk one mile 5 days a week for the nest 34 days (that's when I leave for east Asia)
That's my measurable goal because the real goal is to be in better shape to handle the GlobalX trip that I am going on. I'm going to be chasing after kids in a summer camp in the hottest place on earth for three weeks, I need to increase my stamina!
2. You must place a photo or video on your blog each weekend and give us the scoop on how you did.
~There is no way that I am putting a picture/video of me getting on a scale up here. Not gonna happen. Instead I will give you a picture of my inspiration. These shoes are freakin expensive. I am the cheapest person ever. I buy shoes at TJMaxx for $30 and stress that they cost too much. These shoes came from Fleet Feet, the most intimidating store ever. The people that work/shop there run on purpose. I only run when chased (and I don't get chased). Clearly there is something wrong with these people, but I bought their shoes anyhow. These super expensive shoes now sit by the door begging to be used. I'd love to put a picture of the real inspiration, the kids I am going to work with this summer, but because of security I can't put their pictures online, bummer. You can follow our trip HERE if you want!
3. You must link back here so that the readers of your blog get to see how the rest of us are failing or succeeding.
~Okey dokey, that's easy. Go read Carlos' blog. It's fanfreakintastic!
Ragamuffintop Challenge
Everyday Ragamuffin
4. You fill out the linky thing below and then people can get to your blog from my front page and we can cheer each other on.
~Did it! I'm officially Ragamuffintopping
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
I suck...
...at blogging. Thats all. Nothing else. I am otherwise quite fabulous. I just suck at updating this thing. For the one person who reads it. Who updates her blog relatively regularly. Blah.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Blidiot
I am hereby trademarking a new word. BLIDIOT it is a clever combination of the words Blog (web log) and Idiot (stupid person). A Blidiot is not a total idiot, they just can't figure out blogging. I'll give you a perfect example:
My cousin. Who is probably the only one that will read this post (if she has figured out how). In general she is an intelligent woman (regardless of her advanced age). She can't seem to figure out blogging.
A. she doesn't understand the point (because we can)
B. she doesn't see the difference in a blog and a website (a blog is a website, on a website, has a url, they are the same damn thing, just a different format)
C. she can't comprehend google reader (does it matter how it works as long as it works?)
D. she doesn't think google reader is pretty (no one does, its just a beta)
E. she wonders how all those people get inside her computer every day to write all their thoughts on her screen.
F. Similarly wonders how they get out (do they need tools, do they just crawl down under the space bar? If you start typing while they're in there can you kill them?)
Maybe it is because she is way old. Young people get it. Thats how we roll. We can do anything anytime anywhere, cause we rock! So teach your cousins how to read other peoples blogs. Otherwise you'll end up like me, typing a satirical post to a person who won't even figure out how to read it for a week and a half! Then you would be a blidiot too!
My cousin. Who is probably the only one that will read this post (if she has figured out how). In general she is an intelligent woman (regardless of her advanced age). She can't seem to figure out blogging.
A. she doesn't understand the point (because we can)
B. she doesn't see the difference in a blog and a website (a blog is a website, on a website, has a url, they are the same damn thing, just a different format)
C. she can't comprehend google reader (does it matter how it works as long as it works?)
D. she doesn't think google reader is pretty (no one does, its just a beta)
E. she wonders how all those people get inside her computer every day to write all their thoughts on her screen.
F. Similarly wonders how they get out (do they need tools, do they just crawl down under the space bar? If you start typing while they're in there can you kill them?)
Maybe it is because she is way old. Young people get it. Thats how we roll. We can do anything anytime anywhere, cause we rock! So teach your cousins how to read other peoples blogs. Otherwise you'll end up like me, typing a satirical post to a person who won't even figure out how to read it for a week and a half! Then you would be a blidiot too!
Friday, February 22, 2008
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Matthew 9:13
Jesus, overhearing, shot back,
"Who needs a doctor: the healthy or the sick?
Go figure out what this Scripture means: ‘
I’m after mercy, not religion.’
I’m here to invite outsiders, not coddle insiders."
"Who needs a doctor: the healthy or the sick?
Go figure out what this Scripture means: ‘
I’m after mercy, not religion.’
I’m here to invite outsiders, not coddle insiders."
go green...FOREVER!
Dear Ethan,
After careful consideration I have decided to end my life. Things haven’t been going very well for me lately, but more importantly I am keen to reduce my carbon impact on the planet. Like the average Briton I probably produce around 9.3 tonnes of carbon each year. I am 26 years old, and reckon I could live for another 60 years; if I end things now I will save a total of 558 tonnes of carbon, for which I believe future generations should be grateful. But I have a question: what is the most ethical way to commit suicide? I don’t want my self-destruction to be destructive to the planet!
Yours faithfully,
Zach Montague
Richmond-upon-Thames
Dear Zach,
I empathise with your selfless decision. All responsible studies show that there are just too many people living on this planet for life to be sustainable. At least you have had the courage to do something about it, in a small and local way.
In fact your suicide could actually save far more carbon than you realise. Think of the children you might have had, and what CO2 vandalism they could have done. Your death will also reduce the carbon impact of friends and family members you leave behind – all those journeys they won’t make to visit you, unnecessary presents they won’t have to buy or wrap. I estimate that over 60 years your suicide will stop your loved ones from producing 583.2 kg of carbon from gift-buying alone. So your death will be even more generous than you know!
To your main question, which is a good one. As we know, many suicides are harmful to the environment. I often wonder about the state of mind of people who asphyxiate themselves with exhaust fumes in their cars – do they not know that every minute their car is chugging out up to 70g of CO2? As for people who jump off buildings, they seem to give no consideration whatsoever to the toxic cleaning products required to scrub the pavement. Suicides should take more time to think about the impact of their deaths on their surroundings.
I think the key to a green and ethical suicide is to leave no trace of your body behind. Selfish families will insist on holding a ceremony to dispose of bodies, often without a thought as to the environmental impact. A church funeral means people driving miles, maybe even flying to attend, not to mention the damage done by a gas-guzzling old hearse. It might be argued that once buried, human bodies provide food for other species, but as one brave EU environment commissioner reminds us, embalming fluids pose a danger to ‘living organisms’ – maggots and beetles that feast on the deceased – and should be banned. Will your family stop and think of the poor insects?
Even worse, they might opt for cremation. Did you know that 437,000 wooden coffins – the equivalent of 140 000 trees – are wastefully burnt in these self-regarding ceremonies in Britain EVERY YEAR? Cremation pollutes the environment with dioxin, hydrochloric acid, sulphur dioxide and carbon dioxide. All your good intentions in taking your own life could be undermined at the touch of an incinerator button.
So ideally your suicide should leave nothing to bury or cremate. A colleague in America advises eco-warriors who choose Carbon Suicide to throw themselves off a boat, so that the body disintegrates on the seabed and makes little impact on the ozone layer. However, I’m not so sure. Whales, dolphins and fish have a hard enough time with pollution and nets without having to avoid or swallow human carcasses, shoelaces, belts and buttons. If you do take the sea-suicide option, please remove all your clothing first (and post to a green charity shop prior to death).
In my view, probably the most ethical way to commit suicide is by self-cremation. Go deep into a forest, douse the body sparingly and set yourself alight. The ‘experts’ assure me that there is as yet no environmentally-friendly flammable liquid to match petrol. However, before turning to the Great Satan gasoline, I think a truly committed individual might experiment with vegetable oil and bio-fuels – after all, if they can power green cars, surely they can burn a green carcass! But even if you have to use a few (carefully measured) cups of petrol it will do far less damage to the eco-system than a conventional cremation. (Ironically, an obese over-consumer may burn more easily.) What’s more, the few remains of your body can be recycled by foxes and other small carnivores. So you will be sparing the planet from your 558 tonnes of carbon and literally giving a hand to Britain’s beleaguered wildlife at the same time.
My last word to you, Zach: don’t leave a suicide note. Even using a single sheet of paper contributes to the felling of trees for profit and the threatened extinction of many animals. Why ruin your selfless ethical moment? Post it on MySpace as a shining example to future generations of how to choose life by ending it all. Good luck!
Ethan Greenhart is here to answer all your questions about green and ethical living in the twenty-first century. Email him at Ethan.Greenhart@spiked-online.com.
After careful consideration I have decided to end my life. Things haven’t been going very well for me lately, but more importantly I am keen to reduce my carbon impact on the planet. Like the average Briton I probably produce around 9.3 tonnes of carbon each year. I am 26 years old, and reckon I could live for another 60 years; if I end things now I will save a total of 558 tonnes of carbon, for which I believe future generations should be grateful. But I have a question: what is the most ethical way to commit suicide? I don’t want my self-destruction to be destructive to the planet!
Yours faithfully,
Zach Montague
Richmond-upon-Thames
Dear Zach,
I empathise with your selfless decision. All responsible studies show that there are just too many people living on this planet for life to be sustainable. At least you have had the courage to do something about it, in a small and local way.
In fact your suicide could actually save far more carbon than you realise. Think of the children you might have had, and what CO2 vandalism they could have done. Your death will also reduce the carbon impact of friends and family members you leave behind – all those journeys they won’t make to visit you, unnecessary presents they won’t have to buy or wrap. I estimate that over 60 years your suicide will stop your loved ones from producing 583.2 kg of carbon from gift-buying alone. So your death will be even more generous than you know!
To your main question, which is a good one. As we know, many suicides are harmful to the environment. I often wonder about the state of mind of people who asphyxiate themselves with exhaust fumes in their cars – do they not know that every minute their car is chugging out up to 70g of CO2? As for people who jump off buildings, they seem to give no consideration whatsoever to the toxic cleaning products required to scrub the pavement. Suicides should take more time to think about the impact of their deaths on their surroundings.
I think the key to a green and ethical suicide is to leave no trace of your body behind. Selfish families will insist on holding a ceremony to dispose of bodies, often without a thought as to the environmental impact. A church funeral means people driving miles, maybe even flying to attend, not to mention the damage done by a gas-guzzling old hearse. It might be argued that once buried, human bodies provide food for other species, but as one brave EU environment commissioner reminds us, embalming fluids pose a danger to ‘living organisms’ – maggots and beetles that feast on the deceased – and should be banned. Will your family stop and think of the poor insects?
Even worse, they might opt for cremation. Did you know that 437,000 wooden coffins – the equivalent of 140 000 trees – are wastefully burnt in these self-regarding ceremonies in Britain EVERY YEAR? Cremation pollutes the environment with dioxin, hydrochloric acid, sulphur dioxide and carbon dioxide. All your good intentions in taking your own life could be undermined at the touch of an incinerator button.
So ideally your suicide should leave nothing to bury or cremate. A colleague in America advises eco-warriors who choose Carbon Suicide to throw themselves off a boat, so that the body disintegrates on the seabed and makes little impact on the ozone layer. However, I’m not so sure. Whales, dolphins and fish have a hard enough time with pollution and nets without having to avoid or swallow human carcasses, shoelaces, belts and buttons. If you do take the sea-suicide option, please remove all your clothing first (and post to a green charity shop prior to death).
In my view, probably the most ethical way to commit suicide is by self-cremation. Go deep into a forest, douse the body sparingly and set yourself alight. The ‘experts’ assure me that there is as yet no environmentally-friendly flammable liquid to match petrol. However, before turning to the Great Satan gasoline, I think a truly committed individual might experiment with vegetable oil and bio-fuels – after all, if they can power green cars, surely they can burn a green carcass! But even if you have to use a few (carefully measured) cups of petrol it will do far less damage to the eco-system than a conventional cremation. (Ironically, an obese over-consumer may burn more easily.) What’s more, the few remains of your body can be recycled by foxes and other small carnivores. So you will be sparing the planet from your 558 tonnes of carbon and literally giving a hand to Britain’s beleaguered wildlife at the same time.
My last word to you, Zach: don’t leave a suicide note. Even using a single sheet of paper contributes to the felling of trees for profit and the threatened extinction of many animals. Why ruin your selfless ethical moment? Post it on MySpace as a shining example to future generations of how to choose life by ending it all. Good luck!
Ethan Greenhart is here to answer all your questions about green and ethical living in the twenty-first century. Email him at Ethan.Greenhart@spiked-online.com.
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