http://www.livestrong.com/lance-armstrong/
I tried to embed the video and it isn’t working. Something must be up with the code. You’ll have to deal with the link until they/I fix it.
Lance Armstrong makes it Interesting!
Lance Armstrong sure kept us on the edge of our seats this morning as team Astana fought for the lead in this morning’s Team Time Trial. Take a look here at the BBC’s coverage.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/cycling/8138996.stm
I used to get up at 5:30 to watch it live, but lately I’ve just been catching the last hour of the broadcast and then the repeat in the evening. It’s easier that way when you’re running a business 
Velo News has some great links to the tour as well: http://www.velonews.com/
Holy Cow!!! An Erocket!!!!!!
I usually don’t post twice in the same day, but I couldn’t resist!
Here’s a bicycle that could potentially revolutionize urban travel. You peddle it, but it has an electric assist engine to get it up to 80KM per hour. 80 KM PER HOUR!
I’m no engineer, but I like what I like. This is SO cool!!!
I’ve no idea what he says, but he does say “Schnell” a lot! The video is German (as is the inventor) but you’re a clever bunch so I’ve no doubt you can find more on it out there:
Obama and Russia agree to Nuclear cuts
Listening to BBC World Service as I plug through the 30 odd resumes that have just come in, (Kim’s decided to go in a different direction as she works towards becoming a veterinary assistant), I heard a comment by someone who described the new US/Russia agreement on Nuclear Weapons as, “Two men sitting in a shed full of petrol discussing who had the most matches”.
It’s all in relation to the earth, so I thought it was blog worthy and a fairly accurate way of describing it.
Here’s a link to a story on the BBC’s website.
Donald Duck Litterbug @ Youtube
Mike Henshilwood of Eaveswood Colour Printing forwarded this to me and I thought I’d pass it on!
Nike Livestrong Chalkbot
Reading my twitter feed this morning (http://twitter.com/StartRecycling) I saw something Lance Armstrong posted on his that I thought was really cool and inspiring. It’s the “Chalkbot”. A computerized method of printing messages along the route of the Tour de France for people fighting cancer. I thought it was worth putting a link up. Livestrong Chalkbot!
Along similar lines, I do have to say that if anyone has NAILED social media, it’s Lance Armstrong. He’s embraced it and made it interesting and fun. His twitter feed is interesting and makes me want to look at his blog and check out his training progress etc.
Best of Youtube
I took Thursday through Saturday off and worked on Sunday. I’m moving, and moving is an all consuming endeavour. I had to ignore it on Sunday. I didn’t save myself any work though, I came home to find an even larger chaotic mess than when I left in the morning. My cousin lives in the same house above me, he’s in fact the owner of the house, and he had a very busy Sunday filling my living room with boxes.
In the meantime, while I rearrange the chaos that’s my abode, here’s a “Best Of” on Youtube through the Vancouver Sun.
Waste to Energy a “hot” topic!
I’m for Waste to Energy because, realistically “Zero Waste” is a ludicrous proposition. I absolutely support reducing (not eliminating) the garbage we create but we’ll forEVER generate garbage. FOR EVER! Burying this commodity doesn’t seem wise to me. It seems to me, that we have the option to recycle the by product of our existence (the garbage) by turning it into energy to power our lights, and heat our greenhouses.
Thinking of new, innovative ways to recycle and reduce is laudable, but in the mean time, I have to say, burying energy in the ground is a bit silly. The people that I’ve spoken to that are hungry to create energy from our waste say that they lack guidelines to which to adhere. In much the same way we have to have our cars pass Air Care, they’ll keep their smoke stacks polluting at manageable levels.
A goal of zero waste seems to keep metro Vancouver diverting about 70% of it’s waste. As long as the regulation exists to either maintain the status quo of 70% diversion or increase that, then I think burning that 30% and turning that waste into energy deserve real serious consideration.
I’m not a huge fan of the never ending, paralytic, back and forth conversation ad nauseum. Whatever the answer is, I’d like to see some action one way or the other.
Here’s what the professional writers at the CBC have to say on the topic and both sides of the debate are explored.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/06/23/bc-garbage-burning-gvrd.html
There seems to be people very passionate on both sides of the debate. Does anyone out there care to weigh in?
A worker at the GVRD waste to energy plant looks on as garbage is incinerated to be turned into electricity and steam energy. (CBC)
Gross!
Why? Why in this day and age, when a company sends material that we need to run our business do we get this?
This is:
- 1 manual
- A couple of stickers, and
- 1 page ”Welcome” letter
It’s disgusting!
I like the salesguy that sold it to me, so I’ll protect the vendor until I’ve had a word with him, but I have to say, It’s abhorrent to be sending material out in this way in 2009. It was abhorrent before, and that’s how we got to this stage in 2009. Gross!
Aaarrrggghhhhhh!
Why?
Birds of Paradise
I’m moving at the end of the month, and I wanted to take a break and read the blogs of my peers. The girls at BYOB have this video up, and I thought, “What does this have to do with plastic bags?” For that matter, “What does it have to do with recycling construction sites?”
But you know what? I liked the video. I don’t care about EITHER of those 2 things. I thought it was cool and I got a few minutes to myself.
