// pictures and words
If you’ve got some electronics that aren’t worth putting on ebay or craigslist, I noticed there is an electronics recycle box at the Joe Bar.
Although I think this is a scary sign of our throwaway culture, it’s very cool that if I do have something to get rid of, I don’t actually have to go far, and I only have to go to my favorite coffee shop to do it.
How much money do you think Verizon cost Seattle this week? I haven’t done the math, but I’m betting it’s going to cost a lot of money to get rid of all these phonebooks that they have littered throughout the city.
Nobody in my building has taken one, and I’m willing to be none of us ordered them either. They’re not addressed to anyone, and they’re not by the mailbox. To me, this looks like spam. Plain and simple.
I suppose it could be offered that they’re delivering a phone book to their subscribers, but in our neck of the woods, we get our monopoly dialtone from Qwest, not Verizon, and as the TV keeps telling me, we’re supposed to use the QwestDex yellow pages to look things up. I’m pretty sure Qwest didn’t partner up with Verizon for their phonebook when I wasn’t looking. I think they’re just doing it because they’re big enough to get away with it, and if t-mobile and cingular thought they could, we’d see big piles of trash from them too.
Do you think Verizon is going to come by in their little van in the next few days and pick up the left-over phonebooks? I don’t see it happening (I’d love to be proved wrong), and they’re going to go directly in the trash. Or more importantly, the recycling, since it is now illegal (by penalty of fine) to put crap like this in the trash.
This is a horrible waste of natural resources, and it’s costing me and my city money.
I just downloaded Flock, while playing around with the del.icio.us integration I noticed I wasn’t the only one who bookmarked the Favorites Manager.
Amusing
Here’s the link:
chrome://browser/content/flock/favorites/favoritesManager.xul
There’s a lot of stuff on the Internet that just goes whizzing by. I’ve started a new blog (and am trying out WordPress) called Hurricane of Weird. It supports multiple authors, and I’m looking for contributors.
Check it out.
I thought javascript sucked. Then I saw Moon Cheese.
Continuing my trip through flatland, I’m in The Windy City, and it definitely is. Tomorrow, I’ll be checking out the sights and will most likely head to Applied Interactives on Sunday to check out their VR Portal. It looks like I won’t be able to see the virgin mary overpass because it (and the defacement) have been painted over, but if a picture of a freshly painted wall shows up on iMob, you can probably guess at what it is.
I’ve got some time tomorrow, and will be in the South Loop neighborhood. If there’s something that I should check out, let me know.
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I was getting coffee at Joe Bar this morning when I met one half of the ultra-cool 80’s street duo fankick, who was kind enough to supply me with a lovely book of matches. Last summer, I saw fankick while at Vivace on Broadway and was lucky enough to catch some video on my camera. Apparently they’ve been hanging out down in Pioneer Square for the past 6 months, and some other group called Streetbeat is now biting their style on Broadway. The Stranger has picked up the story, and is calling for a DANCE BATTLE OF THE CENTURY!
Hopefully it happens on Broadway and I’ll be there to see it all go down and get some pictures, but if I’m not (and you are), I’ve created an iMob topic, so anyone can get those pictures online. Email your fankick (or streetbeat) pictures to fankick @ imob.org (http://imob.org/fankick)
The Washington Mutual Bank on Broadway has a free scale. While I was standing around waiting for Rob to do his bank biz, I stepped on the scale, took my bag off and noticed a delta of 10lbs. After I stepped off the scale, someone behind me stepped up and did the same thing. He was carrying five pounds worth of stuff. Rob finished up with his teller and found that he was carrying nine.
How much crap are you carrying around?
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