Why, hello there.

I’m getting back online after being, for the most part, away for two weeks. We had a 12 day holiday, but decided not to go anywhere this time. It was nice to chill, get organized, and brush up on some reading, exercise, and qt with Novita. We did a whole lot of nothing, but it was incredibly nice. I can’t deny that I’ll view my co-worker’s vacation photos from their wanderings in SE Asia without slight envy, but with aRead more
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Plastic waste in the Pacific: Twice the size of the U.S.

This is disgusting, and shows just how primitive we still are. Full article here. A “plastic soup” of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said. The “soup” is actually two linked areas, either side of the islands of Hawaii, known as the Western and Eastern Pacific Garbage Patches. About one-fifth of the junk – which includes everything from footballsRead more
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Workin fool

I’ve been slacking on the posting / photo front lately, as I’ve been working 12+ hours a day sorting, organizing, and backing up my massive amount of media, the majority of which are 300+ gigs of photos and over 600 gigs of media. I just bought another 1TB drive that’s now 95% full – ugh. That was how I spent my Chinese New Year long weekend. Fun. My friends spent the weekend on an island the size of a footballRead more

Why you should appreciate your job – OR why you may want to become a vegetarian

This article in the NY Times was written in regards to investigating a medical mystery, but in reading it I began to appreciate my job more and more: Austin’s biggest employer is Hormel Foods, maker of Spam, bacon and other processed meats (Austin even has a Spam museum). Quality Pork Processors, which backs onto the Hormel property, kills and butchers 19,000 hogs a day and sends most of them to Hormel. The complex, emitting clouds of steam and a distinctiveRead more
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Google Adsense: Taking the plunge

Since starting this site in 2002, I have never used any sort of advertising, no Amazon referrals, never accepted payment for promoting content, locations, or products of any kind, and have never used text links related to serving myself in any way. Being 2008, I’ve decided to ease into a bit of advertising, utilizing Google Adsense first. I find them to be relatively unobtrusive and quite relevant to the topics I discuss: photography, travel, Indonesia, Bali, technology, blogging. I haveRead more