quite happy with this Stanley stainless steel flask: tantek.com/asin/B003AWN1RY. ht: @timoni during #xoxofest. More: holds a good amount of water and is much nicer than plastic or sports/running water bottles: both for carrying (the flask is flat-ish, fits very comfortably in your hand or small bags) and for when dressed up a bit for an evening of swing dancing.
Every election season it seems we're deluged with flyers and mailers for (and against) various propositions and candidates. Rather than just getting annoyed and recycling them, this time I've collected them to gather a few simple stats just to see who and what issues were wasting the most paper, here in San Francisco (SF) District 5.
As of I've received the following:
California Propositions Flyers
Flyers primarily about specific California (CA) state propositions:
2 from "Small Business Action Committee" (re: 30, 32, 40)
2 from "Budget Watchdogs" (re: 30-37, 39)
1 from "San Francisco Firefighters" (re: 30, 32, A-E, F, supervisors, state senate/assembly)
None of these flyers had URLs for the supporting organizations, nor did they have any verifiable citations backing up any of their positions on propositions. Thus I cannot trust any of their recommendations.
All I can factually conclude is that "Small Business Action Committee" and "Budget Watchdogs" are more wasteful of paper than "San Francisco Firefighters".
San Francisco Propositions Flyers
Flyers primarily about specific SF city propositions:
Ironically the proponents to "improve our [SF] parks" have wasted the most paper on proposition flyers, more than all other city proposition flyers combined! Perhaps they like parks but not trees?
SF District 5 Supervisor Flyers
I've received more district supervisor flyers than all others combined. Sorted by most to fewest, then family-name:
2 from Hanna Leung for community college board (No URL)
And those are the flyer totals as of 2012-10-22 morning. I don't think they will affect my voting choices. If anything, the flyers are an annoying waste of resources and make me want to oppose whoever sends them. I may however hold onto them and see how many more I receive before election day.
Update : While recycling/shredding some old junk mail I found a couple more old flyers (one for London Breed and one for Christina Olague) and have added them to the totals accordingly.
I tried to fit this into a tweet, then drafted four, now a post.
When you click the "unsubscribe to these emails" link at the bottom of the numerous spam emails Twitter has recently been sending out, it takes you to a page that says:
"Too much chirping? We hear you!"
Well, apparently you (Twitter) don't, because you're still making up new opt-out email subscriptions.
Is Twitter so desperate for inflated growth that it's had to resort to new annoying "Updates from Twitter" emails nearly every week?
Or is it that Twitter has bolloxed up their previously simple UI so much that it's compelled to spam for engagement?
Must I visit my Twitter Email notifications page regularly to uncheck the latest email marketing brainfart? Why the email notifications Whac-a-mole UI, Twitter?
Where's this checkbox?
[x] Never add me to any new "Updates from Twitter" notifications.
I'm attending dConstruct again , and like last year, put together a few pod-safe tracks for before and after the talks. They're all Creative Commons licensed and downloadable. Here's the set list if you'd like to enjoy them for yourself.
Dear #ireality #ireality2012 speakers, what to do about those trying to revert to the past? eg undo teaching evolution, to instead teach creationism/I.D., undo same-sex marriage and gay rights in general, undo women's rights over their bodies, and undo healthcare/obamacare?
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