Monday Jots
~ We had occasion to accumulate lots of glass bottles over the weekend. All of them would have gone to recycling six months ago. Today, most of them will end up in the local land fill. Why? Because suddenly, there is a policy that only CLEAR glass is recyclable. That accounts for maybe 5% of our weekend collection. And it seems that is a local rather than a national change. I'm still trying to get to the bottom of why this unfortunate change has come about. Any ideas?
~ Now this is way cool. Too bad I'm not teaching A & P this semester. Tweak the controls of this program that shows you all the muscles involved in facial expression, how each operates, and overlays all that over the bone structure of the face. From ArtAnatomy.
~ I'm re-writing the lyrics to the Beach Boys song: "There's a place where I can't go to tell my troubles to...in HER room." The Ann-ex is not quite complete, but it was usable Saturday night. She's still trying to decide if I'll have visiting priviledges out there.
~ Lucid Daydreams: one of the musings in Slow Road Home that has made one reader ask "What y'all smoke out there on Goose Creek?" It really does record the closest thing I guess I've had to a lucid dream, though I was awake and intentionally letting my mind wander--a daydream unconstrained by logic, experience or reason in which I was both object and subject. Maybe I'll read up on lucid dreams.
~ If you aren't backing up your important files, you're asking for grief. I have an external hard drive for the desktop. For the laptop, I registered (free) for MOZY six months ago and it automatically saves any changed file to an external site. It's a no-brainer, folks.
~ I'm in the process of writing a little something on sneezing, yawning and such, and ran across this reference to "sneezing fettishism." Dear me. I'll never sneeze in public again.
~ ScrapBook recently won 'Most Useful Upgraded Extension' prize in the Extend Firefox Contest. It saves the site, not just the link, for those web references that might disappear before you glean what you want from them. You can mark up text to save pertinent quotes (good as a blogger's tool!) Very handy.
Comments
Sorry we couldn't make it over to help contribute to your local landfill ;) We're still waiting for Franklin County to accept any sort of glass recyclable. Or cardboard. Currently, the only things we can recycle are #1 and #2 plastic, newspapers and their inserts, and aluminum or bi-metal cans. By contrast, in Vermont, virtually everything except for whiteboard was recyclable. On top of that, since everything in Vermont went to a state-of-the-art sorting facility in Canada, we didn't need to sort. Plastics, cans and glass could all be put in together. Very convenient.
Sean
Posted by: Sean Pecor | May 29, 2006 7:37 AM
Our community recycling center does restrict some colored glass, but it is the unlikely stuff like blue and red.
I know what you mean about lucid daydreaming. I engage in it whenever possible, and I find my most satisfying thoughts, conclusions, and understandings from those moments of mental drifting.
Posted by: pablo | May 29, 2006 8:17 AM
Thanks for the Artanatomy link. I enjoy painting portraits and this will be a great help as I could never find a satisfactory anatomical view of the face.
And then there's that lucidity thing I really don't understand.
I think Patrick Counties idea of recycling is to throw it in the back yard.
Posted by: Dave | May 29, 2006 8:55 AM
I would bet that the county no longer has anybody willing to buy the colored glass from them, so they aren't collecting it anymore.
We can recycle clear, brown, and green glass - seperated, of course.
Posted by: COD | May 29, 2006 9:34 AM
Hey Fred, ever thought of using all of those colored bottles to build that most southern of all yard art objects?
Try building a bottle tree. See the example at Southern Bottle tree - Don Drane. I think this is an ancient memory trick discovered by our long lost forebears...you can look at the number of bottles added to the tree come Sunday morning and "remember" how good the weekend was...
Posted by: Gary Boyd | May 29, 2006 10:52 AM
So far, we can recycle any glass that was used to hold food or drinks.
LOVE the ArtAnatomy link. As for the sneezing: EWWWWW!
Posted by: kenju | May 29, 2006 7:05 PM
I love to sneeze, but I'm not a sneeze exhibitionist and I don't like others to watch!
Posted by: colleen | May 30, 2006 11:00 AM