I've heard of the shortwave thing, but I doubt radio interference is what's going on at the Empire State. The frequencies that FM and TV operate on are much higher than shortwave and the antenna patterns are also very different. An FM or TV broadcaster wants to send his signal as far and wide as possible, so the antenna pattern emits very little power downwards.
@Miss Cellenia and Pablo: Even if lots of people took food home for themselves, it raises awareness, something that Campbells donating directly wouldn't do.
@Justin Can't tell who you're rolling your eyes at... Maybe food banks where you live would be annoyed to get a couple of pallates of the same thing, but the food banks where I'm at would love to have anything. There are times of the year where they don't have enough for everyone who needs it.
When I was in Brazil, I took a short excursion to the Amazons. In the middle of the night a sloth swum to our boat in the middle of the river and climbed aboard, apparently looking for food.
Our guide grabbed him by the scruff of the neck, showed him to everyone on board, then sent him overboard again behind the boat.
[quote]All of the bananas you have eaten are genetic clones of each other. The popular Cavendish banana has no seeds, so it reproduces through offshoots in the roots.[/quote]
You assume too much! I think it unlikely that I'm the only one who's either a) Bought different types of bananas at the grocery store (fingerlings / standard Cavendish / other) or b) Been out of the US. I ate more types of bananas in Brazil that I can count.
I don't really think most of these are that geeky. MySpace, Digg, and Twitter may have geeks that use them, but they're not really geeky. They don't take intellect, ingenuity or cleverness to use them, nor do they involve obscure arcane knowledge of technical subjects.
I did appreciate the Web 2.0 one, but the most geeky was the wifi detector...except a geek would make it him/herself (and then get arrested: http://www.thebostonchannel.com/slideshow/news/14173047/detail.html).
My grandpa had a camp in the woods that he would only visit every couple of weeks or even once a month. Kill trapping mice would've left a terrible stink.
He had a 5 gallon bucket with a wire handle. the handle had a plastic holder part that could spin like this: http://www.bewellhydroponics.com/catalog/images/5GALLON-bucket.jpg
He'd put some food in the bottom of the bucket, smear peanut butter on the handle, and place a small board up the side of the bucket as a ramp.
The mice would jump for the peanut butter, the handle would roll and drop them in the bottom, and they'd be there a week later for him to release.
# For the rest of us lucky ones, let me pose this question: are you ready for an emergency?
Eagle Scout style. :-)
Do you know what to take if you have to leave your home unexpectedly in the next few minutes?
We're actually pretty ready for survival level evacuation. We've got an emergency medical kit, a backpack with supplies that should last 3 days (minus water) and a medium sized plastic tub with enough food for a week or so and enough water for several days.
How about copies of important documents and precious photos?
Sort of. I just barely bought a couple of 500 Gb disks to do rotating offsite backups with, and photos are now being backed up every day or so, and taken off site weekly.
I do have about 40 VHS tapes of my family when I was a kid which need to be digitized and backed up. Assuming no disasters hit before Christmas, that will be the present we give everyone in my family (bonus, it doubles as remote backup too!).
[/quote]This is pretty misleading and not a little simple minded as the vast majority of paper comes from crop trees and tree farms. These trees were planted to be turned into pulp.[quote]
That's true, but...
a) The graphic doesn't have to mean that just paper is coming from the amazon, it can also just be a reminder that
b) It'd be hard to recreate the same effect for use where people would see it using sugar or beef (two of the main crops that Brazilian farmers plant after clear cutting the forest)
@Justin
Can't tell who you're rolling your eyes at... Maybe food banks where you live would be annoyed to get a couple of pallates of the same thing, but the food banks where I'm at would love to have anything. There are times of the year where they don't have enough for everyone who needs it.
Our guide grabbed him by the scruff of the neck, showed him to everyone on board, then sent him overboard again behind the boat.
You assume too much! I think it unlikely that I'm the only one who's either a) Bought different types of bananas at the grocery store (fingerlings / standard Cavendish / other) or b) Been out of the US. I ate more types of bananas in Brazil that I can count.
"That statement can’t possibly be true, can it?"
Yes, when leaping from the top to the bottom of a 30 meter tree.
I don't really think most of these are that geeky. MySpace, Digg, and Twitter may have geeks that use them, but they're not really geeky. They don't take intellect, ingenuity or cleverness to use them, nor do they involve obscure arcane knowledge of technical subjects.
I did appreciate the Web 2.0 one, but the most geeky was the wifi detector...except a geek would make it him/herself (and then get arrested: http://www.thebostonchannel.com/slideshow/news/14173047/detail.html).
He had a 5 gallon bucket with a wire handle. the handle had a plastic holder part that could spin like this: http://www.bewellhydroponics.com/catalog/images/5GALLON-bucket.jpg
He'd put some food in the bottom of the bucket, smear peanut butter on the handle, and place a small board up the side of the bucket as a ramp.
The mice would jump for the peanut butter, the handle would roll and drop them in the bottom, and they'd be there a week later for him to release.
Eagle Scout style. :-)
Do you know what to take if you have to leave your home unexpectedly in the next few minutes?
We're actually pretty ready for survival level evacuation. We've got an emergency medical kit, a backpack with supplies that should last 3 days (minus water) and a medium sized plastic tub with enough food for a week or so and enough water for several days.
How about copies of important documents and precious photos?
Sort of. I just barely bought a couple of 500 Gb disks to do rotating offsite backups with, and photos are now being backed up every day or so, and taken off site weekly.
I do have about 40 VHS tapes of my family when I was a kid which need to be digitized and backed up. Assuming no disasters hit before Christmas, that will be the present we give everyone in my family (bonus, it doubles as remote backup too!).
That's true, but...
a) The graphic doesn't have to mean that just paper is coming from the amazon, it can also just be a reminder that
b) It'd be hard to recreate the same effect for use where people would see it using sugar or beef (two of the main crops that Brazilian farmers plant after clear cutting the forest)