March 2003 Archives
En antaŭajn enskribigojn mi komentis je la ecscese eĉetant je dolĉe drinkaĵoj en mia lernejo. Ne dubo, mi ankaŭ komentis je la multaj boteloj ke estas sur la planko de la lernejo tial je la malkapablo de personoj meti iliajn rubojn en la rubejo. Mi constante ĉaregnita pro ĉi tiu, sed mi trovis tielon profiti je ĝi. Ĉiu botelo povas interŝanĝi por $0,05 en la botelredono en la loka manĝbutiko. Mi estas laŭgrade kolektinta kaj formetinta ĉi tiujn botelojn, kaj mi depondos la unuan ŝarĝon tiam mia unua rubejo satas. La rubejo estas je, ho, triono da maksimumo.
Kurdish family hiding in a cave in northern Iraq names son "Dick Cheney."
--From CNN
In previous entries I have commented on the excessive purchasing of soda pop in my school. No doubt, I have also commented on the amount of bottles that are strewn around the building as a result of certain peoples' apparent inability to put their trash in a proper receptacle. After being constantly annoyed by this, I have found I productive way to profit from it. Each one of these soda pop bottles can fetch $0.05 at the "bottle return" at the local grocery store (this actually credit for the store, but my mom has agreed to give me the amount of the credit in cash if I give her the credit). I have gradually collected and stockpiled these bottles, and I will be cashing in my first load once I fill up a garbage bag with them. So far, I would reckon that I have filled it up to about one-third of its capacity.
"War isn't good."
--Maxwell Fritz
It's begun.
I apologize for my advice to go to google and type "french military victories." It appears that it has now turned into somewhat of an anti-France website with grusome pictures. Previously, when my friend told me about it, there were merely no hits and it displayed the message "did you mean: 'french military defeats'?" I would highly discourage anyone from doing this unless they particularly enjoy looking at dead bodies. Sorry.
About six or seven months ago (I'm not exactly sure) I purchased a bottled beverage for the humble price of $0.99. I saved the bottle, hoping to reuse it a few times maybe before I threw it out, or lost it (it survived much longer as you will hear). Since the schools can longer operate fully simply off money given to them by the state, they have reduced themselves to being mere peddlers of obesity by selling a full array of sugar-enriched carbonated beverages, sugar-based confections, sugar-and-partially-hydrogenated-soybean-oil-based confections, and many other equally gut-expanding items of food. Anyway, people tend to be very partial to these products, and the bottled beverages are certainly no exception. When most people are done with their 20 oz., tooth-rotting friend that they purchased for $1.00, they chuck the bottle squarely into the trash. Even when a recycling bin is nearby, the trash is typically favored (I have a number of theories on why this is, and most of them are very disturbing). People have found me to be "weird" when I have commented that they should maybe reuse them once or twice as a waterbottle, or even, heaven-forbid, recycle them!! To show these people their wastefulness, I resolved to reuse this plastic bottle that I had purchased with flavored water in it, for $0.99, until it broke. Although I was indeed criticized for doing so and attempts were made to sabotage the bottle, I made it last up until today, six or seven months after I purchased it. Alas! I dropped it on the floor in third period today and the top cracked. Everyone seemed to be a little bit happier when I told them.
Some really cool waterbottles are here though: www.sigg.ch
"Those people who think they know everything are a constant annoyance
to those of us who do."
--Bobthemagiccow, submitted by Julien Gulmert
