Algar’s blog

I applaud coke for making a stride in making their company a little greener.  They have started to move toward plant based bottles to have a bottle that has less of an impact on the environment.  I think this is great and although Coke is still a major corporation that does more good than bad you can be sure that this marketing tactic has some good in it.

I am all for people using public transit en mass, but when you have a guy's job be entirely devoted to cramming the most people possible into a train well that is when claustrophobia sets in for me and I am taking a taxi.  I'm not saying that I would freak out in a small room or something like that, I'm just saying I would freak out in a small room crammed with 200 Japanese people.

I saw this shirt today and I thought it was funny enough that it was worth sharing.  It's not that the shirt is overly funny it is just that it is such a dumb joke that I can't help but like it.  I mean there is no such thing as a bad sign yet there it is.  Well done to the person that thought it up, I am sure that I am not that clever.

Bad Sign - Not a Good Sign Funny T-Shirt by niffx
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So in my travels and musing on travels I happened to come across a park with the strangest statues that I've ever seen in my life.  Welcome to Vigeland Park in Oslo.  It is designed in honor of a rather unusual Gustav Vigeland who sculpted each statue in the park.  When I tried to learn more about the park they didn't really have much information on WHY he sculpted what he did, so I guess we just have to enjoy it as much as we can.

Some day I will have the time and money to visit some of the marvelous Buddha statues that are from around the world.  For now I can just look at the pictures and dream.  They are beautiful aren't they?

I decided that if I ever make enough money to retire early, that traveling to Spain is one of my goals in life.  The culture, people, food and architecture all just seem to jell so well with me that I think it would be a natural fit for me.  Not speaking Spanish would just be a milestone on my path to enjoying myself in Spain.  I could go to the beach, drink Spanish wine and just relax in a European paradise.  Just need that money...

It's pretty amazing when you add up all the little computers, switches and wires you see how much electricity we use to make the web go.  As amazing this is, I think that there should be a graph to show how much we save in resources like paper and sending people all over the world for travel because of the interconnectedness of the internet.  I bet it vastly out weighs the usage of the internet.

I know it might seem a little earlier to talk about Christmas, but I just loved this funny card that I needed to share it with everyone.  It is so cute when people take the green message from the real world and put it into something cute and seasonal like this card. I think this is my holiday card for sure.  Already found it!

Rudolph by JoshAlves
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Everyone needs to spend at least a little amount of time in the sun otherwise rickketts will be your outcome!  There is a new study that is showing kids are spending too much time inside playing video games and not enough time running around outside getting exposure to fresh air and sun.  I think this is terrible because it teaches kids that staying inside all day is OK.  We need to show kids the parks and gardens of the world to show them that their is beauty beyond the television.  I am sure that most kids won't get ricketts but it is still something to think about.  Drink your milk and get some sun!

Amazing that a cartoon done over 10 years ago applies EXACTLY to what we are going through right now.  And it's still funny!