Algar’s blog

Bad Sign Funny T-Shirt

2009-11-15T17:50:20Z

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 the...

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Strangest Sculptures I've Seen - Vigeland Park, Oslo

2009-11-11T03:40:10Z

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 st...

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Awesome Buddhas from Around the world

2009-11-08T22:14:03Z

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?

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Traveling to Spain

2009-11-05T02:59:32Z

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. No...

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The Web's Electrical Bill

2009-11-02T00:06:28Z

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...

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Funny Green Christmas Cards

2009-10-30T03:06:34Z

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 seaso...

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Vitamen D Lackage

2009-10-27T03:47:29Z

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 out...

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Calvin and Hobbes...Still Relevant

2009-10-24T02:57:38Z

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

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NY Times Toxic Waters is a MUST READ!

2009-10-21T03:51:28Z

If you want an amazingly in depth look at the state of water in the US, look no further than the New York TImes' wonderful report entitled "Toxic Waters." This report is scary, sad and wholly truthful about what many of us already knew about t...

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Invest in Solazyme

2009-10-18T21:15:10Z

If I were a betting man (and had extra cash) I would be getting some money ready to invest in the SF Algae company Solazyme. This little company is turning Algae into fuels with big contracts for the Air Force and Navy. If they hit it right ...

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