I wish he would come to my place. I have 30 apple trees, all different varieties, and most of them end up in the compost. I would be glad to let him come take them away.
The red flesh apple was probably a 'pink pearl'. I have one of those trees, I like to give those apples away around Halloween. Most of the rest of my trees aren't identified.

We had a squirrel behave a bit like this in our yard a few years ago. It kept trying and failing to climb a tree, couldn't get more than a foot off the ground without falling off backwards. We happened to know someone who volunteers at a local wildlife rescue center, so I put on some thick gloves and grabbed it in a nice soft towel, then put it in a cat carrier. A few days later we heard back that it had made a full recovery, and they suspected it was drunk. Turns out that when doing some home renovation my father in law had moved our compost bin slightly, but not all of the compost that it was covering. We assume the squirrel got into some old fruit that had fermented and got good and tore up.

...and imagine all the ants killed with every road and parking lot and Wal-Mart and... calm down people. Ants are pretty resilient. They'll be waging wars for their queens long after they've helped compost the last of our dead.

We had a drunk squirrel once. Due to some work being done on the house we moved the compost bin, but not all of the compost with it. One of our local squirrels took the opportunity to sample some fermenting fruit, and got utterly plastered. We watched him from the kitchen for a while - he kept trying to climb a tree and falling off backwards. He'd then stumble around a bit before trying again. Eventually we took pity on him and brought him to a wildlife rehab center near us, and later got the diagnosis from them: drunk. Poor guy had probably just been trying to go home to sleep it off.

Still got one of the first Human Centipads in the basement....stopped composting a few years back-(Is that Dana Delany in the thumbnail??)

While the science behind it is exciting and definitely legit, those presentations really get on my nerves.
They go from overpromising and pretentious ("I thought the world changed at that point") to downright negligent and dangerous ("It's carbon, therefore harmless - you can even compost it!") Yeah, sure. Nanotoxicity, schmanotoxicity...what is this, Duck and Cover?
IMO, "compulsory positive" presentations like these hurt scientific reputation in the long run.

>> ^Boise_Lib:

quality


Cheers bud!

All those shavings would also be useful for lining his chicken coop, or making humanure compost.

The final result sure is stunning.

Now here's water and pieces of garbage and compost and a broken piece of an old Thundercats toy and what appears to be a double bubble chewing gum wrapper...

Fake, sadly

Bad composting is obvious when frame by frame. And who the hell films an intersection waiting for an accident like this without the amateur zoom in?

This video is beyond biased.

The police, judges, mayor all should have been held accountable. What they did was unconscionable and a disgrace to humanity ...BUT...

MOVE was a dangerous Cult, not a political organization.

MOVE wasn't 'composting'. They had garbage and shit everywhere. They weren't an eye sore, the property was unsanitary for the entire neighborhood. They aggressively harassed everyone. Look into how they got the property (it involves a machete.)

Here is a decent article about what MOVE was doing:
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/front_page/20100509_Unsettled_legacy_of_MOVE.html?page=2&c=y

Google for more.

"All she does is write messages on this stupid phone to her friends... let's see what happens when all her friends are buried outside in the compost heap."

>> ^volumptuous:

Ubuntu?
Yeah, I'll just do that. Because you know, I don't need things like Adobe CS4/5, Logic Audio, Pro Tools, Ableton Live, Max/MSP, Final Cut, Color, Motion, Lightroom and basically every other piece of software I use for my professional and fun purposes.
After scanning around some Ubuntu forums and finding out just what a nightmare it is to run any of my required software, I called a friend @ JPL, and one at Oracle to ask if my summation was correct, and they said "for what you need, Ubuntu makes zero sense". Yep, there you go campion.
Why are we talking about Ubuntu? Oh right, to show that we don't need sweatshops to live our wetern lifestyles. Which for me, (aside from about 1/2 the tech I own) is absolutely true.
I work from home, my GF takes mass transit. We have a massive garden where we get most of our food from. We buy all other food from locally grown, sustainable sources (mostly south central farmers market). We make all of our own cleaning agents, use soap nuts for washing clothes, recycle all water, harvest rainwater, solar dry food, hardly ever use a heater, have no A/C or central air. We use canvas bags to shop with, compost 100% of all food waste, recycle or reuse all plastic/paper/glass etc. Our combined trash for a full month is 1/2 of a normal small plastic bag.
I DO NOT buy Nike products, have never bought anything from WalMart, don't buy fastfood (aside from the ocassional In-n-Out) and we both study the source where all of our merch is made. In this ugly web of global corporate confusion, it's not always easy to find out where every piece of every camera or MIDI controller or PS3 you buy comes from.
It is very easy to "vote with my wallet" although I am not so naive to think it makes a dent on the big picture. But a lot of people would rather just scream "just buy Ubuntu and the world is saved" that's a load of bullshit.


Ubuntu. If you need it, write it. That's how Linux works.

I know I could google, and I will, but what are your tips for making your own cleaning products as I'm quite interested in doing that.

In reply to this comment by volumptuous:
Ubuntu?

Yeah, I'll just do that. Because you know, I don't need things like Adobe CS4/5, Logic Audio, Pro Tools, Ableton Live, Max/MSP, Final Cut, Color, Motion, Lightroom and basically every other piece of software I use for my professional and fun purposes.

After scanning around some Ubuntu forums and finding out just what a nightmare it is to run any of my required software, I called a friend @ JPL, and one at Oracle to ask if my summation was correct, and they said "for what you need, Ubuntu makes zero sense". Yep, there you go campion.

Why are we talking about Ubuntu? Oh right, to show that we don't need sweatshops to live our wetern lifestyles. Which for me, (aside from about 1/2 the tech I own) is absolutely true.

I work from home, my GF takes mass transit. We have a massive garden where we get most of our food from. We buy all other food from locally grown, sustainable sources (mostly south central farmers market). We make all of our own cleaning agents, use soap nuts for washing clothes, recycle all water, harvest rainwater, solar dry food, hardly ever use a heater, have no A/C or central air. We use canvas bags to shop with, compost 100% of all food waste, recycle or reuse all plastic/paper/glass etc. Our combined trash for a full month is 1/2 of a normal small plastic bag.

I DO NOT buy Nike products, have never bought anything from WalMart, don't buy fastfood (aside from the ocassional In-n-Out) and we both study the source where all of our merch is made. In this ugly web of global corporate confusion, it's not always easy to find out where every piece of every camera or MIDI controller or PS3 you buy comes from.

It is very easy to "vote with my wallet" although I am not so naive to think it makes a dent on the big picture. But a lot of people would rather just scream "just buy Ubuntu and the world is saved" that's a load of bullshit.