In a similar vein, The Goodness Tree delivers a variety of in-season fruit on the University of Michigan campus. In my last batch, I got a bunch of clementines, kiwis and grapefruits. They were good, but I'm not sure it's that much different from just buying from a grocer. They're definitely more expensive. I guess I don't jive all that well with the whole sustainable farming deal, though I don't deny it's a good thing. I'm too practical though.
Nonfiction, but may spoil:
At the end of it, Hilibrand was $24 million in debt.Hilibrand was reading the contract, which was hopelessly illegible to all but the lawyers. The margins were jammed with penciled revisions and crossed-out sentences and arrows up and down, as though the contract were a visual representation of the confusion of the last three days. Rickards and a couple of other attorneys were trying to tell Hilibrand what it meant, but he didn't want to listen, he wanted to read it himself, and he could barely see it through the tears that were streaming down his face. He didn't want to sign, he wailed; there was nothing in it for him, better to file for bankruptcy than be someone else's indentured servant with no hope of ever earning his way out. Meriwether took Hilibrand aside and talked to him about the group, and how the others were in it and needed him to be in it, and still, Hilibrand, who had never needed anyone and who had once rebelled at paying for his share of the company cafeteria but now couldn't pay his debts, refused. Then Allison talked to him and said they were trying to restore the public's faith in the system and not to destroy anybody, and J.M. said, "Larry, you better listen to Herb." And Hilibrand signed, and the fund was taken over by fourteen banks.
Is that the most pretentious slogan ever or what? And it's wrong.
(From a "business and technology" conference flyer at my school.)
This is original. To entice members of their website to update their info, Autodesk will plant a tree (via Trees for the Future) in each obliging user's name. Not going to lie; it worked on me.
Questionable Content: The characters dress like hipster douches, their dialogue and posturing are equally stiff, and it's never funny. Petty conflicts define the plotlines: finally, a conversation between females about weight. Why is this comic popular? It's like a less-funny comic version of Friends. Then again, why was Friends popular?
Someone told this to me recently.
And this is why we should all use Off-The-Record Messaging. In these days of warrantless wiretaps, one can't be too paranoid.a guy I knew, who was apparently not particularly gifted in computer knowledge said he'd regularly use his laptop with linux and a packetsniffer to watch other people's aim convos
The seventh season of "American Idol" premieres tonight. Will you be watching, or are you over it?
what a stupid question.
I took this photo two years ago in the grad library stacks second-floor restroom.
Flying toasters? Some slick clock screensavers. Your blank monitor will no longer appear a style vacuum in your awesome Ikea room.
PolarClock on the top, FliqLo on the bottom (both Windows and OS X).
