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Photo Publishing

I have uploaded about 5000 photos to Flickr. Prior to Flickr I used photo gallery software written by Jeremy Zawodny. A graphic artist at Remo found my photo galleries and used several of my photos in a drum poster. This required them to personally contact me by finding my contact e-mail address at the bottom of the photo gallery webpages. With Flickr it is much easier to request permission to use a photo and recently the Schmap Seattle Guide requested the ability to use three of my photos from Seattle.

• Columbia Winery
• Spirit of Washington Dinner Train
• Spirit of Washington Dinner Train

Photo services like Flickr will make it much easier to find, request and get permission, and publish digital photos than past mechanisms. Also, point and click photographers like myself will get a nice ego boast as more novices share their photos with the world using these services. This sure beats photos living as dusty analog artifacts in a drawer.

Recycling

I am a big fan of recycling. If you live in the Findlay area the Litter Landing is a real nice place to recycle. However, there a ton of other recycling locations. Hancock County has several special recycling days coming up in the near future for appliances, tires, hazardous waste / paint, and electronics on their event calendar.

There is no excuse for not recycling!

Bottled Water Is Still A Scam

Bottled Water Is Still A Scam.

Interesting Points:

• It’s worth reiterating that Aquafina and Dasani are just tap water.


• Fiji Water produces more than a million bottles a day, while more than half the people in Fiji do not have reliable drinking water.


• If the water we use at home cost what even cheap bottled water costs, our monthly water bills would run $9,000.


• 24% of the bottled water we buy is tap water repackaged by Coke and Pepsi.


• The bubbles in San Pellegrino are extracted from volcanic springs in Tuscany, then trucked north and injected into the water from the source.


• We pitch into landfills 38 billion water bottles a year—in excess of $1 billion worth of plastic.


• Worldwide, 1 billion people have no reliable source of drinking water; 3,000 children a day die from diseases caught from tainted water.


• We’re moving 1 billion bottles of water around a week in ships, trains, and trucks in the United States alone. That’s a weekly convoy equivalent to 37,800 18-wheelers delivering water.

Gasoline is profoundly cheap in comparison with bottled water. ;-)