Filed under: Activism, Awkward Conversations, My Kids, Things I Overheard | Tags: environmentalism, Fit-in 15, greenpeace, kids, overheard
I incorporated some machine-dodging and crater-hopping into today’s Fit-in 15 entry and took #2 on some neighbourhood errands. While walking on Armstrong behind the GT Express, #2 spied some litter in the road and made the following comment:
Filed under: Activism, Diaper Fluff, General, Review Things, Work at Susie's | Tags: environment, reviews, cloth diapers, cloth diapering, product review, soapnuts, soap nuts
Those of you who know me well know that I’m a bit of a cloth diaper nut. I was rather sad when #2 finally toilet-trained, as it meant packing away all that beautiful fluff for an indefinite period of time.
In the few years since then the cloth diaper market has exploded and they’ve become much more accessible to the average consumer. Accompanying this trend, natural laundry washes, soaps and detergents have multiplied on store shelves — increasing consumer options and leaving me feeling, at times, as though I went to university just to be able to read the ingredients labels on cleaning products.
Filed under: Activism, Dwell On Things, Things I Do, Things I Read | Tags: #amazonfail, amazon rank, erotica, LGBT
Shamelessly borrowed from those wonderful ladies over at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books:
Amazon rank: (verb) 1. To censor and exclude on the basis of adult content in literature (except for Playboy, Penthouse, dogfighting and graphic novels depicting incest orgies); 2. To make changes based on inconsistent applications of standards, logic and common sense.
Etymology: from 12 April 2009 removal of sales rank figures from books on Amazon.com containing sexual, erotic, romantic, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered or queer content, rendering them impossible to find through basic search functions at the top of Amazon.com’s website. Titles stripped of their sales rankings include “Bastard Out of Carolina,” “Lady Chatterley’s Lover,” prominent romance novels, GLBTQ fiction novels, YA books, and narratives about gay people.
Example of usage: “I tried to do a report on Lady Chatterley’s Lover for English Lit, but my teacher amazon ranked me and I got an F on grounds that it was obscene.”
Alternate usage: “My girlfriend wanted to preserve her virginity, and I was happy to respect that, then she amazon ranked and decided anal sex was okay.”
Filed under: Activism, My Kids, Overanalyze, Random Geekery, Things I Do, Things I Eat | Tags: disaster planning, disaster preparedness, foil hats, home canning, organic, tinfoil hat, urban homesteading
I realized today, upon leaving the library after a brief discussion about eating local produce in the winter, that I am never really sure where the line is between “urban homesteader” and “paranoid hippie wingnut“.
Me in a foil hat, Summer 1998
Filed under: Activism, City of Ottawa | Tags: Civic Hospital, ottawa, Ottawa Hospital
Thanks to Miss Vicky for bringing this to my attention!
This hospital is integral to our neighbourhoods here. We cannot keep losing services to the suburbs — something needs to be done.
