1. Lots of recycling. It’s impossible not to recycle in CO. As an apartment-dweller who has attempted to recycle in Orlando, this would be quite a change of pace, in a good way. [2][3]
2. Lots of biking. On average in the cities I visited, everything is within biking distance for normal everyday needs. Work, food, groceries, and entertainment.
3. Wind and solar power. Many restaurants, businesses, and even the local governments advertise their ecological friendliness by being 100% wind powered. [2][3]
4. Sense of humor. Everyone, including all the nice people and interesting businesses, seem to have a great sense of humor and humility.
5. Beautiful, well-recognized university campuses.
Colorado State University
University of Colorado
6. Delicious vegan, organic food. Vegan food options at every restaurant and store. There were even several specialty shops (making them not so unusual). While I’ve never had much of a problem, Colorado would certainly make shopping and dining more convenient.
7. Lively festivals. We saw the Boulder Creek Festival and the Boulder Bolder 10k. And that was only one weekend of fun! [2]
8. Great local stores and co-ops. Everywhere.
9. Four seasons of weather. I was fortunate to see Colorado during the summer. Having more seasons than “summer” and “hotter summer” would be nice change from Florida and Texas.
10. Beautiful mountain-y scenery. Pictures speak more than words in this case. [2]
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There was a huge fire at Hunters Ridge Apartments tonight (my apartment complex). I hope everyone is okay. It affected buildings in the back of the complex, on the side closest to University Blvd (the northeast corner, right across from my building).
Duncan Hines has been a great source of easy, vegan cake mixes. The only “trick” is to use applesauce instead of eggs (1.5 tablespoon of applesauce = 1 egg) and soymilk if they call for milk (a lot don’t). Applesauce acts in the same role in getting the right consistency and fluffiness that eggs do.
October 2005, I noticed that nearly all of the Duncan Hines cake and brownie mixes had started containing milk. I inquired with Pennacle Foods, and they said it was not intentional, but it was purely because they had changed factories. The new factory had been used for so much dairy-containing products, that it added dairy to all of the mixes. Well, apparently they had received such a large response to it (from lactose-intolerant, vegans, kosher people, and those who generally avoid dairy because of the health affects), that they changed back 12 of their 18 cake mixes to the diary-free versions!
I highly recommend the red velvet cakes (with cream cheese frosting from Pillsbury, which is accidentally vegan as well)! You can find vegan icings by Pillsbury right next to the Duncan Hines cake mixes! Chocolate, Vanilla, Cream Cheese frostings are all available.
Great new look and features, reminds me heavily of how OSX has been for years.
This will be adopted by users slowly, because (1) people are afraid that they might not be able to learn the new OS, (2) they are not willing to shell out the extra money, and (3) they are worried the OS won’t run on their computer (which it most likely will, but possibly not as smoothly as it would on a newer computer).
Microsoft is going to make a LOT more of money in the next two years. I bought stock.
If you want Vista, instead of spending $150 on the upgrade, spend $500 on buying a shiny new laptop. (There are a lot of deals out there right now).
Don’t forget to buy the new edition of Office. MS Office has been the greatest product by Microsoft, in my opinion. They have been more innovative and trendsetting than any other office suite.
Immediately, install Firefox. I will not support MS Internet Explorer, until they are standards compliant. IE is a tremendous pain to every website developer.
A couple of weeks ago, I made a web application called fbCal.com to take all of your friends’ birthdays information from Facebook and convert them into an iCalendar (.ics) file, for use with iCal, Sunbird, gCal, etc. Check it out, if it suits your needs! [Note: sorry for the duplicated information for those of you whom have already seen this through my Facebook messages.]
