This week I have a variety of links – WordPress, zombies, negative comments, un-packaging and more.
- How To Make a WordPress Events List – How to make a list of events without a plugin using a category called Events and WordPress queries.
- Zombify – Turn yourself into a zombie on the Zombieland website.
- 10 Places with Morbid Names – What the title of the article says. I’ve been to Tombstone a number of times but despite it’s name it’s not a morbid place – it’s a tourist trap.
- 8 Reasons Why Negative Comments are Good for Your Blog – We don’t like to be criticized but here are some reasons that negative responses to your articles can be a positive thing.
- London’s Unpackaged Grocery Shop: No Packaging Whatsoever – A store that sells goods without packaging. I would love to have one of these in my neighborhood. Most of our waste comes from packaging.
- 21 Things We’re Learning to Live Without – What do we want? What do we need?
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Martian’s Radio
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A very small garage
The 21 Things We’re Learning to Live Without article isn’t really anything new and I think the advice to voluntarily forgo health insurance is horribly irresponsible.
Morbid names – I heard of “Murder Island” before, but I didn’t think it was a real place!
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Hi Carla – I must be very irresponsible – I don’t have health insurance.
I’d heard of many of the morbid place names, like Death Valley, but it never occurred to me until the article how morbid the names are.
Kim – I’m sorry for implying that anyone choosing (not because they cant pay or not eligible) to forgo insurance is irresponsible. I guess that’s the wrong word. I pay soooo much yearly for medical expenses. That number would be greater if I didn’t have insurance, but that’s just me and I know other people are not in my situation.
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Hi Carla – I didn’t mean to sound snippy – I am a little irresponsible
about it. I could get ok insurance if I tried harder.
AWESOME. I will have to Zombify myself. :-)
The yip yips!!!
And the guy parking in that garage might be the best driver in the world. I love when he gets out and closes the door.
Hi Jim – I found the parking video from you. I would never be able to park in such a tight spot.
Oi! That parking video makes me queasy every time I see it. I am, how you say, not a good driver and a spot that small is the stuff of nightmares to me.
Love the idea of a shop without packages. It’s really great for large families like mine, because I can get as much as I need without having to buy two obnoxiously big bags within a shrink wrapped box or whatever. It’s funny though, the worst offenders seems to be junk foods – if you buy any boxes of kids “fruit” snacks, it’s mostly carefully wrapped up and sealed bags of air in a cardboard box. Bleh – waste of money, resources and calories.
Hi Tracy – I think most “good” drivers would have a hard time parking like that. :-)
I’m really tired of the boxes wrapped in plastic with each item inside the box also wrapped in plastic.
I saw the Unpacked grocery store a couple weeks ago, and really my first thought was “upscale bulk store”.
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Hi Andrea – Do you have bulk stores? Some stores here have a bulk section but it isn’t very common and there aren’t that many products that you can buy that way.
Yep. :D A whole chain of ’em. bulkbarn.ca I think they’d let you bring your own containers too.
More bulk stores would be good.
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Can we say claustrophobia?? Damn that parking vid really creeps me out; being a big guy and all. LOL
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Hi Dennis – I could never park a car like that – even lining it up with the door in order to get into the house :-)