I think we should hand out torpor accs to everyone and anyone, to get the flow of updates going.

And in other news, I have decided to try a 100% internal reuse/recycle policy. My aim is to learn just how feasible such a thing is, and better comprehend the predicament our society is in regarding waste management.

My local county just started a new recycling scheme where we put recycle-able goods into a seperate bin to be collected every other week. I think this is a really good idea, and I was very glad to have the opportunity to use it before I leave this house at the end of june.

That of course makes my life easier - glass, paper and tins which can be recycled are collected from my house. That only leaves the other stuff, namely plastic.

Looking at things I purchase from the point of view of what will become of their packaging has made me think differently about what I buy. Rather than get cartons of orange juice from the local supermarket, I'd rather travel a little further out and get glass bottles of orange juice (for a comparible price) from the german supermarket Aldi a mile or so away. I wonder if its possible to get glass bottles of coke? It doesn't seem to be. Luckily the supermarket next door to Aldi was doing a special offer on cans of vanilla coke, so I've got some more of those.

I can reuse shopping bags easily (if you are in a state which uses brown-paper bags for shopping, we have polythene bags... too many of them) for more shopping. The real problem is one-use plastic packaging and foil stuff from crisps, biscuits, etc.

I did manage to use a cardboard pizza-box to make a minidisc holder, and cardboard is fairly useful for a variety of things.

For a second when you said "internal" recycling I thought you meant eating your own shit and piss.

Posted by Tobester from 65.28.227.80 @ 05/31/2003 05:13 PM CST

i'd like to give away accounts but it's just a pain in the ass

what i want, is fucking user accounts, for comments AND to be allowed to post on the front page.

THEN, i want the rating of the news item to decide whether it will stay on the front page, like kuro5hin except on a much, much smaller scale. this allows us to whack down any idiotic shit that someone posts.

i know tom would probably be great for writing this, but he probably isn't interested enough to take time away from things he actually finds interesting.

Posted by mewse from 24.76.13.157 @ 05/31/2003 06:25 PM CST

with php i could do that shit easy

Posted by Linguica from 68.6.220.118 @ 06/01/2003 02:04 AM CST

do it mr. sauseege

Posted by mewse from 24.79.37.104 @ 06/01/2003 02:14 AM CST

Down with Php!

Posted by Jon from 81.26.106.28 @ 06/01/2003 03:39 PM CST

up with skirts

Posted by arioch from 10.0.0.100 @ 06/01/2003 07:40 PM CST

the php level should rise....
and yeah, i have never been interested in posting here that much, simply because it would probably reduce the amount of posting i do to my own site and there are certain people (real life people, in fact) that are starting to get on my back about it. i suppose i could get them to start reading torpor...or are we keeping this strictly to internal members only? *posts without previewing to find typos..*

Posted by ryan from 207.6.74.68 @ 06/02/2003 01:26 AM CST

We'd all wither and die if we tried to keep something like this internal. I don't see the fun in such a private little community. Just like we did when we privatized #doom! er, yeah.

Posted by Jon from 81.26.103.115 @ 06/02/2003 02:49 PM CST