Stephanie Posterizes The Cloud

After laying off an employee, cutting hours and discontinuing raises, Sheryl Woodhouse-Keese, owner of Twisted Limb Paperworks LLC in Bloomington, Ind., invested $600 last fall to create a 1,500-square-foot garden outside the recycled paper-products company's office. Now, her four employees can take home their pick of 10 herbs and 22 vegetables.

"The garden really is a nice benefit, saving them on their food bills," said Ms. Woodhouse-Keese, who estimates the garden has meted out $2,400 in produce this season, from tomatoes to potatoes.

Employer-sponsored gardens can be a cheap and easy way to boost workers' morale, relate better to certain customers and expand a company's health and wellness program. It is unclear how many businesses have them, although the National Gardening Association projects a 19% increase in food gardening this year, as the recession motivates households to trim grocery lists.

Read the rest of the above story at the source!

And check out a NYC / urban solution: http://windowfarms.org/ (scroll down for a pick of an office sized farm installed at my workplace (Eyebeam)).

one of my new student residents at Eyebeam.

"The EyeWriter project is on ongoing collaborative research effort to empower people, who are suffering from ALS, with creative technologies. The project began in Los Angeles, Caifornia in 2009, when members of the GRL, FAT, OF and TEG communities teamed-up with a legendary LA graffiti writer, publisher and activist, named Tony Quan, aka TEMPTONE. Tony was diagnosed with ALS in 2003. The disease has left him almost completely physically paralyzed… except for his eyes. But, the ALS hasn’t touched Tony’s sharp mind, creative energy or his desire to write graffiti. In August of 2009, artist from around the world: London, Hong Kong, Madrid, Amsterdam and New York City, converged for 10 days in southern California, converted Mick and Caskey Ebeling’s Venice Beach house into a laboratory and began to work with Tony on a low-cost, open source eye-tracking system that would allow ALS patients to draw using just their eyes.."

hi dear readers -

i recently took a rollercoaster ride when i decided to purchase a used iphone to unlock and use with tmobile. After much research, interviewing and apprehension, I am currently the proud owner of an unlocked iphone.

in my search, i found this (adorable) teenager who (i am slightly embarrassed to admit) became one of my most trusted sources. ;) i read plenty of techy posts on the subject, and watched beaucoup youtube vids - but in the end - this boy was it!

(also, important if you are curious, i used redsn0w to jailbreak and ultrasn0w to unlock! - http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/126908912/redsn0w-in-june - it took MINUTES and i am now a happy iPhone user / loyal T-Mob customer!

shout-out to roddy too - having a friend to ask a million questions of is huge!!)

because i can't be that girl with the blah-zeh-blah ringtone.

 I shop at thrift stores every day. Seriously, like every single day. I don't always buy but, living in San Francisco, they're all over the place and represent the modern day treasure hunt - you never know what you'll discover.

   Leave it to corporate America to take this most harmless of hobbies and turn it against us. According to the Concord Monitor, credit card companies are noting purchases like thrift stores, shoe repair and tire retreading as proof that you're headed for financial ruin and using this as reason to deny, lower and in some cases even harm your credit.

   Big Brother proves once again he's no friend of the planet. (source: Mother Jones)

i am speechless.

((the dance party i have most terrible fortune of never being able to attend. and its been a year since it started.))

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Date: Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:11 AM
Subject: CHERYL is tomorrow TONIGHT!

Hi peoples!

A reminder. CHËRŸL: ÜBËRJÜBÏLËË IS THIS THURSDAY NIGHT at THE BELL HOUSE!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

This is our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY. Come help us celebrate a year of alcoholic community engagement, DANCE FLOOR EUPHORIA, rivers of FAKE BLOOD, WIGS on FIRE, 23-inch SHOULDER PADS, permanent GLITTER RASH, and CATS. It's our birthday - we are going to explode in a puddle of skittles and pepperoni.

CHËRŸL: ÜBËRJÜBÏLËË
10 pm - 4 am
$5
@ The Bell House
Gowanus
149 7th St (near the Smith / 9th or 4th / 9th stops)
RSVP on FB: http://bit.ly/17zpY3
DO IT NOW.

Think polychromatic. Drunken clowns. Crayola cocktails. The most super psycho birthday party you have ever attended. The largest game of human Twister ever conceived and executed in the United States. CONFETTI DRAMA. Frosting face masks. Complimentary clown makeovers. CHERYL's favorite flavor of Party Cake (Steamy Apricot Jazzcastle with rivulets of Sasquatch Creams) for all!
Shugah PUFF UNITY sessions on the dance floor.

And if you need costume inspiration, check out the ÜBËRJÜBÏLËË VIDEO!
Dress like Roy G. Biv or a Party Witch.

We hope hope hope with all the glitter in our souls and fake blood in our hearts that you will be there to loose it on the dance floor with us. Please forward this invite to every single person that you know on the planet! THANKS!!!

Love,
Chestiny (CHERYL + Destiny)

>>>My amazing friend Rus has been running this very wonderful poker game..........

Change Jar Charity Poker

Change Jar Charity Poker is ON.
Tuesday Sept. 1st.

See What It's all about:
http://changejarcharitypoker.wordpress.com/

How it works: Everyone donates money to play and chooses the charity they're playing for. It's pay what you can, $5 for those unemployed or under employed, $10 if you doing okay, or more if you want to get into Really Nice Heaven

Date:
September 1st, 2009, 7:30pm

Location:
Outpost Cafe
1014 Fulton Ave.
Brooklyn, NY