Goodbye Yellow Phone Book

I've posted about this long ago, complaining about how wasteful it was to get multiple phone books each year that I won't use.

I see today that others are starting to get behind this cause as well. Do we really need these paper beasts any longer? Aren't online directories and smart phones making this all obsolete? I can only hope so.

If you're having trouble finding it, here is the direct link to specifically getting off of phone book mailing lists.

Slick new bike

I recently saw an article on the new Ultra Motor A2B electric bike. This looks like a pretty slick bike. It's not too traditional looking, but it has a sorta Mad-Max, utilitarian look to it in my eyes. If I didn't already have a motorcycle, this might be a nice option for commuting and around town errands. Heck, with the 20 mile range, I'm pretty sure some of our contributors would be able to get to work on one of these. Recharge at work and have a fresh charge for your ride home. Sure, it costs around $2500, but if you had a 20 mile one way commute, it could pay for itself in 2 years in saved fuel costs alone, figuring you cut out 10.4k miles/year at ~$0.12/mile(figure from AAA for Medium Size Sedan). Plus you'd be helping out the environment.

--JOsh

EDIT: This article is the one that originally got me thinking about this entry.

Carpooling on the Rise

After catching an article on carpooling, I decided to give a couple of the links in the article a try to see if there was anything local showing on them. Imagine my surprise when both CarPoolWorld.com and eRideShare.com had some local entries. I've long since relegated myself to the fact that, living in Iowa, we generally don't get much participation in these sorts of sites. Glad to see that even locally people are trying to get into the ride sharing.

--JOsh