So web 2.0 it makes babies cry.

Old news? Sure, I’m a little slow. So it looks like Discovery Home is now going to become Planet Green. Which I think is kinda cool, they already have a pretty neat site. Although, it is currently broken, and I am unable to leave comments on the articles.

About Planet Green:

• First-ever 24-hour television network in the United States: Beginning in 2008, Discovery Home Channel will re-brand as the first 24-hour green channel in the United States. The network, expected to debut in over 50 million U.S. homes, will be dedicated to the highest quality programming for a green lifestyle. The network’s content will provide entertaining, authentic and quality information for such categories as eco-design, organic food and green architecture.
• $50 million Original Programming Investment: Discovery is investing $50 million to create the highest quality content focused on sustainable development, conservation, organic lifestyles and healthy living across the company’s portfolio of 14 U.S. television networks. The priority will be on core genres such as science and technology, transportation and ecotourism, engineering, home greening and organic living. The first major content initiative will be Discovery Channel’s new special series, TEN WAYS TO SAVE THE PLANET. This ambitious series, premiering 3Q08, will be a global effort to find solutions to the planet’s most serious environmental threats, and will work with the world’s leading eco-scientists to test innovative and ground-breaking ideas, including wrapping glaciers in thermal blankets to stop their melting, dropping thousands of saplings from planes to provide mass reforestation, and painting entire towns white to reflect the sun.

$50 million in original programming? I an full of ideas, and I know the people to get it done. Anyone want to be in a show? JR?

And to celebrate post 100, as you may notice, that I now have a list of people to smack, no longer a list of people to kill. I think as I’m getting older and (cough) wiser, I think it better to smack them instead. Hey, it’s progress.

A few weeks ago Starbucks closed all of their stores for 3 hours so that they could “retrain” all of their employees. Well that opened the flood gates for plenty of free or steeply discounted coffee for the same 3 hour period. Which, fueled the hell out of the bloggers, and there was plenty of free publicity. So that’s about all I’m going to say on that one. But I will get on a bit of a rant here. Now I love Starbucks, not as much as I love Dunkin’ Donuts, but I do love them. I just hate that I can’t order a “large coffee”, actually I can because I kinda want “iIl Will” style one day at my local Starbucks and now I don’t get any shit about my coffee. As I digress, I have to be honest I can’t stand the pretentious coffee experience at Starbucks. As far as the coffee is concerned, I like Dunkin’ Donuts better, even if it is in a crappy styrofoam cup.

Dunkin’ Donuts does have some big balls though, just look at one of their commercials from 2006 (this is still one of the funniest ones). How could you hate anyone that has John Goodman doing a voice over? Then again, Dunkin’ Donuts is a private company, and let’s be honest it is not an American company any longer. So once again, our dollars are leaving as fast as we plunk them down on the counter.

Although it may seem like I’m bashing Starbucks, well I guess I sorta am, I still like them. They give me free coffee! Well free coffee grinds that they have used and would otherwise toss out because no one in Medford would even think of reusing something. But again, I digress. Starbucks has a really nifty program called “Grounds for Growers“. Which is exactly what it sounds like, they give you the used coffee grounds and you can use them to compost.

Coffee grounds make a great “green” to mix with your “browns” aka leaves. So I now have two hot compost piles which I’m experimenting with. The first is a BioStack system that I purchased for $20 from Lowes because it was dirty and they were willing to play “Let’s make a deal”. The second, is a trashcan which I have drilled holes along the sides for aeration. I was originally going to try running this as a closed system, but discovered that even the expensive commercial tumblers have a lot of air flo.

My garden is going to kick even more ass this year than it did last year. If all goes well, I’m going to be up to my ears in fresh salads and veggies all while paying nearly nothing for maintenance. I also have another idea for the grounds which I plan to enact before the winter months, but I’ll explain that when I get more details worked out.

Well as you may or (probably) not have noticed, I’ve been updating my status via Twitter. What does this meant to you? Well not much unless you want to follow my every move… Well not my every move, just the ones I want you to know about. So what did I do today? The short version is we got up, nursed our hangover’s a little with some coffee and got our day moving. Then after some relaxation and much needed hydration, it was on to a few different tasks. First up, the daily check of the wormies. Who, are doing much better it seems. Since I’ve added the cardboard and some extra paper they are not crawling up the walls nearly as much as they were the first day. I’m pretty excited about them actually. I’ve started to green up my life a bit, and hopefully make few steps at living better overall. I fully intend to write a little about them very shortly, hopefully tomorrow. It was then time to go out and stir up my compost pile a bit. Since the wormies didn’t arrive as quickly as I had planned for them (3 weeks late) I had way too many coffee grinds stocked up. I decided to go out into the compost pile and go for broke and just dump everything I had into it. Hopefully there are some solid results and I didn’t just totally screw my green/brown ratio. I now have two experiments in composting running, the objectives are to have a “hot pile” with the least amount of work. And of course, on the cheap as I think that is the only way that most people will pay attention. I’ll be reporting more on those as soon as I have more solid info.

Next up, we went searching for two places to put a GeoCache, I think we may have found a few potential candidates but we need a bit more time. Then it was off to the store for a few sweet desert items, then we hit a geocache on the way to MayMay’s. Sadly I didn’t find it first, this is quite rare as in my head i think I find them all first. Even still, it was a fantastic day to be out and about and getting some fresh air. The wine started flowing, and a great time was had by all. I of course had one of my favorite food’s MayMay’s Lasagna.. mmmm…. Sadly we never made it Kristen’s game, but there is always next time.

Here are a few pics…
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Gentlemen, stop your engines

Wow, looks like we may stop lining fat bastard’s pocket’s afterall!