Wednesday Linkdump

[yendi]

Been way behind on things thanks to the weeklong BlizzardCon, where a fuckton of snow has decided to gather in the Boston area for a series of panels like, "Digging out your driveway only to have some fuckwad with a plow undo all your work," "Taking twenty minutes to walk two blocks," and "Running out of any place to put the snow you're shoveling as yet another fucking storm hits." But I do have a few tabs that need closing, so in lieu of real content, here are five links to read as I try to ignore the pain in my shoulders from all this shoveling:

1. The HuffPost asks if it's time to kill the K-Cup before it kills the planet. The big surprise to me is, "Keurig says on its website that it plans for all of its K-Cups to be completely recyclable by 2020." 2020? Really? It wasn't on the agenda from day one, given how recent an innovation it was?

2. Thanks to the seven days of snow, I missed the (not surprising) news about Ship Your Enemies Glitter being an SEO con job.

3. The storm sure as hell has shown the problems with the MBTA, and this piece talks about the political incompetence that's brought us here.

4. At Grantland, Rachel Syme interviews Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer about Broad City, a funny show I'm woefully late to the game on.

5. Leland Melvin is the astronaut who took a picture with his dogs, and his entire story is awesome (and how the hell did I not know there was an ex-NFL player at NASA?).

Comments

[rolypolypony.livejournal.com]

This is the worst con I have EVER been to. And that includes the GenCon where I swear I was almost kidnapped by the bloodmobile. I hate it!

Yeah, Keurig is pissing me off - when we got Vlad, my first Keurig, back when they were new, there were all manner of promises that within 5 years they'd be recyclable. they HAVE been making promises since the start, but totally failing on them! We've been getting the k-ups w/out the plastic, which is slightly better, but I need to use my refillable filter thing more.

Love the astronaut and his dogs - SO AWESOME!

[yendi]

Wait, that GenCon story definitely needs more details!

I wonder if any of the third-party K-Cups (the ones that aren't licensed, but can be hacked) are recyclable?

[rolypolypony.livejournal.com]

I'll post about it soon! I looked in my archives but I guess it happened at a pre-LJ GenCon, so about 80 years ago ;)

I'm not sure - that'd be nice! There are SO many companies making them now it's hard to keep track!

[chaoset.livejournal.com]

Death Wish Coffee's KCups are recyclable, though I'd only recommend their coffee to hardcore caffeine freaks.
http://www.deathwishcoffee.com/products/death-cups

[laurion]

Better than recyclable... biodegradable. http://www.rogersfamilyco.com/index.php/mystery-bio-degradable-onecup-revealed/

[felisdemens.livejournal.com]

I AM NOT ENJOYING THIS CON AND WISH TO SPEAK TO THE COMMITTEE ABOUT NEXT YEAR

[yendi]

The Feedback Panel will take place on Friday, in the middle of the next snow. At whatever location has the worst windchill.

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

I think BlizzardCon is like ComicCon, where every city seems to have one of their own.

Albany's most recent version, a couple years ago, had some of the same panels. My least favorite was absolutely "Digging out your driveway only to have some fuckwad with a plow undo all your work." And a few years before that was the classic "having to park on the street 6 blocks away because the landlord hasn't dealt with the ice dam blocking access to the driveway and the snow emergency means you're fighting the neighbors for half as many parking spots as normal."

[yendi]

Oh, yeah, there does seem to be a lot of panel overlap between cities. It's like the organizers don't realize how unoriginal they're being.

[laurion]

I'm definitely looking forward to summer relaxicon after blizzcon.

I have a keurig at home, but feed it standard ground coffee in reusable k-cup devices. I appreciate the near instant heat up and cup at a time nature (we only drink a cup each in the morning) that it affords, but see little sense in both filling the landfills and paying way too much per cup.

[yendi]

*nod* That seems like the best use for the machines, but sadly, had they marketed them that way, I suspect they would have flopped.

[rubian77.livejournal.com]

It would be great if the K-cups were recyclable, but at the same time, who is going to want to tear off the lid, dump out the coffee, rip out the filter, and rinse them out? At that point the time-savings are negated, and I expect a bunch will end up in the landfills anyway.

Where I live, there is recycling....but many townsfolk choose to either burn or throw away their recyclables rather than put them in a separate bag because it's "too much trouble" to rinse out a milk jug. I can't imagine they'd want to deal with a K-cup! :/

[yendi]

Sigh. That's truly sad. It's barely more effort to rinse out cans and bottles than to put them in the trash.

[rubian77.livejournal.com]

I knooooow....especially if you do it right away (which I do, unless it's canned salmon, which I fill and let soak a bit).