Comparing Apples and Oranges
but not actually …..
Oranges!
Ah, one of my favourite lines is ‘You can’t compare apples to oranges!‘ OF COURSE YOU CAN! I just did! LOL!
I am unpacking the new tech for The CALL Facility and the old adage of ‘clean as you go’ 
works well in tandem with ‘clean as you go AND RECYCLE‘ TOO! So I kept the DELL ‘thinking inside the box‘ pile beside the Apple ‘thinking inside the box‘ pile on separate tables, just as a curiosity. Well, it was very interesting!
First, the new tech is AMAZING! This is the first tech refresh in many years for CALL and I am certain that all the students are going to be impressed!
AND the new furniture and a few more wonderful surprises are in store for when we do go back to UVic in September! ALL GOOD! MANY THANKS FOR ALL THE NEW TECH IN CALL!
So below is a little gallery of the pile of everything that was inside the DELL tech (computers & monitors) and the Apple tech (computers). Can you tell which pile came from which tech?
And that is just the interior contents, wrappings around stands, monitors, cables, etc. but does NOT show the actual BOXES that all the tech CAME IN! Basically all the plastic wrap, paper, twist ties, etc. The boxes are still there and I will be recycling them too – cardboard and internal cardboard holders for the tech.
I am scheduled on campus, each Tuesday, so I am slowly working my way around opening everything up (DONE!), taking inventory (SN#s), and then finally plugging things in! Slow, but steady progress! Do it right!
I will also do updates here, new Recycle Posts and update my Favourite UVic Links Page too!
Whatever CAN be recycled
WILL be recycled!
- Recycling – UVic
- Sort-It-Out-Stations – UVic
- Zero Waste Program – UVic
- Water – UVic
- Energy and Climate – UVic
- Dining and Food – UVic
- Computing – UVic
- UVic’s Built and Natural Environments – UVic
- Sustainability in Academics and Research – UVic
- UVic’s Waste Reduction Hub – UVic
- Campus Planning at UVic
- Campus Plan – UVic
- Sustainable Transportation – UVic
- Sustainability Champion Awards – UVic
- Featured Stories – UVic
- Campaigns – UVic
- Campus Sustainability Fund – UVic
- Resources – UVic
- Sustainability Videos – UVic
- Tips for Living a Sustainable Lifestyle – UVic
- Sustainability Reports – UVic
- Sustainability policy – UVic
- Campus Guides – UVic
- Vision and Values – UVic
- Green Buildings – UVic
BE SAFE EVERYONE!
In hindsight,it was not as stressful as at the moment! But … I decided to …. just keep mowing, just keep mowing and it relieved my stress! Thanks Dori!
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Did you know that coffee dates back to 800 A.D.? And that in Arabic, it literally translates into ‘wine’! Cool! There are multiple links below, as always, and you can try a few out and find out even MORE interesting facts about the World’s Most Popular Beverage, by far –
As long as there are words out there, there will be interesting topics! 
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And of course, one of the biggest blockbusters of all time, Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and prequel The Hobbit, contain MANY made up languages by J.R.R. Tolkien! And another 
WAY back when, I took a computer science course at the University of Calgary. One ‘advanced’ assignment was to read in a random paragraph, generated by the Prof, then scan the paragraph and change some words to … OTHER words! They weren’t misspelled, but it was the pre-cursor to spellcheckers, grammar checkers and word processing! Oh, did I mention … we had to program in 
Personally, I just crank out the text, I try and catch my spelling mistakes, but I know that upon another read through, I will let Bill Gates decide what word I want to use. OOPS, forgot about that US vs Canadian spelling! And that might also be a future post too – different spellings for common words in US, Canada, UK, Australia, etc. and more 
At first, 
