Spranq Eco Font saves (on average) 20% more ink than any other font currently available. It’s free to download off of www.ecofonts.eu for Mac and PC, so try it now! It’s basically made up of circles instead of being solidly one color, so it uses less ink, therefore being better for the environment!!! I know; awesome, right? So go to the website and download it! Oh, and send the link to all your friends...'cause it looks just like this except it looks grayer. 'Cause it's made up of circles? :P
Ciao!!!
~The Green Freak
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Wall Ball
Bored? Try this game I just made up!!! Well, not just. I've been playing is with my brother for about a month. We just worked out the kinks. :P
Materials:
a closed garage door or sturdy wall
an inflated lightweight playground ball
one to three people
How To Play:
The three people playing line up along the garage door a yard or two away from each other and the garage. The first player (it doesn’t matter which) throws the ball at the garage door. If it hits the door, it may bounce up to two times before another player hits it back to the door. If it hits the wall around or above the garage door, a player must hit the ball before it touches the ground. If the ball lands on the roof and slides down, it may hit the ground one time before a player must hit it back towards the garage door. A player may only hit the ball five times to him or herself, and the ball may not be hit more than once before it hits the garage door again. The game continues until the maximum number of bounces has been reached, a ball is missed, or the ball is lost.
(NOTE: If playing against a wall, preset a determined point where the “garage door” would be and where the “roof” and “wall” would be. A slight variation is just hitting the ball against the wall like normal, and only stopping the game if the ball is missed or lost.)
Scoring:
The object of the game is to have the least amount of points at the end of each round. A point is given to a player when he or she drops the ball, misses the ball, or allows the ball to bounce an exceeding amount of that allowed. The points may be kept by a scorekeeper, or the game may be interrupted to allow one player to record the score.
(NOTE: If playing single—with one person—a slight variation is to reach fifty points, a point gained by the ball hitting the garage door. Each time the ball hits the wall or roof, a point is lost.)
Tips:
When serving from the far right or left sides, throw the ball at an angle to the garage so that it hits in front of the middle player, or the center of the space in between two players. It will reflect back to the player opposite from you.
When the ball rolls off of the roof, call “Got it!” to avoid being injured or run into by another player.
Using a lightweight ball will be beneficial: It bounces easier, travels farther, is easy to hit, and won’t get you in trouble when you accidentally dent the garage door because of the weight. ;)
Enjoy, guys!!!
~The Green Freak
Materials:
a closed garage door or sturdy wall
an inflated lightweight playground ball
one to three people
How To Play:
The three people playing line up along the garage door a yard or two away from each other and the garage. The first player (it doesn’t matter which) throws the ball at the garage door. If it hits the door, it may bounce up to two times before another player hits it back to the door. If it hits the wall around or above the garage door, a player must hit the ball before it touches the ground. If the ball lands on the roof and slides down, it may hit the ground one time before a player must hit it back towards the garage door. A player may only hit the ball five times to him or herself, and the ball may not be hit more than once before it hits the garage door again. The game continues until the maximum number of bounces has been reached, a ball is missed, or the ball is lost.
(NOTE: If playing against a wall, preset a determined point where the “garage door” would be and where the “roof” and “wall” would be. A slight variation is just hitting the ball against the wall like normal, and only stopping the game if the ball is missed or lost.)
Scoring:
The object of the game is to have the least amount of points at the end of each round. A point is given to a player when he or she drops the ball, misses the ball, or allows the ball to bounce an exceeding amount of that allowed. The points may be kept by a scorekeeper, or the game may be interrupted to allow one player to record the score.
(NOTE: If playing single—with one person—a slight variation is to reach fifty points, a point gained by the ball hitting the garage door. Each time the ball hits the wall or roof, a point is lost.)
Tips:
When serving from the far right or left sides, throw the ball at an angle to the garage so that it hits in front of the middle player, or the center of the space in between two players. It will reflect back to the player opposite from you.
When the ball rolls off of the roof, call “Got it!” to avoid being injured or run into by another player.
Using a lightweight ball will be beneficial: It bounces easier, travels farther, is easy to hit, and won’t get you in trouble when you accidentally dent the garage door because of the weight. ;)
Enjoy, guys!!!
~The Green Freak
Saturday, June 20, 2009
The Impossible Quiz
Are you bored? Do you have absolutely nothing to do? Well, try the Impossible Quiz! It's a quiz that's, hey, IMPOSSIBLE. I mean, hey, nothing's impossible. But it's REALLY hard. And I don't know anyone who's gotten through it. (But they have answers on the Internet...)
So anyway. Try the Impossible Quiz. And, if you get fed up with that, try the Impossible Quiz TWO!!! If you get bored of both of them (trust me; you won't finish them. Lol, now you're all going to try, aren't you?) you're out of luck. No more quizzes. Unless Splapp-Me-Do makes some more. Don't ask. Please.
Anywho, go try those out, people! Just thought I'd tell ya. :P
~The Green Freak
So anyway. Try the Impossible Quiz. And, if you get fed up with that, try the Impossible Quiz TWO!!! If you get bored of both of them (trust me; you won't finish them. Lol, now you're all going to try, aren't you?) you're out of luck. No more quizzes. Unless Splapp-Me-Do makes some more. Don't ask. Please.
Anywho, go try those out, people! Just thought I'd tell ya. :P
~The Green Freak
Friday, June 19, 2009
50 Fun Websites
I now present to you...the FIFTY FUN WEBSITES CHALLENGE!!! Dunh-dunh-duh-duh-duh!!! :P. Okay, NOW what am I blabbering on about? Well, the Fifty Fun Websites Challenge was first suggested by a young girl in Australia, who was bored one day and posted something on her MySpace about exciting new websites. Pretty soon, even Switzerland was involved! Thus, the Fifty Fun Websites Challenge was born! Every person reading her MySpace was responsible for five fun websites. Then, they'd comment them and it would be posted for real! (Note: This story is one hundred percent factually false.)
Basically, I'm looking for new or exciting websites. And DON'T try to throw bored.com at me, because I'm sure EVERYONE knows about that one. (Or do you...?)
So. Find a website, comment it on this or any newer post, and bada-bing, bada-boom, you'll be famous and have a gazillion dollars. Well, not really. But it'll be fun, you know?
Here's something that might help you out. It's a great starter, but try to find some you actually came across by chance, okay? I'm not really aiming for fifty. More like ten. Or five. Or ONE!!! Is that so hard? I think not.
Smell ya later!
~The Green Freak
Basically, I'm looking for new or exciting websites. And DON'T try to throw bored.com at me, because I'm sure EVERYONE knows about that one. (Or do you...?)
So. Find a website, comment it on this or any newer post, and bada-bing, bada-boom, you'll be famous and have a gazillion dollars. Well, not really. But it'll be fun, you know?
Here's something that might help you out. It's a great starter, but try to find some you actually came across by chance, okay? I'm not really aiming for fifty. More like ten. Or five. Or ONE!!! Is that so hard? I think not.
Smell ya later!
~The Green Freak
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Fortune Cookies
http://www.fortunecookiestore.com/mall/c100/s2935/
I tell you, this is probably one of the scariest things I have ever seen. Oh, and Google "fortune cookie quotes". Some of them will shock you. Comment on this post!!!!!
~The Green Freak
I tell you, this is probably one of the scariest things I have ever seen. Oh, and Google "fortune cookie quotes". Some of them will shock you. Comment on this post!!!!!
~The Green Freak
Followers
Okay, for anyone reading this...well, I should stop saying that. Obviously this is for everyone reading this or I wouldn't be posting. If I'm posting to a specific person it might be different, but...well, I'm rambling. This is for everyone. Enjoy.
We need followers, people!!! If you've got a Google account or an AIM account or a Blogger account (or Twitter or Facebook or MySpace, etc.) all you have to do is click on the gosh darn "Follow" button! How hard is that? It's not just there to look pretty, people! So if you're one of those people who think, "Hey, that's a nice button. Hm, must be there for decoration. I don't have to click on it," can go fall in a ditch (after following, of course). So follow, please!!!!!!! :P
Anyway, I just got back from a shortened camping trip in Wisconsin. It was fun, 'sept we had to go home early on account of that stupid thunderstorm that was coming. Apparently the lifetime warranty on our tent wasn't good enough to cover water damage due to storing a wet tent on top of a car for four hours, which we would have done had it not been for the weather station on the radio. (Thank you, Eric and Kathy!!!) So yeah. Waterproof tents and four-hour-on-top-of-the-car-in-a-waterproof-bag-trips do not bode well together. (Sorry, word of the day!!!)
Smell y'all later!!! 'Cause I might be going to Canada next week! Whoo-hoo!!!!! :P
~The Green Freak
We need followers, people!!! If you've got a Google account or an AIM account or a Blogger account (or Twitter or Facebook or MySpace, etc.) all you have to do is click on the gosh darn "Follow" button! How hard is that? It's not just there to look pretty, people! So if you're one of those people who think, "Hey, that's a nice button. Hm, must be there for decoration. I don't have to click on it," can go fall in a ditch (after following, of course). So follow, please!!!!!!! :P
Anyway, I just got back from a shortened camping trip in Wisconsin. It was fun, 'sept we had to go home early on account of that stupid thunderstorm that was coming. Apparently the lifetime warranty on our tent wasn't good enough to cover water damage due to storing a wet tent on top of a car for four hours, which we would have done had it not been for the weather station on the radio. (Thank you, Eric and Kathy!!!) So yeah. Waterproof tents and four-hour-on-top-of-the-car-in-a-waterproof-bag-trips do not bode well together. (Sorry, word of the day!!!)
Smell y'all later!!! 'Cause I might be going to Canada next week! Whoo-hoo!!!!! :P
~The Green Freak
Fun Facts
1)More than 20,000,000 Hershey's Kisses are wrapped each day, using 133 square miles of tinfoil. All that foil is recyclable, but not many people realize it.
2)McDonald's saves 68,000,000 pounds of packaging per year just by pumping soft drink syrup directly from the delivery truck into tanks in the restaurant, instead of shipping the syrup in cardboard boxes.
3)Rainforests are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres per minute.
4)A single quart of motor oil, if disposed of improperly, can contaminate up to 2,000,000 gallons of fresh water.
5)You can walk 1 mile along an average highway in the United States and see about 1,457 pieces of litter.
6)The Washington, DC-based Institute For Local Self-Reliance calculates that recycling creates 36 jobs per 10,000 tons of material recycled compared to 6 jobs for every 10,000 of tons brought to traditional disposal facilities. (6 times higher employment!)
7)A typical family consumes 182 gallons of pop, 29 gallons of juice, 104 gallons of milk, and 26 gallons of bottled water a year. That's a lot of containers -- make sure they're recycled!
Okay, guys, this is the last of them. I think. Well, probably not. But the website has been exhausted. The SEAC might have more, but I really don't know. These facts are on their site. Also, look at these interesting facts. Finally (I know, this is the last one. Google is wonderful) there's this one, but those are just random facts with something to do with the whole theme here. :P
Smell ya later, guys!!! :P
~The Green Freak
2)McDonald's saves 68,000,000 pounds of packaging per year just by pumping soft drink syrup directly from the delivery truck into tanks in the restaurant, instead of shipping the syrup in cardboard boxes.
3)Rainforests are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres per minute.
4)A single quart of motor oil, if disposed of improperly, can contaminate up to 2,000,000 gallons of fresh water.
5)You can walk 1 mile along an average highway in the United States and see about 1,457 pieces of litter.
6)The Washington, DC-based Institute For Local Self-Reliance calculates that recycling creates 36 jobs per 10,000 tons of material recycled compared to 6 jobs for every 10,000 of tons brought to traditional disposal facilities. (6 times higher employment!)
7)A typical family consumes 182 gallons of pop, 29 gallons of juice, 104 gallons of milk, and 26 gallons of bottled water a year. That's a lot of containers -- make sure they're recycled!
Okay, guys, this is the last of them. I think. Well, probably not. But the website has been exhausted. The SEAC might have more, but I really don't know. These facts are on their site. Also, look at these interesting facts. Finally (I know, this is the last one. Google is wonderful) there's this one, but those are just random facts with something to do with the whole theme here. :P
Smell ya later, guys!!! :P
~The Green Freak
Not-So-Fun Facts About Landfills
1)The first real recycling program was introduced in New York City in the 1890s. The city's first recycling plant was built in 1898.
2)About one-third of an average dump is made up of packaging material.
3)The U.S. is the #1 trash-producing country in the world at 1,609 pounds per person per year. This means that 5% of the world's people generate 40% of the world's waste.
4)Roughly 90% of landfill contents are recyclable.
5)Out of ever $10 spent buying things, $1 (10%) goes for packaging that is thrown away. Packaging represents about 65% of household trash.
6)On average, it costs $30 per ton to recycle trash, $50 to send it to the landfill, and $65 to $75 to incinerate it.
7)Americans generate and throw away 9 times as much waste as does a person in Africa or Central America, but we also generate two to three times the amount of waste as people living in industrial countries with a comparable or better standard of living as us.
~The Green Freak
2)About one-third of an average dump is made up of packaging material.
3)The U.S. is the #1 trash-producing country in the world at 1,609 pounds per person per year. This means that 5% of the world's people generate 40% of the world's waste.
4)Roughly 90% of landfill contents are recyclable.
5)Out of ever $10 spent buying things, $1 (10%) goes for packaging that is thrown away. Packaging represents about 65% of household trash.
6)On average, it costs $30 per ton to recycle trash, $50 to send it to the landfill, and $65 to $75 to incinerate it.
7)Americans generate and throw away 9 times as much waste as does a person in Africa or Central America, but we also generate two to three times the amount of waste as people living in industrial countries with a comparable or better standard of living as us.
~The Green Freak
Fun Facts About Glass!!!
1)Every month, we throw out enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper. All of these jars are recyclable!
2)The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle can run a 100-watt light bulb for four hours. It also causes 20% less air pollution and 50% less water pollution than when a new bottle is made from raw materials.
3)A modern glass bottle would take 4000 years or more to decompose -- and even longer if it's in the landfill.
4)Mining and transporting raw materials for glass produces about 385 pounds of waste for every ton of glass that is made. If recycled glass is substituted for half of the raw materials, the waste is cut by more than 80%.
Enough said.
~The Green Freak
2)The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle can run a 100-watt light bulb for four hours. It also causes 20% less air pollution and 50% less water pollution than when a new bottle is made from raw materials.
3)A modern glass bottle would take 4000 years or more to decompose -- and even longer if it's in the landfill.
4)Mining and transporting raw materials for glass produces about 385 pounds of waste for every ton of glass that is made. If recycled glass is substituted for half of the raw materials, the waste is cut by more than 80%.
Enough said.
~The Green Freak
Fun Facts About Plastic!!!
1)Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour! Most of them are thrown away!
2)Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year!
3)Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as buring it in an incinerator.
4)American throw away 25,000,000,000 styrofoam coffee cups every year.
Eye-opening, aren't they? Still more, guys!!!
~The Green Freak
2)Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year!
3)Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as buring it in an incinerator.
4)American throw away 25,000,000,000 styrofoam coffee cups every year.
Eye-opening, aren't they? Still more, guys!!!
~The Green Freak
Fun Facts About Paper!!!
1)To produce each week's Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down.
2)Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000 trees.
3)If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year!
4)During World War II when raw materials were scarce, 33% of all paper was recycled. After the war, this number decreased sharply.
5)If you had a 15-year-old tree and made it into paper grocery bags, you'd get about 700 of them. A supermarket could use all of them in under an hour! This means in one year, one supermarket goes through 60,500,000 paper bags! Imagine how many supermarkets there are in the U.S.
6)The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.
7)Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S.
8)The average household throws away 13,000 separate pieces of paper each year. Most is packaging and junk mail.
9)The 17 trees saved (above) can absorb a total of 250 pounds of carbon dioxide from the air each year. Burning that same ton of paper would create 1500 pounds of carbon dioxide.
10)The construction costs of a paper mill designed to use waste paper is 50 to 80% less than the cost of a mill using new pulp.
11)Each ton (2000 pounds) of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4000 kilowatts of energy, and 7000 gallons of water. This represents a 64% energy savings, a 58% water savings, and 60 pounds less of air pollution!
Again, guys, hope you enjoyed it! There're more facts to go, so stay tuned!!!
~The Green Freak
2)Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000 trees.
3)If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year!
4)During World War II when raw materials were scarce, 33% of all paper was recycled. After the war, this number decreased sharply.
5)If you had a 15-year-old tree and made it into paper grocery bags, you'd get about 700 of them. A supermarket could use all of them in under an hour! This means in one year, one supermarket goes through 60,500,000 paper bags! Imagine how many supermarkets there are in the U.S.
6)The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.
7)Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S.
8)The average household throws away 13,000 separate pieces of paper each year. Most is packaging and junk mail.
9)The 17 trees saved (above) can absorb a total of 250 pounds of carbon dioxide from the air each year. Burning that same ton of paper would create 1500 pounds of carbon dioxide.
10)The construction costs of a paper mill designed to use waste paper is 50 to 80% less than the cost of a mill using new pulp.
11)Each ton (2000 pounds) of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4000 kilowatts of energy, and 7000 gallons of water. This represents a 64% energy savings, a 58% water savings, and 60 pounds less of air pollution!
Again, guys, hope you enjoyed it! There're more facts to go, so stay tuned!!!
~The Green Freak
Fun Facts About Metal!!!
1)Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours -- or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline.
2)During the time it takes you to read this sentence, 50,000 12-ounce aluminum cans are made.
3)Once an aluminum can is recycled, it can be part of a new can within six weeks.
4)An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from now!
5)There is no limit to the amount of times an aluminum can can be recycled.
6)We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum pop cans every year.
7)Every ton of recycled steel saves 2,500 pounds of iron ore, 1,000 of coal, and 40 pounds of limestone.
Enjoy, guys!!! More facts on the way about other stuff! :P
~The Green Freak
2)During the time it takes you to read this sentence, 50,000 12-ounce aluminum cans are made.
3)Once an aluminum can is recycled, it can be part of a new can within six weeks.
4)An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from now!
5)There is no limit to the amount of times an aluminum can can be recycled.
6)We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum pop cans every year.
7)Every ton of recycled steel saves 2,500 pounds of iron ore, 1,000 of coal, and 40 pounds of limestone.
Enjoy, guys!!! More facts on the way about other stuff! :P
~The Green Freak
Sunday, June 14, 2009
The Advice Column
In relation to the advice column, I still post on it. But nobody comments with problems. :P If you've got one, go ahead and by all means comment it!
~The Green Freak
~The Green Freak
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Crazy Test Quiz :P
The crazy test
My Quiz Result: You aren't so crazy. But you took this test, so you are a bit crazy.
Take this quiz: The crazy test
You can also take more quizzes, myspace quizzes and fun quizzes on personality, love and other topics.
My Quiz Result: You aren't so crazy. But you took this test, so you are a bit crazy.
Take this quiz: The crazy test
You can also take more quizzes, myspace quizzes and fun quizzes on personality, love and other topics.
First Post
Yahoo!!! Sorry, that was cheesy. But this is the first official post on the Green Freax United blog. It's the same as Coffee Snobs, only now completely run by the previous Muffin, presently known now as Green Freak!!! :):):)
So, same story. Comment on posts, tell your friends, yada yada yada. I'm so darn hyper right now! I mean, come on people. It's summer! FINALLY!!!! *Does happy dance.*
So yeah. Sorry about the comment thing on previous blog. I might still post there, but this is the NEW main blog. Happy summer, guys!!! :P
~Green Freak (AKA Muffin).
So, same story. Comment on posts, tell your friends, yada yada yada. I'm so darn hyper right now! I mean, come on people. It's summer! FINALLY!!!! *Does happy dance.*
So yeah. Sorry about the comment thing on previous blog. I might still post there, but this is the NEW main blog. Happy summer, guys!!! :P
~Green Freak (AKA Muffin).
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