george w give the finger to the environment

see george w let you know what he thinks in this video....

okay, so it didn't have much to do with the environment, but i didn't want to do two posts. pretty funny though :)

since coming to new york, i have been struggling with the amount of packaging that comes standard with e v e r y t h i n g! you can't buy a croissant without a piece of paper to wrap it in, a cardboard box, a paper bag to put the box in, 12 serviettes, a plastic knife and fork and two plastic carry bags... (slight exaggeration only)

this is not to say that Australia is soo much better in this regard, but it's definitely a shock.. the culmination of this packaging excess was reached today when the 1GB MMS memory card which I bought on the internet was delivered.

scared of numbers? skip to the **********

the dimensions of this card are: 36mm x 24mm x 1.4mm (for a grand total volume of 1209.6mm3)

the box in which this marvel of modern technology was delivered had dimensions: 150mm x 220mm x 300mm (giving the figure of 9900000mm3)

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nice to see you back.. for those of you who skipped over that last bit, the packaging that this card came in was over 8000 times bigger than the card itself. it's not even fragile!! you can practically jump on these things!! i should add that this box was stuffed with crumpled up paper too...

to put this in perspective, if your tv came in a box that was this much larger than necessary, it would come in a box 16 meters by 16 metres by 16 metres... approximately the size of a 5 storey office building.

okay. rant's over.. just had to get that off my chest.

on the bright side, tv is better here; especially the ads, and you can get a pretzel on every corner :))

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