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Happy Holidays 2009

Craig — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:59:08 +0000

Here are some links to stories and photo sets from my adventures of 2009:

Kayaking

Travel

Miscellany

Garden and butterfly pictures from the year.
Palatka Fourth of July fireworks over the St. Johns River – July 4.
Ichetucknee River tubing with my cycling club group – August.
Midnight launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery – August.
Gator Football 2009.
My Best of 2009.
Happy Holidays 2008 – last year’s version of this.

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Happy Holidays 2008

Craig — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:05:07 +0000

Here are some links to stories and photo sets from my adventures of 2008:

Travel

Kayaking

Kayaking Turkey Creek near Palm Bay with my brother Andy – Dec. 2007.
Ichetucknee River – New Year’s Eve 2007 – a.k.a. “Hernia Day.”
Ichetucknee River – May – wherein I met the Whites, who became my kayaking buddies.
Santa Fe River – June with the Whites.
Silver River – July – a new favorite place.
Salt Springs Run – July – not as interesting as I’d hoped.
Oklawaha River – September – I may seen enough of that side of the Ocala National Forest now.
Lake Washington and the St. Johns River with my brother – December.
Ichetucknee River – New Year’s Eve 2008

Miscellany

Lunar eclipse – February
Garden and butterfly pictures from the Summer.
Night launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour – November.
Happy Holidays 2007 – last year’s version of this.

Keep checking back. I might not be done yet.

MyCokeRewards vs. PepsiStuff

Craig — Wed, 07 May 2008 02:55:59 +0000

I’ve been thinking about a quick and probably oversimple financial analysis of the benefits of the MyCokeRewards.com and PepsiStuff.com rewards programs. I’m typically more of a drinker of Coca-Cola products–mainly Coke Zero and Powerade (after kayaking or cycling)–and have participated in that program for much longer, but the affiliation of PepsiStuff with Amazon.com and the ability to buy music there with the points has gotten me interested in that program as well.

The simpler analysis is probably PepsiStuff. One 20 oz. bottle gets you one point. Five points gets you a song download on Amazon. A song typically goes for 89 cents. So each point is worth about 18 cents. The caveat is that not every song is buyable in this manner.

With MyCokeRewards, I often redeem 220 points for a gold movie pass good at AMC Theatres. The maximum current price of an AMC movie ticket is $9.50. The makes each point worth about 4 cents. One 20 oz. bottle of soda gets you three points, making the value of the points per bottle about 12 cents. I often buy my Coke products in 12-packs, however, and the point value on the 12-pack then works out to 40 cents.

I also saw a sign on the convenience store door that said MyCokeRewards was like, “buy eight, get one free” on 20 oz. bottles. In that case, if the store charges $1.39 for your 20 oz. bottle, the value per point is close to 6 cents and the point value per bottle works out to about 18 cents, which gets us back into the PepsiStuff value ballpark per 20 oz. bottle purchased.

I might have to do a further exercise to see if the point differential would make it beneficial to buy six-packs of 24 oz. plastic bottles rather than 12-packs of 12 oz. cans. Then you’d have to get into the eco-friendliness of plastic bottles vs. aluminum cans, too. I always recycle both, btw.

Happy Holidays 2007

Craig — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:17:53 +0000

Here are some links to stories and photo sets from my adventures of 2007:

Keep checking back. I might not be done yet.

I’m not that Craig

Craig — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:43:10 +0000

I noticed some interesting search-engine driven hits while reading the web traffic reports for this site over the past week. I’ve actually gotten some traffic as a result of the political downward spiral that Sen. Larry Craig has found himself in. I’ve received hits on the seach phrases “what craig did” and “why craig did it?” At the office this week while the story was breaking, I kept seeing “____ says Craig should resign” all over the news channels in the lab so I looked at Dave at one point and said, “I quit.”

This is not my first experience with politically-driven off-target search-engine hits. Back when Rep. Mark Foley was in his own tailspin, we saw some hits at work on the phrase “Foley humor” because we happen to have a Prof. Foley on the faculty.