Technology
ALRIGHT, WE’VE UPLOADED ENOUGH content to user accounts on other social media websites, that we feel confident enough to officially blog about it here. We announced our intentions to go two-point-oh a couple of months ago in Virtues and Virtuality, and now we’re making good on our promises. We’ve started to bookmark articles and webpages that we find particularly interesting at Digg; we’ve uploaded lots of portfolio photos of our landscaping work around town at Flickr; and we’ve catalogued the videos that we’ve produced so far, and some that we’ve favourited, on YouTube. And if you don’t want to have to keep checking back at all of these different addresses to see what we’ve been up to lately, just follow us up-to-the-minute on Twitter. I don’t recommend that you have these tweets forwarded to your cellphone, since they will usually only consist of weblinks and 100-character descriptions — unless you use your cellphone to surf the web. Personally, I don’t enjoy squinting, I prefer to look at a large screen back at the office. But either way, stay in touch with Green Apple, and we’ll keep cooking up top-quality eco-content for y’all!
IS THERE SUCH A THING as objective beauty? Can beauty be quantified as well as qualified? I’m not speaking here about human beauty, or which people we are more attracted to. Naomi Wolf tackled that topic back in 1991, demonstrating that a single impossible standard of beauty is promulgated by advertising agencies to make us feel inadequate enough to purchase the products they’re huckstering. But although beauty is in the eye of the multi-cultural beholder, science says that there are some measurements that are universally held to be desirable, across cultures. Could the same thing be true for the rest of creation? Is there a secret mathematical formula for the perfect landscape?
WEBSITE. BLOG. OKAY… Flickr. YouTube. Um, alright… Facebook? Twitter?! What the — ?! Is it really necessary for a landscaping company to have such a massive presence on the internet? I mean, of course I’m going to argue that it is necessary — making sure that Green Apple is well-represented on the intertubes is what I get paid for, so I have a vested interest in convincing the boss that it’s absolutely mandatory in this day and age. But even I have to admit, it’s a little bit of a stretch. We get sweaty, dig in the dirt, haul heavy materials, move huge machines. We big-muscle men! Grunt! We no talk pretty — we build backyard pretty! We strong!
