Over 100,000 bottles filled

This is a water fountain just for bottles located in the Auburn Student center. There is a sensor that detects when a bottle is under the water fountain so it automatically cuts on and off. Also the water is filtered. The city water is a little funky tasting so the filtered water from this fountain beats the other non filtered water fountains.

I use this thing every morning to fill up my SIGG water bottle. I have probably saved at least 10 dollars a week using this water fountain. What is even cooler, there is a counter keeping up with the number of bottles this thing has refilled. So far the count is at 110000 bottles. That's a ton of money and a huge step towards reducing waste.

I have looked around campus and this is the only fountain for bottles I have found. I really wish there was one in the library. That would be super convenient.
Kasey King, via iPhone.

Hey blog, I wish I could say more. Sadly I am at work and must text posts to your electric wall.

Spell Check

I have become Incredibly addicted to Spell Check which is a cliche' thing to say. Seems like every one I talk to about writing papers has the same lament. Sell Check has infiltrated every facet of my digital life except when I'm on face book at the library. The RDB Library here in Auburn uses Internet Explorer which for some reason lack spell check for typing on the Internet. Combined with my clumsy typing, grammatical and vocabulary disaster.

But is it so bad that I depend on spell check? I like to think my Brain power is spent on more important things now that spell check has eased the burden of actually having to know how to spell words such as "socioeconomic" or Electrification". Both being words I do know how to spell because they are fun to say.

Back to whatever point I think I was going to make... Spell check is just one way machines, devices, Technology, have made it easier for us to work and process information. The problem lies in the mental laziness we have allowed seep into our society.

Just look at the impact calculators have had on society. It seems like people born before the microprocessor are mathematical genesis. I think it is not that society is less intelligent (which in mass, society is far from intelligent, more like an amoeba searching for food) society has just come to rely on tech because it is fast, and widespread. And what is wrong with allowing technology to do for man what it is best at, computation and memory. This allows man to focus on creation and Idea synthesis, two things computers cannot do.

So, Spell Check is good as long as you don't allow it to make you mentally lazy.