My name's Koala and when I'm in Australia I drink Pepsi My dad came home from the liquor store the other day with a bottle of Australian wine. Attached to the bottle of wine was a little pamphlet about Koalas and how they're threatened in Australia because of loss of habitat. Apparently this brand of wine was developped by the vinyard to support the effort to save the koalas and money from each bottle is donated to that cause. You even get a cute little sticker shaped like a warning road sign like the ones that say deer crossing and the like except this one says Bear Crossing (the name of the wine) with a picture of a koala on it. See? There's only one thing: Koalas aren't bears, they're marsupials. It's a petty thing to complain about, but it's still true. Why would they call it Bear Crossing? They of all the vinyards of the world should be aware of the difference. My dad has stuck the sicker to our monitor so I look at it every day and it bugs me a little every day. Oh, and guess what else? For my class we're doing an experiment designed to work out some kinks in a remediation project on of the profs is working on. Apparently Pepsi syrup can be used as a carbon source for denitrifying groundwater contaminated with nitrate. We're running some tests next week to find out how best to use it. I may be a geek, but at least I use my geekness for good, not evil. |