Your random stuff of the day

OK. 3 things. All random. But all cool.

1. Check out http://fonts.tom7.com. This guy rocks! Great fonts, good design skills, and all free!

2. Check out http://www.busmonster.com. Someone combined several great sources of data into a highly cool Seattle bus website. It integrates real-time bus locating, bus stop, and bus routes with Google maps and real-time traffic information.

3. Puget Sound Energy (http://www.pse.com) is a really great company. Their bills break down your energy usage and compare it with previous months. They also have a handy website where you can view your energy usage with daily granularity going back many months or years. They also offer customers the option to buy green power (hydroelectric, wind, etc) for a very small premium. I just signed on for 400KW of "green" electricity for only $8 extra per month. That's small enough to absolutely make it worthwhile.

SCUBA diving

I'm taking SCUBA lessons. I've had 2 classes already, there are 2 more next week, then I have 2 days over the weekend to go do open-water dives. So far, besides all the homework stuff, it's really awesome! We've had to do the non-fun training stuff, like flooding our mask and purging it, but today we got to go 12' down and swim around a bit (in a pool). It was great! What a bizarre feeling, to just be breathing while sitting on the bottom of a pool. It's suprisingly easy. You should all try it!