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In the New Yorker...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on July 06, 2023, 09:24:27 pm ---Thanks. I never gave a thought to the "peripherals"--manufacturing, and so forth, for example. I was just thinking of all those stinky diapers piling up in landfills.
I suppose it might also help the situation if you laundered diapers the way Alma would have. (Cue Alma with the washboard.) ;D
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When my kids were babies I had a disposal container called a Diaper Genie. You could shove a disposable diaper inside it, turn something, and it would encase the used diaper in plastic, twisting the end. Repeat for next diaper, each one becoming a link in a sausage-like chain of plastic wrapped diapers. When the container was filled, you'd cut the chain, put it in the regular garbage and start over. The diapers didn't stink much (though smell wasn't completely obliterated). But of course that's even more environmentally unfriendly. :-\
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on July 07, 2023, 12:35:31 pm ---When my kids were babies I had a disposal container called a Diaper Genie. You could shove a disposable diaper inside it, turn something, and it would encase the used diaper in plastic, twisting the end. Repeat for next diaper, each one becoming a link in a sausage-like chain of plastic wrapped diapers. When the container was filled, you'd cut the chain, put it in the regular garbage and start over. The diapers didn't stink much (though smell wasn't completely obliterated). But of course that's even more environmentally unfriendly. :-\
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Oh, dear. ... :(
Diaper Genie? :laugh:
Jeff Wrangler:
I always read Peter Hessler. I just finished his piece about his twin daughters attending a Chinese primary school (July 3).
I think maybe what interested me most was reading at the end of the article that he and his family are now living in Ridgway, Colorado. That's on highway 550, which among other sections runs north through Durango and Silverton. I'm sure OCD and I drove right through Ridgway on that highway when we went to Durango to ride the railroad from Durango to Silverton--12 years ago. ... :(
I wonder what Hessler and his wife are doing now? And how did they end up settling in Ridgway? It seems so out-of-the-way.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on July 08, 2023, 01:50:49 pm ---I always read Peter Hessler. I just finished his piece about his twin daughters attending a Chinese primary school (July 3).
I think maybe what interested me most was reading at the end of the article that he and his family are now living in Ridgway, Colorado. That's on highway 550, which among other sections runs north through Durango and Silverton. I'm sure OCD and I drove right through Ridgway on that highwaybwhen we went to Durango to ride the railroad from Durango to Silverton--12 years ago. ... :(
I wonder what Hessler and his wife are doing now? And how did they end up settling in Ridgway? It seems so out-of-the-way.
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It's weird by someone who's written four books about China and one about Egypt, whose wife has also written books about China. Lived in exotic locales and then they moved ... to Omaha.
kidding -- I just looked up Ridgway and although it's kind of out there it looks like a potentially cool place to live. (Not as big-cityish as Omaha, though, which is actually said to be cooler than its reputation would suggest.)
I only know anything about Peter Hessler because I just now looked him up. I don't know if I've read anything by him. I know I'm a narrow-minded parochial American but I'd probably consider articles about China kind of duty-ish. I'll look at this latest one, though.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on July 08, 2023, 03:31:47 pm ---I only know anything about Peter Hessler because I just now looked him up. I don't know if I've read anything by him. I know I'm a narrow-minded parochial American but I'd probably consider articles about China kind of duty-ish. I'll look at this latest one, though.
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I don't know how I started reading him years ago. I remember that he was in Egypt during the Arab Spring. My interest in daily life in China is pretty much limited to his TNY articles.
One of the most useful things I've learned from reading him is that some factories in China sell things on eBay under several different user names--yet they're all the same company.
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