Silly Thoughts and Other Stuff
Apr. 17th, 2008 07:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miss_ytI was re-watching a lot of Doctor Who the other day and I started wondering whether the Time Lord language has some tenses specific to situations that may come up in time travel - for instance, saying "I will do this back in the past" or "I did that in the future." Like a past-future and future-past tense. I'm sure it would help them avoid a lot of confusion.
The Doctor Who episodes also affected my dreams, in a weird way. I dreamed I was walking along a canal in some city or other (in America, I'm pretty sure), and then happened to sit down at a cafe where the waiters spoke French. I actually carried on a conversation with them. I think it was real French too, not some gibberish dream French. I was using simple words and phrases constructed from what I remember of my French classes in college.
Anyway, the really weird part was, I told them I wasn't there to eat anything - I was testing the range of my teleport machine. I remember that I didn't know the word for "teleport" in French, so I just said it with a French accent. I think they understood me. Then I activated the teleport by remote and it whisked me away.
Also: as some of you know, I pledged to eat only fair-trade chocolate, which drastically reduces the scope of the candy, ice cream, etc. I can eat. However, I recently discovered that some major chocolate companies - like Godiva, Ghiardelli, Hershey, and Mars - are members of a nonprofit called the World Cocoa Foundation, which helps cocoa farmers improve their quality of life, educate their kids and practice environmentally responsible farming. WCF also inspects and certifies cocoa farms and plantations, the way a fair trade or organic labeler might. I gather that member companies source their cocoa from the certified farms.
Judging by the website, the place looks pretty serious and legit. If it's what it says it is, then I suppose I can buy and eat chocolate from the member companies even if they aren't fair trade certified.1 But I'd still like to make sure that this isn't greenwashing, so to speak. Can anyone here speak to the efforts or apparent sincerity of WCF?
1 Actually, some of the member companies are. One reason I think this is legit is that Dagoba - my favorite organic and fair-trade chocolate company - is on the list.
The Doctor Who episodes also affected my dreams, in a weird way. I dreamed I was walking along a canal in some city or other (in America, I'm pretty sure), and then happened to sit down at a cafe where the waiters spoke French. I actually carried on a conversation with them. I think it was real French too, not some gibberish dream French. I was using simple words and phrases constructed from what I remember of my French classes in college.
Anyway, the really weird part was, I told them I wasn't there to eat anything - I was testing the range of my teleport machine. I remember that I didn't know the word for "teleport" in French, so I just said it with a French accent. I think they understood me. Then I activated the teleport by remote and it whisked me away.
Also: as some of you know, I pledged to eat only fair-trade chocolate, which drastically reduces the scope of the candy, ice cream, etc. I can eat. However, I recently discovered that some major chocolate companies - like Godiva, Ghiardelli, Hershey, and Mars - are members of a nonprofit called the World Cocoa Foundation, which helps cocoa farmers improve their quality of life, educate their kids and practice environmentally responsible farming. WCF also inspects and certifies cocoa farms and plantations, the way a fair trade or organic labeler might. I gather that member companies source their cocoa from the certified farms.
Judging by the website, the place looks pretty serious and legit. If it's what it says it is, then I suppose I can buy and eat chocolate from the member companies even if they aren't fair trade certified.1 But I'd still like to make sure that this isn't greenwashing, so to speak. Can anyone here speak to the efforts or apparent sincerity of WCF?
1 Actually, some of the member companies are. One reason I think this is legit is that Dagoba - my favorite organic and fair-trade chocolate company - is on the list.
