After hearing a friendly tweet from a friend about graze.com, I figured a website with a name like that deserved a look. What I found really surprised me. A company that provided “healthy eating by post”. They convinced me that I could replace my normal not-so-healthy lunches with a simple solution that would arrive from the postman each day.
They would keep track of my preference of different fruits, vegetables and nuts and pick out a perfect selection for me each day. I can continually update my choices and delivery options, so I never get anything I don’t want.
So in true sysadmin style, here goes the graze.com unboxing!
The box is sturdy and easily small enough to fit through a letter box
They provide a totally personalised card about what you’ve got in your box and its nutritional information.
They split the box into ‘freshly prepared fruit’, ‘special graze mix’, and ‘handy snack pack’
It’s all very neatly done, and you even get a bamboo fork to eat it with.
For the really keen, we even took a video of the unboxing:
Alex’s Graze unboxing (crazy fruit) from Daniel Saxil-Nielsen on Vimeo.
I did make a comment about it being over packaged, which I take back. It must be remembered that it has to survive going through the post, so I think its totally reasonable. I also noticed a page on the graze site about their green concerns and what they are doing to minimize their impact.
I would thoroughly recommend these boxes to anyone. I’m getting another one tomorrow, so I should get an email through soon saying exactly what it’ll contain. If you’re considering it, head over to graze.com and use my code 8JXTLRHB, and I’ll donate £1 to the Rainforest Alliance).
I got my box last week, didnt come with a fork though.
I think it depends on what fruit you get. Highley recommended.
Hi, I would like to get the count part only of a retweet url you have in the tweetmeme. I know you have it avail in your api, but it there a way to get it directly from twitters api? I am using it in an application I am using and don’t want to tax your servers unnecessarily. Thanks. Even if you can just point me in the right direction on twitters api I would be very grateful. I searched all over for it to no avail.
JW,
Twitter don’t keep track of URL counts, therefore don’t have an API for it. This is why we saw the need for a service like Tweetmeme. It is a fairly complex process to take the relevant tweets from Twitter and obtain the final URL count, much processing takes place.
We are keen to see our API being using, so don’t worry about taxing our servers. We have a rate limit in place, so you won’t break anything if you request it too much.
Thanks for you interest.