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Gumboot Chiton Teeth improve solar power!
Greetings!
The Russians think they’ve got a clean water sample from Lake Vostok. We’ll have to wait a bit to be sure. Their last sample was bad. They might find life, they might find cold water. However, the US is actually ahead on the search for life, just from another lake. I still think Vostok is more interesting, the water there is older.
Yes, there are more efficient solar cells than this. What makes this special is it’s ability to be manufactured in a continuous process. And it’s bendable, meaning it can fit over odd shaped surfaces. I’m still waiting for solar panels that can replace shingles.
Belgium is building a donut to store energy. The idea is to use wind energy to pump water into the donut, then let it run out through a turbine. They want to get away from nuclear.
Japan is seeing value in wind, too.
We’ve actually installed the solar panels here in my town. We’re powering a wastewater treatment plant.
America as a whole, on the other hand, has our nuclear industry calling in favors.
Meanwhile, climate change takes aim at ME!
They’re still hyping Comet Ison. Closest approch will be around Xmas 2013. Mark your calendars.
Using snails teeth to improve solar cells?!? Where do they get these ideas?
A three pound goldfish. I’ve caught bigger carp, but not gold ones.
Just because the squid can’t get you on land doesn’t mean you can’t be eaten in a hideous manner. Next Bond villain, take note.
The large heads on Easter Island were said by legend to have walked from the quarry to where they stood. Perhaps the legend was right.
For those of us who still like books. Original folio sets of Audubon could set you back $50K.
In honor of a friendly mockingbird. Yes, it’s old but it popped up when I searched mockingbird.
Talk about messing with your mind.
Boxturtle (No squid news this week)
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Morning Pups!
I had this scheduled at 7:50, yet It didn’t publish. Apologies for it being late, Right when I was going to publish manually, the cat created a reboot.
Kit, can you see what I did wrong with scheduling it?
Boxturtle (I’m supposed to be a computer professional, this is supposed to be Easy!)
Good morning, boxturtle!
Good morning BoxTurtle. Did you actually click “schedule”? It’s sorta a two step process — set the publish time and then when you are finally ready, there’s another button.
But you knew that.
G’morning, everypup. Reeeellllly busy today, so won’t be around much.
*waves to Jane*
It’s snowing and very cold. We haven’t had much snow (yet) but I notice there’s a couple of inches in my rain gauge. Funny!
Morning, Ma’am!
Boxturtle (Figures the first morning I’m late to work, the Boss is here)
Well, I THOUGHT I did it correctly and I’ve done it correctly before.
Boxturtle (I blame Obama)
Morning BoxTurtle,
Here, shivering and reading. High of 2°F today and tomorrow. Back when I get my teen on the school bus. Dangerous windchills for mere mortals no matter the protestations, ” Oh Dad, it’s not that cold.”
They’re telling us an “arctic blast” is heading our way, with wind chills well below zero.
Be sure to watch our local newscast!
Boxturtle (Not that I suspect the local stations of hyping bad weather to increase viewing)
Good Morning, Other BT and Friends,
I just knew making friends here was going to be beneficial to me. Thanks for keeping my immune system running properly, folks.
Can I have a coffee and a side of Wandering Meatloaf?
Did I tell you about the “snowpocalypse” that was over-reported, over-covered and over-hyped in Indianapolis the day after Christmas? Government offices all closed, stores closed, the local regular channels covered it like they were the Weather Channel with reporters in anoraks out in the cold giving minute-by-minute updates.
They got 11 or so inches in the southwest burbs, out in the northeast burbs where I was, maybe FOUR inches.
Good morning all and thanks for the linkfest BoxTurtle. (although I was looking for squid news)
*places coffee on table and cat on lap*
Boxturtle (Well, the difference between a cat and a Wandering Meatloaf is?)
Sorry to tell you your daughter is wrong. It really Is that cold, dad.
I promise never ever to complain about my weather again. I couldn’t believe that Mr. AppleCanyon was outside on the roof to adjust his antenna in below freezing weather. If I had a hat on, I’d doff it to youze guys. Brrrrrrrrr.
Same storm here, same results. A couple areas got REALLY slammed 10″+, there was this thin band of really intense stuff. But I got 3″ or so and I was pretty average.
Boxturtle (Only one Dominos stayed operating in Springfield, they got slammed)
Ummm, wait, I know this one.
The cat creates it’s own btu’s and the meatloaf increases the btu’s?
Do I get a half a point for “trying”?
Good morning everyone.
Thank you for the post BoxTurtle.
Hope you had a great birthday msmolly.
BRRRRRR. -13 at my place this morning. Time to check a couple snow bird neighbor’s houses since they are in AZ,
Good morning BT, pups.
Good morning demi.
That getting on the roof was a last resort after checking out everything inside where it was warm.
It was really a dumb thing to do and i would not have done it if there had been any snow on the roof for sure.
The positive out of all the messing around is that I got to visit with my friends at Over Easy.
It’s going to get up to 67 or so here today, and expected to reach almost 80 by Thursday.
Feel free to come down and visit.
Good morning firedogs. Thanks for the post and host BT.
Snail teeth in solar cells. Soooo cool.
I’m grateful to you for all of our sakes. Doing your part to keep us all from being lonely. You’re like Vitamin C for the Soul.
I’m glad to hear there was no snow on the roof. The imagination can be a bad thing sometimes. No broken bones, okay?
What a friend we have in JC.
Gosh, I hope they bring you some tacos or something else really good when they return.
Look, everyone, right here. A true friend, indeed.
A progressive takes the message “Nature has much for us, if we just look and preserve”. A conservative takes the message “Harvest ALL the snails”.
Boxturtle (We could corner the market on snails teeth if we just get in early enough)
Good Morning All, Cannot wait for a bit of warm; sounds greaaaat.
Hey! I made the front page!!! Without a Snooki photo!
Boxturtle (Anyone who want’s to make a joke about that actually being a Snooki photo, feel free!)
Where can we buy all the snails? Let’s do it. We need to raise capital. I have $11.34. How many snails will that get us?
You’ve already done it. Stole my thunder.
Thanks, yes I did. And I can’t talk my kids out of planning a big party, but not until March because that’s what works for them all. But it was very nice having daughter and family here.
I just got back from there and had to chase my kid’s sled down the street. I thrive in cold weather but even my golden retriever wanted back in after a few minutes.
I really appreciate the fine group of friends I have here at the Lake as well.
I was wondering what that photo was. Now I know. Looks like an inside-out popover to me!
Good morning
I was but thought better.
Congrats! Looks like Over Easy is really making a name for itself. You don’t need no freaking Snooki. Your mind is blinded by science!
Jane didn’t just fall off the Gumboot Triton truck, ya know.
The link about mocking birds is pretty darn interesting. Very, very intelligent birds.
I seem to have developed a habit of featuring weird creatures. But once I hit on snails teeth (Snails have teeth?!? who knew!)I just HAD to use that picture.
We probably won’t actually use the teeth, but make a metamaterial that’s similar. Teeth are designed for grinding, not solar power and we can probably make better.
Boxturtle (I should point to more articles on metamaterials. Amazing stuff!)
We’ve got the high temps here right now, but with tremendously high winds. My sinuses are exploding.
But, I’m not complaining, no I’m not. Just sayin’ it like it is.
I can’t tolerate two weeks of this ‘OMG they’re brothers!!!!11!!ONE!1!!’ crap. Please. ESPN. Make it stop.
I suppose changing the channel isn’t a option for you, but it’s always worked for me.
Boxturtle (It can even silence Ted Nugent!)
I am glad that you had a great time and enjoy that party planning, it is something they really want to do for you.
Nice to be appreciated and I bet they love doing things for Mom.
How can I sit here and be resentful if I’m not watching?
Good Morning Box Turtle, Jane, and Firedogs
Love the snail’s teeth – has me thinking of the late, always entertaining Stephen J Gould
Niners Win ! cake was a hit, and this &!#%#^@! yuck is better
Ray Lewis from the Ravens cries more than John Boehner.
demi, that was nice of you to say those words.
Like JC, I really like this group of friends and look forward to it on mornings I am not subbing.
Kris, I’m giving you the look. The look that a mother has when she say’s Stop crying or I’ll give you something to cry about.
I never actually used that tactic with my kids, but you’re cruisin’ for it. :)
(Thanks, I feel much better now.)
Well, I know when to put my foot down, thank you. Wind chills at -20°F at the moment, cozy in the house in the sun and in the lee of the woods. Bus was about 20 minutes late, typical when it is this cold. All the children on the route are slow to get out for the bus.
Had to resort to the line, social services would arrest someone for child neglect if they let their child out in this. Effective at stopping the complaining about being embarrassed waiting in the car.
Well, you inspired the thought.
Vitamin C for the Soul. I kind of like that. Sounds like the title for some written piece. Hmmmmm.
there is an ultra fine saline mist out there for infants and children – using it twice a day is said to help (for those too weirded out by Neti pots)
Try two weeks of Manti T’eo and his imaginary girlfriend. And now, Katie Couric!!!!11!!ONE!1!!
Good morning pups.
30° now, maybe up to 40. Mt hood is much warmer 43 this morning. Along temp inversion has held the temps really cold and damp here, replete with the odor of burning wood. That even gets into my computer room, which is better sealed than older parts of the house. Makes my eyes burn from time to time.
This is my last week of freedom. I picked up a contract position at Intel. doing various HW and SW tasks and likely running a lab.
Pays… well, let’s not go there. Let’s just say hooray for Social Security, for a while longer, anyway.
One word for you, cbl: PICTURES!!
Thanks. My sister uses the neti pot. I go with boiling water on the stove and a little (half a pill) of benedryl.
The water on the stove is doubly useful. Clears my sinuses and gives me a mini facial at the same time. :)
Congrats, Starbuck. $ is $, as they say.
I bet more kids know his name than *insert basic science question here*
Boxturtle (I have a Pet peeve about information we feed our kids)
OK peeps, gotta get outta here. Errands, laundry, and an all-afternoon dress rehearsal for tonight’s MLC concert.
Have a good ‘un, and behave or Jane will boot us off the front page. No spitballs. Here’s the LQQK to keep you in line.
UM, that would be tonight’s MLK concert. Can’t type!!!
Yeah. Eating and living indoors are important.
Boxturtle (Would you believe I couldn’t find a recipe for Gumboot Chiton?)
Enjoy the rehearsal And the concert, Molly.
Remember to take lozenges, okay? And, break a vocal chord.
What’s with Katie? She still anchors NBC Morning show?
My TV doesn’t do HDTV well, and since I can get all I need here and elsewhere on line, who needs the crap that passes for entertainment and commercials? We were out for dinner last night with the football game going. The commercials were bewildering. I haven’t the foggiest who was advertizing what.
Well, there was lots of sex.
good morning. i find the image in this post highly disturbing. my eyes are confused.
msmolly, you have a great day.
What an ending with the concert tonight.
‘da boys
I’d say he liked it :D
I have a beef about the deification of football. But I said that already. If Manti T’eo was “John Q. Anonymousstudent” nobody would have heard of this. And there’s still Lizzy Seeberg and Declan Sullivan to think of. Brushed aside, covered up, buried (literally).
OK, out for realz. *poof*
Hey there, cowgirl. You hanging in there?
Just think Baked Good. That’s what Molly thought, and I agree.
Sean does looked pleased. Now you’ve spoiled him and he’s going to expect something that fantastic every year.
Can you imagine him 60 birthday from now? He’ll still be telling the story of the cake his neighbor once made for him.
Great Job!
I hope Katie doesn’t get too tough on Te’o and ask what newspapers he reads to get sports information.
The page about flexible solar panels has some other interesting articles, especially about electron holes. Brings back memories about discovering electrons and holes in solid state physics years ago. Holes? You gotta be kidding! so I thought.
Cripes, I’m getting sentimental about physics!
so for one superbowl, my elderly parents, big football fans, were using satellite “cable” to view objects on their television. they don’t function so well sometimes, if it’s raining hard, or snowing the sticky sort of snow. most people, including my parents, have the satellite attached to their roofs. that year, there was a big slush snow storm and the device was covered in hard frozen slush. and then it turned colder. they went to put the game on, only to find that the picture wouldn’t resolve and no amount of button pushing on the remote or box would help. my father almost had a heart attack; my mother was in tears. because, you know, it’s the superbowl.
i climbed up a tall ladder and poured heated water over the dish until the ice melted off. my hands almost froze, and i suffer from a fear of heights. but it was The Game! and i couldn’t let them down.
later, my father died and my mother disinherited me because i’m gay. i love football.
thanks, it was fun.
now on to Monster High cupcakes, a chocolate stadium (the skycrapers in pic are chocolate, painted w/royal icing) for Super Bowl party, and DIL cake. . .
Now, that’s a heart breaking story, missy.
Did your mother always feel that way, or did she only Come Out after your daddy died?
Are you still at odds with her? Oh, man. That sucks.
Here’s a little bit of good news.
I had some super beef broth left over from a Brisket I had made last week, so I used it to make a huge pot of meatball soup yesterday.
And, yes, I took an extra large portion to my friend, bus bench Bob. He told me he has a job this morning. Someone’s picking him up at 7:30 to help him break up some concrete. He’s so happy and proud, and he’ll have some good energy for the job and a little bit of his own money.
Yay for Bob!
When I was a kid, superconductivity was basically a toy. Now they sell superconducting wire in spools.
LED’s were basically fancy indicator lights. Now they transmit data at the highest possible speeds and make the screens of high end TV’s.
The Higgs had just been postulated and was being roundly criticized. Now everybody but the scientists working on it says we’ve proven it exists.
Fission was offically perfectly safe for energy generation and fusion was just around the corner. Well, some things never change.
Boxturtle (They called me nerd just because I got a chemistry set rather than sports equiptment)
I’m sorry to hear that story, but you will always remember what you did that day for your Mom and Dad so they could see the game.
In spite of the fear, you overcame it and did a wonderful thing for your parents.
well, demi, i’m in TX for a reason, not a choice. no, she doesn’t speak to me anymore. daddy loved me a lot, and she was always jealous and hated me for that. idiot that i am, i believed her when she said, “you can live in the okemos house (she owns four houses) for the rest of your life” when he was still alive and i sacrificed my career to take care of him (he had several terrible diseases at the end of his life) there so she wouldn’t have to.
she’s really rich and loves my straight married baby making sister tho, so there’s that.
Is she a God-Fearin’ woman?
forgive me sister, but your mother makes me wish there was a hell
hope there is light and joy in your life these days
No matter, has she heard the old Karma’s a bitch?
Unfortunately, that theme is out there more than we’d like to realize.
So sorry to hear that.
If you ever get an itch to visit LA, I’ve got wi-fi. :)
I hope you find your own peace. That’s very sad, and she is missing so much. Enjoy your TX stay ;)
Thanks for sharing that story because this is a great place for emphathetic friends who truly care for you.
Does your sense of irony and humor get you through those times?(It does for me).
is this old news to you ?
“They called me nerd just because I got a chemistry set rather than sports equiptment”
You too?
I was working at Tektronix when LED’s first came out. I had the idea to find a model airplane kit of a dirigible and decorate it with lED’s and call it….
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The LED Zepplin!
Was too expensive then.
Incredible news, that.
A G-quadraplex. Mind = blown.
Well, the light transmission devices are more properly called lasers. LED’s simply are too “dirty” for more than short transmission paths.
don’t even worry about it, friends. i’m queer! we’re used to it! it’s what hater rapebulican parents do!
i will survive. ruth is helping me out. i will live well, because that’s the best revenge.
i have gay friends with worse fambly stories. at least i wasn’t beaten or forced to go to “ex” gay therapy with ms bachmann’s husband or something like that.
Is there any chance that your sister will right this when she has the chance?
These kinds of family matters are heartbreaking. Take care of yourself.
I came. I shared. Now, I gotta go.
Take care, all.
Morning Pups of Fire:
Ian Masters had a very good segment with Paul Erlich on that whole climate change hoax yesterday. Go here (after the intro).
This climate change hoax is, ya know, an emergency unlike anything this planet has ever faced. In the meantime, the jagoff politicians (I know, that’s redundant) continue sticking their thumbs up their asses while studiously ignoring the obvious.
goodness, 9 am . . . my inner calvinist tells me to get up and clean the kitchen before I play with any more sugar
and heaven forfend I miss the I Have A Drone inaugural address
. . . . little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by their proximity to likely combatants
my sister is married to a gawd fearing baptist who does not drink or smoke or smoke pot and has two perfect children attending private school and a four bathroom five bedroom house in a tony subdivision where everyone is proper in which there is no room for the likes of me, dirty lazy queer hippy that i am. and if i ever got any real money, well, i’d just waste it on charity or food or something filthy and improper like that. the money is for teh children. not me.
Thanks for sharing the story. I’m an ex Chicagoan and can well understand the prejudice. I was steeped in it, as well as color, race, religion etc. Chicago is a good example of the sentiment in the musical “South Pacific” song:”You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught”.
No, it’s new to me. I simply missed that story. A brand new target for therapy and different enough from everything else that effects could be isolated.
We’ll see more neat stuff from that this year. Nice catch!
Boxturtle (Amazing how many discoveries come from a single WTF?!? moment)
It would have taken way to much electricity. The original LED’s were pigs.
I once connected one to high frequency AC, It exploded magnificiently!
Boxturtle (I loved explosions back then)
Perhaps controlling cancer might be best accomplished by decreasing the load of toxins in the environment and less by targeting DNA with synthetic molecules.
Fighting synthetics with synthetics.
Cripes!
True, I sit corrected.
Boxturtle (Sometimes I oversimplify into incorrectness)
Too much money as well. The idea was frowned upon.
Can you imagine the spectacle had I actually built one and it exploded? A lab Hindenburg!
i’m still reeling at the whole paper computer thingee. dood. it’s like star trek is coming true.
No justice, hard to make peace with it. So yes, living well, that is your righteousness. Also, fuck.
Yep. Star Trek had solid scientifically valid ideas. Apparently, a gubberment agency started shadowing them because they:
1)Wanted what they had and
2)Wondered how they found out what the gubberment was working on!
That cool moment when I open a link from a random tweet on my feed and it takes me to BoxTurtle’s post.
Yeah. That just happened.
I guess I’m famous. And archived in the Library of Congress, dang it.
Boxturtle (I was not on twitter before not being on twitter was cool)
What’s “Twitter”?
def:
“A series of short, high-pitched calls or sounds.”
I’ll believe that when we have an effective, participatory United Earth government, and the wingnuts all go off in an outraged snit to colonize another planet.
Infamous, maybe.
…with the rest of us paying for it?
The final solution to the “unwashed masses” problem.
A couple of minutes after I posted that, I realized that maybe we should be the ones to colonize another planet. We can leave the wingnuts with the one they’ve already shit all over.
We haven’t had any winter here in SE Texas since 1989. Today’s low as 48, the high predicted to be 72. Been this way ‘cept for a few days since December ….. December 1991.
OTOH, lots of nice days to drive my classic car around. Except in August when the temperature regularly hits 101-103.
I haven’t seen “An Inconvenient Truth”. What’s it about? :-)
Some asshole on facebook is telling me to stay out of a political conversation because I’m young and naive. Cool.
I think I’ll remind him that it was his generation that voted for all the people who have destroyed this country for me and my children.
I agree with Kris, INFAMOUS More like it.
Reminds me of Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant“, I’m pretty sure that the FBI has a file with your name on it somewhere. Prolly the NSA and the CIA and the AAA too.
Where do I sign up?
Doc, can i drive???? I’m a very good driver.
…sticking their thumbs up their asses…”
Actually one up their ass the other in their mouth.
It’s the starting position for playing “Switch”.
You don’t drive to space, ncg. You take a TARDIS.
Drivers are now bits of software.
Sounds good, but we don’t really need a good driver. There’s very little to hit in space. We just need someone who can land us in one piece.
Is there a way to commoditize common sense?
Oh, I wish.
…and drunk drivers are why your computer crashes!
NOT , She may have Money but without relations with all of her offspring she is a POOR person indeed.
A fellow Whovian! Sweet.
Come up with “Super Common Sense”, then patent (or Copyright) it.
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20101005005554/en/City-Hollister-Calif.-Breaks-Ground-Solar-Energy
EvilDrWhovian?
Super common sense.
“Meanwhile, climate change takes aim at ME!”
EEK! I’m in NE Ohio. That means me, too!
Thanks for these posts, Box Turtle.
I think my post for tomorrow might be a rant…
You never Rant. You always give thoughtful comments from a perspective different than us old farts who screwed it all up.
You give me hope. :)
I appreciate the vote of confidence JC. I’m pissed off, though. I’m leaving the post alone for a while. Maybe I’ll cool down.
If I still feel like writing an angry tirade against the state of our politics and economy later today, I’ll go ahead with it.
Hi BT. Alas, I don’t think there’s any way to tell what you did wrong in scheduling the post after the fact. Thanks as always for a fascinating collection of links.
Good morning, easyovers!
Listening to James Taylor at the inauguration. Can’t help feeling good, for the most part, on inauguration day; peaceful transfer of government and all that. Given all the hate and talk of “second amendment remedies” out there, that is a good thing.
And the Tabernacle Choir (not the Mormon one, the Brooklyn one) was awesome. Myrlie Evers also a terrific choice for invocation (I guess we must have one. I’m ignoring the first choice.)
It’s sunny and gorgeous here, too. I have let the kittehs out for the first time in a couple days, and they are having a good time.
Well, that would be the easy diary, imvho, paths to change and/or solutions regarding the indicated subject is a very difficult for me to get creative about. Best wishes for good progress and clear thoughts on the task, coming at you.
Kris, if tomorrow’s post is going to be a rant against your parent’s generation for screwing yours and the kids lives up, it might be better if I skip tomorrow.
But, if you’ve got a rant to get off your chest, go for it.
Sorry, I’ve got enough guilt on my plate for now.
Morning tejana, your day seems bright and good, awesome. Just in from teh cold, it’s here, easier to deal with on several levels by simply embracing it.
I’m getting ready to embrace the wind. In the park. I’ve gotten out of the walking ritual, but in the interest of better health, physical and emotional, I’m going to go say Hey to the trees.
That’s an excellent choice for an invocation on MLK day. I agree about the need for an invocation, but we’re probably stuck with that.
Of for concert dress rehearsal in a few. The rest of the day will be very L-O-N-G.
It is bitter cold but the sun is shining!
Goggie probably loves him some different trees once in a while, too. ;)
Embrace the cold. And the wind. Yes, I think I once did that. Never was at all athletic, but my favorite outdoor activities have always been mainly winter ones; ice skating, snowball fights, snowman/fort building, and so forth. No snowshoes, too flat in Indy to ski. In PA, managed to get mono during the time my friends were learning to ski at nearby mountains.
It sure is cold where you are nonquixote. I laughed at your persuading the kid to sit in the car with you. I was a teen in Indiana and PA, where yup, it was a source of pride to wait for the bus without a hat or scarf, shivering though one did. But…hat hair! So much more important than staying warm, Dad!
demi, have a lovely walk.
Of course, embracing hopefully includes dressing appropriately, right?
Ever since the infamous tragic beach camping pull down, goggie only goes with the mens.
It’s this crazy survival thingy I have. :)
(Not the face!)
Well, enjoy singing, msmolly. Glad your birthday went well. The kids came to you for the day?
Good to see everybody. I’ll check back in from time to time, but I was such a slug yesterday, spending waaaaay too much time sitting at one screen or another, MUST get moving and get some stuff done today. Warmth, comfort and contentment wished to everyone.
Honey, it’s 70 now, going up to 80 later. But, I did put on a bra, if that’s what you’re referring to. HA! Out in the public, ya know. :)
Thanks, tejanarusa and I wish you were here with me to go walking together. It’d be real nice.
Really? I do recall the pulldown, I think, but I bet you miss walking with goggie. Is it too late to teach him not to do that to you? (yes, I’m still here for a min.)
I’m not a dog trainer. I think it’s too late for me.
I’ll just stick to enjoying naps with him. :)
(Plus, the “mens” need a reason to get out of the house and move it, move it.)
You are too funny. We think alike on that in-public/not-in-public thing. Are you walking on the beach? Gawd, I really would love to walk on a beach. Not being able to just killed me for quite awhile after moving to landlocked OK from Massachusetts.Enjoy for me.
Uh oh. Someone on FB is about to get skooled by Kris. Bwahahaha.
Oh, I don’t live at the beach. Wish I could afford it, for sure. So, I’ve settled for living in the foothills.
The park’s nice, but it doesn’t have the ocean. I supposed I could take my walkman with the ocean waves recording.
I’m out for now. See you all later.
There will come a time when having a file on you will be a badge of honor. Again.
Boxturtle (wonder how many times Rosa Parks was spat upon)
kris, i appreciate your rantishness on that subject. but i agree w/the above: it’s more useful to talk about what can be done, than who to blame. i was 10 years old when raygun was elected, but that’s no excuse for lazing around when bush was (s)elected, nor did i.
also: ruth has the world’s fastest mechanic. my head is spinning. we just took her car in for service this morning and he finished it in under an hour. that never happens to me, darnit.
Oh, hee hee – still haven’t gone poof – check out Eric Cantor’s face during the reading of Blanco’s poem. Worth watching just for that. I hope he gets to feel that way the whole next four years.
In the battle against the tyrannous oligarchy we must all “stand a post.”
I made that up. Just now.
That time, sir, has already arrived.
You are either part of the problem or part of the solution.
Both he and Boner were framed close up. I supposed somebody was hoping for Mr Weepy to drain a couple. Brooks and Shields shut up for the poem anyway.
And each of them can choose their own tree. (not sure how remote this park is)
Sounds like a guy thing.
I’ll defer to you mens.
Tough talk, newcarguy.
What are you doing lately, in terms of finding a solution.
Seriously, I’d like a response.
Be interested where the cool down gets you. My new “hero” is a woman called Peace Pilgrim. She has a lot to say about peace, including peaceful relationships and peace of mind. The bottom line, I think, is that it has to come from oneself and our thoughts. And we do not have been of mind when we are thinking harsh thoughts about others.
She says it better, but I think she had already achieved it…or well on the way.
Based on comments here I’ll leave it alone.
I only hope that you took the honest comments here to heart, Kris.
Kris, I think you should go ahead and rant, if you think it is warranted. I, for one, would like to see what has you in a snit. And you might get honest comments after we read that would help you work through whatever it is. Go for it. Others can read — or not, their choice.
20% efficiency for flexible thin-film solar? Wasn’t that long ago that 20% was the best that could be wrung out of glass cells. And thin-film’s cheap and easy to make — it can literally be rolled out and printed out onto sheets — which means its costs approach if not consistently break the magic $1-per-watt barrier.
Well hearing about the flexible thin-film solar is sure good news. So is the fact that manufacturers now make wind turbines no bigger than an attic fan, and a person can buy them and install them on their house.
Box Turtle said, about the solar cells from snail’s teeth – where do they get these ideas? Well, I assume they don’t get them from the snails, who lat time they mentioned it, said they were feeling pretty poorly about the fact that their teeth will be harvested. And I sure wish my teeth were more like the chiton snails’ teeth – very strong and magnetic!