Archive for: May 14, 2008

Computer’s going a box tomorrow morning. And I don’t get internet access in the new place until Tuesday. I think I may have to get a library card this weekend. Not sure how long I can last without an internet connection.

Up to 20% of US electricity production could be done by wind power by 2030 says the Department of Energy. That would be more than 300 Gigawatts, which is a lot of power. It only takes 1.21 Gigawatts for the flux capacitor to do its magic.

Marty McFly: Uh, does it run, like, on regular unleaded gasoline?
Dr. Emmett Brown: Unfortunately no, it requires something with a little more kick - plutonium.
Marty McFly: Uh, plutonium? Wait a minute. Are you telling me that this sucker is nuclear?
Dr. Emmett Brown: No, no, no, no, no. This sucker’s electrical. But I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity I need.
Marty McFly: Doc, you don’t just walk into a store and-and buy plutonium. Did you rip that off?
Dr. Emmett Brown: Shhhhhh. Of course. From a group of Libyan nationalists. They wanted me to build them a bomb, so I took their plutonium and in turn, gave them a shiny bomb-casing full of used pinball machine parts! Come on! Let’s get you a radiation suit.

Congress asked Karl Rove to testify before the House Judiciary Committee, and he counter-offered by suggesting written questions and responses. The Judiciary said no.

Why don’t they just subpoena him?

Danny of Doc’s Political Parlor has been invited to the Democratic National Convention in Denver to represent the Alabama Blogging Corps. Congrats!

I’m wet, sweaty, and covered in ash and leaf particles. I’ve never felt so disgusting in my life, and yet I wanted to post this before I took as shower. Toodles.