Observations, Ramblings, and Thoughts

NOTICE TO ALL PEOPLE WHO HAIL FROM OUTSIDE OF WASHINGTON:

If you are used to driving from some place where it is sunny, and if even a cloud in the sky causes you to slow down to 30 MPH on the freeway, then just park that car and take a bus or cab.

Or learn how to drive in the rain — because WE have.

I swear that it seems that when you turn on your fucking windshield wipers it must take most of the horsepower of your car to run them — BECAUSE YOU SLOW DOWN TO A SNAILS PACE ON THE ROAD.  If this is you, then get off of the freeway!

The rest of us are actually trying to get somewhere.  If we wanted to go 30 MPH we would have gone on the side streets.

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Here are the ten rules you must know to be human:

1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it’s yours to keep for the entire period.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, “life.”
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The “failed” experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately “work.”
4. Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.
5. Learning lessons does not end. There’s no part of life that doesn’t contain its lessons. If you’re alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.
6. “There” is no better a place than “here.” When your “there” has become a “here”, you will simply obtain another “there” that will again look better than “here.”
7. Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
9. Your answers lie within you. The answers to life’s questions lie within you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.
10. You will forget all this.

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Fuel cells have been a tantilizing technolgy for decades – powering space vehicles, but always a little out of reach for domestic or commercial use.

Now there is the Bloom Box. The Bloom Box is a refrigerator-sized box that can power your whole house, store or business.

Bloom Energy is a venture capital funded firm that builds the “Bloom Box”- an appliance sized unit that houses fuel cells running on natural gas, landfill gas, bio-gas or solar power. Fuel cells combine hydrogen with oxygen and emit only heat, electricity and distilled water.

Google has been powering a datacenter with 4 Bloom Boxes running on natural gas for the past year and a half. eBay has 5 of them in San Jose, which they claim have saved them $100,000 in energy costs over the past 9 months.

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