*Transcendental *Logic

for you

Yes, the site was dead yesterday. It was tragically shot in an upgrading incident. ;)

However, all seems to be well now. As for me, I booched a nap yesterday, sorta made up for it later, accidentally fell asleep half an hour early for my core, woke up right on time without an alarm, was sorta out of it (waking up from a core is rather like waking up on a normal morning) and decided to try and set the alarms so I could sleep another half hour…set the alarms wrong…and slept another 1.5 hours. *sigh* Hardly devastating, but still. I’ve gotta learn that I can’t make judgements about waking up while also trying to do it. (And you’d think I’d know it, since it’s just as true on a regular sleep schedule than a weird one — I’m just one of those people who will snuggle and sleep forever, if allowed.)

A point in Uberman’s favor — sometimes inflexibility is a good thing. If the rule is simply, “set an alarm for 20 (or 21 or 23 or whatever) minutes and get up the second it goes off, no matter what”, then it’s almost failproof as far as my problems are concerned. I think I overslept once or twice the whole half a year I did that schedule.

In other news, the well-hated U.S. Secretary of Defense was fired yesterday in a move that Ted Koppel said was the most spectacular he’d seen “since Jonah was thrown overboard to appease the raging sea”. This happened a week after the President swore that he wasn’t even considering such a move, an hour after the new uberDemocrat Speaker of the House met with selfsame President, and less than an hour before Ms. Speaker announced that impeachment proceedings were now off the table. Gee, I wonder how that all went down.

Also, the American press seems to have found their balls. I told you they were in your other pants, guys.

Now, check it out: I know this guy, affectionately “Crazy Doug”. Crazy Doug was one of, if not the, smartest person in Detroit, before he got a break and moved away. Good for him, bad for us. Thankfully, though, he still posts random musings for us to read. This list of “ideas” struck me as utterly wonderful in many ways, fiction and otherwise, and I thought I’d share. I present, Crazy Doug’s Musings:

What would happen if you genetically modified a necrotizing enzime to attack only a specific type of cell?
Like cancer….What would happen if we used the genetically modified bacteria produced commercially for bioremediation of oilspills to convert all of our leftover heavy tars and oils from petroleum refineries into pure hydrogen?

Or, using them to convert all of our insanely polluting hydrocarbons into hydrogen?

Or even convert hydrocarbon based trash? (most things that burn are hydrocarbons, including you!)

There are estimated to be 3,956,000 miles of road in the US alone (yes, that’s a real statistic, no, it’s not missing a decimal). If some of it, even just a fraction were used to create energy, we’d be swimming in it. How many gallons of oil are spilled/dripped on American roads each year? Hundreds of thousands? Millions?
What if you could collect it? Convert it?

The surface area of that much roadway is almost inconviecable. The older, less efficient solar panel technologies are really cheap these days, what about embedding it in strips on freeways? It doesn’m matter how efficient it is with that kind of surface area, it’s a moot point, it just has to be cheap.

What if piezo elements were embedded in roadways?
The weight of passing vehicles would stimulate the electric effect of the piezos and the discharge could be stored/collected.

What if a compound could be found to remove the accumulated aluminum from an Alzheimr’s patient’s brain through catalyzation? We still don’t know if the accumulation is the cause or an effect. (My money is on cause)

What if we could cheaply convert all the millions of tons of plastic waste we generate each year back into petroleum?

What if we thought about the consequences beforehand, instead of dealt with them after the fact?

Right on. The world needs more lunatics who think like that! (In fact, if any of them are out there and want their Musings posted, just send ‘em along. I <3 musings. ;)
Okay, until later,

PD