Not having coffee in the house for the third straight morning, and it is not ok. Beckman needs to wake up to the smell of the auto-brewing for the day to start off right. Murray and I are off to Starbucks…
I have trouble finding a balance with coffee. I gave it up for several weeks a few years ago, and life without it was just…gray. But when I drink it every day, I have less energy the longer I go from my last cup. I don’t like needing it so much.
The architect of the new building is probably known for saying: “are you going to finish that?” and then eating your fries
From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia…could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.
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- Abraham Lincoln in his adress to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, 1838 (via jamesnord)
a) this may explain some of the fear of Soviet nukes (other than the well-deserved fear) - after they built the Bomb, the US became vulnerable to outside annihilation for the first time. That’s cause for an existential crisis
b) this idea comforts me as I stew with my thoughts of an eventual breakdown of foreign trade and a default on US government obligations - we can get by just fine without either. Not that it would be fun, but we can feed, clothe and finance ourselves
Reblogged from jamesnord 1 week ago | Tags: default apocalypse isolationism
This is the 60 Minutes segment on Bloom Energy’s fuel cells.
Cost: ~$750,000 per 100kW “unit”
CA tax rebate: 20% of cost
Federal tax rebate: 30% of cost
After tax cost: ~$375,000 per 100kW “unit”
Google’s savings in 9 months on 5 units: $100,000 (just over 3 cents/kW)
Assumed annual energy price inflation: 5.5% (CA’s annual increase has been 6% over the past 40 years, according to Bloom)
Lifespan of unit: 10 years
Return on investment: -1.5% per year.
This is really cool, but they have to get the cost down. Taking production to scale should help, as would government incentives, and production in someplace with an undervalued currency, like China (though that would defeat the point).
1 week ago | Tags: Bloom Energy Fuel Cells
Cho: http://pewresearch.org/millennials/quiz/index.php
Me: oy
Me: Somehow I got an 82
Cho: hahaha
Cho: i got an 80!
Me: HAHAHAH
Me: Shut it, Grandpa.94, bitches!!
(Seriously, though. How the fuck did that happen?)69, muthafuckas!
62! I don’t know how I’m supposed to feel about this.
Awesome! I got an 86.
96? not sure if thats good or bad.
79
Automatic Generations research reblog. Also, I’m an 80, which is odd as I was born into Gen X. But it may explain a lifetime of failing to connect with people my own age.
Reblogged from thecaleb 1 week ago | Tags: generations millenials pew research generation x
GPOYW - cleaned myself up for a big meeting and decided to learn about animated gifs edition
1 week ago | Tags: GPOYW
These days, the key driver of evolutionary change isn’t who survives long enough to have children, but who has the most children and how soon they start. It’s those who procreate early and often who have the most genetic impact on future generations.
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This was the idea behind idiocracy (WSJ)
Interesting article overall, it even referenced the mind-blowing New Yorker article about how people every rich country other than the US keep getting taller.
1 week ago | Tags: evolution
Cat Curling…
Seriously, I have a weakness for cats. Especially really fat, surprised-looking cats in unusual situations. I am still LOLing over here.
