Bag of Randomness

  • My only memories of Merlin Olson is that of an FTD spokesman.
  • Two things The Marriage Ref needs to get rid of – Marv Albert and anyone doing the fact checking on a laptop.  Unless that person is Natalie Portman.  At least they got rid of that stupid baseball intro.
  • I think last night was the first time I saw Madonna not appear nervous on televison.
  • Yesterday’s Survivor didn’t really do much for me, but it was to see 30 Rock back.
  • WifeGeeding’s school had an open house last night.  When I was a kid, our open houses were always at the beginning of the school year.
  • I wonder if school open houses are a regional thing.
  • I surprised my wife with a Nook the other day.  Sometimes it’s just fun to surprise people with gifts, and you don’t have to wait for a holiday or special event to do so.
  • There’s a guy at work that has a political screen saver at work, and stuff like that annoys me.  I just don’t think politics should be brought into the workplace.
  • Conan O’Brien is coming to Dallas, and I’ve got me two tickets.
  • My door had a really bad rattle in for the past couple of weeks, so for the heck of it I Googled “remove door panel nissan altima“.  And there sat a YouTube video that showed me how to remove the door panel step by step.  In less than ten minutes the rattle was gone.
  • It’s about that time to start on yard work.
  • John Mayer was in town the other night, I didn’t think he was a big enough artist to sell out the American Airlines Center.
  • This week I made the decision to give up watch the Fox4 morning news because that new anchor is just awkward to watch.
  • I think Hot Tub Time Machine is this decade’s Dude Where’s My Car.
  • The news reported that a woman turned 105 years old yesterday.  That means she was born during the Roosevelt administration – Teddy Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States.  To help put that in perspective, Obama is the 44th POTUS.
  • Sony attempts to challenge the Wii
  • Heartwarming story – stray dogs appear on stamps
  • Claudia Schiffer isn’t showing much of a bump at seven weeks into her pregnancy.
  • Mike Leach interprets “luke warm”
  • For the fans of LEGOs and the movie Up
  • Hitler without a mustache
  • For the fans of Mystery Science Theater and Haikus
  • A collection of funny church signs
  • Influential Beards Throughout History
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No-Mix Toilet

Although it comprises only about 1 percent of waste water in sewage systems, urine contributes some 80 percent of nitrogen and 45 percent of phosphate. Removing these impurities during the process of converting sewage water into clean weather requires energy intensive pumping, stirring, heating and so forth.

So what’s a solution? Here’s the No-Mix Toilet.

This toilet separates urine and poo-poo at the source. The nutrients in urine can be then recycled for such purposes as fertilizer. And the other sewage can then be transported to waste treatment facilities where actually can be used to produce power rather than consume it.

Houston Chronicle

[Thanks, David!]

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