Solar Powered Walking House

WALKING HOUSE is a modular dwelling system that enables persons to live a peaceful nomadic life, moving slowly through the landscape or cityscape with minimal impact on the environment. It collects energy from its surroundings using solar cells and small windmills. There is a system for collecting rain water and a system for solar heated hot water.

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Bag of Randomness

  • John McCain’s campaign slogan is Country First.  Can an evangelical vote for someone who does’t put God first?  😉
  • I remember thinking the end of smoking was near when I was in my protective conservative Christian college bubble in Abilene . . . then I discovered that many stressed adults in the DFW workforce keep the tobacco companies in business.
  • Monday workouts at my gym are a beating for one reason.  That’s the day the two biggest hulks use the lat machine and on their heaviest sets drop the weights which makes for a very unpleasant sound.  I wish management would ask them to be a bit more courteous,  I would, but don’t want the hulks to place me under those weights.
  • Dividers, not uniters.  Story 1 and Story 2
  • What’s amazing about that first story is that he denied he ever said such a thing until presented with audio evidence.
  • I’m chewing Juicy Fruit right now, it’s been years since I’ve had me some Juicy Fruit.
  • The individual pieces are of course wrapped in the silver package, but they use to also have a paper outside.
  • Puppy saves owner life with CPR.  Link
  • “Academic” Salaries – But they are worth every penny because of the revenue and the exposure they bring to the university.
  • The other day I decided to see how far I could go back and name the presidential ticket for both parties.  The 1976 election was as far back as I could go, I couldn’t remember who ran on the ticket with Gerald Ford.  You can try it for yourself using Wikipedia, just click on the previous election year next to the American flag to go back in time.  Link
  • As you go back in time, it’s also quite interesting to examine the Electoral College map and see how the states voted over the years.  The last time Texas was a blue state was when it went to Jimmy Carter in 1976, but all of western America was entirely red.  Link
  • Reagan only lost a total of 7 states in two elections.  Impressive.  Minnesota showed him no love, twice.
  • The last time someone other than a Democrat or Republican received Electoral College votes was in the 1968 election.
  • The last person to win their party’s nomination with facial hair was Thomas Dewey.  Before Dewey, it was Charles Hughes in 1916.  However, the 1912 election had three major candidates, two of whom had facial hair.  But it was the 1904 election, which happens to be the last election where all major presidential candidates had facial hair.
  • When was the last U.S. presidential election the Republican Party won without a Nixon or a Bush on the ticket?  1928
  • Speaking of the Electoral College, you all know how much I loath is, but did you know that in the last 200 years there have been over 700 proposals introduced to Congress to change or abolish it?  Link
  • Obama Wins . . . marketer of the year.  Link
  • I wasn’t aware a religious university could yank a diploma back because of moral issues.  Link
  • Groomsmen, never ever lock your knees.  Link
  • Sad shark.  Link
  • Muslim McCain supporters confront racism at rally.  Link
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“I Feel Strongly About This Particular Point Because Of A Picture I Saw In A Magazine”

From the Colin Powell Meet the Press transcript for Oct. 19, 2008

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I’m also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say. And it is permitted to be said such things as, “Well, you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim.” Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim, he’s a Christian. He’s always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no, that’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing that he or she could be president? Yet, I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion, “He’s a Muslim and he might be associated terrorists.” This is not the way we should be doing it in America.

I feel strongly about this particular point because of a picture I saw in a magazine. It was a photo essay about troops who are serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. And one picture at the tail end of this photo essay was of a mother in Arlington Cemetery, and she had her head on the headstone of her son’s grave. And as the picture focused in, you could see the writing on the headstone. And it gave his awards–Purple Heart, Bronze Star–showed that he died in Iraq, gave his date of birth, date of death. He was 20 years old. And then, at the very top of the headstone, it didn’t have a Christian cross, it didn’t have the Star of David, it had crescent and a star of the Islamic faith. And his name was Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, and he was an American. He was born in New Jersey. He was 14 years old at the time of 9/11, and he waited until he can go serve his country, and he gave his life. Now, we have got to stop polarizing ourself in this way. And John McCain is as nondiscriminatory as anyone I know. But I’m troubled about the fact that, within the party, we have these kinds of expressions.

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Jeff Probst creates new “inspiring” show for CBS

Survivor’s Jeff Probst has created — and will host — a new reality pilot for CBS, EW.com has learned exclusively. The show, Live Like You’re Dying, will feature a person who has been given a terminal diagnosis with a finite amount of time to live and “take them on the last adventure of their life,” according to Probst. That adventure will include reunions with lost friends or formerly feuding family members, a “legacy moment” that will ensure their name carries on forever, and living out a personal dream. “It could be playing guitar with Eric Clapton or jumping out of a plane into a volcano,” Probst explained to EW.com. “Whatever it is that you’re still desiring to do in your life — we want to make it happen.”

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