What a Week

Well, I thought I’d give y’all a weekend update to let you know what’s going on. I’ve successfully kept my room clean for the most part all week… and I even intend on doing laundry over the weekend so it can’t get out of hand again. We’ll see how that goes. It’s been cool enough [...]

Punishment Lights

You may ask, “OK, what’s a punishment light?” But if you do, I know that you don’t live anywhere near Austin (or from what I hear, L.A.) Punishment Light: (n) – Traffic light with exceptionally long cycle time (Often 5 mins or more, for no apparent or logical reason) placed there by sadistic Department of [...]

Salt Water – Fuel of the Future?

It seems that a retired broadcast engineer from Pennsylvania, while working on a way to use heavy metals and radio waves to cure cancer by basically microwaving the damaged cells has stumbled upon a new fuel source, a most unlikely one at that. Salt Water. You know, the thing that covers 2/3 of the surface [...]

One Representative, Several Votes

I have to say that this video didn’t surprise me in the least…. But since the site that the link to it was sent to me on was polluted by pornographic spam, I thought I’d pass it on here in a much less offensive location. I might also point out that it is a common [...]

The infestation of common sense continues…

A district-based Austin City Council up for debate again In an unexpected, and bold move, a concerned citizen from East Austin has the city council considering a proposal to once again put single-member districts on the ballot for 2008. Unfortunately, due to group stupidity ignorance another misguided citizen is passing around a petition to prevent [...]