The only upright lamps we have are either in the master bedroom or are behind other furniture so they can't be tipped over. Kids do seem to like the strobe effect of flicking a light on and off as quickly as they can though. Then add in the arguments they get in over who gets to turn on the light and the back and forth of them turning it on and off while arguing over who gets to turn the light on and it is a wonder that those CFLs make it 2 years. I gather that LED bulbs do much better with this duty cycle so once the existing bulbs fail they will be replaced with those.

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I take it you have never been audited by the IRS. Worst thing I have ever had to endure, and that was as a college student filing a 1040 EZ and only having one job and a checking account. It was similar to one of those somewhat creepy police interrogation scenes in movies meets the stereotypical DMV waiting room.

No, they were a loon, but apparently TV makers listen to loons.

When I got my project car insured a couple of months ago they asked if I wanted to do this even though I am getting limited use collector insurance on it. I wanted to see how far along I could go before they figured out that such a device won't work on a 68 MG Midget. Sadly the agent didn't catch on and at the very end I told her that it wouldn't work because the only electronics in the car are the lights and wipers and it doesn't have a computer let alone a diagnostic port.

The most recently replaced ones are the ones that the kids can reach and like to turn off and on a bunch (kitchen, dining room, and bathroom) so they only last a little more than 2 years but others in the house are getting close to 7 years old.

"It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If the—if he—if 'is' means is and never has been, that is not—that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement"
Do you really want to trust politicians?

You're not thinking big enough, why pull out a bomb when the whole over-sized fucking carry on bag is a bomb filled with explosives and nails, its not like your final destination requires a clean set of cloths. Also this would work best when done in the middle of a security line, on the busiest travel day which would also be a good time to have a "winter" coat on for some extra punch.

Understandable, most people have moved on from film so I think the screeners just have no idea what they are looking at with a basically all mechanical camera. The bulb cable also seems to cause them a lot of confusion as well. I have been tempted to take my Pocket Kodak No. 1 series II to see their reaction.

Personally I would put coordinates of various Geo Caches on there, might as well actually have them go on a treasure hunt.

Was it a SLR or DSLR? The TSA can't seem to figure out my SLR and have asked me to turn it on because they couldn't figure it out. On numerous occasions they have also opened it up ruining the film (I no longer fly with film in it), removed the lens to what I presume was checking to see if it was a firearm, and have wiped everything down checking for explosives. I find to really perplex them bring a set of macro rings as well.

Give it about 2 weeks then it will be implemented TSA wide.

Same here but I have a relative who is a supplier of professional fireworks which really makes getting them easy. Also we go up to a buddies lake lot and shoot them off the end of the dock over the lake.

And even there you aren't maximizing the value. I end up making a fair amount of biochar every year in my smoker and BBQ, both are home made since I didn't like the ones available for sale. Put in some trimming from relatives' apple, pear, or cherry trees and use those to give a nice flavor, I have also been know to dispose of apples and pears that aren't fit for consumption in similar fashion which really adds flavor. I save up the char from these and it gets added to the garden every year which also is where lots of other things end up like fish remains and other organic composts. Basically this is making some terra preta.

Well from what I have read we could meet out existing energy needs by covering 1% of earth's surface with 1% efficient solar panels since the earth receives about 10,000 times the energy from the sun that humans consume daily. Now granted we probably couldn't extract all that energy, and we would need to have some surplus built in for times like cloudy days so something like 10x our current daily consumption should be plenty which is still doable since 5% efficient panels are the really cheap crap and that only would require covering 2% of earth's surface. Now jump up to 10% efficient panels and we are back at 1% coverage and these are common and the numbers only get better with something like the higher end but still fairly common 14% panels. Granted local storage would be needed to provide smoothing and having a large national grid with larger regional storage would also probably be needed (if you have huge local storage this becomes less important) but with more intermittent renewable entering the energy market things like this will be needed anyway.

This also doesn't even get into cutting down on wasted energy which we have a lot of in the US. I don't want to sacrifice my standard of living one bit and I wouldn't want anyone else to either but to say going green would require living a lifestyle comparable to that of a nomadic loner is just being stupid.