Has anyone else noticed that Google Reader has been incredibly slow for the last couple of days? What gives? It's driving me crazy!

This is an old one.. I may have even posted it already, but here it is anyway – a squirrel drunk from fermented pumpkins:

Does anyone want to help me fund a crazy idea for a small-medium scale hydro/aeroponic greenhouse? The goal would be to grow the greatest amount of food in a given space, using energy and space saving designs. The greenhouse would be sectioned off into separate climate-controlled units, allowing a wide variety of plants to be grown under optimal conditions.

By using hydroponics and aeroponics, the need for soil is eliminated. This would allow plants to be spaced next to each other both vertically and horizontally, which would enable "3D" utilization of space, rather than the "2D" of traditional "in the ground" farms. A vertical farming system would also allow for plants to be moved more easily, and spaced more closely (like movable compact shelving in a library.)

The lighting system would be a hybrid system using both sunlight, and LEDs in light frequencies chosen specifically for optimum plant growth. By using both natural light and artificial light, the amount of light that plants get each day can be completely controlled, removing the limitations of clouds and even night.

As a bit of an afterthought – a section of the greenhouse could be used to grow algae. When the algae is ready to be harvested it could be sold off to supplement companies (depending on the type of algae being grown), used to create bio-diesel (to help power the lighting and climate control systems), and be used for other foodstuffs (algae can be made into flour.)

Just an idea.

Last night I attacked the wall in my sleep. Ok.. so.. maybe I just scraped my knuckles against the awll in my sleep hard enough to wake me up and hurt like hell, but I managed to fall asleep right away.

I woke up a couple hours later because, I must have bumped my hand, and my knuckles were burning like crazy. I turned on the light and noticed that they were covered with blood. Nice. Fun. AWESOME. Ugh.

So now I'm sporting band-aids on the ring and middle fingers of my left hand.

I'm going to have to start wearing gloves to bed.

The Carpet Shark claims another victim

It's been awhile since I've posted any lolcat pictures on here (I share them now on my "lolcat picks" feed, which you can subscribe to – FOR FREE – if you miss them)… but this one wins way too much for me not to share it with everyone!

That is all. 🙂

I just came up with a great idea for a game!

It's very simple to play, all you have to do is send me money through paypal! Doesn't that sound like fun? 😉

But that's not much of a game all by itself, so I need to add something else:
If someone sends at least $10, I will write their name on a piece of paper (Winner's Board) and put either a smiley face sticker next to it, or a gold star. For each $10 sent, the name gets one sticker – send $100, you get 10 stickers by your name.

Then, at the end of the month anyone with a sticker will be entered into a drawing (1 entry for each sticker) and the winner will get 30% of the donation total for that month. And I'll take a picture of the "Winner's Board" and email it to the winner.

All participants also get added to my Christmas Card list!