Keyboard Meme

You Are "alt"

Some people might find you to be strange, mysterious, and even a bit off putting. You tend to be drawn to and influenced by alternative lifestyles. You're definitely not normal. Once people get to know you, they realize you're interesting, intriguing, and very intelligent. You have a lot of knowledge stored in that big brain of yours. Most of it is useless knowledge, but some of it is very useful.

What Keyboard Key Are You?

What We Can Do

Excellent post by Rufinia -- quote about how if we want change and improvement in our country we're going to have to help make it happen.

I agree completely, and have in fact already written to my local representative and senator today. About clotheslines. I know, probably sounds stupid, but a lot of folks use a lot of energy to dry clothing. From what I can find online, anywhere from 6% to 15% of home energy use goes into drying clothes. That's quite a bit actually, and in dollars it adds up.

Why write to legislators about this? Because a lot of people can't hang anything up outdoors -- many rentals and also home owner associations. Why isn't it allowed? Because only poor people would do such a thing, of course.

These days, even our electric company is putting ads on television and in with the billing statement with ideas on how to save energy. Why would they do that? Well in part because they have a hard time providing enough energy during times of extreme weather, when lots of people crank up their AC or heaters -- residents saving energy are a boon to them in being able to provide power in a predictable and reliable manner.

So yeah. It's our country, let's all do something!

And now, I'm going to shut down the PC for a while :)