Live Smart: Check Out Meta Efficient Blog
If you’re like me, you spend some time every day stressing over the question, “Where the heck are the electric cars already?!” Okay, maybe not every day, but this question drives me crazy since it’s clearly LONG PAST HIGH TIME that electric vehicles were available. The Chevy Volt is now pushed out to 2010 0r 2011. So I did some research. While I was following link after link, I stumbled across MetaEfficient: A Guide to Optimal Things and their roundup of 100% electric vehicles. It’s a great list. They left off the space-age, three-wheeled Aptera, which is looking like a highly stylized choice for the trendsetter. But if you just want to know what’s available now, this is your list.
MetaEfficient also reviews computers and peripherals for the greenest energy use. They reviewed
rooftop wind turbines. How cool is that? Or how about a review of Japanese soaking tubs versus hot tubs? Nice! I love this site for all the great info about terrific products that I wouldn’t otherwise know about. In today’s world, with climate change and our bad, bad dependence on foreign oil, MetaEfficient is a smart site to check out.
Surviving the Economic Downturn: A Guide
Many website offer advice for keeping your finances above water in these times of great turmoil. Duh pookie is much too practical for that. Here is some “real-world” advice that should help to steer you through the times of great distress:
- Buy guns. Any kind will do, even plastic! We all know the criminals shoot better than we do, so a bluff might be the best bet.
- Store the guns in an underground bunker in that piece of property you’ve been meaning to buy outside of Bakersfield. This will be your safe-house, er, safe-yard, er, safe-dirt patch.
- Surround the dirt patch with heavy-gauge barbed wire, preferably razor-style. Make sure the opening to the bunker lies INSIDE of the fenced area!!
- If you are going to be a survivalist, do it in style. Be sexy like this lady >>>>
Everyone knows cleavage is the key to survival. If you are a dude, where a codpiece at all times. Family jewels and all! Not called that fer nuthin! - Whatever you do, don’t forget about food and gatorade. Cannibalism MUST be your last resort.
Once you have followed these steps to shore up your personal stability, you will be well on the way to riding out the doom and gloom of crashing financial markets. Stocks and dollars are just paper after all. It’s guns and ammo that separate the survivors from the turkey necks!! Good luck, Commando!!
Aliens Align for Obama
I’ve been closely following the campaign in all the blogs and news sources when it finally hit me: there’s been a significant rise in the number of UFO sightings reported recently!! We all know what this means! Yet another faction, yet another source of undue influence over our political system. I’ve had it. Between all the PAC money and special interests, do we really want aliens in the mix? I wrote to Senator Obama with my concerns. He completely assured me that he is immune from all forms of external influence, including alien mind control which has in the past been known to influence other politicians (including Alaska Senator Ted Stevens). The picture at left was sent by the Obama camp along with his reply letter. It *is* exciting to know the aliens love Obama as much as the Europeans do.
So then I felt better — until this! An excessively well-educated ex-astronaut from NASA has come forward with his shocking belief that we are not alone. This is no country bumpkin, this is a smart guy. He walked on the moon for nine 
hours. I’m thinkin he knows what he’s talking about. In fact I read somewhere recently that children in the US are more likely to recognize alien forms than bees when shown pictures. Why is our culture so heavily steeped in alien lore? Is our collective unconscious conspiring to prepare us as a species for universal politics? We can’t even handle the United Nations! We’re not ready! Start making your tinfoil hats, people. If Obama can hold out, so can we!
Got Lists? The True Meaning of Duh
So, I’m looking through my blog posts and considering changing the design when suddenly it hits me: Where the heck are the LISTS? You can’t have a blog without lists or it just isn’t a blog. We need TOP TEN!! So, I have to get the serious ones off my chest first. Later we’ll progress to inanity and absurdity.
This is a list of ideas that I think about often (I know, scary, you’ll see!) that really were supposed to be the topics for this blog. Hence the DUH part of the name. Without further ado, this list is the DUH list. As in, why haven’t we done these things? Cause — duh! — we so need to!
- Seek to reduce populations worldwide.
Why? Almost every major problem we face today, other than war which seems to be endemic to our species, has overpopulation as its root cause. Global warming, food distribution problems, resource wars (Iraq). I read recently that 100 years ago, we had only 1.65 billion people on the planet. Now only 100 years later, we have 6.7 billion. Eeeek! Here’s a groovy site
called World Mapper with an animation (kind of slow!) of a world map that changes shape to show proportionality for things like carbon emissions, prevalence of HIV, undernourished children, public health spending , etc. - Invent electric pod cars that don’t pollute.
I cannot believe that in a country that drives innovation as hard as ours does that we do not have a massive choice of electric vehicles powered by solar available to consumers. Where’s my pod vehicle people?! I want my pod to expand with more pods to hold my kids and my groceries. I want my pod to have a titanium frame so I can feel comfortable driving the cute little pod next to that neighbor of mine in the Cadillac ESCALADE
drinking her latte and talking on her cell phone. I want my pod to hook into some massive long distance rail system that even allows me to take my pod on trips. To Tahoe. To New York. Wherever, because then I’ll be able to unhook from the rail system and drive the rest of the way on roads. Guess who’s working on inventing a solar-powered electric car? Did you guess Toyota? Ford? Nope. It’s Dyson, the vacuum cleaner company. Cool. I can drive in into my house and clean my floors! - Poll citizens directly to influence federal spending.
Democracy my butt!! I don’t feel like I have any influence whatsoever on how the federal government spends that massive pot of money. Furthermore, I’m pissed at how they do spend it. (War? I don’t want to pay for killing people and bossing other countries around!) When was the last time my government asked me how I’d like my contribution to the federal budget spent? Oh, I’m supposed to pass that along to my local representative? Riiiiiigggghhhht. (See previous post.) That’s gonna make a huge difference cause my pockets are really deep. Oh wait, no they’re not. Dang. Can we have some secured polling here, people? Has no one heard of teh Internets?!
And that, in a nutshell, is the beginning of the duh list.
Evidence of Civilization Found on Mars
The NASA craft Phoenix landed on the surface of Mars yesterday and immediately sent back photos of the alien surface covered in Martian dirt. The probe took soil samples back to the onboard mass spectrometer where it was promptly discovered that the soil was composed entirely of discarded styrofoam packing peanuts.
Scientists were mystified at first. Chief Planetary Exploratory Engineer Dave C. Wood explained, “We had no idea why there were so many styrofoam peanuts.” It was two hours later when the probe unearthed a massive stack of unopened Christmas cards. “We realized then that there had indeed been a civilization on Mars. They were addicted to shipping Christmas presents. We believe it was the reason the whole civilization imploded beneath the weight of the peanuts.”
Scientists will continue to delve into this ongoing puzzle, but for now, world leaders of 112 nations are proposing a ban on holiday shipping worldwide. The head of the United Nations, Mr. Ban De Knuts, urged moderation from world citizens in the light of this new discovery. “All this time we have been thinking we need to curb our weapons of mass destruction. Now we find it is our shipping habits!”
Could we truly be the descendants of addictive shoppers and shippers? Further exploration will surely tell!
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