While working out at the gym today (a rare occurrence), I was looking around the room, noticing that everyone was stepping, pedaling and treadmilling away. And then it hit me -- what if all gyms around the world were all plugged into some sort of global turbine? We'd have a constant source of clean power!

I was then reminded of a stroke of genius I once had somewhere around the 3rd grade. My idea was to install a small hand crank appliance in every home througout Earth. Everyday, your duty as a citizen would be to crank the handle for a set time -- nothing strenuous, say... 5 minutes. Perhaps a bonus system could be devised to award those that crank longer than they need too.

Anyway, the general idea was that, by the power of numbers, we'd all be powering the world. Self-sufficiently.

Other Notes

In unrelated news, I've moved some things around recently -- adding a Publications section to house articles, tips, and other works that aren't web sites themselves. This is also where the Photos section now lives, in case you miss it from the primary navigation.

I've also unceremoniously dubbed the weblog portion of the site "Notebook" (neither exciting, nor out of the ordinary), adding a tab to the navigation that brings you to the archives page for date, keyword or category browsing. Yay for site news.

And in unrelated to the unrelated news, I'm turning 30 tomorrow. Normally, I'd never think to announce my birthday. Everybody has them. Every year. But I suppose it's a milestone worth pondering. I feel numb to it at the moment -- and I think this makes perfect sense. People over 30 will probably tell you that turning 30 is no big deal, perhaps even saying that it's "great!". People under 30 will tell you that they don't want to turn 30 -- that it seems "old".

So here I am stuck in the middle not sure what to think. It'll work itself out in time though.