A Good Imagination and a Pile of Junk

Scary shit from Greg Stillson Obama:

ZOGBY SATURDAY: Republican John McCain has pulled back within the margin of error… The three-day average holds steady, but McCain outpolled Obama 48% to 47% in Friday, one day, polling. He is beginning to cut into Obama’s lead among independents, is now leading among blue collar voters, has strengthened his lead among investors and among men, and is walloping Obama among NASCAR voters. Joe the Plumber may get his license after all…

(Text on Drudge, quoted from Zogby)

…and in other news….

Obama’s aunt is an illegal alien living in Southie who’s made a $260 donation to his campaign.

You can’t make this shit up people.

Every once in a while a light bulb threatens to turn on over my head.

Example.

It’s 1:53 in the morning and it’s pretty cold out, and I’m distracted by the sound of the refrigerator running.

For a couple minutes I kept looking back and forth between the wind blowing outside my windows to the left, and the fridge to the right.

Just seems sorta stupid the amount of energy being spent to keep things cold when it’s cold out. Sure, it’s not cold enough outside to do the trick yet. But it just seems to me that a fridge should have it’s back to an outside wall with insulated louvers behind it that open up when it’s cold to help it along. Then set the fridge in some kind of insulated shell so it’s more outwardly exposed while preventing bleed-through to the home.

I’ll bet you’d save a metric crapload of electricity between October and April/May. Any idea how much kwh a normal small apartment sized fridge uses? Multiply that by at least 10 in my building alone.

I’m no hippy but waste is waste.