Much Ado about Technology

Three things I learned from my lawyers...

I think I'm going to take a page out of President Bartlet's playbook. Fans of ​The West Wing​ will recall how he ended every meeting with a simple phrase...

The worst part about training a new Pandora station is when a song comes on that you love, but is quite clearly not in the genre you're trying to curate. You have to thumb-down the song, but you also really would like to hear it.

#FirstWorldProblems 

We lost power on Saturday due to PG&E's idiotic need to shut power off when high winds pose a fire threat. We got it back late yesterday. For those unaware, this is simply because of mismanagement over the past decade by a for-profit utility. But hey, why get all political, right?

Three Things I'd Like Right Now:

1. A 12kw Generac house backup generator, since it looks like these week-long power outages, multiple times per year, are going to be the "new normal" for the next five to seven years, or so they say.

2. A week of stopped-time to catch up on my TODO list, reading, and dare I say a little television.

3. Delicious cake. Enough said. 

CNN reports America's largest coal miner just filed for bankruptcy, as expected.

So much for "Promises Made, Promises Kept," Mr. Trump. Coal is obsolete. There are so many reason to celebrate this fact. I don't even need to be pleased that you're bass-ackwards policy was a bad one and it's yet another nail in your coffin-like legacy.

Though it does kinda feel good to tick that box.

Now, if only we could put some money into broadcast power and room-temperature superconducting so that we can be even that much more efficient...

Musings from the Starbucks.

Power companies are ditching coal in favor of cleaner alternatives at a rapid pace. US power plants are expected to consume less coal next year than at any point since President Jimmy Carter was in the White House, according to government forecasts released earlier this month.

-- CNN