What the F*WK? "Renewable Energy Randomness"

This Foreign Affairs article somehow captured my imagination this morning. Two completely random - and very likely ludicrous - thoughts on renewable came to me on my commute in this morning:

1. Can someone please create energy producing workout equipment already?! I'm fairly positive this is technically possible, so can someone do it already? Can you think of a better place to be 'green' than a gym? (If it's not already been done, I'm claiming this as my invention now.)
2. If solar energy dominates the energy landscape in 20 years, will solar energy be stealing all the Sun's energy? I'm less positive on this issue, but I imagine there to be a finite amount of energy produced by the Sun at any given time. If we start stealing a bunch to power cars and buildings and space exploration, do flora and fauna suffer? If so, that sure would suck to have saved our environment from global warming only to destroy it due to global cooling...

Olivia Munn - She's Awesome

Olivia Munn, she of G4's Attack of the Show! fame is pretty freackin' awesome. 'Why?, you ask. Well, outside of being Hollywood's sexiest geek, she's in Date Night, and will be appear Iron Man 2 - how could you go wrong with that resume? Oh, and then there's this:

Random Thoughts Thursday

Inspired by Aaron's random thoughts, the assorted links blogs by Matthew Yglesias and Marginal Revolution, and Ezra Klein's "tab dump" posts, here some links I've been reading but don't have a strong angle to craft whole blogs around:

- I enjoyed this transcript of William Faulkner's great acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature while looking for a transcript of Obama's acceptance speech

- the public intoxication blog's fondness for the scale of 1 to 10 makes me want to use the scale in more daily situations... how much did you enjoy these random links, on a scale of 1 to 10?

- the site It Starts With Us is interesting (if sappy) for its concept, and I agree generally with this article describing why your attitude matters - because you influence others by proxy, and vice versa

- National Geographic has a photo gallery of the Best US Drives; a quiz about Jamaica; and a wintertime photo tour of the US

- the list of men who look like old lesbians that Scott linked to... seriously, it slays me

- Bill Simmons' discussion in his BS Report on 12/7 with Dave Jacoby that they had a fantasy draft of "celebrities most likely to be unfaithful in the next 12 months" a la Tiger... I move for FIWK to conduct more such random fantasy drafts

Random thoughts because I feel guilty about not adding in a while.

So I am sitting in BJ's watching the Chargers, enjoying a Piranha Pale Ale, and have decided to add many random thoughts since last Wednesday.

I love micro-breweries. BJ's Piranha Pale Ale today, Rock Bottom's Pale Ale on Friday. I always enjoy them.

Sitting in a random sports bar, watching your favorite team, but it's not the local team, it's always nice to sit down next to someone cheering for your team as well.

I LOVE pickup football games. I prefer tackle, but I'll take touch or flag. I can throw pretty well, but in a pickup game, as the QB, it's more important to make sure everyone on your team has some good catches and/or TDs they can remember.

It makes me happy to see the bruises on my arms and legs from a tackle football game.

Gum Flavors are Getting Stale

I love gum for two reasons:

1. It keeps my ADD in check for a good 2 hours - no really, it does! - which not much else can do.
2. I love all the different flavors you can find, as evidenced by this rather random Wikipedia page

With that 2nd point in mind, I've been dying to find out what random flavors of gum people want. For me, I'd love to try a stick of coffee gum, or blow a chocolate chip cookie dough gumball. What say ye?