the zero house… pretty cool, some features:

• Off the power grid, no energy bill: uses solar energy with power to last a week with no sunlight.
• Only 650 square feet, but it includes 2 bedrooms, a full bathroom, living room, kitchen, storage, heating & air conditioning, and decks.
• Rainwater is collected, holding up to 22 000 gallons.
• Closed cell foam insulation.
• Compost unit underneath collects waste with ventilation through the roof.
• House is built onto the ground using helical anchors.

What I’d really like is a teleportable house!  It would be invisible, and could teleport in personal enviroments… so that although it may seem you are sleeping outside, it will feel like you are inside and protected from all the elements.  So really it would be kind of like an invisible house suit.  And all your waste would be teleported out of you, food into you, dirt disintegrated, and it would be powered by happy thoughts. 

But until then I guess this’ll have to do…

“Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.”  -Ann Landers

http://www.wefeelfine.org/index.html is a super interesting site, which is, basically, “an exploration of human emotion on a global scale.”   What it is does is “harvest” entries from blogs, and just kind of mashes them together in a plethora of ways.  It’s a lot more complex, and not as dumb sounding as I’m making it, so just check out the site if you’re even remotely interested….. and if you’re not even REMOTELY interested, hell, you shouldn’t even be reading this, because, quite frankly, only remotely interesting people (who, likewise, I expect to be remotely interested) read my blog.  nudge nudge.

It’s always so strange for me catching glimpses of people’s lives via the internet.  It’s for this strangeness that I personally refrain from joining facebook or myspace or friendster or such….  Its not that I have anything against these sites/things, its just they always inevitably makes me feel real awkward (more so than usual)… its hard to describe why!  But I’ll try….. what I realize is that when I did try using those sites in the past, when doing so I always felt this nagging itch… as if I were invading another’s privacy, albeit welcomed.  And being I value my own (privacy) admittedly more than most, it just didn’t and doesn’t feel right for me.  I submit that their are plenty of valid and good reasons to use those sites, but I can’t seem to get away from that feeling.  It is strange knowing someone without them directly knowing that you are getting to know them, if you know what I mean.

But then I realize that I’m writing this on MY blog, and I have to think about it twice.  I guess why this is okay for me and not “that” is because this seems one way and streamlined.  Everything I write is controlled, it is meant to be read, and likewise everything I read, to some degree, I figure must also be controlled.  But I won’t deny it still feels weird…. it is, in ways, kind of the same.  Oh no.  Am I becoming an old fogey?

Anyway, in keeping with the theme of wefeelfine.org, in parting, I will submit that today I am inordinately glad… just because.

I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.

-Arthur C. Clarke

Good people, today, in a stroke of fate, I read an email from a friend telling me to follow a certain link. That link led me to an astrological profile.  Now, if you know me, you know I was already kind of intrigued by the idea of astrology to begin with…. or at least amused!  But, good God, the addiction has been reawakened!  Re-inspired!  In the past 10 minutes I have learned more about myself than I had ever wanted to….  It is the funniest most surreal thing, and oh so strange! 

Below are some links to astrology sites, I dare you to follow them!  DOUBLE DARE!  Let me know if they give you any insight!  I say hey, you say hey..  I know a naysayer would argue that all astrology writers do is find something everyone can vaguely relate to, but I kid you not, I glanced at the profiles for others signs, and they are absolutely NOT me! But when I read my own, it is god damn eery!  I’d be very interested in seeing what the “success rate” is.

My favorite line is, “for them, everything about life is Big with a capital B”… Hells yes!

Do I believe in destiny?  I think i do.  People like to say, “oh if destiny exists, why do anything? Why don’t I just sit around and do absolutely nothing?”  And to this I say –  try.  Just try.

http://www.novia.net/~aaronk/ast/leo.html

http://www.astrology.com.au/12signs/leo.asp

http://www.ncbuy.com/entertainment/astrology/leo-about.html

http://www.eastrolog.com/astrology-zodiac/leo.php

I recently posted a petition, if you read it earlier and forwarded it, please backward it.  It is a hoax.  That said, be aware that some of the atrocities mentioned in the petition do in fact happen, if interested check out the below sites…. it is just the myth that the petition alleges instigates said actions that is false.http://www.saps.gov.za/org_profiles/core_function_components/fcs/hoax.htmhttp://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/babyrape.asp 

Some interesting links to a couple of articles I read that are in somewhat, sometimes, kind of, maybe, relation to the prior post.  They’re pretty much one big article, but its 15 pages, so I’ll give a short summary on each, and if it interests anyone, feel free!

what is a blog?  http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=6794172

a fantasy world where people make their own films http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=6794220

participatory media good or bad? http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=6794256

are many minds better than a few? the wiki principle http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=6794228

brief history of mass media and internet http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=6794156

journalism is becoming interactive http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=6794240

about podcasting http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=6794210

what is a media company? http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=6794282