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"Wind-power firms face possible shutdowns"

We have *too much power*. What a country!

A huge amount of mountain snowpack this year might force wind-power companies to turn off their wind turbines later this year as there might not be enough space on the power grid for the power they produce.

 

Democrats and Republicans and compromising

This seems like a fundamental problem. I'm guessing these stats aren't unique to this particular disagreement:

While most recent polls indicated that a majority of Americans wanted congressional lawmakers to compromise rather than to stick to their guns on the budget, even it if meant a government shutdown, the same surveys indicate a partisan divide.

An NBC/Wall Street Journal released Wednesday indicated that 68 percent of Democrats said they want Democratic leaders in Congress to make compromises in the current budget battle, with 56 percent of Republicans, and 68 percent of self-described Tea Party supporters, wanting GOP lawmakers to stick to their positions, even if it leads to a shutdown.

My new ringtone

Don't tell me that creating this wasn't a productive use of my evening. (I know it wasn't. I just don't want to be told that.)

New Beastie Boys trailer

If you haven't already seen this everywhere else in the world, don't miss it:

Is it a crack pipe?

This could be the inaugural entry for my new blog, isitacrackpipe.blogspot.com.

So we often get random flotsam on our balcony ledge, either dropped from somewhere above, carried there by rats or crows, or hurled up from below, by hobos or Dalton. (I believe I can blame Dalton for many peanut shells, back when HL2 was down the street.)

But this is a new one, with fingerz for scale:

Video game deaths

My brain apparently retains an absurd amount of now-useless information, just based on how many of these deaths I remember vivdly: