"Where in the world did you get the idea that i had something to say, words have a way of falling upside down inside your space..."

I'm in a good mood but don't know what to say.....I'll come back to this later. I'll just continue to jump around to Jack Drag on my iPod......speaking of MUSIC.... Have you listened to Blitzen Trapper!? LOVE 'EM! You might to. Check them out.


This post will change when I can think of a more interesting topic than what songs I'm listening to at the moment.


Although, I find it fascinating!

One of my songs I LOVE right now is Inní Mér Syngur Vitleysingur by Sigur Rós.

BUT..... They are from Iceland and up until this day today I HAD NO CLUE what the song was about really. I just went to lyricwiki.org and found out. I will share it with you in english!


A silver river

Illuminates the whole world and blue eyes

Cut the starry sky

I make a wish and now I close my eyes

Yes, do that, may it now come true

Oh no

At the speed of the stars

Inside my heart explodes, an airplane rumble

Cracked open the earth sings

I make a wish and now I close my eyes

Yes, do that, a little dance

Everything is forgotten in a bliss, and may it come true

I open my eyes

Oh no

My best friend whatever may happen

I swallow a tear and breathe in your hair

Making a ruckus, we cry on each other's arms

When we meet

When we kiss

Lips burning, holding hands

I see you waking up

I see you naked

Within me a lunatic sings

Always you wade, we run faster

Everything becomes smaller, I scream louder

Am about to wade, going away

My best friend whatever may happen

Making a ruckus, we cry on each other's arms

I swallow a tear and breathe in your hair

When we meet

When we kiss

Lips burning, holding hands

I see you waking up

I see you naked

Within me a lunatic sings

SEE....isn't it a great song, now you MUST hear it. It makes you wanna smile and dance around.

Something fun and light hearted!

1. open your music library (i-tunes, wiamp, media player)

2. put it on shuffle

3. press play

4. for the first question, type the song that's playing

5. when you go to a new question, press the next button twice

6. don't lie and try to pretend you're cool

7. tag 10 people and they have to do it too:)

IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE:

Opening credits:
The Heart of Saturday Night – Tom Waits

Waking up:
Most Likely you go your way and I’ll go mine – Bob Dylan

1st Day of School:
She Talks To Rainbows – The Ramones

Falling in Love:
Moonlight Drive – The Doors

Losing Virginity:
Fumbling Towards Ecstasy – Sarah McLachlan

Fight Song:
Public Square - Japanther

Breakin' up:
Nervous Breakdown – Black Flag

Prom:
Jesus Saves - Slayer

Life:
16 shells from a 30-ought six – Tom Waits

Mental Breakdown:
This Ain’t the Summer of Love – L7

Driving:
Let’s Dance – David Bowie

Flashback:
We Laugh Indoors –Death Cab For Cutie

Getting Back Together:
Forbidden Love - Madonna

Wedding:
Little Amsterdam – Tori Amos

Birth of Child:
You Suck – The Murmurs

Final Battle:
Swagger - Flogging Molly

End Credits:
Church Hymn For the Condemned – Johnny Hobo and The Freight Trains

Death:
Oh! Darling – The Beatles

Funeral: Sassafras Roots – Greenday

Oh, BOY DO I....

In high school I had a science fair project explode.....we were making hydrogen out of lye and nickel in a fish tank full of water, all to fill a balloon. The project was awesome and it really did work, but I can't say that I fully understand where it went wrong. It started to smoke and we turned it off, but then without us knowing someone [who will go unnamed] turned the experiment back on and....minutes later !!!BAM!!! waaa waaa waaaw waaaaww [that's the sound I heard, as I was sitting next to the tank, and everything around me was moving in slow motion]

So I realize first hand that hydrogen can be dangerous [well I realize this now]. But I've read somethings that really interested me and my friend Claire brought up a few good points that I wanted to research. But, I am at work so my research is limited by time and limited access to reliable resources.

Like I said I don't know much about all the scientific stuff so bear with me.

They are still finding better ways to make things work everyday and that goes for hydrogen, research on hydrogen fuel cells is ongoing, and improvements will continue to be discovered. For example I read that to prove the safety of its hydrogen vehicles, BMW tested its hydrogen tanks in a series of accident simulations that included collision, fire and tank ruptures. In all cases, the hydrogen cars fared as well as conventional gasoline vehicles. And hydrogen-fueled cars are designed to preclude the possibility of leaked hydrogen collecting within the vehicle.

Also this has NOTHING to do with hydrogen fuel cells in cars, but.....did you know that hydrogen does not pool or soak into things like gasoline does...... Apparently hydrogen is SO light, that when leaked it disperses and floats skyward.

There was a college of engineering in Miami that wanted to test hydrogen and how it would burn once leaked. They let 3000 cubic feet per minute of hydrogen leak from a vehicle and set on fire. They put temperature sensors inside the vehicle to monitor the temp. During the blaze the sensors inside the vehicle did not measure an increase of more than 1 or 2 degrees centigrade anywhere inside. The temp on the outside of the vehicle did not go any higher then that of a vehicle sitting in sunlight! CRAZY isn't it!? Almost unbelievable. I guess that when a carbon-based fuel such as gasoline burns, glowing hot soot particles transfer the heat to what ever it lands on. But hydrogen contains no carbon, it burns clean with out any soot residue, it infact produces little radiant energy and in order to get burned from a hydrogen fire you would have to be practically in the flame.

Whew, I don't mean to be so long winded! I'm just fascinated that's all.

I've read that hydrogen may be friendlier to our environment but definitely not friendly to our pocket books, that's partly why it hasn't caught on everywhere yet. I guess they already have hydrogen fueling stations around the world, because some places actually are using hydrogen power. I think Iceland was one of those places. I also heard that the "Gov-a-nator" wants a hydrogen highway in the near future with hydrogen fueling stations and what not.

As for my mentioning Stanford Ovshinsky yesterday, it was mainly to note his many patents and how smart he is. He and his wife have been able to do something with their intelligence, when they have an idea they do something about it! I admire that completely!

I can only dream of being as smart as that man and his wife.

I'd like you to meet Stan Ovshinsky, one of my heroes...

Stan is a genius, he is named as one of the thirty-five inventors who helped to shape the modern world.

One of the basic ideas that helped build his career was the lifelong motivation: "I'd like to be able to make a better world."

For more than 45 years he's invented and pioneered a new field in science, the "fundamentally new science of amorphous and disordered materials." All in pursuit of new kinds of electronics, batteries, and power sources that would be less harmful to the environment, less polluting but yet still as powerful and efficient to what we use today.

Stan and his wife Iris founded Energy Conversion Devices, Inc (ECD Ovonics) in 1960 with the purpose of using science and technology to solve serious problems in society.

I learned about Stan one day long ago watching PBS with my mom. It was a total accident too, we were turning the TV on to begin watching a teeny bopper chick flick, when we heard Alan Alda's voice introducing his show Scientific American Frontiers. It was their Hydrogen Hopes episode. We both agreed to watch this episode first because the topic really interested us a lot.

The show talked about cars ran by hydrogen, and had Alan kneeling on the ground sniffing the exhaust pipe of a hybrid Ford Focus. [I think that's what caught our attention and made us want to watch] Then they introduce us to Stan and Iris Ovshinsky.

They talk about how Stan and Iris invented a solid alloy block that soaks up hydrogen like a sponge. They have ideas on how to run a car safely off compressed hydrogen. In fact their personal car runs on hydrogen and Alan Alda borrowed the car for the show. That's just one of their many ideas that make me enthralled in their work.

I'm not all that scientific [I can hear those that know me laughing], okay, I am no where near a scientific mind. But I know when I hear something that interests me. Stan and Iris invented these panels that use solar hydrogen. Several structures around the world already use the Ovshinsky's solar panels. I guess that these panels are less efficient in bright sunlight than a normal solar panels but can still create energy even in dim sunlight and in rain, which keeps them desirable. Stan even invented a machine that can make six strips of his panels at a time, each a mile and a half long. His goal is to make electricity from an energy that is as cheap as coal, then turn that electricity into hydrogen.

Anything that might help make the earth a healthier place, and NOT go back to the stone age, totally interests me.

Some of Stan's other discoveries are actually things you and I use daily.

Such as rewritable CD and DVDs.

He's also invented a rechargeable battery that is longer lasting, lighter and smaller than the conventional battery. Which he claims to be environmentally safe because it is lacking the lead that is found in traditional auto batteries. Stan's nickel metal hydride battery is now used in everything from cell phones, to laptops, to electric and hybrid cars.

This is only the little bit's that I have read up on him. There is much more to his story than I can tell you in my itty bitty blog.

One thing that I admire about the Ovshinsky duo is that they have worked and lived together for SO MANY years and they are still such a cute, happy, loving couple. Even in their 80's they continue to care about the environment and Stan continues to invent.

Sometimes people are awesome!

Sometimes is never quite enough....

Yay. We have sun today!

This SUNSHINE that we are seeing today, truly ignites my inner day dreamer.

I want to go lay out under a tree, on a bright blue blanket, sipping lemon aid while listening to the sounds of the woods behind me.

OR better yet...

I want to find a pond or a lake somewhere secluded in the forest. Fill a wooden row boat full of pillows made of bright Victorian or Indian fabrics. Bring a parasol and a favorite book, and lay back in the boat and float for hours and hours on end.

Either of those sound like the PERFECT summer day to me. I've tried to create those perfect days for me, but I think I tend to OVER PLAN everything and it never is quite what I want it to be.

I'm of course ignoring the temp and the snow and the fact that I am working and that it's not ACTUALLY summer yet. Sitting in this office surrounded by windows, I tend to forget.

Speaking of summer....

I want more then ever this year to be able take my pictures this summer. I've always wanted to take some friends and some props out into the forest and stage up these perfect photographic moments. So that I could practice and build up my portfolio.

But honestly I don't know if I have what it takes to be a photographer.

I can see this PERFECT picture in my head, but it NEVER turns out the way I have it all planned.

Maybe I need to take classes before I try and build my portfolio. That's a whole other can of worms....Can I afford school!? Can I go to school around my work hours!? Is it going to make a difference!? Yikes.

BUT before I go and play I need to get my house in order! While the weather is pretty, it is still real cold out. Before it gets warmer I need to clean up get organized and dump things I don't really need. If I wait till summer things will never get done, because I'll want to be out playing and having picnics.

That's my number one goal for the month of March, CLEAN HOUSE!!!!

We'll see. I will pick up my part, as for the rest of the house, all in due time I guess.

It's getting late in the day, I'm almost off work. I best go finish my paper work and leave the daydreaming for the drive home.