Monday's Missives

From a search for Little Brother

• Til Tuesday- Voices Carry.
• When that song came out I was in Germany and you could hear hear stuff like that every night in the discos. At the Bunny Club in Bad Hersfeld Hesse Germany my buddy put on a sex show for the scout platoon with one of the dancers on the stage. The next time I saw him he was a truck driver in Texas. He had his wife with him. We sat in the parking lot of the McDonald's in his tractor cab for a long time and visited. It was very nearly surreal.
• A funny thing about those times- I recall his full name occasionally- very rarely actually when he crosses my mind, but generally remember only his first name; Mike. I would love to see him again.
• Horsefly is offered as a substitute for Hersfeld.
• One of the things that I think about and then say but you never thought about until I said it but when you heard it, you knew it was true: Few things on humans are nastier looking than an unkempt,  poorly trimmed beard but hyper groomed beards are freaky looking.
• Unkempt? That looks weird and does not sound like it is spelled.
• 02/07/2013  We are going to Eisenhower state park weekend after next. I'm pretty sure we will rent a boat. If not cheap- since it is the off season, it will be as inexpensive as it will ever get. Zac can steer a boat very well and absolutely gets that the boat is doing what he says to do. I need to break out the GPS and get my head wrapped around that thing again. Same-same for the compass and as a matter of fact, I'm ordering some for my nephews, myself and Zac soon.
• When I stay at friend-girls house her cat sleeps on the back of the couch above my head. One night I dreamed I was screaming at it while pointing my finger in it's face. When I awoke my mouth was moving as if I was screaming but nothing was coming out and I had my index finger jabbed in it's side pushing for all I was worth. I swear it's look said, What did I do to you, freak?
• At work during lunch recently Little Brother program blocked access to three of the most tame blogs we visit. One was for adult content, another for gambling and the third for tasteless content.

A Prediction

• The time will come when capped off landfills will be extensively mined for the buried resources.




• Yes, I know that methane gas is already commonly extracted, it's one of the uses that causes me to make the above claim. What I mean is we'll see full scale efforts to take metals (for one) of course when standard extraction of raw materials becomes too expensive but, they'll be taking gasses and other components we may not even be familiar with for purposes we could only guess at now. There is a tremendous amount of energy potential in the giant landfills across the US.




• It will be more common as robotic technology becomes more sophisticated (especially sniffer tech.) and cheaper.




• The National Elephant Center is on a landfill site owned by Waste Management http://www.thenationalelephantcenter.org/ with elephants arriving late 2009.

• Already parks, housing developments, industrial parks are planned in other areas over closed landfills.

• When the public learns extractors are wanting to come in and exploit some of these sites communities will protest- so in essence instead of saying "Not in my backyard" to a dump as we've often heard in the past, they'll be saying, "Save Our Dump!"

The above picture is a landfill that's been converted to a wildlife preserve. Look here http://www.town.cedarburg.wi.us/cm/pdfs/Former%20Landfill%20to%20Park%20Examples.pdf for other examples.