“The Constitution was written not to regulate you in any way, the purpose of the Constitution is to restrain the government.” Ron Paul.

I recently began using Facebook because they came out with a very nice application for the iPhone to use it. So that basically means that I’m blogging in two places. I’ve solved the problem a little bit by having my facebook page “subscribe” to my blog here on WordPress. That way when I blog something on WordPress, it automatically shows up on my Facebook page. However, I realized that I still have a bit of a problem. Last night I was talking to my parents and they asked for my blog URL. I wanted to give them my Facebook page, but you really can’t do that. In order to see my Facebook page, they have to have Facebook accounts themselves. I don’t think that’ll work for them. Oh well… The tribulations of living in the virtual online world. :^) I’ll just continue doing what I do, and my parents will only see the WordPress side of it.

It’s been a month since I’ve been home to Memphis. Tomorrow at 11:30 I’ll be headed home. I’m SO looking forward to that. I miss my wife, my kids, my dog, my house, my yard, my neighborhood. I do like my life here in Knoxville. I like my job. I have friends who I can do things with outside of work. And I like the Knoxville area. But because my family isn’t here with me, it just feels really disconnected. At any rate, I’m REALLY looking forward to getting home tomorrow.

I sang at a Karaoke bar the other night. I posted a pic on Facebook, but since my parents can’t see that, I’ll post a pic here as well…

Apparently this is “coming soon”. You drop your iPhone into a small laptop, and the laptop runs from your iPhone. VERY neat idea!

I find the speech from this Iraq Veteran to be truly inspiring towards the cause of freedom and liberty in our country.

This is pretty interesting. The reason it’s so interesting to me is that I actually came up with this idea on my own a number of years ago and attempted to build one at my house. Unfortunately, I didn’t have nearly enough magnets, and my prototype wouldn’t spin. It got trapped between magnetic fields because of the limited number of magnets that I was working with. I like the idea this guy used of having several rotors with offset magnet positions. This prevents the dead spots that I experienced with my little experiment.

At any rate, it’s cool to see technology like this. I think it holds great potential. Imagine if every house and every car could have a power generator like this that doesn’t require fossil fuels to run. Amazing. I hope I see that become a reality in my lifetime.