Hitting the bricks for some links for you!

I’ve been going through my RSS feed from my blog reader, and I though I should show you some of the stuff I have found.
First up, we have some news that I was googling about alternative power sources, especially piezo generators, and while actual piezo transducers would work for wind power transmition, a ribbon generator is very possible and could be built for just a few dollars. Developed for third world countries for cheap power, it is actually based on old technology. Think Violin bow. Yeah, that simple of an idea! It’s called the aeroelastic flutter. Watch this video and then go to the website of the guys who played with this idea!
Also, I got hit over the head with several of popular science articles. How about a home built electric racing motorcycle? Page two of the article is a killer idea about using compressed air to power a moped. And page three is a homebuilt electric car.
The article that started it all was the killer ideas that I will expound on in a later blog post. There are several technologies I want to explore for my villiage! Of course this was for a city concept, but some of this could be used now! Check out the future mega city.
There are some things to note for sure! The new wind tower design, the garden towers, the sidewalk piezo power generator (where I started looking for some other ideas), the magnet powered buses, the rail pods, and many of the other ideas. I will be coming back to this one for sure!

Another set of ideas that were presented in another POP SCI article, was the 10 audacious ideas to save the world. I’m not crazy about the microwave solar satellites, or the flocked plants, but there were other ideas like the nuclear power plants to produce synthetic gasoline from the carbon dioxide from the air. Or the methane digester, powered by sewer systems. Of course, then there is the awesome use of hog urea for plastics and deicers… uh yeah, pig pee… Or then the mini nuke 4S “battery”…
Of course my main source for alot of these things was terrain.org. And there is one more thing I’d like to highlight from their recent blog issue. A highlight of a recently built new urbanist community. I’d love to visit this place!

BTW, this is the first time I haven’t used a outsource editor for my blog. I’m actually writing this from the wordpress area. I love using BlogDesk, but after it messed with my supposed post for Sarah’s birthday, which never got published, and it didn’t seem right to publish it after her birthday… So then I started using the Firefox plug in Scribefire, which is awesome for note collecting, but I have to come here to wordpress to edit my html tags so they’ll actually work, and of course it always post it to uncategorized, whether I change the check boxes or not… But both Scribefire and BlogDesk (which is a separate program) post to all of my blogs should I so desire… So what is a guy to do?

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Yes I know… The actual WP window itself is killing my links the same way it was killing my ScribeFire and BlogDesk links… It’s on WordPress, not my programs. So I guess I’ll start looking for other ways. Anybody know of a good blog site?

Starting a New Push on Squidoo

From a yearning several years ago, after realising that I was among our area’s premier and most sought after flooring and tile installers, I began thinking about how I might write a how to on all of my 24 years of experience.

I wasn’t just an installer. I was a think tank, a problem solver. I had to make things work that weren’t supposed to work. Anyway, I was writing a similar prospect ‘lens’ on Squidoo about how to start a band, when it hit me. Here is the perfect venue for creating this content.

So here we go, a project that will probably encompass nearly 50 to 70 lenses just by itself. The Keystone’s Flooring Expose. I have started with carpet, because thats where I started. But I will be pushing it to new heights and depths as I explain specialty tools, show installation secrets, and many other mixes for problems that you might come across while installing your own flooring.

First, a little house keeping of my own. A wonderful new affliate that I have found that I will some be creating a niche site for. I’ll let you know where and when I have it up.

Of course with all of this I also have a lot of drawing to do, because I don’t do much floorcovering anymore. I have a metrofloor job in my living room coming up that I can show you step by steps on, as well as doing vinyl in the hall bath, and carpet in our bedrooms, so look for that soon.

But for now I will lead you down the path of enlightenment for the first two installments of the Keystone’s Flooring Expose – Carpet and it’s newest informative child Terminology And Materials which isn’t quite what I want to see yet but it’s ready for you to see!  Don’t forget to comment to let me know you were there!

Hotrodding Music by Design

Yo! Keystone here. I’ve spent a little time putting together a sweet combo for stage or recording. Or even jamming.

This is a tonally correct Eric Johnson Strat from the Fender Custom Shop.

Now I could add the cables I picked out too but I think you probably know where you can get those!