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Watching the latest episode of Tegenlicht has turned my outlook on the future very positive, as it covered renewable energy – in particular solar energy, not the pathetic excuse of renewable energy that most of the established energy companies are supporting as a good way to gain public favour. 550 kilometer by 550 kilometers is all we need to supply the entire planet with more than enough energy, annually. And who knew that the Germans were pulling the wagon on this one!? I’m feeling much, much better and happier after having seen that episode. Now, if one of the American presidential candidates would have the balls to support this, instead of nuclear energy or off-shore drilling, my day would be near perfect. I mean, for God’s sake, the U.S. has the oldestConcentrated Solar Power plant in the world, nearly two decades old. You’d think they’d be on this like white on rice.
This also, once again, makes it clear to me that I am in the wrong business. I miss the feeling of pushing the boundaries, being on the cutting edge and making a change, instead of just being a cog in the system that seems to get most of everything wrong. I’m perpetuating the problem rather than being part of the solution. Don’t worry, it won’t be long before I pick up my life as a docile consumer and bleet to the tunes of my favourite brands! Fear not.
Speaking of which, I’ve been watching a lot of Alex Jones movies and listening to a lot of his stuff on www.infowars.com and www.prisonplanet.com, and while I think he takes his Illuminati and tri-lateral commission stuff a little bit too far, I do enjoy his rants and topics. Pretty soon I’ll be carrying my own tinfoil hat everywhere and look over my shoulder for black government helicopters following me to and from work.
Again, Blizzard seems to have struck pay-dirt with their last patch, v3.0.2., a.k.a. the Wrath of the Lich King prepatch, where the introduced so-called achievements, little milestones you can reach to make things interesting. some of them are really easy to reach, and some of them are hard as hell. They have turned about 10 million people worldwide into crackheads as everyone is hunting after their next *ding*. I had noticed that while people had pretty much done everything they had wanted to do in The Burning Crusade people started to invade my territory, reputation grinding, out of boredom. I do it because it gives me a goal and it’s less demanding than raiding (and I want to be liked by everyone.) Undoubtedly having spotted the same trend, they introduce an element that falls in between questing and rep-grinding; achievements! Nice move, very clever.