"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it." - Franklin P. Jones

We start off this evening with a couple of very cool video clips.

I have no idea what a homopolar motor is but who cares? This is one of those amazing little demonstrations that cries out to be part of your post-Thanksgiving dinner conversation.
How to make a homopolar motor
(and if you're a home schooler this certainly fits in the curriculum somewhere)

This morning Steve sent me this. We've discussed via email whether they're all legit. He wonders about the guy with the baseball bat and I agree it's suspicious. But most of these are clearly legit, and very scary.
People are Awesome

The time change we didn't go through here in AZ has things all messed up. Shows which aren't tape-delayed are now on an hour later, seriously disrupting my routine. Yeah, that's mostly sports shows, but so what?
Aside from that bit of confusion I don't miss the semi-annual time change at all. I'm not sure why the rest of the country still does it. They've demonstrated it actually increases energy consumption, not reduces it as per the original justification for the plan. And nobody I know likes the abrupt change in sunrise and sunset times that comes with the fall and spring resets.

Admitted wonk Rep. Paul Ryan (R. - Wisc.) put forth in 2008 what he calls the "Roadmap for America's Future." It's a drastic and bold approach to our economic problems and tackles the three biggest budget issues - Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. It failed to get much attention at all, in large part because no politician on either side of the aisle wants to touch those three massive entitlement programs. He revised it some and released a new version in January of this year. What's interesting is that since last Tuesday's shift several Republican politicians have been mentioning the Roadmap as a plan worth serious consideration.

Tomorrow I'm working at a house in town changing the design of two closets. Instead of one closet rod with a shelf over it on each side of the two walk-in closets I'll make a high and low rod/shelf on each side. Demolition and rebuild should take a few hours but be fairly straightforward. A few extra shekels into the family budget.

So now the MNF game starts a little after 6:30 instead of 5:30. That means I only get 30 minutes of the game before Dancing with the Stars comes on. But I plan on leveraging this into frosted brownies or maybe a batch of snicker doodles. We call it the give-and-take of marriage.