crazy: gerbils are go!

One of the reasons the weekly DS smoke sessions are great: Xianzhi doesn't lose it when I say something like, "All right, if one of the problems with the melting polar ice caps is that the planet reflects less heat, and then they melt some more, why don't we just install a bunch of mirrors at the polar ice caps?"

His reply: "You could probably have a bunch of mirrors orbiting the planet, and reflect the light to fields of solar cells. Boom! Cheap energy, and no more hydrocarbons."

Side note: why not hook a peltier cooler up to the CPU, but reversed? Instead of taking electricity to remove heat, take the heat and generate electricity. Have a massive heatsink on top of the peltier, and use the electricity to power the fan. Maybe even a battery to start up the fan initially, and have the peltier charge the battery.

Side note 2: Kat read the draft of the crypto paper (even after arriving home several hours late), and it made sense with some explaining. At this point, it's referenced, not written on scraps of paper and Starbucks bags, so it's losing a little of its mad scientist appeal.

Kat and Xianzhi, here's to you!