http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/ja-solar-and-innovalight-team-up-to-commercialize-silicon-ink/In the comments, one person comments that he can’t wait to see when the printable solar cell technology can be used for cars.He really doesn’t understand the energy involved in cars. At work we have 80-watt panels that are just huge. I think you could probably squeeze 8-10 of them on my car, for a total of about 800 watts power generation on a good, sunny day. Assuming that they are 9% efficient and the new solar cells are 18% efficient, that gives you 1.

I was searching the website about a band called Muse and what their political persuasions were. An interesting task given that they are foreign and US and European political terms don’t exactly match up. Their recent songs though seem very libertarian to me. On their forum, they used the term Liberal which is generally the european way of saying Libertarian, and to them is tied closely to anarchists. One of the posters on their forum though expressed disbelief at the american concept of Right wing Libertarians.

Reading a new comic called Templar, Arizona. It’s mildly political, but in a way that keeps me guessing about what the author’s own views are. But one thing in particular made me think.One of the characters espouses the idea that all prisons should be Vegan. I have no problem with people who themselves want to be vegan as long as they’re not trying to use the government to force me to do the same, but in this case I don’t have such a clearcut view on it.

Darth Paradox just posted another, so I figured I’d post my own update even though it’s not the end of the month yet. #17: Baens Universe: Volume 2 Issue 1. Big Guy: Story about giving a thirsty man water, and him gorging on it, or rather, an emotion starved android emotions. Running Water: Fun little adventure tale about a world where the coastal towns in california will do anything for water, and the future tech submarines they use to get it.

I’ve finished Dragon Quest 4! That means I’m officially half-way done with playing all of the mainline Dragon Quest games… at least until DQ9 comes out in the US. 36 hours and 19 minutes to complete. There’s still more bonus content, but I haven’t done that content on any of the DQ games yet… I really should get around to it at least on 4 and 8…36 hours is definitely short for a DQ game.

I normally don’t post about individual DVD series I watch until I can aggregate a bunch of them into one post, but this isn’t a normal series. I’m a David Weber fan, and enjoy the sort of political intrigue combined with the slow paced combat that his books provide. Starship Operators is probably the first TV show I’ve seen that really captures the essence of this sort of space combat and political intrigue all at once.

I didn’t get to as many as I wanted to in the last 2 months. With all the trips and constant working, it’s been hard to get any time in at all. If it wasn’t for the mobipocket on my phone I probably wouldn’t get any reading in.#12, Baen’s Universe series 1 issue 5. Stranger in Paradise was interesting. Slow boat colonization followed up by rediscovering all the old colonies. Marklord Pete has a wierd dystopian future where trademarks and intellectual property have run wild.

For ages now I’ve been operating my entire network presence off a single server, Precis.arkaic.com. This worked out pretty well as the antiquated 2.4ghz celeron was solid and hardly ever needed attention. Unfortunately my company was purchased and I needed a new home for my web/irc/etc hosting.I had some parts laying about that I was going to upgrade Precis with, so I took the oppourtunity to buy the last few remaining bits and assemble them.

I finished reading through this whole comic this weekend. Very interesting. I do have a couple of comments though.Miracle of ScienceThey said that there is no crime on Mars in it. Would your spleen steal your wallet? But there are examples of cells in the body going rogue and doing damage to those around it. It’s less a matter of stealing your wallet than stealing blood supplies and nutrients that other parts of the body would need, or damaging other parts of the body.

I’ve been tilting at a couple more windmills this month. The big one is IPv6. I’ve gotten my home network back up, this time through a Hurricane Electric tunnel. I’ve poked the new IT company that my new megacorp parent company hired to do our IT and prodded them about planning our IPv6 transition again. I’ve also mentioned yet again to another person from my home internet provider that it would be really nice to have IPv6 natively.