Random: 7-minute Abs

You're dreamin' about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie time baby!

System Ops: Energy Storage So Simple It Just Might Work

I just learned about this today, PG&E was writing about this more than two years ago: PG&E Currents 

ARES energy storage technology employs a fleet of electric traction drive shuttle-trains, operating on a closed low-friction automated steel rail network to transport a field of heavy masses between two storage yards at different elevations.

No emissions
No fossil fuels used
Water not required
No hazardous waste created
No harmful extraction of materials
Clean decommissioning process with no lasting impacts to the natural environment.

Creators Website: ARES North America

Ancillary Services Facility from Advanced-RES on Vimeo.

Music: Violent Femmes "Add It Up" Rediscovered

I've been listening to the Violent Femmes' "Add It UP" the last three days and it's been a happy re-discovery

Of Interest: Texas GOP's Lack Of Grammar Calls Most Texans Gay

NPR: How The Wrong Verb Meant The Texas GOP Called Most Texans Gay

From The Archives: 37 Anne & Mine's Meet-a-versary

I met Anne for the first time 10 years ago today, and 7 years ago today I proposed to her. May 20th is a good day for Juan!

2006-07-06 The Fray Summerfest 

 2006-07-15 Everything Now At The King Club

2006-07-21 Julie And Patrick's Wedding Green Bay

Current Events: Reserving my right to bitch and moan now...

Hashtag: earlyvoting
Hashtag: californiaprimary
Hashtag: feelthebern

Found Coolness: The Stair Car Makes A Cameo

The Bluth family’s stair car had a cameo in Captain America: Civil War

You're going to get some hop-ons...

"Yes, the stair car from Arrested Development is apparently in the movie, appearing (fittingly) in the background of its big airport fight scene. You can’t see the Bluth Company’s actual logo in the movie, but the paint job on the personal stairway vehicle is pretty clear."

Found Coolness: Cue The Legend of Zelda "Secret Passage" Sound Effect!

Found Here: The Devil's Facebook Page

Music: 6th Grade Slow Dance (1991)

1. Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You
2. Paula Abdul - Rush Rush
3. Timmy T - One More Try
4. Extreme - More Than Words
5. Damn Yankees - High Enough
6. Bette Midler - From A Distance
7. Wilson Phillips - You're in Love
8. Céline Dion - Where Does My Heart Beat Now
9. Scorpions - Wind Of Change
10. FireHouse - Love of a Lifetime
11. Styx- Show Me the Way
12. Poison - Something to Believe In
13. Chris Isaak - Wicked Game
14. Queensrÿche - Silent Lucidity

Found Coolness: More Words From Zach Bowman

Bowman's Odyssey: Where Winter Never Ends

"We wander outside of town. Find a secluded forest road and set up camp next to a wall of red rock, read the lessons of the millennia written there. It’s quiet enough to hear the wind washing at the stone, doing the patient work that’s shaped this place. It’s tempting to see these hills as permanent. Fixed points in the wash of the world, but the truth is sweeter. They churn like the rest of us. The sights we’re seeing are a flash. That we’re fortunate to be where we are, when we are."

~Zach Bowman

I mentioned Zach's writing in a previous post and am sharing another post for you to click through on because 30 posts in it still stands up.  Follow along on his adventure and enjoy!

Of Interest: The Story of Shane Bitney Crone & Tom Bridegroom

I found this on my Facebook "on this day" feed.  I originally shared it 4 years ago and the story is still moving so I figured I'd share it again on here.