So I sit here in my wife’s office (a few minutes down the road from our house) on New Years’ Eve as we are currently without power thanks to the high winds hitting our area. I would spend some time in this post bemoaning our above-ground power lines and Pepco’s limited tree management (granted they get a bunch of push back from people who want the trees to remain) but that won’t get any of us very far.

Anyway, while I’m sitting here, hours away from 2009, I came across some interesting tech-stuff. In reading about this, one wonders why we’re investing so much money in inferior and more dangerous technology. Specifically I’m talking about lighting – CFLs (Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs) vs. LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes). To date, LED technology hasn’t been economical or sufficient to supplant other lighting solutions for the home or office. But in reading this article, it appears that within a few years, we’ll be there…with a solution that doesn’t have an 11-step EPA dictated cleanup process. So, instead, tons of consumers are buying these CFLs at higher prices than standard incandescent lightbulbs and we’ll be left with all of these CFLs with mercury in them. Maybe not dangerous in small quantities, but taken as a whole, we’re creating a situation that with a little patience in technology, would have been avoided.

Be safe, and have a happy new year!

GorT

GorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ Century who routinely time-travels to steal expensive technology from the future and return it to the past for retroinvention. The profits from this pay all the Gormogons’ bills, including subsidizing this website. Some of the products he has introduced from the future include oven mitts, the Guinness widget, Oxy-Clean, and Dr. Pepper. Due to his immense cybernetic brain, GorT is able to produce a post in 0.023 seconds and research it in even less time. Only ’Puter spends less time on research. GorT speaks entirely in zeros and ones, but occasionally throws in a ڭ to annoy the Volgi. He is a massive proponent of science, technology, and energy development, and enjoys nothing more than taking the Czar’s more interesting scientific theories, going into the past, publishing them as his own, and then returning to take credit for them. He is the only Gormogon who is capable of doing math. Possessed of incredible strength, he understands the awesome responsibility that follows and only uses it to hurt people.