SCE&G – Potato Head Recipient

Potato Head Award

Today’s Potato Head Award goes to William B. Timmerman, SCANA Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer (parent to SCE&G) for requesting a rate increase in these economic times. Quick highlights of SCE&G’s 2009’s financial performance: $2.569 billion in revenues yielding $547 million in income. [Information obtained from SCANA's 10-K report found at http://www.scana.com/NR/rdonlyres/40FE6283-D1C3-4560-804A-3670F0F7C22B/0/200910K.pdf.]  Translation > for every $1 in revenue, SEC&G makes a profit of 21¢. WOW!  Wish we could generate a return like this in these economic times.  (more…)

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Earth Stands Still Possibility

Alien Communications "Risky"

The most interesting thought of the day came when reading Stephen Hawking claim that intelligent alien life forms almost certainly exist — but warns that communicating with them could be “too risky.”  OMG… he has a point.  My thoughts turn to the movie The Day The Earth Stood Still, but with a dramatically different ending!     (more…)

Tags: Space
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20 Years of Hubble

Carina Nebula

Twenty years ago, the space shuttle Discovery (the STS-31 mission) roared into orbit April 24, 1990, with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, a devise that would memorize and ignite our imagination for years to come. Celebrating this milestone, NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) are releasing stunning new pictures…  (more…)

Tags: NASA, Space
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Background(ers)

Lifetime's Army Wives

“Background, Camera, ACTION!” were words heard throughout the day in my self indulged day off as I joined our neighbors, Lifetime’s Army Wives, as a “background” extra on the set of an upcoming episode.  My stage name, “the professor”, because that was the part I was to play across from Harry Hamlin (my fellow law professor) in the courtyard of the law school.  Truly, this was one of those life experiences…  (more…)

Tags: lifestyle, Television
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Monitoring (electronically)

TED Monitor

TED (The Energy Detective http://www.theenergydetective.com/index.html) beta testing began today.  It took about an hour to complete the hardware installation, the another hour or so for software and program setup.  So far – so good…  (more…)

Tags: Greening, New Technologies
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Big Brother Now Visible on Radar Screen

Big Brother Looking In

Today, Google unveiled a tool [http://www.google.com/governmentrequests/] that shows the public how often individual governments around the world have asked for user information.  For years, search engines and ISPs have refused to publicly disclose how many times the law enforcement agencies have forced them to turn over information on users.   (more…)

Tags: Government
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“Holy City” and the Blue Angels

Documenting a Fun Weekend.

What a combo!  Blue Angels and the Holy City of Charleston, SC.  Continue reading this post to view the show…  (more…)

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The AV Professional’s Theme Song

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Green Certified – So What

Green Certified

Recently, a joint effort by two electronic industry groups released a “Home Technology Green Certification Reference Guide.”  The report covered 17 different certifications programs, outlining their respective geographic constraints, dwelling type eligibility, independent testing, and costs.  Ironic that this formalized structure (self authenticated in its importance) has been embraced by so many, so many willing to pay the price tag for certifying themselves.   (more…)

Tags: Great Conspiracy Theories, Greening
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Uncle Sam Is Looking for Big Ideas

Big Ideas

Muster the courage to submit your idea(s) in addressing society’s challenges.  Be apart of setting important national goals in areas such as health, energy, national security, education, and others.  Let your idea be addressed by “The Grand Challenges”  (more…)

Tags: Grand Challenges, Public service
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