So, guess what I’m picking up in about an hour…

Woohoo! Tonight is season 3’s finale 2-hour answer-all-the-questions extravaganza! OK, so they’ll probably create a lot more questions than they’ll answer, but at any rate, it should be good. The word on the street is it’s a “game-changing” episode! Woot!

The season 1 finale of Heroes was Monday, and while somewhat satisfying, it ultimately was a little disappointing. Things were headed to a great blowout, but kinda fizzled instead (no puns intended; if you watch the show you’ll know what I mean). I’ve heard that they’re going to do a mini-season called “Heroes: Origins” or something that will go back and tell some of the back stories of all the characters.

I’m looking forward to the DVDs of both shows so I can go back and pick up on all the little clues and foreshadowing that was dropped along the way. And it’s going to be a long year until BSG returns in 2008.

Hmmm…

The Story of Two Houses
Look over the descriptions of the following two houses and see if you can tell which belongs to an environmentalist:

HOUSE # 1:
A 20-room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house all heated by gas. In ONE MONTH ALONE this mansion consumes more energy than the average American household in an ENTIRE YEAR. The average bill for electricity and Natural gas runs over $2,400.00 per month. In natural gas alone (which last time we checked was a fossil fuel), this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not in a northern or Midwestern “snow belt,” either. It’s in the South.

HOUSE # 2:
Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university, this house incorporates every “green” feature current
home construction can provide. The house contains only 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on arid high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in winter and cools it in summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas, and it consumes 25% of the electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Flowers and shrubs native to the area blend the property into the surrounding rural landscape.

HOUSE # 1 (20 room energy guzzling mansion) is outside of Nashville, Tennessee. It is the abode of that renowned environmentalist (and filmmaker) Al Gore.

HOUSE # 2 (model eco-friendly house) is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas. Also known as “the Texas White House,” it is the private residence of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.

via e-mail, checked.

This is pretty funny: