Crematorium Power Station???

Hey everyone, Shawn here. I read this over on Yahoo! Videos, and thought it was something worth mentioning on the blog. Apparently, over in southern Sweden, a small town is being energy efficient in a very odd and uncommon way. After the ashes have been removed from the furnaces, a crematorium in the town is diverting the 800 degree heat to warm the water supply for the resident's central heating. I, personally, see nothing wrong with doing this. They are just taking the heat and heating the pipes, not the water directly. It may seem a bit out there, but if you think about it, they are saving a hell of a lot of energy by doing this! Watch the quick 1 minute video below from Yahoo!

So what do you think?

Should they be doing this with the crematorium?

Hope to talk again soon!

Shawn

The Fun Theory

Hey everyone, it's been a little over a week since our last blog post, and I figured I'd check in and see how everything was going.

I recently came across a very interesting site called TheFunTheory.com. Basically, the site is sponsoring a little competition where people create fun ways of making the public have good habits, with a money reward for the best idea. For example: in one submission, they turned a public staircase into a piano, and saw how many people took the stairs instead of the escalator. Click play below to watch the video:



Another cool video that I found on thefuntheory.com is "The World's Deepest Bin"; basically a garbage can that they rigged with a speaker and motion sensor, so when someone throws garbage into it, it sounds like the garbage falls for a long time. Watch the video below:



See, even some of the biggest problems in the world like pollution and obesity can be fixed with something as simple as fun. Maybe there is hope for us still. Now lets get out there and build a staircase piano, get on it OCPJ!

Namaste,

Shawn

Anyone watch Michael Moore's new movie?

Hey everyone, just checking up. I love how our blog is coming out so far, what do you guys think? Anyway,  has anyone seen Michael Moore's new movie, Capitalism A Love Story? I've heard mixed reviews from people. If anyone has been keeping up with the OCPJ emails recently, which is near impossible because there are so many, Greg Winner sent an email out to everyone encouraging them to go watch it. Here is what he said:

To all of you, I strongly recommend that you see the new movie, Capitalism a Love Story.  Once again in my opinion Michael is telling us what we need to know.  See the movie and make your own conclusions.

Other major news sites are giving ratings as well; Users on IMDB.com gave it 2.6 out of 4 stars, Rolling Stone gave it 3.5 out of 4 stars, USA Today gave it 3 out of 4 stars.

The movie has won the little golden lion and the open prize, as well as being nominated for the golden lion. The golden lion is the highest prize given to a film at the Biennale Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most distinguished prizes.

Want to watch the trailer? Click the video below:



Also, I found this fun little game on Michael Moore's website. It's entitled, The Money To Burn Game. Click Here to open it up in a new window.   EDIT: The game has been removed from Michael's website, and I cannot find it anywhere else

Yours,

Shawn

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Welcome to our new blog!

Hi everyone! This is our first blog post, and I just wanted to introduce everyone to the whole "blogosphere" idea. What is a blog? Well, here is what wikipedia has to say:

blog (a contraction of the term "weblog")^[1] is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order.

So there you have it. Now you know what a blog is, see you later! No, I'm just playing. But seriously, what is THIS blog going to be for? Well, I plan on using our blog to post news and information that I think is relevant or interesting to OCPJ members. I say OUR blog because, although I am the one posting the information, I hope that you will send me requests or info that you would like to see posted. Provide me feedback, I implore you! I would love to know what you have to say. After each blog post, there will be a link that you can click to leave feedback/comments for the world to see!

I plan on updating our blog whenever the opportunity presents itself. Depending on how many people read the blog and respond to the posts, I will post more or less. Hopefully we get lots of readers! If you would like, you can subscribe to the blog and receive updates when a new post is made, either by email or by using an RSS reader. To read more on this and to subscribe, just click the links to the top right of the blog.

Until next time,

Shawn

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