Rally for the Republic

Yesterday I got to be a volunteer for the Rally for the Republic! It was a great event and as a volunteer I got to go backstage, see everyone up close, and shake a few hands! There is much more to say but I have to get caught up on my work. :-)

Mini-blog posts

I haven't had many posts recently but that doesn't mean that I have not had anything to say. I have found that Google Reader shared items are a great way to comment about news and blogs. Check out what I have been saying at James Stauffer's shared items. One downside to this is that I can't share by topic so it will be more broad than this blog (feel free to skip the programming stuff).

House idea: Improve A/C efficiency with cold water

Can the cold water coming into your house be used to make your air conditioning system more efficient?

Consider a system like the following:
When the cold water comes into the house it goes into a tank (like a water heater) and the A/C system heats up that water to a set temperature (only to the point where it was still cool). So instead of having cold water at the tap you would only have cool water.

Notes:

• The A/C system would have to work less because it is more efficient to pump the heat to the cold water than to the hot air outside.
• The hot water heater would work less because the cold water was already warmed some.
• Maybe there could be one hot water unit with 2 tanks -- one for the cool water and one for the hot water. The A/C system would warm both(to different temperatures) and there would be a normal heater for the hot water when the A/C system didn't heat it enough. There could also be one tank for hot water and the cool water could be made by mixing some hot water with the cold water.
• Some of the cool water would still need to be cooled but probably very little of it (drinking water in the refrigerator, ice cubes, etc).

How much would this help? Is there a better way to use the free "coldness" of the cold water.

How is money created?

As amazing as it sounds, most money is created from debt! Banks actually get to create money and they create much more money than the government does!
Watch the video below for an explanation. There is also more info on wikipedia.

Joel Amos

Joel Amos Stauffer was born at 1:00 AM on April 22nd.
He is 6 lbs 7 oz and 19 in. long, Joel and Annette are doing well.

Uncle again

See pictures and statistics at http://web.mac.com/dmstauffer1. Click on the left photo for more pictures.

WI 3rd congressional district candidate: Paul Stark

Paul Stark is running for the 3rd congressional district in WI.

Inflation

This says it all:

Cool Cakes

My sister-in-law, Sarah Mannon makes really cool cakes. Take a look at Sarah's cake album.

Wisconsin Primary

If you live in Wisconsin, don't forget to vote today! I'm planning to vote for Ron Paul.