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After reading about the Fisker Karma and seeing that it has a solar panel that takes up the whole top of the car, I started to think about parking ramps.

Currently in the ramp where I park, I feel slighted if I have to park on the roof. In the summer my car is too hot and the winter it is too cold, so the roof parking is inherently the worst place in the whole ramp. But what if every car had a solar panel on their roof. That would make the roof the premium place to park, don’t you think?

I understand that this won’t happen anytime soon. The Karma is going to be expected to cost $80,000 to begin with and won’t get down to their sweet spot of $40,000 for a while, which is still too high for the majority of car buyers.

But won’t it be cool to be able to go 50 miles on electricity before the gasoline engine kicks in? How about getting 8 hours of sunlight to recharge before going home? As it is, 50 miles would be just enough for our commute right now.

The New Xbox Experience landed on my Xbox360 this morning. I didn’t get to play with it too much before work, but so far it looks pretty cool.

This is my new Avatar.

This last weekend at church, Pastor Bob talked about unease in the current economic reality. I am too young to remember, but evidently there have been lots of economic cycles before this one, the last being a couple decades ago and going back even as far as Egypt in Joesph’s time.

For instance the Feb 8, 1982 Time Cover talks about unemployment. We have the same issues now.

The January 19, 1981 issue talks about the incoming president’s greatest challenge being the economy. Then it was Reagan, now it is NObama.

July 7, 1989 talks about OPEC tightening the oil supply to make Gas prices sky rocket.

It is fascinating to look back at the various Time Magazine covers and see the cycles that keep repeating every so often. Here is another reason to study history so we can see that we can weather the storm and things will get better. We also need to remember that things will get worse.

I’ll update more when this weekends sermon gets posted and I can go back and look at it.