clam your rumble spheres, homestuck fandom
grandpa english is about to kill dead fish hitler who is betty crocker
Reblogged from Sylph of Space appreciation blog 2k12
theirreverentpilgrim
This is a tumblelog, kinda like a blog but with short-form, mixed-media posts with stuff I like. Scroll down a bit to start reading, or a bit more to read more about me.
there’s a special place in hell for people that tell you to calm down when you’re already calm during an argument
Reblogged from beep.beep.boop.
The World’s Largest Solar Thermal Power Plant
The outlines of a massive solar thermal power plant—the largest ever—are starting to appear in the wilderness outside of Las Vegas. The $2.2 billion project, which is being built by Oakland, California-based BrightSource, stretches over 3,600 acres near Ivanpah, California. When it’s finished, it will generate 370 megawatts of electricity on sunny days.
Even as the project nears completion, the future of solar thermal power plants is in doubt. That’s in large part because prices for solar panels—which convert sunlight to electricity directly—have dropped quickly in the last few years, causing at least one company to abandon plans to build solar thermal plants in favor of making ones that use solar panels.
Yet solar thermal has at least one great strength compared to many other types of solar power: the heat it produces is easy to store, so electricity can be generated even after the sun goes down, and power can be dispatched to the grid whenever it’s most needed.
Reblogged from crooked indifference
imma-robot asked: Peach and PINK. look we're question buddies!
It looks like we are question buddies! :)
Peach, my favorite teacher so far: Dr. Westerbeck, an English teacher who taught my ethics class last fall. She is an amazing person who was both highly intelligent and compassionate. Her class was challenging, fun, relevant and engaging even though I was going through a rough time.
PINK, the meaning behind my url: I consider myself to be on an intellectual and spiritual journey of self-discovery, hence the “pilgrim” part. However I also feel that a sense of humor is very important to this journey and because of some bad experiences with religion I’m not a very respectful and humble person so I tacked on “irreverent” and I love the delicious contradiction of those two words/ideas.
Anonymous asked: Gray, Magenta
Gray, a relationship story: well I’ve only been in two significant romantic relationships so I’m not exactly a font of humorous anecdotes but okay. In high school I dated a girl long-distance over the summer while she worked at a camp out of state. I spent the whole summer communicating with her almost every day by phone or post mail and the fourth day back she broke up with me. (what, no one said it had to be a good story!)
Magenta, something I don’t tell most people: I have to be careful in my dealings with people of faith because my own experiences have made religion a sore subject and if I’m not careful I can develop a lot of pretty nasty and irrational anger towards friends, family, and acquaintances.
a palette of questions
- Yellow: When you get older, where would you want to live?
- Orange: Where do you want to be right now?
- Lilac: What is your dream vacation?
- Beige: What is your favorite dream?
- White: Who was your first kiss?
- Purple: Who was your last kiss?
- Tangerine: Give a description of who you like.
- Gray: Share a relationship story.
- Green: Share a family story.
- Gold: Share a story that makes you smile.
- Black: Share something you did embarrassingly.
- Blue: Are you still friends with the people you met in elementary school?
- Magenta: What is something you barely tell anyone?
- Red: What are your hobbies?
- Violet: What college do you plan to attend?
- Brown: Would you rather have a relationship or friend with benefit? Explain.
- Peach: Who is your favorite teacher so far?
- Pink: What is the meaning behind your url?
Reblogged from beep.beep.boop.
Reblogged from krisiv
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