<p>m&s,</p>
<p>Thanks for the welcome. Now let's see if I can get myself thrown out:</p>
<p>A British company has announced the development a computer chip which will store music in a woman's breast implants.</p>
<p>This is viewed as a major breakthrough as, up until now, women complained that men were staring at their breasts and not listening to them.</p>
<p>Misting temple should recycle H2O (or at least a good chunk of it) if we want it to be "green." Obviously, we don't want to recycle gross, dirty, sweaty water, so it has to get cleaned up first. </p>
<p>The quick, solar-powered way to clean water is to put it under a pyramid or dome made of glass. The water evaporates, condenses on the glass, and runs down the sides. It is collected at the bottom (so you have little channels around the base that collect the clean water, while the dirty water is in the center of the pyramid. </p>
<p>Aesthetically, we could put a lot of small ones underneath a grid (so you walk on the grid, the excess H2O falls through the cracks and is channeled into the pyramids) - it could actually be pretty (or maybe I'm a nerd). Alternatively, the runoff could be diverted to a solar-cleaning system (same as above) and then put back through the misters.</p>
<p>aries, the thing is, this is a dry desert area and the temperature is generally high. In Palm Springs, for example, they have misters that spray the sidewalk areas in front of buildings and there is never a puddle: it just evaporates immediately. Depending on how fine a mist you do, I think the water might mostly evaporate.</p>
<p>Audiophile,</p>
<p>Joke was so funny I spilled my six pack of Bud all over my SI Swimsuit issue. </p>
<p>Gotta go pump iron, watch the "big game", then get ready for the Monster truck rally this weekend.</p>
<p>(Removes toungue, firmly planted in cheek. It did make me laugh...)</p>
<p>hahahahahaha --audiophile! So true, so true... :D</p>
<p>Alumother - the great thing about conceptual art is having the 'concept' of buying it cross your mind is just as good as owing the residue.... Because you shared your intention with all of SA...you actually DO own a piece of it...ah I'm rambling, suffering from a little whiplash from car accident. :(</p>
<p>Sluggbug - enjoyed your update :)- fingers crossed for DS and great Decorated Dorm!</p>
<p>Thanks for the update on Sluggjr. Did he get the Tiki inspiration from SA? Does the dorm allow marmots?</p>
<p>"You can't have everything... where would you put it?" [credited to Steven Wright]</p>
<p>Conceptually sharing in conceptual art... I LIKE that concept! Alu, I think BHappy has the right approach, and I shall attempt to use it myself. (My simliar story has me living in NYC while Keith Haring was creating his public art in chalk on the black paper slapped over subway ads after they'd expired. I stood next to him on a subway platform while he sketched one night, and neither asked for his autograph or quick doodle (which he was famous for giving away), nor removed the art from the subway wall after he was done. I appear to have spent my adult art-collecting life making up for that non-event, but pretty much always regretting it. I shall now make peace with myself by remembering that his was <em>public</em> art, and if I took it, I'd be violating his artistic principles. Yeah. Like that'll work...)</p>
<p>BHappy, whiplash?! Yikes, that's distinctly not good. Ice it or whatever you're supposed to do like a good girl. Do we need to send out the rescue marmot with the keg of muscle relaxant on his collar?</p>
<p>amdg, I don't think dorms can allow or disallow marmots. They are not only slithery, they are hypnotic with the desk staff who check IDs, and if they want to help sluggjr inaugurate that tiki bar, I suspect they'll be there. :)</p>
<p>slugg -- lay out an Oriental Trading Company catalog somewhere where sluggjr can find it -- we used tiki-themed stuff from OTC to decorate the pre-wedding reception room for my bro and SIL a couple years ago, and they still talk about the inflatable tiki gods and the flamingo cups. Lots of appropriate decor items, and priced with the starving college student in mind.</p>
<p>I see Sluggson & Roomate attempting to make Ramen noodles over flaming Tiki torch in Dorm....ach, sorry there was a bit of cobweb and dust on my crystal ball...now I see clearly two lads studying at their desks, in silence...:D, whoa where is that rescue marmot witht the muscle relaxant?...While I'm waiting I'll just have a bowl of cornflakes and brandy..:), obviously delirious here, brain has detached from typing fingers, must go now</p>
<p>About the boyfriend's respect for the mother thing.. </p>
<p>I freak out every time I hear my bf talk to his mother/father on the phone. He loves them a lot but I feel like he has no respect for them - although he says he has a huge amount of respect for his mother in particular. I mentioned it a few times and he's all "My relationship with my parents is different than my relationship with you." and he started to treat me like that after a while until I *****ed him about it. Now he's a good boy. =]</p>
<p>Lesson? Nothing really, just dreading future casual phonecalls a couple of years from now..</p>
<p>Audio - you think you will get thrown out for that? One piece of data you might not have gotten, unless you pored over this thread, is that for whatever the reason, most of us denizens of Sinner's Alley (Sybbie and ariesathena of course notable exceptions) share a common issue.</p>
<p>We are the mother of sons. Meet, if you will, SluggS, TSFH, SBMom's SpaceBoy, Aluson oh he who bets on March Madness and wins, jym's son who at LEAST seems to be trying to earn scholarships, etc. etc. etc.</p>
<p>So joke on. Farts? Ha ha. Deadpan sarcasm? He he. Staying up to watch Maxim's Hot 100 and discussing Beyonce vs. Eva Mendes? No problem. Joke on.</p>
<p>Gee, the Alley is hoppin' today! </p>
<p>Congrats Cheers.</p>
<p>And Slugg, so S is going to college afterall, go Aggies!</p>
<p>Mootmom--congrats to you too, with one app done already! My D just made her list, and I was surprised at some of the schools on it--but it is still in flux, things could still change. She made a list of a bunch of schools that looked interesting, and if they charged for the application, she moved them off the list to look at later. And she decided to put Wooster on the list because of the name, likes the way it sounds . . .So far, 0 applications done . . .</p>
<p>I think we will have to purchase or 'rent' a misting system and find a eco friendly generator to run it. I don't think solar will do it. Happy to hear otherwise though. We should post the 'Help us Build a Misting Temple' as a separate thread.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.rapidcool.net/default.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.rapidcool.net/default.html</a></p>
<p>If we don't do a misting temple, we could hire the port a potty people to come in to clean the loos a couple of extra times....</p>
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Oh, I don't know.... I was seeing that tiki torch in use for the burning of Voodoo dolls of EvilNeighbors, FBIL's, and adcoms who do not do the bidding of rescue marmots.... Or maybe that's only during Parent Weekend. ;)</p>
<p>Oh yeah, other teen boys. Mstee has one at UChicago, jmmom dropped one off at JHU, BHappyMom, do you have any boys? So audio, you are just going to have to join in and figure out - what will you do for our temple at Burning Man? Set up the sound system?</p>
<p>Somehow just the words, Misting Temple, sound really good to me.</p>
<p>AudioP.Diddy and I will come up with playlists for many moods for Burning Man. I have 58 days of continuous music in MP3 format, some if it even produced in the last five years.</p>
<p>And I am also the lucky recipent of a teenage son, age 13.</p>
<p>And a 29' RV with generator AND COMMODE!</p>
<p>Alumother.</p>
<p>Point taken. I work with several women and they embarrass me far more often than I embarrass them.</p>
<p>I'll be happy to DJ. Did you say you wanted me to play "Misty" for you? ;)</p>
<p>BTW, I see that m&sdad and audiophile are firmly in the forefront of the new machosexual supplants metrosexual trend :p. Fortunately for SA, orange naugahyde booths are very macho and not at all metro. I am just glad that SA still has separate His and Hers .. ahem... facilities. Although Alumother has announced that she is not put off by the male species f*rting, etc...., I prefer that our menfolk keep certain of their demonstrations of machismo to themselves.</p>
<p>But I do use hair product and have been known on occasion to eat quiche.</p>
<p>In reality, I have never been to a monster truck show, and don't do my own automotive work.</p>
<p>Alu I'd never quite put together the mothers of sons connection. So funny!!!</p>