Now, this is cool.
Sorry I’ve been out of touch. I’ve enjoyed juggling a sick car and a sick me while trying to catch up on various writing deadlines. I’m at last in the process of tying off the loose writing ends (the car seems to’ve been restored to health, if expensively; I’m still on the dicey side) and wanted to check in to announce I’m Not Dead Yet. Even if I strongly suspect I’ve entered onto my final thousand years of life.
Anyway, I wanted to restore my technophile cred after my last post (I still love that damn Cthulhu poster!) by mentioning this:
Enter the Q-Drum!
In this case, science can lift you up. Specifically, it’s a cheap, hygienic, easy-to-use device for hauling water.It shouldn’t be too hard to figure out how handy this could be in rural areas, especially in your poorer segments of the Third World (if it is, please click the link above.)
This is the sort of simple fix that can greatly increase the quality of life for some people who really could use it, and not improbably save some lives. I wish I knew of some way I could arrange to pay for a few of these things to be given out where they could do some good.
No doubt it’s coming.
Thanks to the Mr. Boat blog for the heads-up. When this guy says it deals with anything to do with water, he apparently isn’t kidding.
And if you’re wondering how I stumbled across that blog, I was looking for naked pictures of a beautiful Spanish model, thank you very much. Found one, too (NSFW.) (Duh: is nekkid picture.)
I’m sure you’re shocked. Shocked.
Tags: Science