Nisstyre's Corner

I do ponder how many people actually read this, at least the "Waterdeep" crowd, of course I see my other-world family is always peering about *waves* Birdman, Bat, Dog, Cat, Alien, Seal and ummm, Dolt. Cause I know not all of these posts would be found interesting, such as my ravings on the I-98 that they want to build, or of course Hillary Clinton cock-blocking things that would bring jobs to this part of NY. And video game violence, I mean holy shit it seems Grand Theft Auto has caused a massive uproar, PatrickW the person who unlocked the nudity and started this must be one proud mother-fucker, I frequent the GTAFORUMS.COM board and he's a major player, and I know he has gotten both good and bad e-mails for this. He gets a gold star from me, not because I'm into the whole cheesy pixel nipples and such like all the drooling 14 year olds who play the game are into...he unlocked it cause it was a feature removed from the game, and anyone who starts such noise, wish I could, but that'd involve me, a tanker truck and a school bus full of elementary children.

But its kind of weird when you are against something, and more or less going about it ignorant. My little redneck valley always has something to talk about, you gotta or else you will go CRAZY. The newspaper contains no news, our local news which is like "Seniorama" as old folks dance around an indian bingo parlor, or my favorite, the PUBLIC RECORD which if you get any kind of involvement with the police, and I do mean anything, you're name is in the paper explaining why. Most newspapers this section would be full of criminals, but in our paper its all about who had the broken headlight, who was DWIing, who ran the stop sign, I've been in there several times, and as my parents like to say as joke, bringing shame to the family, a family who has lived in this town most of its life and still, the name is unknown. There was only one thing they never wanted to see, Blah and Blah was found with X.X grams of Marjuana, and of course manslaughter. In the past years it has been about the SEAWAY AQUARIUM (Spelling, sorry) which was going to be this big fresh-water aquarium built near the power-dam and all our fancy ass Seaway shit. Half was being paid by the Seaway, half by an organization, oh well 5 years after raising donations the Seaway tells them to go fuck themselves and drops the plan. Nascar wanted to build a race-track here, nothing large, fancy or would be seen on TV, but a Nascar Class Racetrack. Would bring lots of jobs and shit, oh no, no one wants to take the noise. At the moment its building a small powerdam in the downtown area.

To the point, around this area there is also talk of a company building a Power Wind Mill Farm somewhere south of us in the foothills of the mountains. As usually I hear this and go "oh, ok..." cause I really don't care, they are talking about towns south of me, out of my site and not within local driving range. Ain't affecting me, so I don't care. Fun.

Then the signs start to pop up on the road, and remember I drive a truck, so I see the shit every single day. "NO WIND MILLS! - SaveUpstateNY.Com", so of course once again this gets me going. What the fuck is their problem, this entire region is more or less powered by "green" power, we have tons and tons of hydropower dams, nothing else. So they don't want to have these windmills, they'd rather have a nice COAL plant next to their house, yummy.

I go to their website to investigate, and maybe write a letter about what a bunch of assholes they are, kind of like PETA. I read the page, watch some videos, and holy shit if not for once my views were changed, rather than a bigger fire under my ass. Mainly due to aspect I did not realize.

There are a few windmills around here, local, small. The video showed a mountain ridge with like 5 of these fuckers on it, and holy shit they are massive. 389 feet tell, I mean christ almighty, I thought they were these tiny things like solar panels, had to have a billion of them to make things worth a damn. These suckers are just mamoth and yeah, i fully agree now we don't need that shit in this area, green power or not.

There are several aspects of the mills that have been brought up, things I sniggered at but now after the size and such, realize its gotta be true. One is called the "Flicker" effect, which is basically the shadow of the blades crossing over the sun, which as a slow moving fan in the window would, cause a shadow to travel over the area, their size of course, it'd be like the whole town going in and out of shadow at 1 second intervals, aka a strobe light. Well that's fun as a person who has had a seizure once in his life, and I will say the flicking of trees and the sun while driving gives me this funny feeling....(once again, I will die in a tanker truck full of rocket fuel).

Second was the noise, once again I didn't think they'd put off any, all I heard was the "underground" harmonics it gives off, this I only heard the half, which was it fucked up gophers and things that live beneath the dirt. Oh the poor creatures. Third was the "fowl" aspect. Caw-Caw-Caw-THUNK. Those blades spinning around no matter how slow...still a hazard to dumb creatures. This complaint can go fuck itself anyways, I can't count how many birds have perished against my truck, you know how birds love to be suicidal and fly close to you, then at the last minute quickly fly upwards and over your car roof? Now put a 3 foot wall above that, set back so you'd have enough time to say "oh shit.

And the shit doesn't create any jobs really, said 6 towers = 1 person, someone to clean up the birds and make sure the teenagers are not tieing people up to the blades. As for power, well the mother fucking wind needs to be blowing for one thing, otherwise it resorts to a diesel generator backup...hey wow, green power, the power of the dinosaurs.

So all in all thanks to that web site, I am against these things, but once again it has nothing to do with my town, which is at the base of the valley, 50-60 miles from the mountains, and not good for windmills. That and we have a giant hydro dam, and the indians wouldn't like us PUSHING the pollution from our three large industrial factories onto their reservation any faster.

Burn in hell Green Power.