I’ve just seen the podium set from which Obama will give his acceptance speech. He will speak in front of an arched colonnade behind which is the seating part of the stadium(50 yard line). http://www.drudgereport.com/otf.jpg

Why the greek motiffs. When I was 21 at Columbia which has similiar columns–I had a dream.

I dreamed that water flowed from higher pools to lower pools like you’ll see in greek and roman water works. The trouble was the higher pools were all saltwater pools. Somehow the water in the lower pools was freshwater. I wondered. How do the saltwater pools become freshwater pools.

One of the great innovations of the 21st century will be dirt cheap desalination. This one invention will (almost single handedly) double the size of the habitable planet.

Both Mark Warner and Hillary alluded to the fantastic rate of innovation currently occurring. As I listened to their speaches –what I heard was this;;”all we have to do is get elected and we can take credit for the fabulous innovations that will happen anyway.”