Great news! I’ve managed to capture another blogger for sikkdays.com! Honestly I didn’t capture him, he offered to help out. Plus, he doesn’t have my address so he won’t be able to bill me for his work.

Anyway, Mr. burdenday was the community manager at the game formerly known as PMOG and now he is a community manager/designer at Rise & Ruin. You can also find him at burdenday.com where he shares his experiences managing online communities.  burdenday is just about finished with his English major, so this will be a definite upgrade for those of you that don’t just come here for the pics and videos.

Some of you may be familiar with burdenday, but for those of you that do not know him below are some questions I emailed him along with his answers:

#1) Cake or Pie?

Beefcake!  No seriously though, I’ve never been one much for sweets, but I do appreciate some yellow cake when appropriate.

#2) Do you think it is fair to the other colors of the spectrum to pick a favorite?

Look – here in America we’ve had a long standing tradition of choosing a favorite color and alienating the rest of the spectrum with our “favorite color exceptionalism.”  I’m here to change that 20th century carryover thinking from the past eight years.

#3) Buddy Holly was obviously a star, but if the plane crash of February 3, 1959 never happened who would have had a bigger career, Ritchie Valens or The Big Bopper?

Kurt Cobain.

#4) Automobile of the future: Electric or Hydrogen powered?

So close your eyes for a moment and begin to imagine pictures of the most horrific accidents in the world’s history. Begin to recall those involving air vehicles… Good!  Now I am going to say a word and we’ll do some free association: Hindenburg.

Electric – I’ve been shocked by 120V wires a few times and survived.  I am pretty sure I won’t survive a hydrogen engine explosion though.

#6) We are our jobs, what was your first job ever?

My very first job ever was as a receptionist for my aunt’s Law Firm.  It is considered “very professional” to have a male receptionist, I was told.  I enjoyed it because mostly I surfed the Internet aimlessly and just put people through to voicemail – those were the days!

#7) Theory on why question #5 is missing?

Wow, I didn’t even notice.  I’m adding this to the list of possible drug interactions for Vicodin. (I should note that burdenday just had a minor surgery and is not a junkie that I pulled off the street.)

#8) Favorite childhood game? (video, board, handheld, sport-like activity)

I played EverQuest for far, far too many years.  If I had to choose a favorite, that would be it.  There is nothing quite so satisfying as spending months of your life chopping away at virtual animals and monsters with swords.

#9) If you were stranded on a desert Island, what is the first thing you would build yourself?

A library, so I could begin writing enough books to fill it and then long after my death someone would discover it and they’d all be “classics.”  That’s how it works, isn’t it?

Wow, I thought that last question was weak, but that is an excellent answer. All I could think of was building a bowling alley. Hanging out at the beach is great, but if you lived there I have to imagine you’d get bored of it.

Sikkdays.com hasn’t really had any sort of real focus aside from ‘look what I found on the Interwebs’ & my passion for animation. Therefore, I see no need to constrain burdenday to report on a single subject. I am just happy to have his contribution as long as he doesn’t post anything about Kevin Costner.

So my 3 other blog readers, give a big sikkdays’ welcome to burdenday.

Sure, I have ranted briefly about this before.  Yet, I was pleased to see Dvice deliver a piece about Hydrogen Hype.  I’d encourage you to watch how the government handled the first electric car in Who Killed the Electric Car? because Hydrogen is on the path to destruction, in my opinion.  Good riddance I say, because it is all about money and control.

See, the major thing keeping us from changing from gasoline to something else is infrastructure.  How can we replace all these gas stations with an alternative fuel station?  The best people to invest in such a thing would probably be the folks with the gas stations, right?  Well, tell me again why they should open another station across the street in direct competition with themselves?  Sure, we are going to run out of gasoline and what would they be left with then?  It’s the chicken before the egg argument, we can’t have new stations if there are no hydrogen vehicles, but we won’t buy the vehicles if we have no where to fuel them.

We are a capitalist country and it is in God, the Bottom Line We Trust.   This whole energy debate isn’t about non-renewable resources or global warming, it is about dollar bills.  It’s not about costs, but profits.   Fuel Cell vehicles keep oil companies alive as energy providers.  We don’t need infrastructure with plug-in electric vehicles.  What about the range of electric?  Fuel Cell is not much better and the amount of energy needed to produce hydrogen and the complicated procedures are far more expensive than our friend, the electric car.  Right now, hydrogen is produced using natural gas.  We are not exactly moving too far away from fossil fuels with this fuel cell business are we.

Read the Dvice link, short & to the point.  If you want more, check out Joseph Romm in this nice short post, he has a great book on the subject too if you are hungry for more.  Me, I am trying to power my car with my own emissions, like my bovine buddy over there in the pic collecting his own methane.