If..
...you were an astronaut, you'd be happily flushing the toilet again. Oh, and drooling over the mega-huge japanese research module just delivered that adds mucho square feet to the ISS (and maybe another toilet?). My question: how long does it take to get from one end of ISS to the other?
...you were a democrat, you'd be cracking open a beer and sighing in relief that there is finally a nominee. In these primaries we actually got a glimpse of substance. Obama rightly said that gas-tax relief was a reckless gimmick that would do more harm than good. And somewhere buried in their platform statements, there were tangible differences in their approaches to healthcare as well. If more things like this emerge in the next few months, maybe we can make a decision based on issues and not on PR blitzes.
...you were a commuter, you would be trying to figure out what the heck hypermiling is. Actually, it's just common sense like not racing to a red light, coasting up hill and accelerating down hill, driving at or below speed limits to reduce friction, unloading dead weight from your car and...wait, stuff I blogged bout a while ago, which anybody could figure out on their own anyway, and which I didn't think needed a silly trekkie name.
...you were looking for a way to save money on gas, you might buy into the HHO scam, which is nicely debunked on this wikipedia page (at least at the time I wrote this!). As a chemist I thought this was hilarious the first time I read it. But of course then there's the double take. OK - it's not HHO and many of the scammers know that (but interestingly not all - some of them seem to have duped themselves). But it is H2 and O2 gas, and they could improve combustion in an internal engine when fed into the intake, except that they'll also add a ton of moisture into the engine... So like all great scams, there is a little kernel of truth in this one and maybe somebody will find a way to 'de-scam' this one.
...you were me, you would stop procrastinating and get back to writing manuscripts!