Matrix question

Something that just came to me: According to The Matrix, the machines need to keep humans enslaved for energy, the power generated by the human body. (The single stupidest thing about the movie.) So I’m wondering — what power source does Zion and its ships run on? Do they have volunteer human powerpacks? Or are they running off of geothermal power and batteries? If the latter, couldn’t the machines use that too?

(Man, what a butt-stupid premise.)

Of course, the machines are just using the humans as a short-term solution till they can get practical commercial-scale fusion power working.

Server fucked

Grrr! Dreamhost, where I have grumer.org hosted and stick the images I post here, isn’t letting me upload stuff. I keep trying, and their file server keeps failing to recognize my password. Their web control panel recognizes it fine, so the password still works in some sense. I’m nowhere near my disk space limit, and I’m paid up through the end of the month. I entered a support request last night, but haven’t gotten a reply. Not happy.

But it’s an excuse to use this new icon.